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May
11
Posted by tracy cobbin
Homes sold in Edmonds.
Average Price of Homes sold in Edmonds
Edmonds Home sales Days on Market
Folks in case you didn’t know the market is picking up and if you thought about waiting for the bottom of this market to come you may have missed it. You must realize that prices have already fallen in our area to and all time low, but check this out so have interest rates!! So its time to get off the fence people if you don’t your going to miss out!! Edmonds still has great properties for sale but not for long. Give us a call if you or some one you may know is looking for a new home.
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May
08
Posted by tracy cobbin
King 5 TV has named the Edmonds Arts Festival as the “Best Street Fair in Western Washington. Yes its true right here in our own home town. The 20,704 voters in the King 5 competition not only gave the EAF the top spot, but confirmed what local residents have always known: the Edmonds Arts Festival is a top flight venue for artists and an excellent destination for Puget Sound residents.
The festival, a free, three-day event, draws more than 75,000 people from a wide area to enjoy a diverse selection of visual and performing arts. The festival is one of the Pacific Northwest’s oldest and largest arts festivals.
What makes the festival unique?
Art-lovers stroll charming “streets” named after famous painters as they discover and purchase fine art and artisan crafts directly from the talented artists themselves. The Festival showcases the work of nearly 240 carefully selected artist exhibitors, offering oils, watercolors, pastels, drawings, mixed media, photography, sculpture, fiber arts, jewelry, glass, metal, pottery/ceramics, toys, collectibles, and furniture.
The Festival truly has something for everyone, with performing arts, children’s activities, musicians, and storytellers.
A wine bar and bistro, situated with a great view of the Puget Sound, offers a respite from shopping. Check it out!! Edmonds Art Festival June 19th thru 21st Fathers Day weekend.
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May
04
Posted by tracy cobbin
Mr. Buffett on Newspapers
Mr. Buffett has long held himself out as a newspaper man. As a child, one of his first jobs was delivering newspapers. An Omaha newspaper Berkshire owned, Sun Newspapers, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1973 based in part on a tip Mr. Buffett provided. One of Berkshire’s biggest investments in the 1970s was the Buffalo News, which it still owns.
But his view on the future of the newspaper industry is dismal. “For most newspapers in the United States, we would not buy them at any price,” he said. “They have the possibility of going to just unending losses.”
As long as newspapers were essential to readers, they were essential to advertisers, he said. But news is now available in many other venues, he said. Berkshire has a substantial investment in Washington Post Co. He said the company has a solid cable business, a good reason to hold on to it, but its newspaper business is in trouble.
Mr. Munger called newspapers’ woes “a national tragedy….These monopoly daily newspapers have been an important sinew to our civilization, they kept government more honest than they would otherwise be.”
A Washington Post Co. representative couldn’t be reached for comment
Welcome to te world of the internet that’s were 80% of are news will come from and advertising its Cheaper folks so get on board!!
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Feb
24
Posted by tracy cobbin
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Feb
02
Posted by tracy cobbin
“Defeat is a state of mind. No one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality. To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to greater effort to achieve my goal. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.”
Bruce Lee, 1940-1973, Martial Artist, Actor and Author
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Jan
29
Posted by tracy cobbin
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
Lance Armstrong
Cancer Survivor and Athlete
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Jan
28
Posted by tracy cobbin
Seattle's Space Needle and Skyline
Because of their durable real-estate markets, places like San Antonio, Pittsburgh, Boston and even Seattle are considered least risky for losing money on a home purchase, says HomeSmartreports.com, a California company that measures the chance a buyer will lose money on a property purchase. If you were searching for pockets of optimism in the U.S. housing market, where would you look? Easy guesses would be to avoid Detroit, Cleveland or any cities with domestic automobile plants or troubled manufacturers.
