Moving in and Out of Tri-Cities, WA

Moving in and Out of Tri-Cities, WA

Posted on Jun 22, 2010 by Cari McGee 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 Cari McGee 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 Cari McGee 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 [...]

Richland Gyms and How NOT to Work Out In One

Posted on Apr 4, 2008 by Cari McGee in Richland Real Estate

I go to the gym right near the office, at Columbia Point.  There are no showers or changing rooms, no fitness experts hanging around, and no ‘beautiful people’ showing off their perfect bodies.  Usually when I go, there are a couple older gentlemen and a young woman and one or two other people around.  One [...]

2,664 Reasons Why It’s OK for the Cougars to Beat the Huskies

Posted on Oct 24, 2007 by Cari McGee in Richland Real Estate, Tri-Cities, WA, West Richland Real Estate

At William Wiley Elementary in West Richland, WA, they have an annual food drive.  Two years ago, the Apple Cup Canned Food Battle began.  Children donated canned goods and instant meal packages into their favorite team’s box.  We have a ton more Cougar fans than Husky fans in this part of the state, so the Cougars [...]

Fun facts about Richland housing…

Posted on Jun 22, 2007 by Cari McGee in Richland Real Estate

I went to this page and then clicked on ‘Letter Houses’ under Richland, in the Architectural History section, along the left-hand column. There are loads of the A’s, B’s, C’s and F’s still around.  They’re easy to spot.  If we ever turned into an area with a huge housing need and no more land upon which [...]

White Bluffs Elementary in Richland, WA

Posted on Apr 25, 2007 by Cari McGee in Richland Real Estate, Tri-Cities, WA, West Richland Real Estate

Move over, Wiley Elementary, there’s a new school in town. And it’s bringing some trepidation and uncertainty with it. I had a mom approach me the other day, “Cari! Are your kids going to White Bluffs or staying at Wiley next year?” I told her we live squarely on top of what is called ‘bird [...]

Buyer Beware

Posted on Apr 11, 2007 by Cari McGee in Buyers, Pasco Real Estate, Real Estate Industry, Richland Real Estate, Tri-Cities Market, Tri-Cities, WA

Probably like most Americans of a certain age, I first heard the phrase caveat emptor in the Brady Bunch episode in which Greg buys a car he was told would be easy to fix up but isn’t.  Like “Find out what you do best and do your best with it”, “caveat emptor…let the buyer beware” is [...]