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2012 

Fishhawk Lake Real Estate-If You're Going to Build or Remodel Take Pictures--this could save you thousands of dollars in an offer!   As a seller or potential seller, at Fishhawk Lake or any other community, if you have done (or are going to do) an add-on, rehab part of your home, had a new home b...
03/31/2012
How many hats do you wear as a realtor?  Let’s see:   ·        Marketing Genius ·        Professional Photographer ·        Therapist ·        Secretary ·        Juggler ·        Professional Organizer ·        Stager ·        Mind Reader ·        Numbers Analyst ·        Ethical Human Being (in ...
03/28/2012
This travel log represents one small trip from my home at Fishhawk Lake to Astoria Oregon, a mere hour’s drive. The terrain, the weather changes, the degree of elevations are just some  of the reasons why Oregon still feels like a wilderness. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did on a sunny,  sn...
03/27/2012
Gotta love Carla and her humorous way of getting some valid points across. She is an exlusive buyer's agent--one of the best, I'd say and so she KNOWS the ropes. Read on for humorous and VALUABLE information! Be sure and leave comments on Carla's original blog. And subscribe to her, you won't be ...
03/24/2012
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    It’s been an interesting week with a possible double listing (in the next two weeks or so), a pocket listing of a lakefront home I sold to this couple exactly 3 years ago,a referral from another agent and an accepted cash offer on a FSBO. Oh, and then there was the moment when my dog Jenna wa...
03/23/2012
Trying to explain SEO (search engine optimization) to your sellers….not an easy task. I was explaining this to a probable new listing seller who has been working the FSBO angle for awhile to no avail in selling two of his custom built spec homes at Fishhawk Lake.    “What about Zillow and Trulia?...
03/20/2012
Just because we have an HOA at Fishhawk Lake, doesn’t mean we’re GATED IN!!!   Brenda Mullen wrote an interesting article about why people are drawn to “gated communities”…here is what she said in one remark: There are different reasons for living inside a gated neighborhood in and around San Ant...
03/18/2012
Travelling back from Astoria Oregon yesterday (a coastal town), I had a chance to see some buildings along the way and get some St. Patrick's Day (pre-day) pictures.     Some were dressed in rainbow attire (I didn’t see the gold at the end of it, but still got a photo!)          others were in hi...
03/17/2012
Fishhawk Lake Weather...today was supposed to be a Soup Day. It still is, but got pushed way back behind some urgent traveling. I ended up going to Astoria, a coastal town where my wonderful vet, Dr. Larry Goza is located. Now you know why. It was not the kind of day to be outside. Windy, stormy ...
03/15/2012
Realtors—We’re Like the Postal Service!   And I don’t mean we go postal, well, maybe we do, but that’s another post for another day…ANYWAY, today is a snowy day in Oregon and I’m holed up at my home office.      I contacted one of my clients who was supposed to sign a purchase agreement yesterday...
03/13/2012
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