Everything Kenmore

Even though I am not a religious person, I had a chill of excitement run up my spine when I read the following on Politico.com: “Though there is no constitutional requirement for the use of a Bible during the swearing-in, Presidents have traditionally used Bibles for the ceremony, choosing a vol...

Brad Listi, a contributing writer to the Huffington Post asks a clever question today: What Do We Call the current Financial Crisis? After all, most historical events don't get named until after they happen: The World Wars, the Great Depression. He's actually come up with some good names for what...

Kenmore maintained a large inventory of single family homes in 2008. On any give day there were over 200 homes for sale; however, this changed in November and December. Today the inventory has dropped quite a bit as there are 149 active listings: SNAPSHOT OF ACTIVE LISTINGS TODAY The majority of...

The Northwest Multiple Listing Service released it’s monthly press release for December 2008. The results from 2008 were as one would expect - heart breaking. It was not hard for market observers to guess that the sour financial markets and the insane weather this last month basically knocked-ou...

The Real Estate gods must have been connecting the agent subconscious yesterday. As I was writing about the influence of technology on the real estate industry, Ardell DellaLoggia of Rain City Guide was writing an extremely thought provoking post entitled: Open Letter to NWMLS and Local Agents. ...

A commodity is anything for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market. In other words, copper is copper. Rice is rice. Have real estate services become a commodity? Let’s examine this idea: OUR FIRST HOUSE IN SHORELINE, WA My wife and I purch...

After stewing over what to say about the Real Estate Market in 2009, and knowing full-well that I’m not qualified to make profound “predictions” about the marketplace, I have chosen to take my own advice and “outsource” the job to one of my favorite resources: HousingPredictor.com. I highly reco...

This evening I was reading through one of my favorite political blogs, www.truthdig.com, and I came across an interesting presentation tool used by the author to illustrate the current economic breakdown. If you click on the picture, you can see how it works. It's actually quite powerful: So, the...

If I, Mr. Freeze, the Financial Curmudgeon, had a dime for every news story in 2008 that reported on yet another failed bank, or multi-billion dollar ponzi scheme, failing car company, disappearance of the American manufacturing sector, hundreds of thousands of lost jobs, crumbling infrastructur...

BLOGGING I began blogging in April as a means to advertise my real estate business. At that time it was simply a dollars and cents decision. I thought it would be less expensive than print advertising (which didn’t seem to be very effective anymore). What I didn’t realize was how blogging would f...