Keith's Blog

A good broker friend of mine across the river in Washington said it best: "When I go to speak to someone about selling their home, I ask them, do you want to SELL your home or LIST your home?" That's an amazing question that brokers wouldn't have considered asking two years ago, but now that it's...

It's rare, but every once in a while we'll run across a "party sewer line". In some really old Portland neighborhoods, usually built before or in the 1920s, sewer lines might be shared by several homes before running out to public sewer. Last year I had a transaction where the sewer line ran into...