Pat Kennedy - Home in the Capital

Let's hear it for all of our favorite house nerds who find the good and not so great stuff in the homes we sell!  Great post for explaining the due diligence part of buying. Due Diligence When Buying a Home - It's Important!   When buying a home in Carlsbad CA, or anywhere for that matter, it’s c...

The conventional wisdom is that the interestest rates on home mortgages will increase sometime after the inauguration. For a while now, the interest rates on 30-year fixed mortgages have bounced around the 3.something range.  But an economy with low home mortgage rates is a blessing for home buye...

While Vice-President Elect Mike Pence is still the Governor of Indiana, he's spending most of his time here in DC working on the transition to the new administration.  Since the Bidens will be in the Vice-President's official residence until the inaugural, the Pence family has moved into a tempor...

Whenever I take a trip by air, I try for a window seat and spend most of the journey with my camera checking out the scenery below.  I took this from a Southwest Airlines flight soon after it took off on the way to Seattle.  Surprisingly, there were no clouds when I landed, and it's supposed to r...

On a foggy day, I was on the ferry from Bainbridge Island to Seattle, and I took a bunch of photos of the skyline as the boat approached the city.  Then I played around with it in Movavi Photo Editor 3.  Here is the "Before" shot:And here is the "After":Sometimes, messing with photos in an editor...

In my area, we're supposed to have signed agreements.  Some get them signed.  Others are more casual about it.  And frankly, buyers are reluctant to agree to get married on the first date.  What works?  I think you get a one-day agreement signed.  It can be for the one house they want to see.  If...

 Yesterday, I read a post that Anna Banana Kruchten wrote, My favorite - Pay it Forward.Anna's post was about foster kids, especially what happens when they turn 18 - which is pretty outrageous!  And I was actually really outraged, leaving with a feeling that I really needed to do something.And l...

Many of the sellers we talk to are asking about waiting until after President-elect Trump's inauguration to put their homes on the market.  The media is talking about the 4,000-plus political jobs that will open up. These are people who are non-civil service government workers who serve at the pl...

Debe Maxwell has written a terrific post on continuing to show homes when they are under contract, and she makes some great points. STOP!  Please Stop 'Selling' My House! How often have you heard those words come out of a Seller's mouth?!  I can honestly say that I've never heard a seller utter t...

This is dedicated to all of the newbie Realtors out there who are trying to figure out what they'll be doing once they graduate from real estate school and get a license to sell!  Donna Foerster has come up with a wonderful challenge that will, when you read all of the entries, get some idea (may...