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Uncategorized Proper Roof Flashing Installation Quiz Which of these installations lead to the roof leak in the bottom picture? #1 #2             If you said #2, you’re correct! When there’s any kind of penetration through a shingled roof, you want the top section of the flashing to be underneath the shingles and the bottom section on […]
Uncategorized Book Promotion! A few years ago, I stumbled across Mercury Stardust aka “Trans Handy Ma’am” who provides house maintenance and repair tips on social media platforms. Her videos are fun and engaging as well as informational. I love how she says “you’re worth the time it takes to learn a new skill”. What makes her extra special is that […]
Uncategorized What is Clear Cooperation and Should You Care? Clear Cooperation is the idea that if a home is marketed for sale by a real estate professional, then the home must be visible to all potential buyers on the Multiple Listing Service (the MLS is an on-line database used by real estate pros). From the MLS, property info is syndicated to third party websites […]
Home Maintenance Very Common Safety Misses When working as a home inspector and now watching home inspectors work while helping my real estate clients (hey, I don’t have to go into crawlspaces anymore!) there are low-hanging items that can be installed to increase the safety of the home and the people in it.   Smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. Seems […]
Carpentry Is this wall load bearing? I get this question a lot when working with home buyers who are looking at a home, “Is this wall load-bearing?” I get it, they want to create more open spaces in the home, especially between the kitchen and living or dining areas. My standard answer is, “Even if it is load-bearing, for the right […]
Real Estate ChatGPT and Zillow Integration A new AI tool was just launched to help real estate consumers search for properties in a more dynamic way – a ChatGPT and Zillow integration. From ChatGPT (the plus version), once you connect the Zillow app, you can search for homes just like you can within all the other real estate search apps like […]
Real Estate Homeowners, how many calls do you get to sell your house these days? If you’re like us, I bet you’ve been getting more calls and pieces of mail offering to buy your home. One reason we’re seeing an increase in the volume of these unsolicited calls is AI. Real estate investors, the legit ones and the shady ones, are using AI to analyze more data and trends to […]
Home Maintenance Spring Home Maintenance Tips Spring is my favorite season here in Seattle – we get more light, it’s warmer, everything seems to be in bloom. It’s also time to take a few laps around the exterior of your home to see what’s happened during the dark, cold, and wet months. Here’s some areas to focus on: Check the roof […]
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Real Estate Times are Changing and so is our city – One Seattle Plan Seattle is in the final stages of adopting revisions to its Comprehensive Plan which is being called the “One Seattle Plan”. At a high level, the plan is a “roadmap for where and how Seattle will grow and invest in communities over the next 20 years”. It’s a very large, all encompassing plan impacting housing, utilities, […]
Real Estate Could your Home Insurance Change or Be Dropped? Could your Home Insurance Change or Be Dropped? The simple answer is, yes. Several factors, primarily the increased occurrence of climate driven storms and wildfires, are leading many insurance companies to hike rates or simply drop coverage on homeowners. People in disaster-prone areas are the ones most impacted but the rate hikes could be coming […]
Carpentry Adding an Electric Vehicle Charger? Adding an Electric Vehicle Charger? If you’re thinking of buying an electric vehicle, what does it take to add a Level 2 EV charger at home? It’s an important question to think about before you bring the car home. Long story short, how easy (aka cheap) it is to add an EV charger depends on […]
Home Maintenance Got Moss? Got Moss? It’s natural for moss to grow on your roof but it’s not a good thing. Moss will grow in areas of your roof that don’t get a lot of sunlight (think North side of the roof or areas shaded by trees). Accumulations of moss will hold onto moisture preventing your shingles from properly […]
Real Estate Official Property Value Notice Homeowners….did you get one of these in the mail recently? Do you know what it is? Honestly, before becoming a real estate agent, I really didn’t pay much attention to these notices. But when we got ours this year, I was intrigued.   In a nutshell, each year, the county sends out inspectors to certain neighborhoods to […]
Home Maintenance Hack it Back One of the most common problems I found while doing home inspections was vegetation in contact with the home or tree overhanging the roof. Nine times out of ten, when I saw this on the exterior portion of the inspection, I would find evidence of rodents in the attic.  Rodents are looking for a place to nest, especially […]
Carpentry Entryway Dreams! For years I’ve been thiking about a way to organize our front entry – how do I build something to hold & hide the shoes, jackets, mail, kids’ backpacks, and other random stuff that appears in this area. Turns out, I was looking at it all wrong! Jody Carrol (click her name to watch a […]
Real Estate The Condominium Process The Condominium Process The“Condominium” process here in WA state allows the owner of a property with a legal AADU or DADU to separate the property into units for individual ownership. It’s a cool mechanism that gives the property owner the flexibility to sell their AADU or DADU if so desired. The name of the process […]
Home Maintenance Mold! Mold I would routinely get questions about mold from clients and real estate agents at home inspections. Is that mold? Was there mold up there? Did you see any mold? Mold was obviously on people’s minds and for good reasons – people with certain underlying health conditions may be at risk of a lung infection […]
Carpentry What’s an ADU? What’s an ADU? Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) are small, secondary dwellings allowed in residential zones and they come in two types: Attached ADUs (AADUs): connected to or built within the main house, and Detached ADUs (DADUs): structures separate from the main house Imagine possibilities of having additional space on your property: income generation, multi-generational living, […]
Real Estate A Home That’s “Listing” Ready I recently had the pleasure of listing and selling a home that had been really well maintained. The sellers had owned the home for decades and it was obvious that they had kept up with exterior maintenance like painting, roof and gutter cleaning, and yard care. This home hadn’t been updated with new bathrooms or […]
Home Maintenance Heating System Maintenance   By the time the end of summer rolls around, you probably haven’t turned on your heating system for a few months, so it’s a good time to make sure it’s in good working order before you really need it. I recommend that you get your heating system professionally serviced once a year. There are […]
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