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Homeowner’s Insurance: The Basics
Homeowner’s insurance covers four things: 1. Your Home If your home is damaged by fire, hail, lightning, hurr [more]
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Property Taxes Pay For… What Exactly?
King County’s median annual property tax payment is $3,824. What, exactly, does all that money pay for? Short answe [more]
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5 Tax Deductions of Home-Ownership
We’ve entered tax season. I, for one, would rather have Round Two of the Holidays. But around this time each year, [more]
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Seattle Home Prices Surge to #1
So long, Boston. Bye, D.C. Later (maybe), New York. Seattle passed all three of those cities this year in the race [more]
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A Prison Cell in the U District Costs $750/m...
Renting keeps getting tougher in Seattle. The latest: a 130-sq foot micro-apartment in the U-District. It only cost [more]
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Don’t Fall for Staging
Staging sells. If you’re listing a home, find someone who can professionally stage and arrange your house. Yo [more]
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Relocating? Find the Neighborhood for You
Seattle neighborhoods are far from cookie-cutter. Each one has its own personality, people, pros, and cons. If you& [more]
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Seattle’s Real Estate Market Fastest i...
Seattle’s real estate market is FAST. That means homes sell quick, and when something appears on the market, [more]
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How can you afford a down payment?
Down payments can look impossible. Tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars—your stockpiled savings look downright [more]
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How Far Do Your Real Estate Dollars Go?
Home prices keeps rising. In fact, Washington State home prices are rising faster than in any other state in the Un [more]
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The Dwarf House
We usually keep our real estate focus on the Greater Seattle Area, but some houses are too unique to ignore. Case i [more]
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Buying a Second Home: Liberation or Handcuff...
Work is going well. You paid off the cars. Your spouse got a huge promotion. Your bank account keeps growing—and yo [more]
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