Then there are the foreclosure gulches of Central and Southern California, which include the Modesto, Stockton, Bakersfield, Riverside and Sacramento areas. Those cities will take a long time to recover. Too many homes there were sold at bubble prices to people with dodgy finances. Most shortlists of regions likely to experience prolonged housing slumps include Las Vegas, Phoenix and South Florida. You may be able to find some bargains there, although that doesn’t mean you will achieve any gains for years to come — unless demand roars back and supplies are diminished.
Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages now average about 5 percent, Freddie Mac said in a recent report. Where can you be reasonably assured that your housing investment won’t evaporate? Like buying a stock or company, you need to gauge a home’s risks, which many buyers neglect to do.
Also on the “least-risky” list are Seattle; Boston, Essex County and Worcester, Mass.; Honolulu; Bethesda-Gaithersburg, Md.; Edison, N.J.; New York and Nassau-Suffolk County (Long Island); Albuquerque, N.M.; and El Paso, Texas.
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Jan
19
Posted by tracy cobbin
I don’t normally write about topics that are not about Edmonds directly but today I felt the need to say something about this holiday. Because with out his dream many of us wouldn’t be able to have are own dreams. They say (Dreamers are the Successors of the World) I myself have always been a dreamer and I’ll continue to do so, because if not I fear that there is nothing to look forward to each day. Dr Martin Luther King wanted to unite all of us under one umbrella and he paid the price to do so. Each and every one of us have something to be thankful for form the time we wake up each morning through the course of the day there is something to be THANKFUL for. Find them embrase them it will make you feel better about your life, and the things that you think you can’t do for what ever reason, and remember all the blessing you do have that we take for granted Happy Birthday Dr King and thank you!!
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Jan
05
Posted by tracy cobbin
Doug C. Ko
This is my own testimonial about acupuncture. I have been using this ancient art of healing for about 7 years off and on. I lift weights and have since I was in jr high wow that ought to tell you that I’m no spring chicken. Well any way my first experience with acupuncture I suffered from tenacious in my elbow. I worked with Mai Fu who was Taiwanese and had studied acupuncture. She probably just got tired of my complaining of the pain, so on our lunch hour she took me out to her car and preformed acupuncture on my arm and it hasn’t hurt since. It made me a believer, from then on I have used acupuncture more than a few times. Which brings me to tell you about Doug Ko L.Ac of Evergreen Acupuncture Clinic, Doug is a licensed acupuncturist (L.Ac. ) and holds two National Diplomats in Chinese herbology and acupunture from National Certification Commission Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM)
I met Doug about 4 weeks ago, my sciatic nerve has been brothering me since last summer. I cycled all last summer three days a week and I guess it took a toll. So I had already been using an acupuncturist in W Seattle but it was costing me $80.00 a 1/2 hour ouch!! I was driving to the office one morning and I saw this A-Board that said acupunture for the unisured $25.00 it was a snychronicty. I guess as a realtor I’m use to looking at A-Boards I don’t know, but I do know this has been one of my best acupuncture findings.
Doug is great and he has studied original Chinese medicine before modernized Chinese medicine. He is especially interested in Ming dynasty physican, Zhan Jing Yue (1563 to 1640) tradition and tries to emulate the same style. Doug has also gained insight from the oldest existing Chinese medicine classic, Nei Jing (Circa B.C. 722-221, Inner Classic) Pretty deep stuff, Doug considers himself as a purist or a traditionalist of Chinese medicine who draws and utilizes the ancient knowledge and experience from the classics. So there you have my first testimonial for 2009, really if you’ve thought about trying acupuncture you should. If you want a inlighting experience check out Evergreen Acupuncture Clinic located @ 4610 200th St SW Suite B Lynnwod, Wa 98036 (425)774-8139 (Oh ask for Doug tell him I sent you)
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Nov
17
Posted by tracy cobbin
If your an animal lover you will love this, besides who said animals can’t smile. When hurricane Hannah separated two white tigers from their mother, Anjana came to the Rescue. Anjana, a chimp at TIGERS in South Carolina, became surrogate mom and playmate to the cubs, even helping with bottle feeding, according to The Sun). But here’s the truly amazing part: Anjana does this all the time, having raised leopard and lion cubs.
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