I was a bit (well, a lot) skeptical about whether we’d end up with a storm of the magnitude the weather folks were predicting early last week. We were to get 12-18” of snow. Uh huh … right! In my area of south King County, we’d had a number of just wet little snow blizzards that melted about the
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01/28/2012
New home-building in Auburn, WA continues to increase, as evidenced by a quick drive through the area. One of the most ambitious new developments in Auburn is The Bridges, by MainVue Homes, located just east of 124th, between 304th and 288th. A few years ago I watched as the area was cleared and
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01/18/2012
My husband, the amateur weatherman, has been obsessively following the build-up to the “Megastorm” of decades, currently predicted for our greater Seattle region. We’ve been watching for days, experiencing a bit of snow here, and a bit of snow there. At our home in east Auburn, so far we’ve accum
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01/17/2012
I’ve always loved the Lakeland Hills area of Auburn, which technically straddles the King County / Pierce County borders and includes both Auburn and Sumner addresses. Perched above the Auburn valley, there are some staggering views of the valley, southeast of Mt. Rainier, and east to the Cascade
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01/17/2012
Inspired by a blog post recently written by Richie Alan Naggar, about posts being duplicated without permission, I decided to run CopyScape on my outside WordPress-based site just to see what popped up. And, yikes!, my stuff IS out there on someone else’s site without comment about where the post
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01/16/2012
The last couple of weekends have included a few hours helping our son decide what car to buy. We’ve been to this dealer and that, had him prequalified … and have driven a number of cars. Usually with the all-chatty salesman in the backseat, telling us exactly why this car is THE one to buy. We’ve
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01/14/2012
This is a never-ending business. We work until all hours of the night and yet most agents I know feel so blessed to be working the way we do. This evening, after a long day at the computer, punctuated by breaks to play ball with the dogs, I met with a new client and helped him begin to dial in to
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01/13/2012
Truly! Snow is coming! The world will come to an end in Auburn in three days! At least so say the weather stations. The greater Puget Sound metropolitan area is a unique place when it snows. We’re hilly around here and our typical warm ocean breezes prevent us from getting much in the way of sign
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01/12/2012
One of the very first steps in the home buying process is determining how a Buyer will pay for their new home. Not only must a Buyer determine much they can afford, but how an offer must be structured--whether closing costs must be paid by a Seller, gift funds will be used for a down payment, ho
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01/11/2012
The end of the year is a good time to take a look back and see how things shaped up. After all of the negative press, residential real estate sales in Auburn improved, both for the month of December 2011, and year over year compared to 2010. Here’s a quick look at the numbers: Who says the ec
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01/03/2012
