The Renton Wa Realtor Blog !: October 2009

Residential Transaction Study	10/28/2009
Newcastle, WA 98056 & 59... non-waterfront homes

monthly market

Most recent transaction: 10/20/2009

Market (homes): 3002

month	year	sales	mrkt%	$/sqft	avg price	median
Oct	2009	9	0.3%	$205	$652,611	$550,000
Sep	2009	14	0.5%	$202	$793,696	$645,000
Aug	2009	8	0.3%	$204	$531,949	$460,796
Jul	2009	13	0.4%	$212	$677,663	$630,250
Jun	2009	18	0.6%	$198	$718,068	$618,750
May	2009	13	0.4%	$202	$628,628	$500,000

property characteristics

1 story	1007	w/ bsmt	1,024	platted	2,919
1.5 story	47	avg bsmt sqft	1,158	avg lot sqft1	13,084
2 story	1917	w/ garage	2,588	unplatted	83
3+ story	9	avg garage sqft	594	avg lot sqft2	72,823
avg % imprvd	62%	avg year built	1986	avg bldg sqft	2,819
avg # beds	4	avg # baths	3

	1avg lot sqft of all platted properties	2avg lot sqft of all unplatted properties

	The data used in this report is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. Ticor Title cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies. © 2004-2009 Ticor Title Renton WA 98057

I was watching the morning show the other day ~ and there was a segment on Susie Mann  jumping out of an airplane and feeling the thrill of skydiving for the first time. What makes her experience different from other inspirational stories is that Mann, 79, was diagnosed with terminal intestinal cancer last spring.

What's Susie doing with her diagnosis? She's taking the opportunity to live her life to the fullest!  It made me think of that Tim McGraw song - Live Like You Were Dying...

The skydiving adventure is just one of a series of adventures to be checked off of this grandmother's "Bucket list." Check out HER  blog.

The first adventure she completed from the list was hang gliding in Middletown, New York, in early August. Swimming with dolphins and riding a donkey through the Grand Canyon are next on the agenda...

Mann says she looks at her diagnosis as an opportunity. "I don't think I've ever been scared of the unknown. I think I take it as a challenge," she said.

"Dying is just another page of life, just a different journey in a different place," she added.

Recently I was at Active Rain's  Gary Mcninch's wife Jesse Joy's Celebration of Life...and such a beautiful Celebration it was! It was an inspiration to hear Jesse's story and how she lived both her life and through her diagnosis......So much faith, spirit and courage ....It was a privilege to be privy to and pariticipate hearing of the Love Story - that was Gary & Jesse's....and of a Love that Never Ends.

                                       

These past 2 years I've been to many Celebrations, Funerals & Memorials.....and they've done much to have me pause and think about this life that I am living.

To be  afraid and not let it stop us...in light of circumstances beyond our control - to not let it stop us from experiencing life to its fullest.  Being brave is not so much about not feeling fear but being comfortable facing it because you have Faith...and Joy.

 

 

If you or someone you know is thinking of Buying or Selling property in Chilliwack, Hope, Abbotsford, Langley or anywhere in the Fraser Valley Area of B.C. - or if you would like more information please give Liz  Moras of Landmark Realty Chilliwack a call at- 604-799-0459 or e-mail at lizmoras@gmail.com.     

Copyright © 2009 By Liz Moras, All Rights Reserved. All photos by Liz Moras(except the one of Claire). All information provided by this author is only an opinion, it is not guaranteed, may be based on information collected from several sources, and may be time sensitive.  It is not necessarily representative of the opinions of Landmark Realty Chwk. Ltd..   

                               

 

 

Residential Transaction Study	10/18/2009
Renton, WA 98058 (non-waterfront) homes...

monthly market

Most recent transaction: 10/8/2009

Market (homes): 10989

month	year	sales	mrkt%	$/sqft	avg price	median
Oct	2009	9	0.1%	$145	$352,712	$342,000
Sep	2009	37	0.3%	$145	$313,596	$279,000
Aug	2009	25	0.2%	$140	$311,140	$300,000
Jul	2009	39	0.4%	$189	$407,993	$315,000
Jun	2009	32	0.3%	$151	$331,008	$328,975
May	2009	30	0.3%	$153	$359,533	$330,000

property characteristics

1 story	6992	w/ bsmt	3,842	platted	10,052
1.5 story	386	avg bsmt sqft	1,061	avg lot sqft1	11,373
2 story	3589	w/ garage	8,052	unplatted	937
3+ story	2	avg garage sqft	456	avg lot sqft2	97,074
avg % imprvd	60%	avg year built	1977	avg bldg sqft	2,148
avg # beds	3	avg # baths	2

	1avg lot sqft of all platted properties	2avg lot sqft of all unplatted properties

	The data used in this report is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. © 2009 Ticor Title, Renton WA 98057

Residential Transaction Study	10/18/2009
Renton, WA 98059 (non-waterfront) homes...

