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Community Councils…Get Involved Or Don’t Complain. We just had a presidential election in which about 60% of the registered voters in Alaska participated.  Some people think that is a pretty good turnout, I think it’s pathetic.  BUT, what people don’t think about is that local government actually...
11/14/2008
Yesterday I looked at the market trends for the Knik-Goose Bay Road area.  You can see that here. Today I have the numbers for Palmer and Wasilla.  The first chart is Wasilla and the second chart is for Palmer. These are based on the specific map areas of Palmer and Wasilla.  You will notice that...
10/31/2008
With the increase in gas prices this last year I thought I would take a look at the sales numbers for the homes in the Knik-Goose Bay area for the year so far.  This includes the Knik-Goose Bay Road area out to and including Settlers Bay. For Realtors and others familiar with the Mat-Su Boroughs ...
10/29/2008
The Chugach Mountains over Palmer were beautiful in today’s late afternoon sun.  Gerrit had been asking to get the old Skidoo Elan out for more than a week so we brought it up to Jay’s place on Lazy Mountain.  Jay and his family have ten acres there which gives the kids room to zoom around witho...
10/26/2008
The photo above was taken by my daughter near Eureka, Alaska in January at about -20 degrees.  I was overheating so had to take off my hood and mittens. If you don't like winter...you don't belong here. If you haven't liked it before, make a point to enjoy it this year. The first step to enjoyin...
09/20/2008
1. Your idea of a traffic jam is 10 cars waiting to pass a motor home on the highway. 2. You know what is in a "honey bucket".3. You measure distance in hours. 4. You know several people who have hit moose more than once. 5. You often switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day. 6. You use a down...
09/09/2008
Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, (AHFC), recently introduced several incentives to try to help alaskans save money on energy.  We have all heard about the energy assistance program where a one time check of $1,200 will be issued to all alaskans.  You should have that cash in hand soon if you ...
08/31/2008
John McCain just shocked America by choosing our governor and former Wasilla mayor as his Vice Presidential running mate. All of a sudden, people all over the world are talking about Wasilla.  They are even pronouncing it correctly.  No more Waseea.  Almost everyone I met today is excited about ...
08/29/2008
I wrote in a previous post about how an Alaskan woman lost her $5,000 deposit by dealing with what appeared to be an unscrupulous person who specialized in scamming people who couldn't qualify to buy a house.   Apparently his enterprise was almost nationwide in scope and the search for him has go...
01/26/2008
The question of videos, photos, and virtual tours has become a touchy subject with some people, but I am becoming convinced that real estate videos are the wave of the future.I am not a professional videographer and don't pretend to be.  In fact, after the first couple videos I ditched my digital...
01/15/2008
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