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Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | Seller Conversations, a podcast Episode #12 | Double Down | Podcast is ready! This month Nicole Mangina mic’d up with us to discuss key themes that have continued to bubble up in her “Seller Conversations” clock hour class. Seller conversations are indeed a very relevant topic heading into our spring real estate market. WRE Eastlake broker, Fiore Pignataro and Demco attorney, David Daniel also […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | a guest blogger + signs of spring? The Seattle winter freeze & melt really did happen. Kids are slowly returning to schools post mid-winter breaks (ps, thank goodness). Our offices are starting to fill back up with humans. What a wild couple of weeks! I’m seeing, hearing and looking for signs of spring post melt. I do see them popping up in […]
Friday Post It’s Tuesday | The Seattle Melt of 2019 Are you, your people, your neighbors ready for The Seattle melt of 2019? It’s on… Windermere Broker Michael Doyle shared this on Facebook this morning – too important not to share. In some ways our conditions seem more dangerous than in our previous days. Hope these tidbits help you or someone you know! “Here are […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! |an idea worth spreading Welcome to Friday, let’s sweep! Snow that is…it really is here! Several agencies, including NOAA have called todays snow to be one of the largest storms in Seattle’s history.  Time will tell around this prediction! In the immediate, I realize I may have very low readership today…instead of blogging content I had prepped (dusting off […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! |narrative + listing launch + a tattoo? Welcome to Friday! A couple digestible bites to wrap up this week and prepare for next… ps, welcome to February, it’s here! Wow, January was a blur. Remember KCM’s Steve Harney’s (Keeping Current Matters) four goals for brokers in 2019? 1. don’t panic 2. stay current daily 3. control the narrative and 4. every day, list *and when […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | it happened, wire fraud What did you do last Friday night?… Me? Tried to stop a crook. It happened to us. Real wire fraud. Earnest money wired from one banking institution to another. The money is gone. Good news (hardly “good” in the big picture), our broker was on two-step verification on her email and thus appears she herself […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | word + focus + talking points Welcome to Friday! I have plenty to say, plenty to share – let’s get right to it! First, a couple housekeeping items to digest… Office Hours and Computation of Time Offices Closed this Monday in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr Day. If you are working within purchase and sale agreements nice & early in […]
Friday Post It’s (Monday)! | Podcast topics + YOU Why oh why am I hearing from Laura on a Monday, it is not Friday? Answer is: Lining up my next podcast for 2019 and I want to hear from YOU in what content + conversations you want more of! Please text, email or post a comment on this blog post if you have an […]
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Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | a top 10 mash up Welcome to Friday, let’s sweep! First of the New Year – hello 2019 – we are glad you are here! Top ten items to consider in setting your table for 2019. No theme here outside of what is on my mind that I want to share with you today as we sweep + launch into […]
Friday Post It’s (not) Friday! | The Year in Pictures it is not Friday, it’s New Year’s eve day and I am inspired to write! In reading Geekwire’s 12.29.19 article entitled, “Year in pictures: Amazon’s amazing growth, SapceX blasts off, the passing of Paul Allen and more” – I was inspired to go back thru my pictures living on my iPhone and take a look […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | #beyondtheheadlines on repeat The last Friday sweep of 2018! It’s a quick sweep yet full of digestible bites as we prepare to navigate real estate in 2019. NOTE: If you are working with purchase and sale agreements heading into January a reminder when computing time, Tuesday, January 1st is a legal holiday! New Year’s Day is a legal […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | double down, episode 11 #beyondtheheadlines It’s Friday, let’s sweep! Lucky us, with Matthew Gardner having 31 speaking engagements over the next 90 days spanning 10 states, we were able to get him mic’d up for Episode #11, Double Down podcast. With the media being one of the biggest factors in our real estate marketplace, Windermere Real Estate Co. brokers Catherine […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | Preventing Homelessness for Seattle Children’s Families “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it” – Roald Dahl Welcome to Friday, let’s sweep! Or better yet…let’s find the magic! What is the deal with the managers behind the masks you ask? We are excited to see you Tuesday night at Sand Point C.C. and we are up to a little […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | do you have a favorite rep? + a favor Welcome to Friday, let’s sweep! This week I have a favor to ask! Do you have a favorite title rep? Ok, great – think about that person. What is it that you appreciate? How did they build that relationship with you? For some of you this would be Michelle Barry or Craig Ellis, CW Title. […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | The “Pope” + turning (seller) analysis into strategy   This week one highlight was the opportunity to engage with “the Pope” – ok, Alan Pope – at our November Luxury Breakfast. Having a local appraiser who has been a part of 5 full and now going on 6 market cycles is an absolute tool in our toolbox. A few digestible soundbites worth noting […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | 3 miles   Welcome to Friday, let’s sweep…and I mean, “sweep the beach” in gratitude. Thanksgiving happened. Leftovers put away – at least until the Apple Cup tonight. Some family have traveled back home. The rest of us remain together enjoying this “pause” at the beach. Yesterday was the day for so many in a very collaborative […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | October “science”   October Monthly Talking Points Seattle (based on Residential and Condominium report): Market continues to balance. Active inventory has over doubled over a year ago. Pending sales are down about 15% from 2017. Even with the balancing, median closed sales prices are up 6% from a year ago and down 7% from the peak (May […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | turning analysis into strategy Welcome to Friday! This week I attended the wrap up session for our 2018 Windermere Leadership Series for 2018. Always striving to be a better leader for you and for our company. This final session was hosted by Matthew Ferrara – no stranger to our stage these days – of most recent – our keynote […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | coping with uncertainty + planning Welcome to Friday everyone! What appears to be a short sweep this week is actually power packed if you accept the challenges within. Less writing for me today…I’m in the midst of a pending inspection offer on a home for our family and digesting quickly that this will throw me into full project management mode […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | Podcast Episode #10 | Double Down – Welcome to Friday, let’s sweep! This week is Episode #10 of my Double Down podcast – doubling down on a “legal bite” and an “idea worth spreading.” This month the focus takes us back to summer for a minute – to the July 1st 2018 effective date of the new Washington Uniform Common Interest […]

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