I dreamed of this day for so many years. The day that the junk store "AAA Liquidating" in Normandy Park would burn to the ground. Don't get me wrong. The store had some cool stuff sometimes. Like the time when I was 13 and went in there with my friends and we purchased "stun guns" to zap each other with. BB gun wars started to get boring so we thought that stun guns would be fun. (by the way they hurt like hell and we went back to BB gun wars in the woods of Normandy Park instead, we figured shoting each other with BB's was much safer) But what if AAA wasn't there we would've never had the chance to maybe accidentally kill each other.

Except for the "stun gun" purchases everything else about AAA Liquidating drove me nuts. The piles of steel barrels, 1/2 priced desks and chairs and whatever else was picked up at bargain prices was stacked all over the Triple "A"  parking lot. I swear nobody every must've purchased a steel barrel from there because the only seemed to multiple.

I have no idea how the owner got away with that in Normandy Park. It was against all kinds of codes but somehow it remained that way for as long as I can remember, and only seemed to get worse over every year.

So on  the last weekend in September I received a text message saying the it was going to be burned to the ground!! Who was the text from?? Was it from some crazy outraged citizen, or a neighbor from the adjacent Brittany Place Condos that overlooked the junk yard, or maybe an arsonist was on the rampage.Watch the video and find out who did it.

I tracked down the person behind the fire. He's a pretty good guy by the way. Check out his foundation to fight Usher Syndrome (click here)

He is also a a pretty darn good builder starting a fabulous new development of homes for sale in Normandy Park ranging in the mid to upper Million dollar range. For more information on those homes for sale or other homes for sale in Normandy Park see below.   

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Interesting Article from the Seattle Times on Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Economics 101 teaches that prices should drop when the supply increases dramatically, but the Seattle area's housing market keeps confounding that conventional wisdom.

Prices of King County houses and condominiums last month increased 9 percent compared to a year earlier -- even while the number of available properties grew 51 percent.

Likewise, the number of homes for sale was up 57 percent in neighboring Snohomish County and 47 percent in Pierce County, according to July numbers released Monday by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service.

This continues a trend that has persisted for several months.

Yet prices in all counties rose, also continuing a trend, though at a slower pace than the double-digit rates of a year ago.

Windermere Real Estate general manager Matt Deasy says that until recently he expected the significant increase in the number of homes for sale to halt the continuing rise in prices. "I would have said appreciation would stop," Deasy said.

But so far that hasn't happened.

Why rising inventory isn't having the anticipated effect is hard to pin down, but there are theories.

All revolve around the idea that an increase in the number of for-sale homes isn't necessarily a negative factor that would cause prices to fall.

Theory 1: Last year the number of homes for sale was unusually low, so this year's increase isnt an overbundance that's flooding the market and driving down prices. That's true in close-in Seattle and Eastside neighborhoods where buyer demand is strong enough to handle increased inventory, partifularly in th emore affordable price ranges.

In the Ballard and Green Lake neighborhoods, for example, buyers last month bid up the median list price of $450,000 (for houses, condos and town homes combined) to a median sales price of $453,000. Homes priced below the median sell briskly.

Theory 2: Move-up buyers, who were reluctant to put their homes on the market last year for fear they wouldn't be able to find a replacement, are doing so now, and that's increasing inventory. Mortgage rates below 7 percent are helping them make the move.

Theory 3: Having heard that sales are slowing, many buyers feel they can take their time. They aren't snapping up houses as fast as they did in 2005 and 2006, so houses ares sitting longer on the market.

Indeed, July pending sales -- deals agreed to last month but not yet finalized -- were down 6.5 percent in King County compared with the previous July. They dipped 14.2 percent in Snohomish County and 15.8 percent in Pierce County.

That gave buyers in some areas a distinct advantage.

"People are able to shop around for quality and value," said David Milot, broker-owner of RE/MAX Metro Realty. "Anything substandard is not being snapped up."

Theory 4: Inventory is building because overpriced homes no longer can count on playing the "catch-up game.

"Two years ago, if a seller wanted to [insist on a maximum] price, it might sit on the market for a couple of months, then appreciation would catch up and it would sell," Deasy noted. Now they may wait awhile but will eventually drop their price to land a sale.

What role the national subprime-mortgage meltdown may be playing here is hard to gauge.

