Should I or Shouldn’t I ????
Short Sales? Foreclosures? REO Properties? Bank Owned Properties? HUD Repos? What kind of houses are these? Are they good Deals? Should I buy one? VA? FHA? Conventional Financing? ARMS? 15 Year? 30...
View ArticleHow Do Oak Harbor Real Estate Prices Compare With National Prices?
Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC released its Home Listing Report, a snapshot survey of U.S. four-bedroom, two-bathroom home listings, which found a $1.7 million difference between America’s most...
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Home Short Sales – What They Are and How They Can Help
When you’re looking at an underwater mortgage or are having the kind of financial difficulties that are pretty common in this economy, home short sales are one way out. In a short sale, your mortgage...
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Tips For Home Sellers
Most Real Estate agents say spring is the season to sell a home, but don’t rule out fall just yet. There may be fewer buyers, but they tend to be more motivated. The key is to find them fast, because...
View ArticleConsequences That May Impact Consumers Looking to Purchase or Refinance a...
For months there has been an ever-growing fear that our economy is headed towards deflation, which is when prices on goods and services are falling lower. Deflation is the exact opposite of inflation,...
View ArticleTime to Review Your Annual Credit Report
Rick Schutte, Broker/Owner of Coldwell Banker Koetje Real Estate in Oak Harbor, Wa. interviews Lyn Bankowski, senior loan originator, from AlaskaUSA Mortgage about the need of checking your annual...
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Home Seller Tips
Recently I was reading an article regarding home seller tips in Money Magazine. I was so impressed by what the article had to say, I thought that I should share some of the highlights with our...
View ArticleHow Are Homes Priced to Market
One of the responsibilities we have is to help our homesellers establish a realistic market price for their home when they are preparing it for sale. Historically, the sale price of recently sold...
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Whidbey Island Home Selling Tips
This article will provide Whidbey Island Home Selling Tips and 5 Reasons to Hire a Pro to Sell Your Home. We are in a very different type of real estate market, a buyer’s market, and it is just to...
View ArticleTips to Reduce Your Heating Bill
Like you, we are always trying to discover ways to save money. This interview with Rick Bunzel of Pacific Crest Inspections gives us five great tips on ways to reduce our heating bills. Lower your hot...
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North Whidbey Island Real Estate update
January 2012 is over and we are headed into an exciting year of opportunity. In researching the statistics for North Whidbey Island real estate sales for January, we have found that the market seems...
View ArticleTop VA Loan Questions From Military Buyers
Every week, we field a number of questions from our VA buyers regarding VA loan questions. VA is an outstanding loan program and we would like to make this information available to all of our readers....
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Buying A Home? These Apps Can Help!
Each day technology becomes even more impressive as new tools, products and apps are rolled out that truly have a place in your daily life. It can be exciting and exhausting to try to find the ones...
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Flip Your Home Through 2014
If you are considering investing in real estate in the new year or in selling your home that was recently purchased, you’ll be excited to know that the Federal Housing Administration has agreed to a...
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