Our stay at Rosario Resort found us in sunny skies and flip-flop weather. Our keelboat sailing course at Orcas Island Sailing was exhausting for me but a piece of cake for my husband who has been sailing since he was a kid. I passed the exam, got my little sticker, and am on the way [...]
Read More..>>This issue I promised to share info about our luxury condo market, more precisely our over $1M condo market. I haven’t yet tired of looking at or showing these homes. Sometimes my work is so difficult. <sigh> In fact, this photograph is from a $10 million dollar condominium in downtown Seattle. It is luxury - [...]
Read More..>>On March 29th Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced a program called “Clean Up Your Act” which will significantly increase fines for landlords and property owners who refuse to repair dilapidated homes, who turn their backyards into junkyards, or let bushes and weeds grow out of control.
The changes to the city’s land use, housing, and weed [...]
My husband Henrik and I bought this sailboat earlier this year, an old Catalina 25 that we’re fixing up. He’s Swedish, I have history in Louisiana, we may name it Swedish Gumbo. It’s looking pretty good and my husband’s teaching me to sail. I grew up with boats so I work the tiller pretty well [...]
Read More..>>In marketing investment real estate, putting some “pizzazz” into the sale is important because purchasers weigh emotional and eye appeal as well as financial considerations in making a buying decision. Much of this is common sense, but common sense is not that common. Always, always remind yourself that most people are doing nothing. Following the [...]
Read More..>>Credit is becoming increasingly important for many reason but particularly when looking to buy, invest, refinance, etc. So just what is a credit score? To calculate a score, 22 pieces of data collected from the three major credit bureaus are used. The lowest possible score is 300 while the highest is 850.
The final number is [...]
If you sold your main home, you may be able to exclude up to $250,000 of gain ($500,000 for married taxpayers filing jointly) from your federal tax return. This exclusion is allowed each time that you sell your main home, but generally no more frequently than once every two years.
To qualify for this exclusion of [...]
First-time buyers eventually become first-time sellers. It’s a new experience and first-time sellers often feel as anxious and insecure about their first sale as they did about their first purchase.
Many people incorrectly believe that realtors control the entire selling process. Actually sellers control the price (positioning) and condition (saleability) of their property and buyers control [...]
Comments(0) The American Success Institute provides some good information that I’d like to share. My income property clients can pretty much be divided into two categories: (1) seasoned investors (2) people who relocated for business or married and decided to rent out their home. The similarity is income property is income property — everyone has different [...]
Read More..>>If you follow national news you’ve undoubtedly heard the housing market is either a URB (unidentified real- estate bubble), hot as Hades, or crumbling into a powdery mess. Well let’s not panic, well, unless you own property in Detroit maybe. There is a national slow down and there are a few geographic pockets showing swings; [...]
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