real-estate-investing

Why Investing in Tri-Cities Real Estate is a Smart Idea

Posted on Aug 29, 2011 by in Kennewick Real Estate, Pasco Real Estate, Richland Real Estate, Tri-Cities Market

I used to kind of freeze up when people talked to me about investment property.  I would smile and nod and parrot, “Yes, it looks like a good investment.” However, now I am so thrilled to be able to articulate WHY.  I took a class (a couple, actually), in investing – how it works, what [...]

Walkability in the Tri-Cities

Posted on Dec 6, 2010 by in Kennewick Real Estate, Miscellaneous, Pasco Real Estate, Richland Real Estate, Tri-Cities, WA

I thought Zillow came up with this “walk score” feature a while ago, but maybe I am wrong.  There’s a separate url for walk scores, not affiliated with Zillow, to my knowledge, over at http://www.walkscore.com . The Walk Score is supposed to indicate the desirability of a city or a neighborhood.  The higher a walk [...]

Moving in and Out of Tri-Cities, WA

Moving in and Out of Tri-Cities, WA

Posted on Jun 22, 2010 by in Kennewick Real Estate, Richland Real Estate, Tri-Cities, WA

It’s always fun when two or more seemingly disparate parts of me find something they can enjoy together. For example, this info combines my love of real estate, statistics and migration trends. This map is fascinating. You click on a county and you find where the people moved to when they left, or where the [...]

How Tri-Cities High Schools Measure Up

Posted on Jun 14, 2010 by in Kennewick Real Estate, Richland Real Estate

Newsweek published a list of the top 1,600 high schools in the nation. 1,600 sounds like a lot, but in terms of all the public high schools in this great nation, it’s only 6% of the total. So, locally, we made the list at #1058 (Kamiakin High School in Kennewick) and #1094 (Hanford High School [...]

Windermere's Open House Extravaganza!!!!!!!

Posted on Mar 17, 2009 by in Kennewick Real Estate, Pasco Real Estate, Richland Real Estate, West Richland Real Estate

This coming Sunday, March 22, all of the agents at Windermere Real Estate (the brokerage where I work) will be sitting Open Houses in our twice-a-year event called the Open House Extravaganza. We’ll be holding open over 250 houses, which is more than half our inventory. Our closest competitive agency doesn’t even have that many [...]

Who’s #1?? Kennewick, Kennewick…yay, Kennewick!!!

Posted on Jul 9, 2007 by in Kennewick Real Estate

From the Who-Knew-They-Even-Tracked-This-Stuff Department…the 7-11 store on Clearwater Ave. is #1 in Slurpee sales in the West. Very cool (pun intended).