Everything Kenmore

I don't know about you but, as an American, I've been doing a lot of soul-searching these days. I'm floored by the sheer number of scandals, deceits, rumors, betrayals and contradictions in the world. It's mind-boggling. It's made me a bit testy and cynical and impatient. Recently, here on AR, I ...

The November 2008 real estate sales statistics for Kenmore were to be expected given the chaos and uncertainty gripping the overall economy. As I’ve suggested in earlier posts, our financial system is paralyzed without two of the most important ingredients for success: CONFIDENCE & COMPETENCE. U...

People laugh when I say that blogging makes you smarter. "You can't be serious," they say, "isn't every Tom, Dick and Mary out there writing whatever comes into their minds and then blabbing it out to the world? Actually, this is a great question because it raises important issues such as: What a...

  The end of 2008 is turning out to be one of the most challenging real estate markets in decades. A huge number of difficult factors have converged in a sort of "perfect storm" which has utterly destroyed confidence in the market. Even after the Fed provided capital to help stabilize the financi...

As we near the end of 2007, real estate "experts" with some crazy predictions are sprouting up like so many weeds in the garden. Perhaps some of the newly unemployed are spending more time in front of the computer, perusing the statistics and attempting to draw conclusions from all the grim news...

The last time we visited Vancouver, BC was well over ten years ago. At that time we spent most of the day in Chinatown during a festival with dancing dragons, thundering traditional drums and fire crackers.  We also managed to visit the ”uber-touristy” Gastown district (not my favorite place). Ov...

Pictured above is Vancouver, British Columbia. Beautiful isn't it? Most travelers to the Northwest know Seattle, WA and Portland, OR. In the not-so-distant future Vancouver, BC is going to be on the World's radar in a big way. Host of the 2010 Winter Olympics, Vancouver is quintessentially "nort...

Many economic reports have suggested that the Northwest is not suffering the severe downturn experienced in many other parts of the country. Indeed, until recently Boeing, Microsoft, PACCAR Trucks and a number of other strong performers had been sheltering our area. The job market was still stab...

I received an email from a good friend who just got back from a vacation in Italy. Quote: "We reluctantly returned today........."He and his wife visited Lucca which happens to be the main town in the province where my relatives live (on my father's side). My wife and I visited there this August ...

  One of the most interesting programs on Radio today is Weekend America (American Public Media & National Public Radio). The program’s topic today is about the “meaning of home” and it’s and incredibly interesting and timely program. Coincidentally, yesterday I wrote a brief post about how the c...