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  Nobody in Lacey can escape the fact that we are now engulfed in the full-bore election year media onslaught. You would need to be living under a rock not to have noticed—and the rock would have to be somewhere out of earshot of radio and tv. Fortunately, since this is a space where we discuss b...

   When a new buyer first approaches their initial Lacey home buying effort, chances are they have only a general idea of what the process involves. Although they are successful people who have arrived at a juncture in their lives and careers where it’s now possible to buy a home of their own, mo...

 Fresh baked chocolate chip cookies at your Lacey open house? It’s been a standard for open houses everywhere and forever, but if the goal is to make your property and its open house a standout, it’s a solution hardly in sync with the goal. Cheese and crackers? C’mon—does anyone really want dubio...

   House hunters aiming for some of Lacey’s more upscale properties may see their home loan applications finding an increasingly welcome reception. That’s the word from the national financial press—and they aren’t whispering. According to The Wall Street Journal, it’s nothing short of “a jumbo sh...

 With Brexit still fresh on minds here and abroad—and the sometimes hot/sometimes slow summer selling season well underway—some Lacey sellers might well be questioning whether foreign buyer influence will remain strong throughout the nation this season.June’s numbers provide an answer that’s less...

  When you are buying your first Lacey house, understanding the way a home inspection helps facilitate the process will help you to get the most out of the opportunity it represents. It might seem as if the home inspection step is one of those technical legal formalities that only serve to slow d...

  For Lacey homeowners who are simply coping with the challenges of daily living, keeping the place clean when your small kids are in the house is one of those “trying” situations. If a real estate showing is added to the mix, it can become something close to a sanity-testing situation—“trying” i...

 Homes for sale in Olympia compete in the marketplace based on the major search criteria that have long been in place: location, architectural style, number of bedrooms and baths, overall size, style, quality, age, etc.It’s a given that curb appeal and the property’s other photogenic qualities al...

   If you were one of those homeowners in Olympia who happened to consult Google for “mortgage rate news” over Saturday and Sunday, you might have been puzzled by the top two results.Fortune got the top spot, with an article headlined, “Your 30-Year Mortgage Rate Should Be Lower Than It Is Now.” ...

  Some of Lacey’s senior residents will verify that The Reader’s Digest was once flat-out the most popular magazine in the country. I don’t know how far back that began, but at one point at least, it was the time-saving way Americans kept up with what was being published in the other magazines (t...