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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Walnut Grove Neighborhood.

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If you are interested in selling your home for top dollar in the quickest amount of time, please contact me anytime at 503-524-9494 or Click here to send me an e-mail requesting further information.

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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Tigard Neighborhood. This week I’ve changed the stats to only count the sales from the last 7 days to give a better reflection of what is going on in the neighborhood during any given week.

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For a complete list of homes for sale in the Mountainview Neighborhood, please call or Click here, to request an update.

If you are interested in selling your home for top dollar in the quickest amount of time, please contact me anytime at 503-524-9494 or Click here to send me an e-mail requesting further information.

Todd Clark - broker
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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Summerfield Neighborhood. This week I’ve changed the stats to only count the sales from the last 7 days to give a better reflection of what is going on in the neighborhood during any given week.

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For a complete list of homes for sale in the Mountainview neighborhood, please call or Click here, to request an
update.

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Todd Clark - broker
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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Greenburg Neighborhood. This week I’ve changed the stats to only count the sales from the last 7 days to give a better reflection of what is going on in the neighborhood during any given week.

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For a complete list of homes for sale in the Summer Lake Neighborhood, please call or click here, to request an update.

If you are interested in selling your home for top dollar in the quickest amount of time, please contact me anytime at 503-524-9494 or click here to send me an e-mail requesting further information.

Todd Clark - broker
Kastings & Associates
Phone: (503)524-9494
Fax: (503)622-8739

Droplets, originally uploaded by Tokenhippygirl.

The theme for this week's hunt is hanging. I looked through my stuff and found this one taken in January of this year, right after a good rainstorm. As you might have heard, we're very familiar with rain here in Oregon. It's part of what makes it so beautiful here and also why, after a long winter of rain, we appreciate our summer so much.  I love taking photographs after it rains, hence this shot, as everything always looks so fresh.  There's something about water, drops, the rain... it's life, new, and can be incredibly, and simply, beautiful.  Like these drops hanging off the bare maple tree.

If you'd like to play along, check out tnchick's site to get all the info.

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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Sorrento Ridge Neighborhood. This week I’ve changed the stats to only count the sales from the last 7 days to give a better reflection of what is going on in the neighborhood during any given week.

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For a complete list of homes for sale in the Sorrento Ridge Neighborhood, please call or Click here, to request an update.

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Todd Clark - broker
Kastings & Associates
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• It's Extension Season! - Davidson's Bob McKillop (3 more yrs until 2015-16), UCLA's Ben Howland (7 yrs at approximately $2M per until 2014-15), Tennessee's Bruce Pearl (1 more yr until 2013-14, but with a raise that will average out to $2.3M per over that span), Notre Dame's Mike Brey (2 more yrs until 2014-15), Temple's Fran Dunphy (2 more yrs through 2013-14), and Oregon's Ernie Kent (3 more yrs until 2012-13) all got their wives a new car last week.
• UCLA's AD Dan Guerrero is the new NCAA Tournament Committee chairman for 2009-10.   Expect UCLA to play in Pauley and the Staples Center during its first four rounds that year.
• Tim Floyd breathed a sigh of relief when he learned last week that Demar DeRozan passed the ACT and will be eligible next season for his Trojans.  DeRozan is a likely 1-and-done, which means Lute Olson has vowed to not recruit players like him for the rest of his career (still feeling the burn of Jennings and Bayless, Lute?)
• Gonzaga forward and RTC fav Austin Daye both tore and didn't tear his ACL at the Lebron Skills Camp recently.  He should be ok for the upcoming season. 
• Welcome to the Kyle Taber Hoosiers.  Speaking of which, ex-Hoosier Jordan Crawford is transferring to Xavier. 
• Memphis guard Doneal Mack has decided to return to Calipari's squad after all - he had previously stated that he was transferring to the University of FEMA New Orleans. 
• This is interesting.  Georgia Tech center Ra'Sean Dickey has decided to forgo his senior season so that he can begin his professional career in Ukraine?  Wow, thie Euro thing is starting to heat up, eh?
• The fall of former Florida gambler guard and gunner Teddy Dupay is now complete.  He was recently charged with rape, aggravated sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping of a Utah woman, according to court documents. 
• It's sayonara to the Top of the World Classic in Alaska.
• The extremely poorly situated Kentucky Basketball Museum closed its doors in the face of large financial losses. 
• We wanted to get a take in on the Brandon Jennings Experiment, as articulately described by N-Bug upon BJ's announcement that he'll spend his "1-and-done" year playing in Europe.  Generally, we think this will be a disaster and wouldn't be surprised if Jennings absolutely submerges his draft stock during the season (that is, until he returns next spring and excels in the 1-on-1 workouts given by teams).  Gottlieb nailed it when he pointed out that EuroLeague ball is of a much-higher quality than what Jennings probably thinks it is (and certainly well above college hoops).  Lots of risk of exposure here for Jennings.  Bad decision. 
• Gary Parrish makes a compelling point about the inherent conflict of interest in referees working for schools calling games on international trips and scrimmages, then turning around and calling games for those same teams during the season.  As you may recall, we wrote exactly a year ago that the Donaghy situation happens way more than anyone thinks, and this is just another loophole that encourages it. 
• Maybe we're cynical, but there has to be a Shawn Kemp is Broke story somewhere in this tender piece by Luke Winn.
• Davidson's Stephen Curry has noticed that his life has changed after his spectacular March run.
• Where does Super Mario's shot rank in the all-time great NCAA shots pantheon?  His former teammate Sherron Collins won't have to worry about watching the highlight from the pokey, as prosecutors stated there was not enough evidence to substantiate allegations against him stemming from an alleged incident in an elevator with a woman on the KU campus. 

