January 7, 2008
Neighborhood of the week
Useless Bay, in Langley, Washington. Washington has a lot of ridiculous names, but Useless Bay is my new favorite.
An addictive easy way to shop for homes
People often ask us why we don’t “just put some ads on Estately.” In part, because we don’t click on ads. In fact, we don’t know anyone who clicks on ads, probably because we don’t know that many middle aged women in the Midwest. We built Estately to solve real-world problems; to help people find and sell homes and to...
Sorry about a little unscheduled downtime this morning – Estately is getting a massage. Remember when Flickr used to get massages every other day? This is our first this year. We’ll let you know when we’ve worked the knots out. Update: Knot free and working thanks to the massage machine.
In case you missed it, the Seattle suburbs are the center of the home grown pot operation universe, brought to you courtesy of the so-called “liar loan,” which allows (or allowed) people to get a loan without proof of income. Steve Heaney, the president of the chapter of the Washington Association of Mortgage Brokers said: “I don’t think anybody in...