Adam Crocker's (adamcrocker) Blog

    Here’s an instant spot quiz— (see what comes to mind within a second or two):If you decide to sell your Olympia home, if you had a crystal ball, what’s the most important detail about the sale result?  Quick! Answer!If you’re like seven out of ten people, you were curious about the bottom lin...

 Everyone who owns a rental property in Olympia makes a continuing management decision concerning how much of the day-to-day operational responsibility to outsource. Some are inclined to tackle the nuts and bolts of tenant management, while others are content to leave it to one of  Olympia’s prof...

 Our Olympia’s spring selling season is underway!Okay—it’s understandable if that seems like a somewhat premature announcement, but it is verifiable from any number of sources. Never mind that this year, spring doesn’t officially arrive in Olympia until March 20…but that’s only what astronomers s...

 When interviewed following the successful close of their home’s sale, a convincing majority of homeowners say that one of the most decisive factors came early on: choosing the right real estate agent. The reasons given go further than simply chaperoning the business transaction. The right agent ...

 The way the ‘curb appeal’ phenomenon applies to a Olympia home for sale is explained simply enough. Like the packaging on a store shelf item, its mission is to break through the competition—to strike a responsive chord with potential buyers.That is the goal, but no Olympia home that’s up for sal...

  It’s hard to imagine anyone in Olympia who hasn’t been hearing worried Wall Street commentators discussing the latest news. Starting with the worst January performance on record, even people without a lot of affected investments are aware of how ripples from that part of the finance world tend ...

  “Location, location, location!” is one of the few proclamations which needs no verb, no adjective, no preposition to fully communicate its message. Everyone in Olympia understands—and usually agrees with—its meaning: The location [of something] is all-important.In the commercial context, it use...

 Sure, even the idea of homeownership is appealing for all of the traditional emotional and lifestyle reasons. Having proprietary control over your family’s center of operations is a goal for most Olympia residents—just as most of us would consider it a necessary evil if professional obligations ...

    “The Jumbo Jungle” may sound a little like the elephant compound in a wild animal park, but it’s actually a seldom-quoted tab under The Wall Street Journal’s online Real Estate section. The “jumbos” being discussed are the trunkless kind—the hefty mortgage loans whose center rings are found i...

 This one was news to me. The Wall Street Journal had it buried in a ‘spread sheet’ section of their online Real Estate section: “Why It’s Harder to Sell Your Home in an Election Year.” If you are like me—never having had an inkling that Olympia homes for sale have rough sledding in an election y...