The 2-OH-2!'s Blog

OMG! I am sorry to start the weekend with such a rant but I need to talk about one of my biggest pet peeves, BEING OVERTALKED!!! Nothing sends me over the edge faster then having someone interrupt me when I am talking, especially when that someone has asked a question and I am right in the middl...

  Does this picture look familiar to anyone else but me? How many of us have looked in the mirror lately to see what it is we are presenting to the world? If you feel like this picture and can't quite figure out how you got here this post might be for you.   I looked at myself Monday morning in ...

Well we made it through the toughest year I have had in Real Estate, and I know that many of you feel the same. Blow off some steam this weekend and come back ready to DEFINE 09! What does that mean? It means that we are really going to have to DEFINE, not only for ourselves but for our clients w...

The market is not as bad as you think....   As a Realtor in this market, from time to time, I wonder about my choice of career.  Today, as I was working on a second offer on one of my listings I began to become a little more optimistic.  Funny how that can turn itself around in a day!    These pa...

Via Market Volunteer Alex StewartJust in time for the holidays, the popular Moreland Farmers Market has scheduled a special market day. The First Annual Holiday Market will be held 25 November 2008, 1:00 to 5:00 pm, at the market's usual space, Bybee Boulevard at 14th Avenue SE.  Apples and cider...

  Here's some good economic news for the Greater Portland area! Whether you're shopping for houses, shoes or just need a timely reminder that things are headed in a positive direction... you'll find it here in this post by Jennifer Bukaty:   It always seems to happen like this:  You receive the i...

We've a saying in Portland, "it's a really small place." You never know when you'll run into some one you know. And as for six degrees  of separation, it's small enough that we are really only about three degrees, maybe fewer, of separation. It's not unusual to meet someone and during the initial...

via Alex and Kelli's blog ---  sign up for the Run For Ed.5K to benefit Sellwood Middle School.  The walk will be along the Springwater Corridor on Saturday, October 19th. Registration begins at the school at 8:30 am. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Sellwood Middle Shool Foundation a...

Growing up as a kid in So. Cal I can remember having so many talks with my Dad, usually sitting in his car driving somewhere. He knew that he had my attention because I wasn't going anywhere, at least physically I wasn't going, but mentally I usually drifted off to a place where there were no rul...

I got a catch-up email from my good friend, Lynn, the other day. She's a member of a dragon boat team made up of breast cancer survivors, located in the Capital Region of Upstate NY. She says she is loving being a part of the group. Here's what she says about the Dragon Boat team and why they do ...