The sales price of neighboring homes is only one part of the equation. Be sure that sellers understand the other factors that affect how their home compares to their neighbors'.

Location within the neighborhood.

If your seller’s home is in a part of the neighborhood that borders a highway, train tracks, or an industrial area, it’ll likely fetch a lower price. Make sure you pull comps of other homes in similar locations to compare and explain pricing differences to sellers.

The home’s lot.

Take into account that hilly terrain can affect the usability of each home’s lot and bring your seller’s price down. You can have two one-acre lots next to each other, and one can be fully usable while the other is only half usable because of steep

Selling a home has its typical challenges. Maybe the couple across the street just listed their house, which you know has an amazing kitchen (while yours is just slightly less so). Maybe values have started to drop a tad. Or maybe you're getting transferred and you have to sell - and find something new in your future city - in what seems like an impossibly short amount of time.

Whatever the circumstances, you want the sale to go as smoothly, and take place as quickly, as possible. So don't do this stuff. Really. Just don't.

1. Don't take your own photos

Thank you to everyone who turned out for this year’s annual Issaquah Highlands Days Celebration. There were tons on kids all dressed in costumes, and many adults too! Matt as Batman and Janet as Deadpool really did a wonderful job and the kids loved getting their pictures taken. Janet can barely walk today after squatting down probably 500 times to take pictures with the “Little Ones”.

Also a special “Thank You!” to Tiffany Ciambrone, Kelly Azzarello, Allison Connor, Victor Lozada, Dave Reynolds (From our Spokane office who came out), Jennifer Strach, Diego Vitelli, and Richard Whaley who all came out and helped set-up and make the event such a success!

Here are some of the pictures from the day!

Thank you again to everyone!

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OUR LOCAL REAL ESTATE TEAM

Cascade Team Real Estate agents are proactive in serving their customers, studying the market and touring homes, so

Welcome To The Cascade Team Valerie Kerr Hart!

Valerie Kerr Hart

• Office: 1-800-509-6905 ext. 1143
• Cell: 509-939-5697
• Fax: 509-565-7311
• valerieh@thecascadeteam.com

We are happy to welcome Valerie Kerr Hart to The Cascade Team!  She will be working out of our Spokane office with James Faucett, Managing Broker.

Valerie Kerr-Hart has been licensed since 2014 and an active broker in the Spokane Washington market. She specializes in providing individualized service to home buyers in the Spokane area. We are very happy to have Valerie join The Cascade Team Spokane and work alongside James Faucett as they continue to make big waves and dominate their local market!

Valerie will be a wonderful addition to The Cascade Team Real