Real Estate

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]