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Seattle Real Estate including The Eastside cities of Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond and The Seattle Neighborhoods of Green Lake, and most points on the north side of Lake Washington.

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2007 

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I LOVE this game !  Thanks to the 2000 Blogs guy, I found this fabulous game on Ilsa's blog.  And thanks to Jeff Turner and his couple of game posts, I've been dragging this game with me everywhere. Even if no one else likes it, I get to have it everywhere I go. Barely a night has gone by when I ...
01/29/2007
More and more I see people printing out huge Xcel Spreadsheets and valuing property based on price per square foot. Clearly no agent uses price per square foot as the primary valuation tool.  Clearly no Appraiser uses price per square foot as the primary valuation tool.  Why then is the general p...
01/26/2007
The least happy people I saw last year, were the ones being forced out of their homes by the owner.  People who rented single family homes when the owner decided to sell or people who lived in apartment buildings that become condo conversions. Don't think you are forced into buying instead of ren...
01/26/2007
How do you find your new home?  Instead of looking at houses for sale in person or on the internet, first visit all of your friends.  Ask them what they most like and dislike about their homes.  Take notes.  Write down the address of the homes you like most. It always amazes me when people head o...
01/26/2007
Bridle Trails State Park, a 482-acre day-use park, is well-known for its horse trails and equestrian shows. The forested park is on the northeast edge of the Seattle metropolitan area. The houses around Bridle Trails State Park on the South End are in "Bridle Trails Kirkland", while those to the ...
01/24/2007
The City of Kirkland has an interactive map.  By clicking on the Neighborhoods, you can check out the building permits and their status.  Be sure to check out all of the features of the City of Kirkland Website.  It is one of the very best and shows that for a quaint little town on the Lake, it ...
01/24/2007
Kirkland, the City built with its Downtown on Lake Washington, is full of quaint charm and character.  In the Seattle Area, Kirkland is one of the Cities in the area we call Eastside, along with Bellevue and Redmond, Washington. This home with fabulous views of Mt. Ranier, Lake Washington and Do...
01/24/2007
It should come as no surprise to you that very often,  the best homes sell quickly.  Sign up for two or three sites to email you listings as they come on market.  I use two.  I use the mls and I use www.searchingseattle.com  I sign up AS my clients, so I can screen the homes.  But my clients als...
01/18/2007
Real Estate Commissions: By avoiding the subject , as the process does, you may be overpaying for the services you need in purchasing a home.  If you are buying a property for more than $400,000, that is more likely to be the case than if you are buying your first condo for $150,000. If you are ...
01/18/2007
My partner Kim Harris offers his perspective on what drew him TO the Pacific Northwest in 1964 and KEPT HIM in Seattle since he got off the plane from Vietnam in 1969... The History - The Tremendous Impact and Signficance of this area on the Music Industry (Kim's previous life and passion, as fou...
01/17/2007
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