October 21st, 2009
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Can buyers find the perfect home in Sequim or Port Angeles? I’ve spent time with several out-of-state clients over the past several months looking for the perfect home. Here’s the scenario. With budgets in the range of $350,000 to $800,000, these clients scoured the MLS online to find homes that might be ideal. After narrowing [...]
August 13th, 2009
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Building your new home in Sequim or Port Angeles is an exciting phase in your life, and it should be full of good memories. Well, building a home is always going to be a bit stressful until you’re moved in and have the family photos all hung. But let’s agree on one thing here: Building [...]
July 30th, 2009
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We are in the midst of a sea change in the building industry, and many small home builders are no longer in the home building business, and some of the large ones have filed for banktruptcy protection. So what do you do if you are planning to build a home? My recommendation is that you [...]
July 1st, 2009
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Building a custom home in Sequim or Port Angeles means you first must find a home builder. Let’s be honest about how home builders, and many companies around the country, promote themselves. It has been popular in marketing for businesses to boast about themselves. It’s been popular for salesmen in key industries to boast about [...]
June 15th, 2009
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A homeowner can build their own home or act as their own general contractor, but is that a good idea? Will you save money and get a quality home built the way you want it built? Why can’t a homeowner simply find out who the best subcontractors are and hire them to do the job?
Playing [...]
June 10th, 2009
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If you have come to the conclusion, like many other buyers in the Sequim and Port Angeles areas, that the perfect home does not exist in the current inventory of homes for sale, and you have decided to shop for a good quality home builder, this is a time to be very careful.
Many builders around [...]
June 5th, 2009
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Mortgage rates are starting to climb as predicted here and by many experts around the country. Two weeks ago a client of mine obtained a 30-year fixed rate mortgage at 4.5%, but during the one week of negotiation on the property, his points increased by $1,500 to keep the interest rate locked in at [...]
June 3rd, 2009
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Sequim custom home builders–how many are there, and are they all the same? There are many, including some one-man shows, but they are most certainly not building the same quality of homes. Here’s what is interesting. The average couple that walks through two homes, one that is a high quality custom home [...]
May 7th, 2009
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Retirees moving to Sequim from southern California and Arizona are finding out that the “perfect home” is not necessarily an existing home listed for sale. Sure there are many homes for sale, but it’s amazing how many of these homes are just not exactly what buyers are looking for.
Sometimes the kitchen is perfect, but [...]
May 5th, 2009
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A couple move to the Sequim area from California and plan to build their retirement home. They’re excited about it, but it proves to be stressful just finding the right architect and the right builder. How do they select their builder? (Be careful of architects who try to lock you into “their” [...]