admin on July 19th, 2010

The Internet has been replacing newspapers for ad placement, but today we decided to put more of our ads back in the papers.

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admin on July 13th, 2010

One of my young friends is off again to China. I have a niece who also ends up flying away to China now and again, though not as much any more.

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admin on July 6th, 2010

The law in Washington State changed on July 1st. Now all of us in real estate that used to be agents are brokers, and those who used to be simply called brokers have additional titles to distinguish them.

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admin on May 22nd, 2010

The pictures coming out of the Gulf of Mexico make the heart sick. It’s been over a month now since the accident. The oil spill is now damaging the fragil ecosystem of Louisiana and its neighbors.

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admin on April 20th, 2010

Here in Western Washington State we are getting ready for many different changes in our world of Real Estate.

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admin on September 27th, 2009

Our real economy rests in the people, and their well being, not in the paper, or financial economy.

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admin on May 15th, 2009

According to the oldtimers in the real estate business, never has our industry changed so much, so quickly. … Here in Washington State we are gearing up for more changes. Our real estate licensing law will be changing, effective July 1, 2010.

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admin on April 14th, 2009

The most interesting news for me today is that the Mariners are going to play their first Home Game today. … cuts to the Sheriff’s department … Unemployment remains a problem in Mason County …

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admin on April 11th, 2009

The White House has posted President Obama’s weekly address. .. As real estate professionals we tend to be optimistic people. .. Real estate professionals tend to think about “the obligations we have to ourselves, and the obligations we have to one another…”

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There has been a lot of talk about “earmarks” ever since the presidential campaign. In fact in lots of ways I learned about earmarks because of the campaign.

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