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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Sexton Mountain Neighborhood. This week I’ve changed the stats to only count the sales from the last 7 days to give a better reflection of what is going on in the neighborhood during any given week.

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For a complete list of homes for sale in the Sexton Mountain Neighborhood, please call or Click Here, to request an update.

If you are interested in selling your home for top dollar in the quickest amount of time, please contact me anytime at 503-524-9494 or Click Here to send me an e-mail requesting further information.

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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Murrayhill Neighborhood. This week I’ve changed the stats to only count the sales from the last 7 days to give a better reflection of what is going on in the neighborhood during any given week.

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For a complete list of homes for sale in the Murrayhill neighborhood, please call or click here, to request an update.

If you are interested in selling your home for top dollar in the quickest amount of time, please contact me anytime at 503-524-9494 or click here to send me an e-mail requesting further information.

Todd Clark - broker
Kastings & Associates
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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Mountainview Neighborhood

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For a complete list of homes for sale in the Mountainview Neighborhood, please call or Click here, to request an update.

If you are interested in selling your home for top dollar in the quickest amount of time, please contact me anytime at 503-524-9494 or Click here to send me an e-mail requesting further information.

Todd Clark - broker
Kastings & Associates
Phone: (503)524-9494
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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Lexington Neighborhood. This week I’ve changed the stats to only count the sales from the last 7 days to give a better reflection of what is going on in the neighborhood during any given week.

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For a complete list of homes for sale in the Lexington Neighborhood, please call or Click here, to request an update.

If you are interested in selling your home for top dollar in the quickest amount of time, please contact me anytime at 503-524-9494 or Click here to send me an e-mail requesting further information.

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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Highland Hills Neighborhood. This week I’ve changed the stats to only count the sales from the last 7 days to give a better reflection of what is going on in the neighborhood during any given week.

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If you are interested in selling your home for top dollar in the quickest amount of time, please contact me anytime at 503-524-9494 or Click here to send me an e-mail requesting further information.

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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Hart Neighborhood. This week I’ve changed the stats to only count the sales from the last 7 days to give a better reflection of what is going on in the neighborhood during any given week.

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For a complete list of homes for sale in the Mountainview Neighborhood, please call or Click here, to request an update.

If you are interested in selling your home for top dollar in the quickest amount of time, please contact me anytime at 503-524-9494 or Click here to send me an e-mail requesting further information.

Todd Clark - broker
Kastings & Associates
Phone: (503)524-9494
Fax: (503)622-8739

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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Greenway Neighborhood. This week I’ve changed the stats to only count the sales from the last 7 days to give a better reflection of what is going on in the neighborhood during any given week.

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If you are interested in selling your home for top dollar in the quickest amount of time, please contact me anytime at 503-524-9494 or click here to send me an e-mail requesting further information.

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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Greenburg Neighborhood. This week I’ve changed the stats to only count the sales from the last 7 days to give a better reflection of what is going on in the neighborhood during any given week.

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For a complete list of homes for sale in the Greenburg Neighborhood, please call or click here, to request an update.

If you are interested in selling your home for top dollar in the quickest amount of time, please contact me anytime at 503-524-9494 or click here to send me an e-mail requesting further information.

