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I was reading an interesting article today on Realtors who hold the GRI designation. This article can be found on the National Association of Realtors website. I find this interesting because I am in the process of earning my GRI designation and wanted to provide valuable information to the publi...

I read an interesting article today that I wanted to share with my friends and others in the general public.  It talks about the real estate designation GRI which stands for graduate of the real estate institute.  You see, I am in the process of gaining this designation, I should have it by Novem...

Well we made it in the August 2007 issue of Outside magazine's best towns of 2007! Bend, Oregon with a population close to 80,000 actual, Outside gave us 67,152. An average commute time of just 16 minutes, my commute is more like 5 minutes. A median income of $29,853 and median home price of $351...