Bill's Boise Real Estate Blog

Michelle Malkin pointed this video out on her blog this morning.  I thought it was funny, so I thought I should pass it along to the Active Rain community.  My wife (yes, she's lovely) watched over my shoulder, and she laughed as well, because she recognized the syndrome.   Back in the old BBS da...

November will be a busy time for public meetings concerning growth and planning in Ada County.  According to the Idaho Statesman, the county population has increased from 253,037 in 1996 to more than 361,000, a 43% increase.  1996 was the last update of the county's comprehensive plan, so we are ...

I was asked a question about mortgage rates the other day, and the context of the question implied that rates were much worse today than they were last year.  Actually, except for the ARM products, which have moved up just over where they were a year ago (5.76 average last November compared to 6....

 One of the things that I have always loved about Boise, and the other towns in the Treasure Valley, is the naming of the streets.  Having spent so many years in the Puget Sound area of Washington, I got used to the street naming up there, which is usually pretty understandable because it is numb...

Jim Cronin at The Real Estate Tomato has posted the Halloween Carnival of Scary Real Estate Stories.  I would suggest that everyone pour a large mug of pumpkin juice, put the Harry Potter soundtrack on the stereo, then spend some time reading all of the stories.  That'll surely get you ready for ...

Earlier today, Lance & Elaine Wells posted about our big Idaho potatoes.  Reminded me of a couple postcards I had sitting around.Grandpa grew 'em big...                   ... but Daddy grew 'em BIGGER!

  A number of years ago, my wife made a pattern from one of her Grandmother's aprons, and she made a bunch of them for Christmas gifts for all of her friends.  We made a tag out of the picture you see, wrote "Real women wear aprons" on it, and used it for the gift tags.  These touched a lot of pe...

Here is a quick look at the Boise real estate market for the last week of October.  These numbers are for single family homes and single family with acreage, no condos, no townhomes:Ada Countycurrent actives                 4638last year October actives   1533solds Oct 1 to Oct 24         535curr...

You’ve read and heard a lot lately about foreclosures going up, and people getting trapped in their ARMS, “exotic” mortgage products, and interest rates going up, or not being as “good” as they were awhile back.  These things may even be one of the reasons you have waited to buy a home.  There is...

My scariest real estate story just happened to take place in late October.  I was sitting an Open House in a new subdivision, but I was the only agent in the sub that day.  We had had fairly steady traffic most of the day, mostly young families looking for "oh my gosh, we need a bigger house" sty...