Broken water pipes can cost thousands to repair and usually come at the most untimely times (near the holidays and in the middle of the night). The cheapest and easiest way to protect a home's water pipes is to cover the hose bib, or water spickett, with a hose bib cover.

Hose bib covers can be found at any Lowe's, HomeDepot, Ace Hardware, and E&E Lumber and are really inexpensiveness. I also did a Amazon search and found some hose bib covers for as low as a $1.50. So, pick up some covers and protect your home this winter and save yourself much unneeded frustration.

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Being known for little-more than the The Boeing Company, Snohomish County has grown so much over the last 30 years. People are now talking about the bustling economy, widespread employment opportunities, and a robust housing market.

This growth has helped to shape local communities and has extended out to the smaller towns. The downside of this growth and strong economy is traffic.

Traffic used to start in Lynnwood and travel south into Seattle for the morning commute and reverse in the evenings. Now, that traffic extends all the way to Smokey Point. This article isn't a tirade into the County's traffic increase though it easily could be. However, with all the growth, were are all these people moving from?

Related: Relocating to Snohomish County

In a recent MSN Real Estate article 691,145 Californians left last year: What state did they go to? shows Washington State ranked 3rd for California's outward migration flow with 55,467 people entering the State.

Pink the Rink was a great success and a superb time and we hope you all feel the same way. If you're checking in on the jersey hat combo giveaway please rest assured we're working on it. There were many entries and look for an email by day's end announcing the day of the drawing.

Join us Oct. 12th at Angels of the Winds Arena for Pink the Rink and raise awareness for Breast Cancer and celebrate survivors.

When: October 12, 2019
Where: Angel of the Wind Arena (Everett)
Time: Puck drops at 7:05pm

WHAT IS PINK the RINK?

Pink the Rink is charity hockey/fundraiser event sponsored by Angel of the Wind Casino in conjunction with Safeway, Toyota of Marysville, Pepsi Co., and the Barnett Associates Team (we're new volunteers/sponsors). In addition to a fundraiser and celebration, Pink the Rink is also a hockey match between our local Everett Silvertips and the Seattle Thunderbirds which should be some great evening entertainment.

2 GRAND PRIZE GIVEAWAYS

Since we're a first year sponsor we'd decided to do something special.

We're giving away 2 Grand Prizes: Silvertips Jersey & Hat and Thunderbirds Jersey & Hat. Just stop by our table and fill out an entry form for your chance to win. The drawing for the Grand Prizes will be held at a later date so the winners can then choose an appropriate size jersey.

But that's not all. That evening we'll be giving away 5 Breast Cancer Awareness Bags that include a hat, lapel pin, car decal, wrist band and a scarf.

Hope to see you there and please stop by our table to enter to win.

Below is in infographic from the NWMLS regarding real estate statistics for August 2019.

Preparing a home to sell can seem like a daunting and endless process. Through the decluttlering and landscaping clean up phases and the last thing many want to do are dump runs. However, dump runs, like decluttering and landscaping, are a necessary task to prepare a home for sale and to create a setting that's fantastic on photo and video day.

Though the dump are easy to handle, just Google "[city name] + transfer station" for locations, disposing of old paint, oil, batteries, light bulbs, pesticides & herbicides, and automotive oil filters are be a bit challenging. That is why, I created the video below to share information about the Snohomish County Hazardous Waste disposal center in Everett.

During our home sales, its inevitable that are sellers have unwanted items and our buyers get left with the sellers years worth of paint choices.

To create some context and set the tone of where the article title stems from its important to revisit two items: the Residential Purchase & Sale's Financing Addendum and the Great Recession.

Let us begin with the Purchase & Sale contract's Financing Addendum.

Within a buyer’s Financing Addendum (Form 22A) there's a paragraph allowing a buyer tthe option to request the seller to contribute money (a fixed dollar amount or as a percentage of the purchase price) towards buyer’s closing costs.

With western Washington heating up, the warm Sun making its long awaited debut, and the spring housing market seeing new homes listed daily, now is the time to start planning that new home purchase and be ahead of the 2019/2020 school year. Let us help you through the purchasing process and make it an enjoyable experience.

Also, we represent folks wanting to sell their home or property. Visit the seller page and see the list of available seller services.