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http://www.emilycressey.com/blog Creating Financial Freedom Using Real Estate For Wealth, and Business For Cash Flow Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:59:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/tax-time-do-you-understand-your-tax-return http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/tax-time-do-you-understand-your-tax-return#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:31:21 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2009/04/04/tax-time-do-you-understand-your-tax-return/ Whoa – I was amazed to see that my husband and I were getting a giant tax refund this year.  Good as it feels to get that nice check from the government, mathematically it doesn’t make a lot of sense to try to get a lot of money back.  You’ve just loaned that money, interest [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/tax-time-do-you-understand-your-tax-return/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/are-you-getting-out-of-the-market http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/are-you-getting-out-of-the-market#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:45:03 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2009/03/04/are-you-getting-out-of-the-market/ I promised I’d keep you up to date on the stock market insights passed along from my Father who spend a good deal of his time immersed in the financial news of the day.  And there is some heated political commentary here which I don’t apologize for since I think the misguided “fairness” policies of [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/are-you-getting-out-of-the-market/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/seattle-real-estate-update-from-redfin http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/seattle-real-estate-update-from-redfin#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:55:05 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/?p=242 I just got a monthly update on the state of the Seattle real estate market from my real estate brokerage, Redfin. Showings are up... More buyers are looking but not buying yet. Redfin's traffic is through the roof: up 43% in January, and probably another 30% in February. Other websites have reported
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/seattle-real-estate-update-from-redfin/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/status-report-short-sales-abound-even-in-seattle http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/status-report-short-sales-abound-even-in-seattle#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:06:07 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2009/02/23/status-report-short-sales-abound-even-in-seattle/ Wow, in the last month, I have been surprised by the number of short sale homes in the Seattle area.  I have recently started showing homes for Redfin, a low-cost, full-service real estate brokerage started by some local entrepreneurs here in Seattle. (The super-cool connection is that it was started by two guys in my [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/status-report-short-sales-abound-even-in-seattle/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/is-now-the-time-for-getting-started-in-real-estate-investing http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/is-now-the-time-for-getting-started-in-real-estate-investing#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:09:26 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2009/01/27/is-now-the-time-for-getting-started-in-real-estate-investing/ The bloom is off the rose.  The real estate market is in the tank.  Foreclosures are popping up all over, real estate values are down, and you can’t find a house that will cash flow. So Real Estate Investing Sucks!   Or does it? If you bought property in the last few years (say 2005 – 2008), you might [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/is-now-the-time-for-getting-started-in-real-estate-investing/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/what-brokerage-should-i-join-as-a-new-real-estate-agent http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/what-brokerage-should-i-join-as-a-new-real-estate-agent#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:13:29 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2008/12/30/what-brokerage-should-i-join-as-a-new-real-estate-agent/ I’m on the warpath again.  Yesterday marked my first post-Christmas interview with a real estate agency.   This time, it was Keller Williams in Bothell, who I was fairly impressed by.   So far, I have interviewed with or applied to the following real estate brokerage houses:   Prudential Northwest Realty – They pay for a lot of your mailings [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/what-brokerage-should-i-join-as-a-new-real-estate-agent/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/in-commercial-real-estate-cap-rates-are-up-is-it-any-real-surprise http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/in-commercial-real-estate-cap-rates-are-up-is-it-any-real-surprise#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:43:30 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2008/12/18/in-commercial-real-estate-cap-rates-are-up-is-it-any-real-surprise/ You’re hearing about it when you talk to your real estate agent, you’re painfully aware of it if you’ve thought of selling a property, and maybe you’re excited about it if you’re out hunting for a deal.  The big news is (drum roll…) cap rates are up! (Don’t know what a cap rate is? Check out [...]
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/in-commercial-real-estate-cap-rates-are-up-is-it-any-real-surprise/feed 0 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/so-what-does-the-concept-of-long-tail-mean-to-your-business http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/so-what-does-the-concept-of-long-tail-mean-to-your-business#comments Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:06:33 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2008/12/12/so-what-does-the-concept-of-long-tail-mean-to-your-business/ A few years back, I had the opportunity to work with my (now friend) Thomas Mangum for the first time in a real estate workshop. He was helping a group of new investors connect with their passion and identify a niche to serve within the field of real estate investing. I didn't know it then, since "long tail" was not a buzz word yet, but he was helping these investors identify a niche within a niche that they could dominate and serve well.
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]]> http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/so-what-does-the-concept-of-long-tail-mean-to-your-business/feed 2 http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-real-estate-brokerage http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-real-estate-brokerage#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:12:32 +0000 Emily http://www.emilycressey.com/blog/2008/12/10/how-to-choose-the-right-real-estate-brokerage/ If you are a licensed real estate agent, I need your help! Right now, I am struggling with a question I’m sure many newly licensed real estate agents face – Where should I hang my real estate license? When I first decided to get my real estate license I liked the idea of being self-employed, having a [...]
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