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Sellers Farlan and Bobbie I really, really love this couple. Friends before they both lost their spouses, these widowers found a second chance at love and got married in June of this year. Farlan had just turned 90 and Bobbie was 83. He liked to joke that he had robbed the cradle. 🙂 On this day, they came to […]
Sellers What’s the big deal about curb appeal? The experts tell us that in human interactions, two people meeting for the first time size one another up and form an opinion of each other in the first seven seconds. In just that short span of time, each determines if the other is a friend or a foe; someone to approach or someone to […]
Sellers Love It Before You List It The year was 1989, and I was just about to learn the meaning of the word “boom.” We’d met one afternoon with a real estate agent who advised us that if we wanted to sell our Silver Lake home, we needed to paint the living room, re-stain the deck, and put fresh bark over the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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