By The Tim on December 3, 2007
Here’s a question I received via email from a reader, whom I shall refer to as Malcolm:
I will be getting married next August and am beginning to look at buying my first home that we could be in for 5-7 years before children would demand a bigger home. My fiancée and I have a [...]
Posted in Opinion | Tagged reader_question
By The Tim on November 20, 2007
I’m not one to monopolize the conversation on home prices. In the interest of fairness, I present to you the following counterpoint, which I received in an email today.
Can we please stop all of the doom and gloom?
As you have probably have seen in the news, the real estate market has been going through [...]
Posted in Opinion | Tagged reader_question
By The Tim on July 3, 2007
The following question was posted by “Newbie” in yesterday’s thread:
I have been reading here for the past couple of months, my purpose being to understand if it is worth buying a house/townhome in seattle.
Now, landlord just increased my rent by 15%. This is pushing me towards seriously considering buying. What do you suggest?
A 15% increase [...]
| Tagged condos, reader_question, rent
By The Tim on February 14, 2007
Here’s a question I recently received from a reader that I will call “Jack”:
I’m 26. From L.A., recently moved here. Saved for a year, and moved with about 30k, (made 110k in ‘06) I was on disability for a year before after I almost died in an accident, so my previous savings were [...]
| Tagged condos, reader_question
By The Tim on December 21, 2006
Here’s a series of questions from a reader that was posted in a recent thread. (The questions were originally posted under the name “Sash,” but due to a strange bug in the transition to the new Blogger the comments now show as “anonymous”.)
Folks, you seem to have a lot of data on the housing [...]
| Tagged advice, reader_question, Redmond
By The Tim on November 10, 2006
Here’s a question from Doug, a reader our almost-neighboring state of Montana:
Hi Tim (and friends). I’ve been really enjoying this blog lately. I’m a RE market watcher in Montana, so it’s good to see news and real analysis from the Northwest.
I made a little video about my market and, amazingly, a local TV station found [...]
| Tagged reader_question
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