Mary's Real Estate Blog

    THIS IS MOST UNBELIEVABLE ~ TALK ABOUT FUTURISTIC   I opened an email article from the National Association of Realtors "What Does The Future Hold?" A technology article giving us a look at what Microsoft, through its office products division, is imaging the near future and how people will ge...

    THE FALL STREETS OF WILSONVILLE     These are the streets I drive every day and they are bursting with color and have been for a couple of weeks.  It won't last long as Winter begins to take over, but for now it is a beautiful pallet of yellows, oranges, reds, purples and greens.   The video ...

      When Your Parent Needs to Go to An Adult Care Foster Home, What About Their Home One of the most difficult things to handle, I believe, in any child's life is when their parent or parents have the need to be in an Adult Care Foster Home.  Decisions are difficult about where to place them (s...

  Watching a Miracle Happen in the Fall Season of Miracles Miracles happen each and every day to all of us, sometimes we are just not looking or aware that we have just experienced a miracle.  Sometimes they are so subtle and they go unnoticed as we go about our day, and sometimes they are very a...

THERE IS A NEW CAFE IN TOWN~ THE LOOP CAFE ~ WILSONVILLE, OREGON A new cafe in Wilsonville, the Loop Cafe, opened a short while ago on Town Center Loop featuring a breakfast and lunch menu.  We had lunch there today and it was very tasty and service was good.  A relaxing atmosphere with free Wi F...

Baseballs' 107th World Series and WILSONVILLE RESIDENT LANCE LYNN ~ RELIEF PITCHER FOR ST. LOUIS CARDINALS Lance Lynn and his wife Lauren Grill (Tualatin High School softball star) call Wilsonville, Oregon their home.  Lance was drafted to the Cardinals in 2008 and made his Major League pitching...

ITS TOUGH OUT THERE FOR SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS It is a tough business climate for the small business owner trying to make a living these days.  So much goes into making a business successful within a community, so many hoops to jump through, rules and regulations, financial decisions, marketing, b...

FALLING INTO FALL and the Approaching Holiday Season I am a person of the Seasons, I enjoy all of the seasons as they come along, and I live in NW Oregon so I have the opportunity to see the seasons come and go.  Each season is always my favorite season at the time and now I am FALLING INTO FALL....

MY HUD FIRST EXPERIENCE ~ CHASING THE FEAR AWAY I have been in real estate off and on for a very long time and I just had my first experience with HUD since I got back in the industry 4 years ago.  Selling HUD homes just had not crossed my path until I was referred to a couple purchasing their fi...

SEPTEMBER MOON The September Moon has been hanging around the past week in the night sky peering into our windows, brightening up not only the night sky but the neighborhood.   I took these photos experimenting with my camera on the night setting. I don't know how to really set the camera for the...