And until I belatedly read the the New York Times bit on golf, I thought the next guy still liked golf.

If you are the rebel who still golfs, the golfer who subscribes to GolfPunk magazine, full text will help you find a home on a golf course: A quick search of the greater Seattle area shows about 400 homes advertising proximity to golf courses. (check it out - it’s a funny clustering of homes by the area’s golf courses).

My preferred search is “-golf“, which eliminates those 400 homes from the search and means I can get more non-golf home for my money.

Don’t fear Seattle residents, the construction slowdown is upon us and the all powerful economic gods of too much supply and not enough demand are putting the breaks on the yuppie invasion.

I’d like to thank Brier Dudley, John Cook, Bloodhound blog and everyone else for covering the news!

Capitol Hill blog seems ahead of the curve - I couldn’t find a neighborhood recruitment program on most of the other Seattle blogs I looked at.

According to domaintools.com, it has been snatched up by a company called Next Angle. It looks like the domain was originally purchased for 4 years on 19-Apr-2004. I’ve seen that same splash page on a lot of typo names.

Until this is worked out (until the squatter is paid extortion money), no installing gems from rubyonrails.org, no documentation from rubyonrails.org, and no love from all the dhh / rails haters in the world.

Update: Apparently it was a hosting problem (that host sure has a spammy default page). From where I sit it’s back online as of today.

“A condo priced at say $153,122 might actually sell faster than one priced at 150″

They may be right about people’s feelings once they see the condo, but they’re 100% wrong about what is important; people and agents alike search for real estate based on fairly standardized price ranges and when you’re selling a $150,000 condo at $153,000 price tag (in a non-Seattle market where condos cost that much), you’re missing a lot of potential buyers.

If your home is near the top of a price range, you are up against a similar homes and lesser homes when people are searching. Say your home is worth around $400,000. You price it for $405,000 and searchers are going to be comparing it to $450,000 homes (and searchers with the $400,000 as their high-end cutoff won’t see it). Price it at $399 and you get an entirely new group of people seeing it and it’s one of the nicest homes in their price range. And the people who are considering homes at $405,000 will still spot it - don’t worry.

Power move if you’re a future home buyer using Estately: find the people who haven’t priced their home properly with operators in the full text box. You can search down to the dollar by typing “price < $408,000" (for homes under $408,000) into the Text Search box. Here’s an example of a custom search in Ballard.

Read our bit on Georgetown blogs.

Source: My Money Blog

I’m not saying what kind of mortgage people should or shouldn’t get, I’m just saying that 40 year mortgages usually seem unwise to me.