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Building Our New Home, Part 8

Posted on Jan 23, 2012 by in Buyers, Real Estate Industry, Sellers, Tri-Cities Market

My husband, Matt, and I are building our new home. This is the eighth in a series of who-knows-how-many. I’m writing from the perspective of a buyer, and an agent, since I am both in this case. We had two important walk-throughs last week and the week before.  On the 11th, we met with the [...]

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Building Our New Home, Part 7

Posted on Jan 16, 2012 by in Buyers, Real Estate Industry, Sellers, Tri-Cities Market

My husband, Matt, and I are building our new home. This is the seventh in a series of who-knows-how-many. I’m writing from the perspective of a buyer, and an agent, since I am both in this case. Welcome back!  Happy New Year to you and yours! This post is about the selling aspect of buying [...]

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Building Our New Home, Part 6

Posted on Dec 12, 2011 by in Buyers, Real Estate Industry, Sellers, Tri-Cities Market

My husband, Matt, and I are building our new home. This is the sixth in a series of who-knows-how-many. I’m writing from the perspective of a buyer, and an agent, since I am both in this case. The building has begun in earnest. They broke ground, as I reported last week, and until we get [...]

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Building Our New House, Part 5

Posted on Dec 5, 2011 by in Buyers, Real Estate Industry, Sellers, Tri-Cities Market

My husband, Matt, and I are building our new home.  This is the fifth in a series of who-knows-how-many.  I’m writing from the perspective of a buyer, and an agent, since I am both in this case.  If you’d like to read previous posts, you can find them here – parts one, two, three and [...]

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Building Our New Home, Part 4

Posted on Nov 28, 2011 by in Buyers, Real Estate Industry, Sellers, Tri-Cities Market

My husband, Matt, and I are building our new home.  This is the fourth in a series of who-knows-how-many.  I’m writing from the perspective of a buyer, and an agent, since I am both in this case.  If you’d like to catch up, read part one, part two, and part three.  So, the next step [...]

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Building Our New Home, Part 2

Posted on Nov 14, 2011 by in Buyers, Real Estate Industry, Sellers, Tri-Cities Market

I wrote a word  at the end of the last post, but the word so well describes how I feel about getting our home ready for the market, I’m going to use it again – Ugh. There is so much to do!  We need to paint the interior, replace all the flooring, and change out [...]

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Building Our New Home, Part 1

Posted on Nov 7, 2011 by in Buyers, Real Estate Industry, Sellers, Tri-Cities Market

This is the first (of I have no idea how many) in a series I’m going to write about building our new house. Some things you should know up front – we are not the builder. (Thank Heaven! Neither Matt nor I possesses the skill-set necessary to build a house!) We are using a production [...]

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Home Is Where the Crowds Are? (Tri-Cities Home Sales Stats, April, 2011)

Posted on May 27, 2011 by in Buyers, Sellers, Tri-Cities Market

Let’s jump right in, shall we? Year-to-date (through April 30, 2011), there were 206 single-family building permits issued for Kennewick and Richland combined.  By contrast, there were 199 single-family building permits issued for the city of Pasco alone. And, take a look at the new home sales in those cities… So the homes being built [...]