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This web log records my activities with nwRealty.Net, Inc. and nwRealty.com. I endeavor to remain objective but frequently express my personal opinions.
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Here's our update of traffic trends for Washington real estate web sites as observed by third party monitors.  Contrary to this report, our server logs actually recorded about a 3% increase of visitors and page views.  But I'm still convinced that compete.com provides the most accurate reports.Wa...
12/17/2007
I was in blog oblivion this morning as my wife left the house.  While I was viewing source code and commenting on another blog she stepped into my office to let me know she was heading out.  I verbally acknowledged without loosing focus and just now realized that I missed out on our daily farewel...
12/06/2007
Well ... our weather made national news again but I had to snarl at all the reporters fixated on the landslide damage in Burien.  Yes it was dramatic but it was apparently the only camera worthy event convenient to Seatac airport and every reporter scrambled to get an angle that didn't look like ...
12/05/2007
The NWMLS recently advised its members "be selective when sending out emails regarding your listings to other members and agents" noting numerous complaints from members receiving unwanted emails from other members regarding listings.  Most complaints are from members receiving emails about listi...
12/04/2007
Over the weekend the news media reported better than a 10% increase of bankruptcy filings this year in Oregon and Washington State, attributing them to builders, contractors and developers suffering from mortgage market woes.  But I must disagree.  The last 18 months have been increasingly tough ...
12/03/2007
I've observed the end of year real estate phenomena since 1996 and so far it has proven a reliable event.  Buyers that need to make a move but for unknown reasons haven't seem to come out of the woodwork when the traditional celebrations are over.The decrease of real estate activity for this holi...
11/30/2007
The agenda for Washington State's Real Estate Commission meeting arrived earlier this week.  I've been interested in these meetings for some time and plan to attend.  The meeting is 0:00 AM next Monday, December 3rd at the Double Tree Hotel in Seatac.  I am particularly interested in the Educatio...
11/30/2007
I'm back on schedule for our bi-monthly market updates.  This represents our November end of month update compared with numbers from our mid month update of our highest demand real estate markets in Washington State.  It indicates the markets where we feature the most listings and also where the ...
11/29/2007
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Have you noticed a dramatic rise in SPAM email recently?  Ours seems to have increased substantially.  A significant amount of these are related to holiday solicitations and Christmas shopping.  I've also noticed some new spoofing attempts disguised as Ebay, Bank of America, etc.One of our proper...
11/28/2007
This morning the widgets plugged into a blog I wanted to comment on caused my computer to lock up for quite some time.  So I thought that I'd start a list of reasons to not use them ...Most Widgets choke search engine spiders and defeat the SEO value of your blogging efforts (MOST IMPORTANT REASO...
11/28/2007
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