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Veterans, thank you.

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell
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It’s Sunday, let’s sweep the week…

Friday was full thus a Sunday evening sweep to share content from last week and look ahead to next week; together. Of note, it is our week to each vote. Tuesday, November 8th. Other headlines last week: Amazon freezes hiring, rate hikes & real estate firms tied to Wall Street don’t look so good in […]
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It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | No shame in…

Welcome to Friday evening! Thank goodness we had opportunity to find our umbrellas & rain jackets this week! And for those of us on the soccer sidelines this time of year we quickly we found our boots! Welcome to this Friday’s sweep. We are getting more aquatinted with our new forms and I bet, better […]
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It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | a rally cap & a top 10

Welcome to it everyone, Friday and yes – for many of us we have baseball and our city on our mind! Mariners return home for a must win playoff game(s). Find your rally cap (or shoe) – we need it! It’s been awhile since I published a Top 10 list in sweeping the week – […]

Friday Post Veterans, thank you. “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell

Friday Post It’s Sunday, let’s sweep the week… Friday was full thus a Sunday evening sweep to share content from last week and look ahead to next week; together. Of note, it is our week to each vote. Tuesday, November 8th. Other headlines last week: Amazon freezes hiring, rate hikes & real estate firms tied to Wall Street don’t look so good in […]

Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | No shame in… Welcome to Friday evening! Thank goodness we had opportunity to find our umbrellas & rain jackets this week! And for those of us on the soccer sidelines this time of year we quickly we found our boots! Welcome to this Friday’s sweep. We are getting more aquatinted with our new forms and I bet, better […]

Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | a rally cap & a top 10 Welcome to it everyone, Friday and yes – for many of us we have baseball and our city on our mind! Mariners return home for a must win playoff game(s). Find your rally cap (or shoe) – we need it! It’s been awhile since I published a Top 10 list in sweeping the week – […]

Friday Post About last week, about last Friday night… About last week brought about Homecoming, Symposium and the Windermere Foundation Gala. I’ve found myself grinning from ear to ear in reflection of all. I witnessed all the things you’d expect in a gathering of this sort; connecting, learning, unlearning all with hopes to inspire continued growth of our businesses and the people we surround […]

Friday Post Welcome to Friday, let’s sweep! | “Adjusting your sails”… Last Sunday Morning, broker Kristin Munger and I poured ourselves our morning coffee from our respective kitchens and mic’d up yet again to deep dive into strategy in use of stats, as I quote Kristin, “adjust the sails for the (real estate market) wind now.” We take a few minutes to show you (step by […]

Friday Post Welcome to Friday, let’s sweep! | Industry, sneakers & school bells ring again! I noticed lots of humans catching up on life this summer! Thank goodness. Fridays with Laura (aka, me) is super happy to be back writing. Indeed taking that “space in between” – that space between stimulus and response (a pause in writing) – promoted tremendous creativity and awareness for what is next; together. Let’s get […]

Friday Post August sweep! That space in between. Welcome to August 2022 everyone! I’m watching metrics dwindle late summer in blog readership. I get it! Humans are catch up on life and summer provides a natural playground to do so. Instead of writing and hoping the words will land on the page as impact, I’ll join you. I will take August with that […]

Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | I am… Welcome to it, Friday has arrived! I am going to challenge you to think differently today – specifically around your goals. Before I challenge you, I want you to conjure up a big goal. You know, one of those you think about and aren’t yet willing to say out loud. It might be business related. […]

Friday Post It’s Monday, welcome to a new week! As promised, Kristin & I brewed more coffee, mic’d up and discussed “now” systems, data, approach & conversations with clients. We hope this sets you in a good direction for the day(s) & week(s) ahead within a transitioning market. Brew a cup & join us, right here. 🎤 (47 minutes) Ps, I referenced the below idea – […]

Friday Post It’s Friday…mic’d up Sunday… Kristin Munger and I will mic up this Sunday am and talk about test piloting the below Denise Lones strategy this week with Sellers… …one idea to help promote a Seller pricing well vs aspirational… Deciding a list price can be difficult for sellers and listing brokers. Trying on a Denise Lones idea: • Pick the best comparable properties from the active competition. […]

Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s… …turn on an autoresponder and turn off my adult brain for a bit! Traveling in California with my kiddos for a hoop tournament. This beach bag is filled with the essentials – aka, not much at all. To the surf, sand, basketball courts and various hotel rooms I go – I’ll be back in a […]

Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | in other news… Welcome to Friday of the upcoming long fourth of July holiday weekend! While I suspect you all aren’t ready to digest more information today, stats, market commentary or headlines I will use today’s blog post to welcome our 2022 UW Aspire cohort to their summer internship! We welcomed this week 18 University of Washington students […]

Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | Goodbye June-uary Welcome to Friday y’all. June-uary has left the building – thank you and hello summer! It now looks & feels like it and you all deserve this! This week’s sweep will be in record time with a replay on last week’s conversation with Kristin & Sol in approaching pricing in a turning market. The twists […]

Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | Approach(es) to pricing in a turn… Welcome to Friday everyone! As graduation ceremonies wrap, classrooms pack up for the summer, we begin to look for our sunglasses and we await June-uary to turn to a hopeful summer to catchup on part of our lives that have been on pause, we hit the roads in a turning real estate market. Whether you […]

Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | In community today! It’s Friday, June 10th, 2022 – you’ll find us all out and about in community today!

Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | six months in… Welcome to Friday y’all! And here we are, six months into ’22. Maybe you are an uber planner and keep a business plan and annual goals visual and something you look at often. For others, “that plan” might be in a pile of papers. For some, no written plan at all. Zero judgment here – […]

Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | S ( ) R While I suspect readership will be down on a Friday before Memorial Day weekend, I offer not more content yet instead a pause. I offer what I’ve seen of recent so eloquently spoken to in identifying the “space in between stimulus and response.” Written in an equation – it looks a bit like this… S […]

Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | how to avoid egg on your face Hello Friday, it is nice to see you! And is that blue skies ahead I see here in the PNW? To everyone, I have one conversation for us as I sweep this week in bringing attention to the 5.5.22 ninja selling podcast, “setting sellers’ expectations”… Ready to dive in? Let’s go… I offer these next […]

Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | where that “puck” is going… From Steve Jobs to Warren Buffett – many have used and over used this cliched & now famous quote from hockey icon, Wayne Gretzky – “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.” After attending this week’s in-person luxury breakfast and listening in on industry conversations with […]