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Putting together an Olympia listing is serious business. It has to be brief, to-the-point, and at the same time, engaging. The photos and language of a Olympia listing is the tip of the marketing spear: if it’s dull, and just a repetition of the specifics that are enumerated in the columns of num...

If you are one of those Olympia homeowners who has been gladdened to see property values continuing to rebound, you have also been pleased at the steady decline in the wave of foreclosures that were part of the global financial crisis. When the subprime mortgage crisis triggered widespread financ...

You pronounce it “FIZZ-bow.” That’s FSBO: For Sale by Owner, and it’s the Road Less Travelled by area homeowners bent on selling a home in Olympia as economically as possible. It does seem to make common sense, after all. It’s the homeowner who knows the ins and outs of their own home best—so who...

A few of Olympia’s professionals operate as one-person enterprises, but that’s unusual. Even a one-doctor medical practice has back-up staff. Most lawyers, even if they aren’t in a partnership arrangement, have at least one assistant or secretary to help. Small commercial businesses are called ‘m...

If you’ve ever had the kind of neighbor who is apt to borrow something (like your hedge trimmer), only to later complain about how it performed, you know how much patience it takes to hold your tongue. The Mortgage Bankers Association would be justified if they felt that way about me: I read thei...

An Olympia listing can be a smash hit when the pictures show a property that’s cosmetically appealing, the copy rings true, and the details hit the sweet spot where features and value are a match for the best the area has to offer. But it still might not be as effective as it should be if one oth...

Remember the good old days, when most people could depend on staying in the same job in the same community for an entire career? Okay; the truth is, I don’t actually remember any time like that—but I do remember watching TV shows about it... The truth is, as with so many other facets of 21st Cent...

Everyone agrees that getting the right Olympia Realtor® for your team is vital when you’re buying or selling a home­­. Defining ‘right’ isn’t hard, either: for some of us, that will be a Realtor with the kind of dynamic sales personality that seems to make obstacles just disappear; for others, th...

You may have wondered why there are credit repair companies out there, since the credit reporting agencies have to allow any Olympia consumer to dispute incorrect line items on their own. The big Credit Reporting Agencies (“CRAs”) even have online systems for challenging erroneous information. Th...

This is actually a situation that’s very common, but not much remarked upon: you know you are going to be selling your Olympia home—only not for a while…and perhaps not for a very long while! Is there anything you should be doing now, long before actual preparations are called for?There sure is! ...