Kent's Sandpoint, Idaho Blog

Are Realtors, basically, ego-maniacs?  I find it interesting that we, as a group, feel the need to plaster our pictures across all of our advertising and business cards.  I am NOT condemning anyone...I do this also. There are a few Realtors in my association (Selkirk Association of Realtors) that...

41 SOUTH in Sandpoint, Idaho REALLY came through for us helping make our Summer Sales Event Party a huge success! "At one end of the long bridge lies Sandpoint, Idaho. But at the other end...." When planning for our Salishan Point Summer Sales Event, we wanted to have something special to draw p...

                                                                                  SANDPOINT MLS TOUR   I took in the Tuesday morning Sandpoint tour last week (an event I have missed far too often this year) and had an "epiphany moment"!  Let me explain... The Sandpoint Tour (officially the Selkir...

Sandpoint, Idaho...A huge buyers' opportunity in a piece of Paradise. HOMES OF SANDPOINT (updated pricing!) Sandpoint, Idaho is a destination "vacation" town in North, Idaho with giant water (Lake Pend Oreille) and a world-class ski mountain (Schweitzer Mountain Resort).  The beauty of Sandpoint...

SANDPOINT, IDAHO TENNIS Sandpoint has a great tennis community!  Last week we hosted the 3rd annual Sandpoint Tennis Camp and it was the best yet!  Jane Rockwell (USPTA teaching pro and former Sandpoint High School coach) and Mary Jo Lambert (current Clark Fork High School coach) once again put t...

This is like FIGHT CLUB.  I NEED to let go!   I just got done showing a property that happens to be situated next door to another great Lake Pend Oreile waterfront property that I was actually very knowledgable about.  When I was done with my customer, a new potential buyer drove up and started a...

Sandpoint is ROCKIN' again this summer.  It seems like the 4th is the real kick-off each year. I am sitting up at SCHWEITZER MOUNTAIN in the COLDWELL BANKER RESORT REALTY office enjoying the beautiful weather while dozens of SANDPOINT locals wander by mingling with the hundreds of tourists who ha...

  I am working with a few clients here in SANDPOINT, IDAHO who find themselves in the, all too, familiar plight of being upside-down on their mortgages and not knowing where to turn.  This has been the recurring theme of our economic crisis for the past six years and one of the major stumbling bl...

There is a huge furor over the content of the new Cap & Trade Tax Bill.  A big part of the furor is the fact that no one in Congress read the Bill before voting on it.  On the surface I get that.  The reality is, however, no one is going to read it.  Who would?  1,300 pages of legislative ambigui...

I spent 15 hours at the  FORD IRONMAN COEUR D'ALENE TRIATHLON on Sunday.  (As a spectator...my son was a FINISHER and is now an IRONMAN!).  The human spirit is alive & well!  I am in complete awe.  From the moment I arrived at the beach to watch the the swim portion of the event (2.4 miles) until...