When you are looking for information on the Boise, Idaho area, you must be careful to know what numbers you are looking at and where they are from. I have gone online and seen drastic differences in the number of people that supposidly live in Boise, Idaho. When you have growing areas like Boise
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04/08/2011
I was reading the Realtor Code of Ethics again today for clarification on something. They have multiple "standards of practice" because some things just are not black and white. I have served on the Ada County Association of Realtor's Professional Standards Committee for many years and it is i
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04/07/2011
Many times I hear people talk about how “cut throat” the real estate industry is. They make it sound like we are continuously taking each other’s clients or stealing each other’s leads. Is that just a "fish story"? Here in Idaho, I prefer another type of Cutthroat which is much more palatable
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04/07/2011
We have read for years about the graying of the American population and yet I am shocked that builders still are not building handicap access homes. Instead, they keep building traditional homes that are forced to compete with short sales and REO’s. I have a great listing that was built for ha
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04/05/2011
I just pulled up a listing in our MLS that shows a property listed now for 1,158 cumulative days on the market. I think may be a record in and of itself, but that isn’t what really caught my eye. It is the fact that they still have the same listing agent and the agent is not related to the sel
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04/04/2011
Maybe they didn't call it the HELP program since the program is still in development and not quite ready to take applications or disperse the $1 Billion allocated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection act. However, there is HELP here in Idaho, because U.S. Department of Hou
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04/04/2011
Buying and selling a home is one of them most stressful things people go through even in simpler transactions. Real estate happens because of change and many people don't deal well with change! If you look at the top ten list of stress inducing factors many of them are based on a change (i.e. ch
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04/01/2011