All Around the Sound The House With 24 Bathrooms ​ Of course, we're talking about Bill Gates' Medina Mansion. Twenty-four bathrooms. It's a safe bet that Bill and Melinda run to Costco when they're out of t.p. That's just one of 15 facts in this interesting article in Curbed Seattle.
Home Decor Simple Ways to Give Your Home the “Wow” Factor ​These are some of the best small-scale ideas I've seen around. None of these are terribly spendy, and most could be completed fairly quickly. Want to bump up your home's "awesome" factor? Try one (or a few) of these ideas from AmazingOasis.org. Check out the link here    
All Around the Sound How Much Salary Do You Need? The mortgage website HSH.com posted an interesting article this week in which it estimated the salary needed in order to afford a house (including principal and interest, taxes and insurance) in 27 U.S. cities. With the average home price at $359,900 (up 3.5% from last month and 8.2% from this time last year) and a monthly mortgage […]
Sellers Let it Show, Let it Show, Let it Show! Anyone thinking of selling their home in December inevitably wrestles with the decision. “Is it all right to go ahead and list my house now,” they ask, “or would it be wiser to wait till all the holiday madness is over?” Many real estate agents counsel their clients to wait. Their reasons are understandable; December […]
All Around the Sound Things to Love About Marysville #5     . . . Snow-vember     We don't always get snow in November, but when we do, it's delightful. Want a peek? Here's what it looked like in my backyard this week …   The little red shed in the middle used to be our chicken coop, but last year we converted it […]
Marysville Things to Love About Marysville #4     . . . The Centennial Trail     A few days ago I shared pictures of my neighbor on horseback making his way down to the Centennial Trail. Having a 30-mile long trail (literally) in my backyard is one of the things I love most about living where I live. Sometimes we hear […]
Buyers 12 Ways to Get the Lowest Mortgage Interest Rate And of course, who wouldn't want that? If you're considering a home purchase, check out this article on HSH.com. ​  
Windermere Snohomish County Food Drive As our friends and supporters, we are excited to share with you the results of our 2014 Snohomish County Realtor Food Drive. Like it is every October, our office was a happy, noisy, crowded place this past month as the food began piling up week-by-week: canned fruits and vegetables, juice, instant potatoes and stuffing mix, […]
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Marysville Things to Love About Marysville #3     . . . Horseback riders with cell phones     Driving home yesterday, I came around the corner and found one of my neighbors on horseback heading to the Centennial Trail for a ride. We see horses all the time in our neighborhood — that wasn't unusual. But the sight of a cell phone […]
Uncategorized Maid Surprised With New Home This made me cry! Grab a tissue and watch for yourself:   The New York Daily News has more about this story here.
Marysville Things to Love About Marysville #2     . . . The Lights of Christmas     What else do I love about Marysville? We're only 25 minutes from Warm Beach! Which means that starting next week, we can all head out to see The Lights of Christmas! If you haven't yet made this a part of your holiday celebration, give it […]
Luxury Homes The Most Expensive Home in America It's not in Puget Sound. This enormity is in Beverly Hills (of course). But I had to share it so you could start the day feeling grateful that this $195 million dollar home is NOT yours, which means you are NOT responsible for sweeping all those floors. 😀 The Palazzo Di Amore Want to see […]
Marysville Things to Love About Marysville #1       . . . We're a little bit city, a little bit country     One of the things I love the most about where I live is that it's such an eclectic mix of rural and urban. We have a nice outlet mall on the west side of the freeway (right near […]
Uncategorized Gifts for Veterans To all you veterans out there (and especially to my Uncle Doug, Uncle Jim and my sweet father-in-law, Joel) … thank you for everything you left behind and missed out on in the name of serving and protecting our country. Not one of you has been thanked enough; not one of you has received the honor […]
Sellers Staging Your Home For a Fall Sale I have a dear friend in Nevada who keeps almost two dozen giant bins full of fall decorations in her garage. There’s actually an entire wall of floor-to-ceiling shelves dedicated to all-things-autumn. We made a trip to see her one fall and I remember how overwhelmed I was by her delightful decorations. She has a […]
Tips and Reminders Enjoy that extra hour! Aren't you so happy about that? It always feels luxurious to have that extra hour of sleep. While you're at it (setting your clock back, that is), why not take a minute and change the batteries in your smoke detectors? 
Snohomish Pieces A little story set in Snohomish … My proper but mischievous grandmother had one firm rule about cussing: If you must do it, do it in the barn. I believe now that her unspoken message was "animal behavior belongs with the animals," but we didn't hear that subtext back then. We just thought it a […]
Marysville After the rain ​ Here's a benefit to all that rain … the rainbow that follows! Thanks to Mary Vermeulen for capturing this double rainbow over Calvary Chapel Marysville.  
All Around the Sound Sometimes it DOES rain here I'm not going to lie to you. If you're thinking about relocating to the Puget Sound area, you're going to encounter a little rain now and again, like I did on a trip up to Samish Island with my friend, Cathy Taylor, early in September. But doesn't this look like fun? 🙂     Post […]
Buyers Home Staging   I met with a client tonight and we drove a loop from Sunnyside to Lake Stevens and back, trying to find that just-perfect house. From our initial list of five homes, we ended up looking at three. This is a client who makes it very easy: she knows exactly what she wants (and what […]