An addictive easy way to shop for homes
According to RemodelingOnline, on average, no major home improvement project yields a significantly higher resale value than you put into it. Here are the stats from the Seattle area and here is a soon to be pay-walled summary. So, as with most things in life, think about what makes you happy first, then think about how much it will cost....
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.
You can now see the hills and valleys of America on Google maps. It’s not available for non-Google sites yet (including Estately). I love being able to see the direction of the valleys left after the retreat of the Cordilleran Glaciers just 10,000 years ago. Here is an example that is just south of Bremerton: View Larger Map
Our whole job is to make finding and buying homes easier, but it’s the hard to classify homes that are a deal. If you’re willing to do a little extra work (or you have a local agent who has actually been to all the homes for sale in your area), you can really score – Frank Llosa did a little...
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...