Take a look at the City of Renton webpage about the great Independence Day Celebration at Coulon Park on Lake Washington in Renton.
Saturday Afternoon Party, Saturday evening Fireworks. Thank you to all the sponsors and the City Employees who work to make this great while our families can party.
This great day is sponsored by the retail establishments in the Landing, so make sure you support our local businesses.
Enjoy the day with your family, friends and neighbors and if you are thinking ofrelocating to Rentontake a look at the city website and you will see how much is happening in our community.
Our freedom has been earned and paid for by our service men and women. When you see a military person or their family this weekendmake sure and take a moment to say thank you and express your appreciation. Enjoy the red, white and blue.
We subscribe to the Keller Williams Realty Company Motto, "God, Family, then Business." Enjoy all three this weekend.
All-Natural Pest Control That's Effective And Safe For Kids And Pets
In between visits from the exterminator, it's not uncommon to see the occasional ant, spider or roach or insect around the house.
In fact, Sunday evening a group of us neighbors were having a bbq in Ashburn our townhome community in Rentonand someone started digging up a small crack in the sidewalk. Then of course the ants came out to see what was up. OH MY GOD...... Spray the ants ...... so they were drowned in gobs of ant killer chemical.... Everyone had a different opinion. Leave them alone, kill and burn them all, move the chair, flee madly running and screaming. It was pretty fun for a few seconds. Me of course grew up farming and a few little ants don't cause too much problem.
But what to do about it?
One solution is Terminix SafeShield, a new, eco-friendly home pest control product introduced earlier this year.
Formulated by an independent pesticide company, Terminix SafeShield is a non-aerosol bug spray whose active ingredients are all-natural. The formula is said to control 25 types of in-home pests and kills bugs fast.
Because of its natural composition, SafeShield is safe for use around kids and pets -- a huge advantage over chemical-laden, off-the-shelf products. However, this same composition is also the product's weak spot. Its oils and ingredients are most effective as spot treatments -- not long-lasting ones.
And nobody predicted just how big the government's stimulus package would be.
Now, on June 30, with the year officially half-over, it's as good a time as any to remember that people are much better at interpreting the past than predicting the future. Economists can make educated guesses about the future, but they're guesses nonetheless.
It's like watching the Weather Channel. A meterologist can look at the data and say it's going to rain next week, but the forecast is never 100%. As Gary Keller, founder of Keller Williams Realty, said last fall, "real estate is local and saying that real estate in one place is the same as another is the same as saying the weather is the same everywhere."
So far this year, mortgage rates have been up and down, credit availability has been higher and lower, and home prices have varied immensely from neighborhood to neighborhood.
There's another 6 months until 2010 and there's no reason to expect the current volatility and uncertainty to change. Yesterday, a new client asked me what I thought would happen in our Renton housing market in the next year or so and my answer was "more of the same"...... still flat with rates up and down and another load of adjustable rate mortgages coming due this fall to increase our distressed housing supply."
The world is unpredictable and so is the U.S. economy. Therefore, consider making your personal finance decisions based on the information at hand today instead of on an educated guess about the future. Remember we only have 3 months to find the right home and get an offer written if you are using the "first time home buyer $8000 tax credit." Do not hesitate on this one.
Ok, "let's Play real estate, everybody likes to do that"
So here is a crazy list from my nutty and usually very accurate friend Gary Woltal in Texas. MLS descriptions (used to be newspaper descriptions, but no reads newspapers now), enjoy.
Congratulations ACTIVE RAIN REAL ESTATE NETWORK. 150,000 members sharing information for consumers on current real estate issues and looking toward the future of our business. Thanks for what you all have done for my business.
Founded in 2006, it was less than a year ago, on July 25, 2008 that ActiveRain passed 100,000 members. Since then, the network has rocketed to 150,000 in under 11 months, an annual growth rate of over 50% and an average of over 4,500 new members per month.
I'm sure the AR Team has several plans in the works to build on this momentum. It's going to be an exciting time as the network moves to 200,000 members and beyond. Congrats ActiveRain!
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