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August 31, 2016

Six Key Factors That Affect the Sales Price of Your Home

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Posted in Selling by Tara Sharp


Pricing a home for sale is not nearly as simple as most people think. You can’t base the price on what the house down the street sold for. You can’t depend on tax assessments. Even automatic valuation methods (AVMs), while useful for a rough estimate of value, are unreliable for purposes of pricing a home for sale.
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August 29, 2016

Relocating Your Home to Advance Your Career

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Posted in Buying, Selling, and Living by Tara Sharp


Many of us dream of getting a better job. But when a promotion or new job opportunity comes with a request to relocate, the result can be very disruptive to your home life. There’s a lot to consider when making this kind of move...
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August 26, 2016

8 Ways Your Kitchen Renovations Could Break Your Budget

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Posted in Houzz.com and Living by Houzz.com


When you begin planning a kitchen renovation project, you may have no idea how much your ideal vision might cost. The answer will likely depend on several factors, including the size of your space, what you will do to it, and your budget. In the end, the price of a renovation should largely be driven by your own choices.
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August 22, 2016

How the American Home has Evolved

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Posted in Living by Shelley Rossi


Owning a home has been an American tradition from the start. But the home itself has changed dramatically over the years. For example, you may be surprised to learn how much the size of the average American home has increased since the turn of the 20th century—especially when you compare it to the size of the average family during the same time period.
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August 19, 2016

Why So Many Americans Are Either Upsizing or Downsizing

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Posted in Buying, Selling, and Living by Shelley Rossi


According to two recent surveys that took industry watchers by surprise, many family homeowners are putting frugality aside and upsizing to new houses that average as large as 2,480 square feet (an increase of as much as 13 percent from the year before), and sometimes exceed 3,500 square feet in size.
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August 17, 2016

The Birdies - And Bogeys - Of Buying A Golf Course Home

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Posted in Buying and Living by Pattie O'Loughlin


Living on a golf course has obvious appeal to anyone who enjoys teeing up on a regular basis. In addition to having your next round of golf right outside your door, living on a golf course often affords you a view of a sprawling green vista. Many golf communities also feature newer homes and offer extra amenities such as spas, planned activities and more.
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August 15, 2016

#YourStoryIsOurStory: The Little Blue House

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Posted in #YourStoryIsOurStory by Shelley Rossi


It’s tough being a first time home buyer, especially in a fiercely competitive market like Seattle where multiple offers are the norm. Windermere clients Haley and Yash experienced this first hand when they started shopping for a home. With the help of their agent Elsa Nunes-Ueno, they found and fell in love with “the little blue house”.
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August 12, 2016

How Long Is Your Contractor Liable?

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Posted in Houzz.com and Living by Houzz.com


Constructing or remodeling a home is a complex, expensive endeavor. Ideally, everything goes as planned, and when the dust clears, the homeowner can settle in and enjoy the new home — and never think about the building process again.
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August 10, 2016

Helping Children and Families Gear-up for Back to School

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Posted in Windermere Foundation by Christine Wood


Getting your children prepared to go back to school is stressful enough. We all want to make sure that they are adequately prepared for the upcoming year. Now imagine that you also have to worry about how you’re going to pay for new clothing, shoes and school supplies—it can be quite overwhelming! Many parents just aren’t able to afford all of the back-to-school necessities.
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August 08, 2016

6 Smart Home Gadgets Perfect for Summer Fun

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Posted in Living by Kelly Schwarze


Tell your friends and families to clear their weekend schedules throughout the entire summer—your house is the place to be for fun all season long. If you sloughed through winter with visions of making your house the hangout spot of the summer, you’ll want to bookmark this page. We’re outlining the gadgets you’ll need on hand to turn your home into a modern entertaining destination!
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