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Did you know that it costs you nothing to have an agent help you purchase your next home? The seller pays both sides of the commission when they sell their home. And it's important to have someone on YOUR side. When you're driving around looking at properties, the names of the agents on the For S...
04/23/2008
Remodeling Magazine's annual "Cost vs. Value Report" is out! If you're thinking about remodeling or updating your home before putting it on the market, find out which projects will give you the biggest return. To come up with the values, Realtors in 65 markets were given construction specs and co...
04/23/2008
My husband and I just refinanced our mortgage and were able to lower our interest rate by 1.25%. We bought our house in December 2005, so we’ve lived in it just over 2 years. We plan to stay in this house at least another couple of years so refinancing made sense for us. We will quickly make up ...
02/20/2008
I am tired of all the negative press about our real estate market so I was really excited to get an email this morning about the new marketing campaign being launched. The combined efforts of the Central Oregon Chamber of Commerce,  Central Oregon Builder's Association, Mortgage Professionals (OA...
02/11/2008
I spoke with the owner this morning and let's just say I'm staying away from this one. The more I talk to the owner the more I think he and this agent are a perfect match for each other. The owner still had not talked to the agent and said he wouldn't be able to today because he's working and her...
02/01/2008
Wednesday morning I called the owner of a listing that came up as expired in the MLS. He agreed to meet with me so I dropped off my prelist packet that afternoon and made an appointment to meet the owner at the house Thursday at 4:00pm. This morning, the day of the appointment, I was working on a...
01/31/2008
I've been helping a really wonderful gal from Portland find a homesite in the Three Rivers South area, south of Bend. Her family loves the snow and wants to live where there's a lot of it. They made a great choice with Three Rivers South! For those of you unfamiliar with the area, Sunriver, Three...
01/26/2008
For those of you that have been holding out on buying a home because you wanted to wait to see what the market would do, the results are in for 2007.  According to the Central Oregon Association of Realtors, the median sales price for single-family homes in Bend held steady at $349,000, not far o...
01/15/2008
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. Mine was a bit extended, but I'm finally ready to get serious again. Back to work!In the spirit of the new year, let's talk about a new Oregon Law, House Bill 2592. This law, effective January 1, 2008, will affect all non-Oregon resid...
01/05/2008
My office has a new subdivision listed called Rocky Point Riverfront Townhomes located just north of downtown Bend adjacent to the Deschutes River. We have 10 riverfront townhomes ranging from 2251 to 3112 square feet and prices starting at $899,000. We also have 6 terrace townhomes (not on the r...
12/31/2007
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