Boe's Blog

Part of being a great real estate broker is knowing about the hole in the wall places to bring clients that lets them know that you know the neighborhood. A great little place is Barney's Pastrami. It is located at:Barney's Pastrami5130 Evergreen Way # 103, Everett, WA 98203Dave the owner will ho...

Dear "expired listing"          I noticed that the listing on your home recently expired. If you are re-listing with the same broker, please quit reading this and throw it away. I never want this to imply that I am soliciting an active listing. If you are thinking about your options, keep going.....

I met with the Wells Fargo wholesale mortgage rep today and there were a few things that I thought I would (should) share with the real estate community. For those that do not know the Seattle area very well there are three main counties. Pierce County is to the south of Seattle and the big city ...

Washington Mutual has ended its wholesale lending. This means that the only way to get a WAMU loan is from a retail branch. Is this a good thing? The number is between 30% - 40% of loans are brokered, and brokers are held to a higher standard (at least here in Washington).I loan originator in Was...

I have received a lot of response to the article I wrote on Friday. Many wanted the source. Watch the video of the news article from Kramers Mad Money http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=702684766 This is about the bill S. 2636 Enjoy,Boe LindgrenOwner / BrokerAshlar RealtyLynnwood, Washington

Six billion dollar "bail out" for builders. I was listening to Kramer today on CNBC and he was commenting on the "assistance" that is being given to builders because they are coming on hard times with the housing surplus. The irony is that they are the ones that created the surplus.I have been a ...

This has run on KIRO Television here in Seattle. What do you think? It is located on my previous post. I couldn't figure out how to mix WYSIWYG and HTML sorry about that

Mayor Nickels proposed a$.20 tax on every plastic grocery bag used in Seattle. You can check out the story at http://www.kirotv.com/news/15774371/detail.html .I think this is just another tax. I have heard that the city goes through 360,000,000 bags a year. That would be an extra $72,000,000 in r...