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My love affair with this great city continues to grow.  From the sights and sounds of our vibrant downtown, to the various eclectic neigborhoods and the wonderful mix of our culturally diverse population, Seattle is truly a gem.  No wonder it is called The Emerald City. While I really didn't need...

May we all take time to reflect on our loved ones lost defending our country's freedom on this Memorial Day.  

How many of you recall the addage "Honesty is the best policy"?  It was true when it was first uttered generations ago, and is still a true, althought too often neglected, concept today. For those of you that follow the relationship centric sales ideaology of Dale Carnegie and his How to Win Frie...

Puget sound residents were asking the very same question a few weeks ago when they glimpsed a large dome shaped object crawling across the horizon.  So what is this oddity now making a temporary home in Elliott Bay? It is called a Sea-Based X-Band Radar Vessel and is a main component of our natio...

I am blessed to live just blocks away from Seattle's Pike Place Market, one of Seattle's top visitor attractions, and often a daily stop for local chefs and "foodies".  The sights of "flying" fish tossed through the air by the seafood purveyors, the sounds of the many street musicians, and the sm...

Today, out my window overlooking Seattle's Elliot Bay, I spied a different kind of get together...  approximately 20 tug boats gathered just off the pier and Bell Harbor Marina in celebration of the Seattle Maritime Festival. There were modern working tugs, old refurbished tugs, military tugs, an...

As I have posted previously, the ever changing scenery outside my window overlooking Seattle's Elliot Bay provides me constant entertainment, and a plethora of photo opportunities. Buyers looking for Seattle homes for sale or Seattle condos for sale have the opportunity to enjoy these spectacular...

As a means of educating the marketplace, and saving buyers and agents precious time and money, we have recently included a variation of the following draft into our Operations Manual and have made it available for distribution by our agents and associate partners.   What is a Buyer's Agent? Many ...

Parking in any downtown area can be a challenge.  In Seattle we have some very narrow residential streets and many one way streets, not to mention some challenging hills to navigate.  When we get the occasional snow it shuts the city down...understandably. Every once in a while the city will need...

On this beautiful afternoon on Elliot Bay I witnessed a sight that never ceases to amaze my inner child...the synchronized ballet of tug boats guiding the path of a huge cargo ship within the confines of the harbor.  In this instance the tugs backed the Colombo Express away from it's birth in the...