Portland Property Buyer Services
We will provide you with relevant market data to make sound purchasing decisions. Knowledge is easy to say, but not so easy to acquire. We will filter through all the…
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We provide a super enriched environment for owners and residents alike. We want each side to know the properties are cared for as if WE owned them. There is direct…
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The goal here is simple, maximizing your sale price any and every way possible. We certainly don’t make the market, but we’ll bring the market to you. We will provide…
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December 19, 2014, Chris Johnson in Personal Realtor Stories, Portland Oregon sustainable real estate
I’ve tagged this Sustainability, and Personal. Ok, I lack creativity at the moment. Whatever. And sustainable, I don’t know what can be sustainable about a vacuum cleaner, except when Billy is running in the house, I run outside, and hug our pine tree. So there. Here’s the deal though, Roomba to the fam, Billy to…
Portland Rent Increases
December 19, 2014, Chris Johnson in Portland Economics, Portland Property Management
News flash……..Portland is groovy, but wait……so is Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego…….. Rents are going up, and fast, everywhere. Rents have always been super high in SF, and all those cities besides, well above Portland rents across the board. But with all things as they are now, Portland has it’s own rental renaissance going on,…
Think Smart……Huh?
December 19, 2014, Chris Johnson in Personal Realtor Stories, Portland Oregon sustainable real estate
One of the things that is sort of gripping me these days, is the question Why? Why you say……..exactly I say…..why? Not what, not how, albeit those are really good questions too but for me………it’s Why? My station in life perhaps is centered around this now, and the question of Why happens in my own…
Staging a Listing-Time Value of Money
December 10, 2014, Chris Johnson in Portland Economics, Portland Seller Services
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/real-estate/does-staging-raise-home-price.aspx?ec_id=cmctre_01_comm_RE_image_headline I think this is a really good article & synopsis to read. I hear agents/realtors say both sides, but the key here isn’t a bigger price, it’s a quicker sale. Quicker sale means quicker access to the equity of a property, which in time value of money means greater return on investment. For a…
Perfection is a Must-OK, my ideal anyway
December 2, 2014, Chris Johnson in Portland Property Management, Portland Rental Property
In any given moment, I believe and feel I’m in good order. Of clear mind and spririt. A ton of happy tenants, happy clients, and all things happy. But alas, I’m a realist, this is not truly the case some of the time. In truth, I’ve got at least one or two tenants, at my…
Trees are great, till they do this!
November 20, 2014, Chris Johnson in Portland Oregon sustainable real estate, Portland Property Management
I like trees. OK, I love them. We need them. They need us. They breath. We breath. Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide is how I think it goes…….not sure, I’m a real estate guy, not a scientist……I’ve long thought of them, just like us, all shapes, all sizes. Just like people……..did I say that already? And…
Holy Toledo-Not Ohio I Dare Say
November 20, 2014, Chris Johnson in Portland Oregon sustainable real estate, Portland Property Management, Portland Rental Property
Not much really can move me in property management concerns. I’ve seen and heard just about all I can ever imagine…..until I walked thru a property last week. And this is a new one for sure, top 10, top notch, best of 5, almost numero uno…….ok, I hope by now you get it…….this is ground…
What in the Heck is Going ON?
November 11, 2014, Chris Johnson in Portland Property Management
I’m not the panacea for all things in real estate, property management in particular. All I am, as part of my real estate hat on a daily basis, is a guy that cares about owners of rental property, IN EQUAL amounts to caring about tenants. Having and knowing this, also know it’s a business. And…
Tankless Hot Water Heaters
October 11, 2014, Chris Johnson in Portland Oregon sustainable real estate
Navien. Tankless. Model NPE-240A. Google it to see it, sort of cool, in a hot water tank cool kind of way. For you old schoolers, think the size of the backpack when the astronauts walked on the moon, 1969 style……and for your generation nowers, it’s roughly…..1 foot deep, 1.5 feet wide, less than 3 feet…