There’s no doubt that the gloomy, dark, wet weather has returned to Seattle. While everyone around Seattle retreats into the warm confines of their living rooms and local coffee shops, I’d like to offer a bit of contrarian advice for the house-shoppers out there. Seize the winter. Winter is hands down the best time to…
Tag: advice
Homebuying Tips and Traps from 1996
I was looking through the real estate section Half Price Books recently and stumbled upon an interesting book: Tips and Traps When Buying A Home, by Robert Irwin. The edition of this book I was thumbing through was published in 1996, and was just chock full of all kinds of helpful advice, such as this:…
How-To Sell Your Home: Deep Clean to Make Your House Shine
A few weeks ago we kicked off a new series: How-To: Sell Your Home in a Down Market with an overview of the important factors that home sellers must address if they want to succeed in selling their homes in today’s market: Pricing Marketing Cleaning Extras Rather than tackling these in the above order of…
How-To: Sell Your Home in a Down Market
We spend a lot of time on here with posts directed toward helping home buyers to do their research and make smart decisions, but the housing market is made up of buyers and sellers, so let’s turn our attention toward home sellers. Just a few short years ago, the home-selling process went something like this:…
Reader Question: Seeking First-Time Buyer Advice
Once in a while I like to feature individual requests for advice from readers. The following was posted on the forums by a reader going by the name “Novice.” Advice Please! I am a long time resident of Seattle and a renter. I am currently spending $700 / month to live on a tiny boat…