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Okay, so I don't know about you, but given our State's current "Stay Home" order, I'm finding it increasingly difficult not to get a little stir-crazy! As a result, it's become really important to find ways to effectively overcome the quarantine blues and steal away moments of joy and relaxation....
04/01/2020
Back in the early days of ActiveRain, I published a series of articles entitled, "Adventures in 1st-Time Home Buying." It was an enjoyable, informative series that took 1st-Time Home Buyers through the entire home-buying proces, from start-to-finish. I thought it would be fun to go back and re-v...
02/11/2020
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During the tale-end of a recent transaction, my Buyers and I conducted our final walk-thru. Aside from a few staging items, the house looked to be in fairly good shape. Until we got to the garage....Much to our dismay, there was an abundance of sundry items - a size-able inventory of leftover pai...
08/27/2019
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Maybe it's just me, but it seems as though our current culture is faced with a very stated, pronounced shortage of heroes these days. About the only heroes we encounter are the ones relentlessly filling up the big screen, ad nauseam. So perhaps heroes aren't real? Maybe they're only a fantasy con...
07/16/2019
People ask me why I switched brokerages to Fathom Realty. Let me first give you the Reader's Digest on my career path in real estate.I've been a licensed broker now for over 20 years. Fathom Realty is the fifth brokerage I've been aligned with over that time. I started with a Realty Executives of...
06/27/2019
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Today I had the most joyful surprise encounter with one of the true pioneer/rockstars of the Real Estate Interwebery, Kristal Kraft, one of the founding members of ActiveRain.Thanks to the wonders of social media (Facebook) I became aware that Kristal was here in Seattle, along with her hubby, La...
03/05/2019
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This is a Call to Action! Most of the early adopters of ActiveRain will remember Jim Cronin AKA 'The Real Estate Tomato.' He's been instrumental in helping many of us achieve amazing exposure & results with creating our own stand-alone WordPress websites. And now, he badly needs our help!This pas...
11/14/2018
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My Dad, Norman Fredrick Jacobson, died on Monday, October 15, 2018I was on my way back from a meeting with a client up in Port Angeles, and had planned on stopping by his apartment on my way back. As I was pulling into the parking lot at Brookdale Senior Living Center in Poulsbo, Facility Directo...
11/09/2018