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Renovated Classic North End Home!Location: Tacoma, WAThis is the perfect home to play the host! When you make this amazingly renovated, charming North End home yours, you'll receive a brand new flat screen plasma TV for the entertainment room! This home has been completely upgraded for maximum be...
01/26/2008
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It is widely known (well, maybe not widely, but in our area at least) that Gig Harbor, WA, is perhaps the most beautiful spot in the country. Surrounded on all sides by water, framed by Mt. Rainier to the east and the Olympic Mountains to the west, and majestic evergreen trees growing up all ar...
01/22/2008
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Last week I began a weekly segment showing the home sales activity in Gig Harbor, Port Orchard, and the Key Peninsula. I like to compare homes that have come active on the market versus homes that have gone to "Pending," meaning they have a signed around contract between buyer and seller that is...
01/15/2008
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Statistics don't lie. You can make them say just about anything you want, so they can be very deceiving, but they don't lie. Real estate is full of statistics. One of the numbers that I find to be important is what is referred to as "Absorption Rate," the rate at which the market could absorb ...
01/08/2008
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I was reading an online forum this morning where people looking to move to our area seek advice of local residents. It's actually a pretty good forum, but there's a whole bunch of ignorance being thrown around too. I was about to reply to a post, explaining that I was the professional and that ...
01/07/2008
I was reading two different posts on Active Rain last night, and they got me thinking. One was a follow up post by an agent in California, letting people know that he appreciated all of their help in directing him to a brokerage. He narrowed it down to ReMax and Keller Williams, ultimately choo...
01/07/2008
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I knew right off the bat that today was going to be good. I got up early to feed my 3 month old daughter and spend an hour or so with her, then I got to take my dog out for a walk on a cool, cloudy, morning. Then I opened my emails and it became clear...today is my lucky day.I got an email fro...
01/04/2008
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Okay, there's not really a club that I'm aware of, but the last time I put in a post about a bird in Gig Harbor, it drew several comments so I'm naming us the unofficial Bird Watching Club of Gig Harbor. On my other blog site, I posted a blog asking about an odd bird I spotted in the Harbor. W...
01/04/2008
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