Heads Up on your Home Mortgage
Posted on Aug 31, 2007 by Cari McGee in Buyers, Tri-Cities, WA
I’ve posted about this before…be sure to contact your lender if times get tough. Also, I’ve asked to PLEASE use a local lender because loanguyontheinternet-dot-com doesn’t care about you and they don’t care about their local reputation. The erudite Rhonda Porter penned this great reminder about how bad lenders do business and how good lenders don’t. If you [...]
The Inside Scoop
Posted on Aug 29, 2007 by Cari McGee in Real Estate Industry
I’ve mentioned before that it fascinates me that different communities have unwritten rules. It amazes me when an entire subset of the population has rules or codes they employ. And, when you become a member of that group, you find out the dirt. You find out information that is important for you to know. There [...]
Tri-Cities Schools and the WASL
Posted on Aug 28, 2007 by Cari McGee in Tri-Cities Market, Tri-Cities, WA
I, personally, dislike the WASL (Washington Assessment of Student Learning) as a tool to measure our children’s academic process. That’s my disclaimer right from the get-go. My son tells me that his classmates claim that WASL stands for “Wasting All Students Lives”. Basically, I agree. Recently, the Tri-City Herald posted the scoring breakdown for our area schools, in an article [...]
Us vs. Them?
Posted on Aug 26, 2007 by Cari McGee in Tri-Cities, WA, West Richland Real Estate
I was contacted a while back by a woman who is interested in keeping a portion of West Richland and Richland undeveloped. A portion of the land is currently zoned RR-5, which means there can be one house every five acres. She said she felt that many like-minded conservationists viewed Realtors as the ‘them’ in [...]
293 Reasons the Tri-Cities Market is HOT
Posted on Aug 15, 2007 by Cari McGee in Tri-Cities Market
An agent from another brokerage (she is her own broker and works with one other agent) told a colleague of mine this week, “Our market is extremely sluggish right now.” Really? Well, I suppose since we’re down from our May high of 359 under contracts to 293 July under contracts, we could argue that we’re [...]
I was saving this for a good day to talk about foreclosure…
Posted on Aug 10, 2007 by Cari McGee in Buyers, Real Estate Industry, Sellers
but then I realized…there is no good day to talk about foreclosure! This post is just as true here in the Northwest as it is in St. Louis. Homeowners having difficulty paying tend to see The Bank hovering over them as this nebulous, swirling mass of grabbing hands. It isn’t really. I always tell buyer when they’re looking at foreclosures, [...]
Hello??? Lender, are you there?
Posted on Aug 9, 2007 by Cari McGee in Real Estate Industry
Lots of loan companies are going the way of the dodo bird. I recently spoke with a lender who has been in the business for 30 years and the last few weeks have been his hardest ever. I know a lender who has had to scramble to find an new loan program for his clients [...]
A milestone of sorts…
Posted on Aug 7, 2007 by Cari McGee in Buyers, Sellers, Tri-Cities Market
In July, we reached an average home sale price of…ta da, fanfare please…$200,000! The median home price is at $174.8, which is also the highest that number has ever been. And look what’s happening over in King County. I don’t know…my mom (by way of Aesop) always told me that slow and steady wins the [...]
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