How to (not) sell your home - 06/13/09 09:33 AM
Selling a house can be difficult, but not selling your home is easy.  Let me share my experience from yesterday.  (It's a tad long, but worth the read!) The median home price in Gig Harbor is about $365k, so when I saw a 2750sf newer home in a great neighborhood come on the market for $280k, I called some of my buyers right away.  Sure enough, one of my clients wanted to see the home immediately.  Here's where the story begins...
I looked at the showing information and saw "Appt. only, no MLS keybox."  Fair enough, I called the phone number … (9 comments)

What my lawn taught me about real estate - 06/11/09 03:47 PM
Welcome to installment 2 in my "What I've learned" series.  I was mowing my lawn a few days ago, and I learned an interesting lesson about my real estate business.  Gig Harbor, like most of Western Washington, is a pretty rainy place to live.  We get a steady amount of rainfall from October through May most years.  We average about 39″ of rainfall per year, which seems to me to be plenty of water for a lawn to thrive.  As spring descended, my lawn looked great.  Thick and green and healthy.
Then we had 2 weeks of sunny, dry weather, and … (2 comments)

 
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