Just a quick note, if you heard me on the radio today speaking on the subject of whether Seattle can support six professional sports teams, you can find that analysis on my personal site TimAndJeni.com. For my regular readers, if you dig my flavor of charts and tables and you’re into local sports, it might…
Category: Features
Real Actual Listing Photos: Draw Something
It’s time for another installment of Real Actual Listing Photos. Once a month (or so) I round up some of the most bizarre listing photos from around the Seattle area and post them here, with brief excerpts from the real actual listing description, and probably a bit of snarky commentary. The idea for this series…
Surprise! You Owe Thousands of Dollars!
I received the following email from a reader. He explains the issue quite well, so I’ll let his message do all the talking: My wife and I bought our home a year ago in Mill Creek, Snohomish County. On Friday, we received a bill from King County instructing us that we owed them over $2,000,…
Friday Flashback: Should Have Listened to Mr. Sohn
From a NWMLS talking points memo that was circulated in June 2006: …the forecasts for housing price growth are calling for booming values in the state of Washington. For the June issue of MONEY Magazine, Fiserv Lending Solutions and Moody’s Economy.com provided forecasts for the coming 12 months for 380 metro areas – they predict…
A Front Row Seat to the Battle of the Flippers
Oooh this should get interesting. Two homes on my street with very similar specs, both sold in January and both being flipped, both came on the market yesterday. The Contenders 3609 Wetmore 2 Beds, 1 Bath, 1,106 square feet 4,792 square foot lot Built in 1912 Bought 01/12 for $91,500 Asking $189,000 3417 Wetmore 2…