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In fairness of all concerned, and covering his face :), this chappy is one of my favorite of all inspectors here in Portland. Tripod, headphone, talk to typing, reports come out super quick, same day………and he even scales the photos inside the document so the file isn’t 8 million gagillion megbytes so you can actually […]

Interesting Priority to Real Estate

While in California a couple of weeks back, I strolled around in a senior citizen manufactured home park. Others might call them mobile homes, and I even hear people call em trailer parks. I think they could be a lot of all things, as this particular park I was in had homes from the late […]

New Broker at CORE

I was down south a few weeks back, taking care of some family issues, and also finding some time to visit a few places in California wine country. At one particular vinyard, I met the chappy in this photo. We struck up a chord, found out we both like movies, real estate, and wine. So […]

Property Owners Be Very Careful

We manage a fair amount of properties. A lot of the owners want us to pay the tax bill, so our firm is the “tax record owner”. So in addition to getting the annual county tax bills, we get all the letters that people send direct to the owner of record to buy “your” property. […]

Roomba Go…..No Roomba!

I have done a previous post or perhaps two, of Roomba. Billy is what I call him sometimes in case you were wondering. I grew up in the nickname era, everything has a nickname, everything……. So working from home has it’s benefits and it’s problems too. Roomba…..er……Billy is loud, like a vacuum. Oh, he is […]

Don’t Be a Turkey

Here in Chicken Town…..er……..Bridgetown……….er……..the Rose City, we got Chickens. They are quite common, especially in SE Portland. You see them everywhere it seems like. Everyone has a chicken, or maybe every Chicken has an everyone…….something like that I suppose. Zipping thru SE Portland this past Saturday during our monsoon storm, where by the way what […]

The Bubble Has Landed

I sat in my office the other day and watched a property, a Portland area triplex, get bid up via an Internet auction, by more than $100,000 of it’s market value. Folks just kept clicking away, bidding higher and higher……to the point where I know it became a game simply not to lose to the […]

So Huge, it was TINY

Sometimes in the rush of things, a fella can get moving around town, and just can’t see the forest or the trees. Such was the day a few months back, in a pretty downtown area of Forest Grove. So in my zest to preview properties, this particular day, I park next to the building……pop out, […]

Who Got Jaxx?

I got Jaxx! There still is a little kid in me, a lot of little kid in fact……so I did what any kid would do, I pulled out all the stops to get bean bags……but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t quite talk my wife into an “all out” man cave of various […]