Inland Northwest's Real Estate Adventure

  Staging your house to sell: 5 Tips & Ideas  You are selling your house and you want to draw the most attention as possible to get as many potential buyers through the door. Whether you are listing with a Realtor or listing as For Sale By Owner the challenges are the same. Get as many buyers through the door as possible. That is easier said than done sometimes. In the current market just having your property on the market is usually enough to get it the attention to sale. Regardless, staging your home is important because it could make or break the buyer from choosing your house over another. The key to any staging is getting the potential buyer to see themselves in your house. Here I will provide a few tips to hopefully help get the buyers through your door. #1. Declutter. You want to present the best version of your house as possible. To do that you may need to remove some items from the room you are staging. If you have too many furniture pieces or too large of pieces...

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So You are Moving….. Now What? You have decided to move and it is not fun for a lot of people. Here are a few things to think about to help remove some of the stress of the whole process.   Now, let’s get you and your family ready to leave. Here are a few things I have learned over my military career:  1.    Moving is the perfect time to declutter. If you are anything like me you have collected a few things. Take this opportunity to go thru stuff and decide if it is something you really need any more. A rule of thumb I have learned from my wife is if you haven’t used it in 6 six months or even knew you still had it then it may be time to part ways with it. Donate it, have a yard sale and use the money towards something fun on the trip or throw it out. 2.    If you are having movers pack your belongings up and move them to your destination, make sure you have about 1-2 weeks of work/school clothes. You never know if there will be a delay in ...

It was 24 June, 1994 the summer before my senior year of high school, when I started my career in the Washington National Guard as a M1 Tank Crewmember with C Co 1/303 rd Armor in Port Orchard, WA.   I went active duty 7 May, 1996 as an aircraft electrician; retired 30 September, 2016 and, as they say, the rest is history. Like most who serve on active duty I have been all over the world; parts I hope to see again and others I wish I could forget. I landed in Spokane for a job in July 2016 while on terminal leave. Since being here I have discovered so many things to do in Spokane.    Like basketball; We have Spokane Hoopfest, the largest 3on3 outdoor tournament anywhere.You into college basketball? We have Gonzaga University’s Men and Women’s basketball.Into baseball? We have the Spokane Indians a minor league affiliate of the Texas Rangers. Want to catch a Pro Sports game? Take a quick 1 hour flight or 6 hour drive to Seattle and see both the Seattle Seaha...

Shared from Keeping Current Matters Is The Recent Dip In Interest Rates Here To Stay? Interest rates for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage climbed consistently throughout 2018 until the middle of November. After that point, rates returned to levels that we saw in August to close out the year at 4.55%, according to  Freddie Mac’s  Primary Mortgage Market Survey . After the first week of 2019, rates have continued their downward trend. As  Freddie Mac’s Chief Economist  Sam Khater notes, this is great news for homebuyers. He states, “Mortgage rates declined to start the new year with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage dipping to 4.51 percent. Low mortgage rates combined with decelerating home price growth should get prospective homebuyers excited to buy.” In some areas of the country, the combination of rising interest rates and rising home prices had made some first-time buyers push pause on their home searches. But with more inventory coming to mark...

The Best Time To List Your House? TODAY! You may have heard that the housing market is softening. There is no doubt that buyer traffic has decreased. There are fewer purchasers in the market than there were last month and at this time last year. What you may not have heard, however, is that there is still a severe shortage of listing inventory in many regions of the country. In a  recent interview  discussing the housing market,  First American’s Chief Economist  Mark Fleming put it simply: “The biggest challenge is really the availability of supply.” When we look at available inventory numbers released by the  National Association of Realtors  (NAR), we see that the actual number of homes for sale has decreased in each of the last five months. What does this mean to you as a seller? The best time to sell is when there is less competition. That guarantees you a better price and fewer hassles in the transaction. Bottom Line ...