An addictive easy way to shop for homes
Last week the Seattle PI reported that people who give up a car and ride the bus can save up to $8,400 a year. That’s $700 a month! That’s a lot of cash – it’s the difference between affording payments on a $300,000 home and a $400,000 home. The handy Estately mortgage calculator, given a 30 year loan with $60,000...
I’m no prognosticator, but I do like reading others’ predictions. Seattle Bubble has a nice chart comparing the amount of upwards price movement during the boom against the amount of downward price movement in the recent, ehem, “soft” market. The takeaway: This snapshot does appear to support the assertion that there is a good correlation between boom and busts cycles...
When we were nominated for the Best Web Service Inman News Innovation Award, we were pretty surprised and, being a tiny shop out of Seattle up against some industry giants, we didn’t expect much to come of it. So I was extremely surprised when I, on the final day of the Inman Connect conference last week, we won the award!...
Due to a nearly 8-hour outage with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (commonly known as S3), you may have noticed that property photos have been missing. Thankfully, as I write this post, S3 is coming back online, and so, too, will Estately property photos. We apologize for this troublesome little issue that began shortly after 9 this morning. This isn’t the...
Salesmanship is all about taking away the objections. Listing agents know that people looking to buy homes are sick of waiting 3 months to get a rejection letter from a bank and they’re starting to advertise the fact that homes are a “not a short sale!”