Todd Clark - broker
Kastings & Associates
Phone: (503)524-9494
Fax: (503)622-8739

]]> http://yourlifetimeagent.wordpress.com/?p=381 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:56:06 +0000 yourlifetimeagent http://yourlifetimeagent.wordpress.com/?p=381 The Cooper Mountain neighborhood of Beaverton, Oregon goes east from Grabhorn Rd to 175th Ave, then north from Kemmer Rd to Farmington Road. The two parks in the area are Burnsridge Park and Granada
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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Cooper Mountain Neighborhood. This week I’ve changed the stats to only count the sales from the last 7 days to give a better reflection of what is going on in the neighborhood during any given week.

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For a complete list of homes for sale in the Cooper Mountain Neighborhood, please call or Click here, to request an update.

If you are interest in the featured home below, located in the Granada Park neighborhood of Cooper Mountain, just click on the picture and you will be taken to the listings website.

If you are interested in selling your home for top dollar in the quickest amount of time, please contact me anytime at 503-524-9494 or Click here to send me an e-mail requesting further information.

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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Bull Mountain South Neighborhood. I’ve changed the stats to only count the sales from the last 7 days to give a better reflection of what is going on in the neighborhood during any given week.

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For a complete list of homes for sale in the Bull Mountain South Neighborhood, please call or Click Here, to request an update.

If you are interested in selling your home for top dollar in the quickest amount of time, please contact me anytime at 503-524-9494 or Click Here to send me an e-mail requesting further information.

Todd Clark - broker
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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Bull Mountain North Neighborhood. This week I’ve changed the stats to only count the sales from the last 7 days to give a better reflection of what is going on in the neighborhood during any given week.

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As of 7/25/2008 here are the stats for the Aloha Neighborhood. This week I’ve changed the stats to only count the sales from the last 7 days to give a better reflection of what is going on in the neighborhood during any given week.

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For a complete list of homes for sale in the Aloha Neighborhood, please call or Click here, to request an update.

If you are interested in selling your home for top dollar in the quickest amount of time, please contact me anytime at 503-524-9494 or Click here to send me an e-mail requesting further information.

Todd Clark - broker
Kastings & Associates
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4. Oregon Considers Socially Responsible College Fund - AP 07/24/2008

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Stephanie was telling me how she was woken up by a customer at 5 am who wanted to stay at the motel. The customer rightly wanted a discount at that early hour. Stephanie offered them a late checkout until 2 pm with a fee. Not exactly what the customer wanted. The customer was from Nevada and decided to stay somewhere else.  Good for the customer.

Now admittedly, Nevadans are spoiled by hotel casinos going the extra mile, giving comps and discounts and great prices (usually)... AND this is the first time I have ever heard of a late checkout fee.  I usually opt to stay until noon or 1 pm and have NEVER been charged a fee for checking out late.

Excuse me, hotel and motel owners, who is paying your employee's salaries and who is paying your profits???  Your customers. And if you don't treat your customers right, you won't have any customers sooner or later.

Yesterday, I talked with Wyndham Rewards... I've spent $1,000+ on motels in the last month or so and they are supposed to credit me with points so that I get free rooms... yeah, right... ok, at least the program does not cost anything but when I asked if my stays were recorded they told me that the stay I had a few nights ago is not in their system yet, it takes 10 days. Ok.  Then I stayed at one motel in Medford, Oregon for ten nights and the guy tells me that doesn't count because I used a coupon... so what I still spent $500 there that should count for something. It is really starting to annoy me that you spend so much money on these places and they don't feel any obligation to give you anything, not even a decent room.

Maybe I am spoiled. The hotel casinos in Nevada do give great deals and they do that because people spend so much money gambling... so why then when I called one hotel casino in Oregon, they wanted $89 a night...do customers have to go to Nevada for fabulous rooms and great service, and forget the rest of the country???

Wise up, people. In this economy and even when times are good, people want the MOST bang for their buck. And your bad attitudes and cheapskate ways are gonna lose you customers. It's just business. Plain and simple reality. And dog owners are going to revolt, too. Who wants to be charged $5, 10, 25 or $50 extra a night to bring along Fido or Fluffy?

and who wants to spend $28-50+ on a dog's own hotel suite if the service is not superb ?

customers have the power of choice... if you could choose between a motel that does not give you the amenities that it tells you it has, is rude, and the place smells, and a motel that is clean, fresh and homey, both for the same price, $50-55 a night with dog?  (crown pacific vs. captain cook inn, both in Lincoln City, Oregon), where would you stay?  no brainer, right... I chose Captain Cook Inn... and I figure if one motel can offer a great room and service for $54 a night, then so can the others.

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Needless to say, things have been good. We had a nice vacation on the beach in Newport. We flew kites in a state wayside right down from our hotel that thanks to knowing the right people was less than it costs to stay in the Motel 6 on the freeway here in Eugene. We didn't do much of anything. That was a nice change of pace.

