Puget Sound Energy Offers New and Increased Rebates. Puget Sound Energy is offering new and increased rebates on energy-efficient water and space heating equipment as well as windows. This offers homeowners both energy and money saving this winter. “PSE encourages customers to make energy-efficient choices when they are ready to upgrade or replace equipment,” said [...]
On Trulia recently a FSBO seller asked if this ethical and obviously desperate action by a ‘real estate professional’ is normal. I would hope not, but would not be surprised if it happened with some regularity. Is is common for licensed Real Estate Agents to remove signs for owners that are selling by owner? My [...]
Buying and selling homes is always a negotiation. Sometimes one side is in a better position than the other, but there are always points to negotiate. Assuming that the offer you have in your hand is the best your buyers can do, to me, weakens your ability to work in their best interest which is getting them the home they want at a price they are comfortable with.
To be the best at real estate negotiations as possible for my clients, I discuss with them what is important to them, what points are negotiable and what we are not willing to give on. Not knowing these things means I can not be flexible when I am talking to the sellers agent, and that is bad for my clients.
Normally I have a slew of real estate news and things from over the weekend to update people on, but not today! Looks like between the holiday season and the flooding going on all over the Seattle area not much is happening. I know personally I have several clients that are waiting out the holiday [...]
Well, our brokers are not really becoming zombies, but coming up in the next month or so the ‘agent’ and ‘broker’ designations for real estate professionals in Washington state are getting a make over. The reason for this? I would like to blissfully believe that it is simply because the state is wanting agents to [...]
For those of you not on BizNik, members there routinely schedule networking events, talks and so on. These are generally really great get togethers and I will be attending this one. The Power Chicks Networking event is Monday August 24th from 12-2pm. To quote from the event description: Are you committed to women, so committed [...]
My life problems are completely solved, except of course for how to spend my soon to be acquired $10.5 Million dollars! It seems that good old Ben Bernanke has a cool bit of money that needs to get deposited into my accounts. Here is an (unedited) copy of the email he just sent me. I [...]
Lately it seems that there is a boom in public park development in Snohomish county. A while back I wrote about the construction going on over at the Martha Lake Airport Park, and more developments and changes are on the way. Now they have announced two new Lynnwood area park projects. The Stadler Ridge Park [...]
I just am reading that payday loans in Washington State are under new legislation limiting the amount that people can borrow, and how many payday loans people can have at one time. My question is, do we really need more government regulation? Don’t they have better things to do with their time? I understand that [...]
I want to shout that to everyone across country! A recent study has shown that a stunning 70% of homeowners that are behind on their mortgage never seek any outside help in dealing with the problem. Homeowners need to realize that the banks don’t want to foreclose on their homes and are generally willing to [...]
© Jacquie Cliff – Professional Seattle Area Real Estate Broker with Champions Real Estate Services
