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- David Losh personal blog Discussion about real estate matters
- Exterior Cleaning Gentle Cleaning the Exterior of your Home
- Fixer Fixer Buying, and fixing properties
- Mortgage Fiduciaries A great set of articles about the mortgage industry
- Real Estate Search Site John L Scott the best Real Estate search site
- Seattle Bubble Real Estate News, and Opinion
- Seattle House Cleaning The best little cleaning company in Seattle
City of Seattle Links
- A Guide to Seattle Neighborhoods The Seattle PI supplies this link on line
- City of Seattle
- King County web site
- Seattle Travel Guide
- Seattle Twist Interesting things to do in Seattle
- The place to start to find any government office.
- Washington State web site
Real Estate Agent Links
- Continueing Education For Real Estate Agents Jillayne Schlicke has been the education resource you are looking for.
- Seattle Dream Homes Marlow Harris is a great Real Estate agent
Seattle Blogs
- Mortgage Fiduciaries A great set of articles about the mortgage industry
- Peru Hope Charities we support
- Seattle House Cleaners House Cleaning blog
- Seattle Real Estate Fixer A guide to buying and fixing property
Seattle Services
- A Spring Cleaning This is a guide to simple home repair and maintenance.
- Exterior Cleaning Gentle Cleaning the Exterior of your Home
- Peru Hope Charities we support
- Seattle House Cleaners House Cleaning blog
- Seattle House Cleaning Service The best little cleaning company in Seattle
- Seattle Real Estate Fixer A guide to buying and fixing property
seattle shopping
- Alana Jewelry at Northgate The best antique jewelry in Seattke
- Seattle Travel Guide
The Jet City
- Peru Hope Charities we support
Author Archives: David Losh
Just a thought about housing
■Median household income: $60,665 http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/Research/Population_Demographics/Overview/default.asp What I was surprised about before were the number of people who make over $100K in the Seattle area, we must have a lot of those people here, and we do: http://www.seattle.gov/economicdevelopment/pdf_files/CAI%20OED%20Indicators%20Dashboard%202011%20081511%20FINAL.pdf As far as … Continue reading
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A Buying Strategy
Real Estate agents go out into the field each day to look for properties to list, or sell. Some have a habit of spending a ton of time on the computer pouring over sales data, that never seems to do … Continue reading
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For the Bubble Bloggers
There seems to be a defined plateau in the price reduction trends. Every year we have that feeding frenzy rush of buying activity, then settle back into low quality listings that sit on the market, until next time, and more … Continue reading
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Working with a Real Estate Agent
Most of the long term Real Estate agents are in a position to retire. There is a saying that we aren’t in the business to sell Real Estate, we are in the business to buy it. Most of the long … Continue reading
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Feeding Frenzy Fizzle
Every year we have a Spring Season bounce in home prices, for people buying houses to settle in before the school years starts next year. People buy close to the schools they want their kids to go to. This year in Seattle … Continue reading
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The Cost of a Real Estate Transaction
Brokerages have costs, for offices, and providing online presence. It’s a high over head cost that some other Brokerages cut to offer services for a discount, or the new thing is to rebate money at closing. All Brokerages try to … Continue reading
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Apartment Construction
Most cities are having more apartment construction projects. There is a demand for housing, and buyers are a little concerned about entering into a 30 year mortgage commitment. There are many buyers squabbling over a low inventory of properties for … Continue reading
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Procuring Cause
Procuring Cause is a Real Estate term. Rebate Brokers have thrown the term around a lot because they write up offers, then give a rebate of the commission. In some cases, other agents have shown the buyer houses, some times … Continue reading
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Principle’s Only Transactions
One of the things that has been lost in Real Estate is that a Real Estate transaction is between two individual parties. When I started in Real Estate in the 1980s more people sold direct to a neighbor, or friend … Continue reading
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Cathy Cowan of Windermere
From time to time I forget to mention some of the best Real Estate agents in Seattle. Today I ran into Cathy Cowan who I haven’t seen in about two years. She’s been busy helping clients who are referred to … Continue reading
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