After which, Bike Friday went to the Oregon Country Fair in custom-built (folding, too!) tie dyed polo shirts and showed off the bikes. We showed Ted White's classic "Return Of The Scorcher," a movie that's not only well known for showcasing bike culture around the world (read: see it if you haven't!) but also for inspiriting the first Critical Mass (and also much less so for including a little interview with Kash, who runs our SF tikit agent Warm Planet, as he washes some underwear on tour). We made a whole skit out of it, explaining that our power source wasn't working and that we'd need to bring in the back-up ROB unit.  As it turns out, the "ROB unit" was Rob English, fastest British man and 7th fastest in the world according to the hour record, atop Hanz's desk which is entirely pedal powered.  He was all decked out in a huge Union Jack in the form of full-on time trial gear.  Anyways, it was a blast, but we didn't get to camp because the Fair's weird like that. I guess.

The girls left me last weekend and I went to Paul's well-named "No Car Party" as well as the even better-named "Kidical Mass." The latter really sticks into my memory because it was a heck of a lot of fun on bikes. I've appeared at a Critical Mass or two and kind of like it. The police reaction to it I don't like. But Kidical Mass was none of that. Just a family-friendly group touring about the neighborhood with the kids, enjoying the ride and following the traffic laws along the way. It was not like we were blocking traffic (yes, yes, I know, "we are traffic"), but it was like the other traffic didn't exist. We went down to the Whiteaker Neighborhood River Festival I didn't even know existed and then rode all over. Then they were playing "Labryinth" at the park and the plan was to go to Laughing Planet beforehand but I thought the dog might miss me.

In the Bike Friday front, we've never had a July like this. Usually things start slowing down now. They're ramping up. In other news the tikit line hit a real milestone in production today, being a sure sign of the ease at which we'll be able to keep up with the increased desire for transportation solutions. Season tikit? Yeah, it's pretty much ready. We've got a blinged-out fiber Express tikit in the showroom we've been calling the Carbon tikit. Kind of like a carbon credit, but much more useful for getting the groceries.

I've just been riding (actually so has Sierra, both on the Tug-a-bug and on her own Bantam NWT) and hope that I'll take the Pocket Llama to Cycle Oregon Weekend and the tikit to the Bridge Pedal. The 54x15 will be perfect. Hope to see you there!

In honor of the Last Friday Artwalk (the much better of the two in Eugene) as well as Critical Mass, I propose we change the name of our most ridiculously-category to "Bike Friday Fabulous First/Final Friday Fixed Gears." There will be one every month or else!

Lastly, go see/hear Panasonic's new release if you haven't. Yes, I know they're now called Pan Sonic because of that silly electronics company, but I still remember them at Panasonic when I saw them play with Merzbow and Masonna. Indeed, that was probably the most memorable show of my life. Their cold, mechanical, form of minimal techno is unlike anything else, all pink-noise and square-wave. The latest is another live set, just brimming with raw, powerful energy, like a technology-current Esplendor Geométrico. I just wish it were a LOT louder. Just put it on headphones in the dark on turn to tracks 8 until the end to feel the full frontal force.

On the same trip, 1/2 of the aforementioned, aka Mika Vainio, who usually seems to have more in common with minimal glitch composers like Ryoji Ikeda or Alva Noto than anything else, also put out a great album called Oleva under his ∅ alias that even has a cover of Pink Floyd's "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun" to rival Psychic TV's. It's dark, throbbing, almost ambient at times and highly recommended.

What's new in ya'll's world?

FHA financing is becoming popular once again with buyers, particularly first-time buyers, due to the new increased loan limit of $417,000 here in Portland, Oregon.

You can borrow up to 97% financing for a purchase and up to 95% for a refinance.  The down payment can be 100% gift and Down Payment Assistance Programs are allowed. A seller can pay up to 6% towards allowable closings costs and/or pre-paids.  There are no reserve requirements and no minimum credit scores.  Make sure you speak to a lender and get pre-approved before you decide to make an offer.  FHA loan amounts vary from state to state, so make sure you check on your particular area and become familiar with the requirements where you live.

Following is Part 2 of the FHA-approved Condominium projects in Portland, Oregon.  CLICK HERE for the link to the Part 1 list for Portland.  Two other posts were written for FHA Approved Condos in Lake Oswego  (CLICK HERE) and Tigard (CLICK HERE) as well.

PORTLAND OREGON APPROVED FHA CONDOMINIUM LIST - PART 2