An addictive easy way to shop for homes
You might think this is in reference to the positive reviews that greeted our low profile release last week or maybe a post about Tacoma schools but no, this is a post about your browser. Firefox, a free web browser you can download here, “schooled” the competition when it came out November 9th, 2004 (so recently!). Why? Because it loaded...
Isn’t there a word for something that’s both more and better? Mobetta? If so, we are today launching mobetta neighborhood and city information pages to give potential home buyers a real feel for the neighborhood and to give sellers marketing points they didn’t know existed. I’ll just jump to what’s both more and better: Best and worst schools for every...
So you’re buying a house and you’re thinking to yourself, “I want a deal, and in this market I should be able to find someone who is represented by an amateur (who blew their staging and marketing) and will sell their house for less than it’s worth. Or better yet, someone who has to sell or they’ll be foreclosed on.”...
Have you ever done the math to see when and how buying a home pays off? It’s not in the first couple of years – that’s for sure. By many accounts, you maximize profit after about 10 years in a home, at which time you have built up some equity, the cost of buying and selling your home (Realtor commissions,...
The market in the Seattle area isn’t taking quite the beating it is in the rest of the country, but the number of homes on the market is growing – there are nearly 50,000 homes and condos for sale in western Washington now, up from about 30,000 when we launched in December. Some of that is the normal cycle of...