monthly market

Most recent transaction: 10/8/2009

Market (homes): 8159

month	year	sales	mrkt%	$/sqft	avg price	median
Oct	2009	8	0.1%	$160	$414,419	$409,952
Sep	2009	32	0.4%	$165	$389,645	$352,500
Aug	2009	17	0.2%	$159	$370,341	$345,000
Jul	2009	25	0.3%	$154	$383,137	$350,000
Jun	2009	24	0.3%	$155	$387,812	$356,847
May	2009	19	0.2%	$159	$403,179	$412,000

property characteristics

1 story	4442	w/ bsmt	2,053	platted	6,927
1.5 story	223	avg bsmt sqft	1,095	avg lot sqft1	14,587
2 story	3450	w/ garage	6,141	unplatted	1,232
3+ story	8	avg garage sqft	520	avg lot sqft2	77,094
avg % imprvd	62%	avg year built	1981	avg bldg sqft	2,194
avg # beds	3	avg # baths	2

	1avg lot sqft of all platted properties	2avg lot sqft of all unplatted properties

	The data used in this report is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. © 2004-2009 Ticor Title, Renton WA 98057

Residential Transaction Study	10/16/2009
Renton WA 98055 (non-waterfront) homes...

monthly market

Most recent transaction: 10/7/2009

Market (homes): 4149

month	year	sales	mrkt%	$/sqft	avg price	median
Oct	2009	4	0.1%	$135	$276,738	$283,475
Sep	2009	13	0.3%	$153	$308,977	$301,500
Aug	2009	13	0.3%	$135	$280,491	$285,000
Jul	2009	16	0.4%	$173	$424,091	$300,500
Jun	2009	12	0.3%	$154	$330,612	$318,500
May	2009	8	0.2%	$144	$258,238	$266,250

property characteristics

1 story	2452	w/ bsmt	1,456	platted	3,729
1.5 story	120	avg bsmt sqft	1,059	avg lot sqft1	12,344
2 story	1560	w/ garage	2,869	unplatted	420
3+ story	0	avg garage sqft	465	avg lot sqft2	65,500
avg % imprvd	60%	avg year built	1977	avg bldg sqft	2,066
avg # beds	3	avg # baths	2

	1avg lot sqft of all platted properties	2avg lot sqft of all unplatted properties

	The data used in this report is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed. ©2009 ARFCO MEDIA, an Audiorium Enterprise

Friendships, Love and Loss - something we all live through ~ it's as inescapable as time, and yet...you can never really prepare yourself.   I first read about Jesse-Joy's story in Gary's McNinch's Post....

I Got a STAR on AR, and Didn't Write A Word???  Where Gary shared........the story of his wife Jessie-Joy's fight with cancer... Its a miraculous story of love and faith triumphing one day at a time....

                                                            

One of my favorite people on Active Rain, I had the privilege of meeting Gary Mcninch and his charming wife Jesse for the first time in Orlando this past February.  I shared a post about our visit........in Testimony of Love and Faith........Gary Mcninch's Story....... 

 

"From the beginning I was moved and touched by Gary's gentle and cheerful spirit......only later was I to learn what chiseled that..."

Gary and I have since chatted and commiserated a few times, we both used to work for KW and  we'd share anecdotes and laughs about Real Estate and the Pacific Northwest....but mostly we talked about family...We talked about Jesse's Treatments, progress, and challenges... 

Sadly ~ two days ago Gary called with the news that Jesse had passed away... I didn't know Jesse well.......only from our one meeting in Florida - but Gary spoke of her so lovingly and over the last few days I've had a chance to read many a tributes to her on Gary's page on Facebook...

I just read a tribute post about Jesse -Joy on Facebook - I think it might have been from her niece........she says:

"It's rare that I can remember the first time I met someone. Rarer still when I met them at the age of five. It was New Year's Eve, the first year my parents let me stay up until midnight, if I remember correctly-She talked to me like a grown-up. She dyed my hair, let me get my ears double pierced and took me to see the Phantom of the Opera. She could drive from Seattle to here in 2.5 hours instead of the four it took everyone else. She borrowed my roller skates when I was only seven, and they fit her tiny feet and we went roller-skating together. How many grown-ups do that? Over three decades and three generations, she charmed every one of us.

Jessie lived years beyond the doctors' expectations. That fits her personality and force of will so well that I have a hard time believing she is gone. I have never been one for those fuzzy, childish, earthly-minded views of heaven, but today I find myself wondering if there are roller skates up there."

                                               

"Watching Gary and Jesse holding hands......patient and caring, loving and .....honouring........being privy to how  continued to trust in the Lord's blessing and healing....the evening still plays in my mind."......only now.......its Jesus Holding Jessie...

Thank you Gary and Jessie - for allowing me to share in your world.......if only for a little while.....

And Gary ~

May your memories always be ones of Joy ~ Jessie's Joy ...

 

 

                                                        

                                             

 

PS ... for the rest of our friends on here, there is a spectacular rolling memorial going on Gary's facebook page, just friend him and look at the profile...

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 Midori Miller is licensed in the State of Florida, BK645709 and currently hangs her real estate license with CENTURY 21 Sundance Realty.  Midori is also a real estate trainer and an ActiveRain Ambassador and specializes in short sales for Daytona Beach real estate sellers.  If you are in the market to buy or sell real estate in Daytona Beach, Florida..please contact us!