There's no way to know how many of the 12,902 houses and condos for sale last month in King County were on the market because their mortgages were resetting to unaffordably high payments.

As for foreclosures, King County had 335 foreclosure auctions last month, according to Foreclosure.com.

That's a per capita foreclosure rate of 0.31 percent, far below the national rate of 0.81.

Meanwhile, appreciation continues to grow, particularly in King County.

Single-family-home prices have crept up every month this year, rising from January's median $429,495 to July's median of $481,000.

Median house prices in Snohomish County have bobbled up and down, from a low of $356,000 in February to June's high of $381,000 before dipping to $370,165 last month. Temporary dips are common.

Pierce County has seen median house prices rise from $272,500 in January to $288,950 in July

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Hello Realtors

I was just wondering I use to do this a very Long,Long, time ago but stopped since I found it annoying on the receiving end.

 However, I was curious as to what your feelings about it are?

What I am talking about is promoting your listing by using a mass email type company for instance, zipyourflyer, or whatever other companies do this to send out "new listings flyer, price reduction, brokers open house, etc. to agents emails.

I know I now just block 99% of them and send it to junkmail. I really don't need an additional 100 emails a day to look at.

But do you think read them, should I start doing them again, or do you just junk mail filter them like I do. Or maybe you find that they work?

 Just curious??

Dustin Keeth

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I had been bugging my daughter to let me tape her singing and put it on youtube for a few months.

I showed her a post on Esmee Denters. She loves Justin Timberlake, once she saw him pop up at the end she said lets do a youtube.

Anyway bet Esmee couldn't do this when she was eight. (OK I could be biased)

By the way we don't allow her to wear makeup all the time or say "hell"  (except in this song). We did let her get all dressed up for her video debut per her request.

The quality of the video isn't the best & I really needed the insturmental of the song but this was just a fun thing to do with my daughter. The sun was setting and we just hurried up and did the taping.

Plus, its so funny to see the how many people watch and commnent on youtube about her video. She cant beleive almost 200 people have seen it. 

The relevance to real estate is. Do you understand how many people look at youtube? Maybe this is a great avenue to find a buyer for you're next listing???

Check this out and give it a vote or two on youtube:  Click Here to See Our Video..

Esmee Denters.

A small town girl from the Netherlands starts posting up videos of herself singing in her bedroom, and 6 months later she's signed to Justin Timberlake's new record label...and performing on stage at one of his concerts to 50,000 fans.

Thanks to the DailyDashboard.com for bringing this to my attention. I highly recommend Dean Jackson's Blog. Check Out The Daily Dashboard. Here!!

I get asked the questions every couple of weeks about do I think there is a "Bubble" in Seattle. My answer has always been "no". We may have a slow down or an adjustment as prices keep rising" But I do not see a "Bubble" poping in Seattle anytime soon. Check out this article from CNN.

Bubble Proof Markets

A question out there for all of you listing agents or for that matter to you Selling Agents that give feedback on a regular basis.

I have been primarily a listing agent for the past 16 years. I have yet to find an easy system to get feedback from Agents who have shown or previewed one of my listings. I've offered a drawing, sent faxes, emails, made phones calls, assigned my assistant to nag the agent to get feedback. And to tell you the truth I eventually get tired of trying to get feedback and then just say the heck with it. Sellers cant understand why an agent wouldn't call you back asap to give feedback. To be totally honest I hate giving feedback myself but I try and return listing agent calls within 24 hours with feedback.

So I was recently sent an email from an agent whose listing I had shown a few days previously. However, she was using some site called www.homefeedback.com(I AM NOT PROMOTING THIS SITE & I AM NOT A CUSTOMER OF THIS SITE, Yet.) But I am thinking about joining. The email that came looked great (i only quickly looked at the email & I didn't fill it out, but I did flag it, and plan to go back and fill it in tomorrow)

What I would like to know is there anyone using  this service or one like it? Do you like the service?The company has a free 21 day trial and then its about 20 bucks a month. I wonder what the true success rate of getting responses is? I liked the looks of the survey it sends out. 20 bucks isn't a lot of money but I swear I pay for so many different systems, I should draw the line somewhere or soon I'll need to charge a flat 7% instead of 6%.

Love to hear what tech software/services you like or subscribe to? Gomzee.com is my latest tech thing I am trying out.

 Please share what is your favorite/most effective way to get showing feedback? 

Dustin Keeth

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