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As lifetime residents we enjoy working as real estate professionals on the listing and selling of watefront properties in the Puget Sound area of scenic Washington State. Put our expertise and knowledge to work for you!
RECENT BLOG POSTS
After all the articles about the downturn in the economy as of late, like when did it really start and what caused it,  I found that my Barber, Stephanie, had one of the most straight forward methods of determining how bad things were and when it started.  She only charges $10 per cut and she cat...
10/03/2008
So what does the state of Washington's math education have to do with Real Estate you ask?  I would suggest that if our state doesn't get a grip on math education, people intimately concerned with their children's education might be less inclined to relocate here.  Isn't one of the first question...
04/08/2008
  To my many Blog fans (both of you) who had thought that I had died; I haven't. An interesting Real Estate/Engineering event took place a few weeks ago. My wife and I attended a presentation at a University of Washington Civil Engineering facility about the building of the newest (3rd) Tacoma Na...
03/13/2008
We are very tired of reading all of the statistics and hearing news reports about "the market".Our local market is Bad!! In fact if Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon were still on the Tonight Show, and if Johnny was a real estate agent, their banter about the local market (based upon our personal expe...
09/30/2007
One of our grandsons recently graduated from high school. Since when he was very young he has wanted to visit Japan. Because "grandpa" knew all about Tokyo (I had visited a few times during the Korean War),  I  was asked to be the one to accompany him. To make a long story short, I did, for seven...
07/09/2007
A few weeks ago our during a regular meeting of our professional engineering society we had as a dinner speaker a young army reserve captain who had just spent a year in Iraq. The story he told was an entirely different account of how things really are over there - and what the long term problems...
04/18/2007
A large number of our friends are either retired, semi-retired, or are in the process of deciding when to retire. The number one topic of discussion among these people is becoming where to establish their residence upon retiring. You would think most would retire locally and live where their frie...
04/09/2007
My wife, Karen and I had the occassion to take a two week vacation between 21 March and 6 April. We drove from our home in Silverdale, Washington through parts of Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Idaho. We stayed with friends in Palm Springs, Victorville, Calif and Mesquite Nevada al...
04/09/2007
About one month ago we lost a sale as a result of an inspection process wherein the inspector wrote that a building permit for an add-on RV garage on the home had never been approved or signed off.  The would-be buyer was so concerned that he might have to tear down this beautiful garage, or at l...
03/08/2007
 An interesting question for homebuyers has always been what will be the cost of utilities for the home they are purchasing? Many buyers request that a seller provide them with a representative number of bills for the various utilities as part of their data gathering process before purchasing a h...
03/08/2007
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As lifetime residents we enjoy working as real estate professionals on the listing and selling of watefront properties in the Puget Sound area of scenic Washington State. Put our expertise and knowledge to work for you!