Comments for Property Blotter

Comment on What’s in a Name? by Ron Ares

Ron Ares — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:59:11 +0000

Actually, the Property Blotter has been around for 3 years, 6 months and 530 posts. Congrats!

And I actually subscribe to the Lake Oswego Review’s RSS feed just to read the police blotter.

Comment on Featured Property by Gail O'Connell

Gail O'Connell — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:59:13 +0000

Wow, that’s a fantastic photo you captured of the plane taking off!

Comment on Opportunities and Attitudes by Linda

Linda — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:30:53 +0000

No, Ron. : ) GREAT post, Dianne!

Comment on Opportunities and Attitudes by Ron Ares

Ron Ares — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:53:18 +0000

Does this mean it’s safe for me to come off my depression meds?

Comment on Market Activity for Feb. 7-13, 2011 by Dianne Gregoire

Dianne Gregoire — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:21:31 +0000

15 new listings for the week is about average. If you go back through the weekly reports, you’ll see that this is pretty much how it goes. We get the occasional week with fewer, and in the spring a few weeks with many more. So I am not alarmed by 15 new listings. It isn’t an indication of increasing foreclosures. After seeing your comment, I went back into the data. Of the 15 houses, only 1 is a foreclosure.

What bothered me this week was seeing the pending sales back down. It doesn’t matter how many are coming onto the market as long as a similar number is selling. Last week only had 6 houses go pending. That is a drop from the activity of January and even December. So we have hit a little lull.

The market does fluctuate. I want to see the pendings go back up.

And an FYI. Linda and I go through the data and do not include “refreshed” listings. These are listings that grow old and get re-listed with new MLS numbers. We try to reflect genuinely “new” listings. If I had included all of the listings posting as new in the RMLS, there would be 29.

Thanks for reading.

Comment on Market Activity for Feb. 7-13, 2011 by Lake Oswego Heated Storage

Lake Oswego Heated Storage — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:22:40 +0000

I don’t like the news that 15 properties have entered your list to be sold. Are those from forecloseure? Or there is a trend of moving out of the Lake Oswego area that’s why houses are being sold?

Comment on Market Activity Report ~ Dec 6-12, 2010 by Linda

Linda — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:44:28 +0000

SOLDS/Sorry the CDOM got cut off. Here you go:

Address CDOM
1520 LABURNUM WAY 464
17640 TREETOP WAY 199
17455 BLUE HERON RD 519
14370 PFEIFER DR 98
920 OAK TER 133
13322 LESLIE CT 75

Comment on Home Warranties by Linda

Linda — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:49:15 +0000

Dianne,
‘Onnce again., great post!
I agree with you… I advise clients that a warranty policy is imnportant to have… mostly so that people don’t have to call their primary insurance company and risk rate hikes.
I had the same experience as you however with a furnace (boiler) which they would come out and “fix” but the main problem was still there and issues would arise again & again. I think there is a definite bias towards “fixing” rather than replacing, AND……… I still think you need to have one of these!

Comment on “Control Issues” by Linda

Linda — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:39:06 +0000

Thanks, Mike! Yes… I’ve been reading Byron Katie lately : )

Comment on “Control Issues” by Mike Watters

Mike Watters — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:45:44 +0000

Nice post, Linda. Reminds me of the importance of accepting things as they are and taking action over the things we CAN control.