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    Articles by Jan Zufelt
    Realty in the time of COVID-19
    Realty in the time of COVID-19
    By Jan Zufelt • April 29, 2020 1:30 am

    Dear Jan: We are ready to list our home. Will the coronavirus have any impact on the marketability of our…

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    Assessed value versus market value
    Assessed value versus market value
    By Jan Zufelt • January 26, 2018 1:30 am

    Dear Jan: We are buyers, shopping for a home in this crazy market. The prices are going up right before…

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    Jan Zufelt
    Get to know your homeowners association | Just...
    By Jan Zufelt • December 15, 2017 1:30 am

    Dear Jan: We are selling our home on acreage and moving into town where we will have less property to…

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    Staging versus an empty home | Just Ask Jan
    Staging versus an empty home | Just Ask...
    By Jan Zufelt • December 2, 2017 1:30 am

    Dear Jan: The moving company will be here at the first of the month and move our belongings to our…

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    Many home buyers in Kitsap are coming from the Eastside. (Tripsavvy.com / Courtesy)
    Where, oh, where are the buyers coming from?|...
    By Jan Zufelt • August 25, 2017 1:30 am

    Dear Jan: We’ve been watching the local market for quite some time. As you have said, the inventory is historically…

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    Does Kitsap County have slide areas? | Just Ask Jan
    Does Kitsap County have slide areas? | Just...
    By Jan Zufelt • June 6, 2017 6:00 pm

    Dear Jan:

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    Can our equity be saved? | Just Ask Jan
    Can our equity be saved? | Just Ask...
    By Jan Zufelt • March 31, 2017 3:00 pm

    Dear Jan: Because my husband lost his job, we have not been able to make our house payments. We have…

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    Will 2017 bring price increases? | Just Ask Jan
    Will 2017 bring price increases? | Just Ask...
    By Jan Zufelt • February 24, 2017 1:30 am

    Dear Jan: Now that we are in a new year, do you see house prices going up again this year?…

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    Paint or stain sidewalk? | Just Ask Jan
    Paint or stain sidewalk? | Just Ask Jan
    By Jan Zufelt • January 27, 2017 5:00 pm

    Paint or stain sidewalk? | Just Ask Jan

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    Manufactured home: Fix up or sell? | Just Ask Jan
    Manufactured home: Fix up or sell? | Just...
    By Jan Zufelt • November 6, 2016 1:30 am

    Dear Jan:
    We are thinking of listing a mobile home that we own but it needs a lot of work. Should we fix it up or sell it “as is”? — DTR

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    Keep rental home or sell? | Just Ask Jan
    Keep rental home or sell? | Just Ask...
    By Jan Zufelt • March 28, 2016 5:05 pm

    With a steady rise on the housing market, is it time to sell the rental home?

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    Maybe you can sell now
    Maybe you can sell now
    By Jan Zufelt • May 26, 2015 12:54 pm

    About a year ago, we had an agent come out and give us a price for our home. If we would have listed for that price, we would have been underwater. We decided to wait to sell.

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    Maybe you can sell now
    Maybe you can sell now
    By Jan Zufelt • May 26, 2015 12:54 pm

    About a year ago, we had an agent come out and give us a price for our home. If we would have listed for that price, we would have been underwater. We decided to wait to sell.

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    Why a seller may choose a cheaper offer over full price | Just Ask Jan
    Why a seller may choose a cheaper offer...
    By Jan Zufelt • December 15, 2014 1:56 pm

    We made a full-price offer on a piece of land.

    Another offer came in and we lost out. We have now learned that the land sold for less than our full price offer.

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    What is the best way to market your home? | Just Ask Jan
    What is the best way to market your...
    By Jan Zufelt • September 12, 2014 4:08 pm

    Our real estate agent says the No. 1 place she markets our home is on the Internet. How does this work? What about newspaper advertising?

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    Should we paint before we sell? | Just Ask Jan
    Should we paint before we sell? | Just...
    By Jan Zufelt • July 1, 2014 1:00 pm

    We are thinking of painting the inside of our home before we put it on the market. Do you have any color recommendations and do you know any good painters?

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    Avoid escrow with proper documents | Just Ask Jan
    Avoid escrow with proper documents | Just Ask...
    By Jan Zufelt • April 28, 2014 6:00 pm

    Our home is in escrow. We have just been told that we cannot close because we do not have a road maintenance agreement with our neighbors. Can you help?

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    Help: Movers scammed us | Just Ask Jan
    Help: Movers scammed us | Just Ask Jan
    By Jan Zufelt • April 4, 2014 2:17 pm

    We moved from Florida to Wash-ington in November. We hired a moving broker in Florida to coordinate the move of our belongings. It is now March and we still don’t have our items, including our personal items like our photo albums.

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    When the landlord decides to sell the rental | Just Ask Jan
    When the landlord decides to sell the rental...
    By Jan Zufelt • March 4, 2014 6:39 pm

    Our landlord has decided to sell the home. I have been told that I have to let real estate people into my house with buyers in tow.

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    Drain fields complicate plans | Just Ask Jan
    Drain fields complicate plans | Just Ask Jan
    By Jan Zufelt • October 4, 2013 2:04 pm

    Our friends were about to close on their home when it was determined that the drain field was not big enough.

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    ‘Best’ offer isn’t always about the money | Just Ask Jan
    ‘Best’ offer isn’t always about the money |...
    By Jan Zufelt • September 19, 2013 6:00 am

    I am getting ready to buy a home. I have heard that the market is picking up and that many times when a home is listed it is sold in the first few days with multiple offers.

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    Purchasing abandoned property can be tricky | Just Ask Jan
    Purchasing abandoned property can be tricky | Just...
    By Jan Zufelt • July 29, 2013 3:44 pm

    There is a house in our neighborhood that has been vacant for quite some time. We want to buy this house before it goes back to the bank. How can we accomplish this task?

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    Access is critical to home-buying decisions | Just Ask Jan
    Access is critical to home-buying decisions | Just...
    By Jan Zufelt • July 1, 2013 6:02 pm

    Dear Jan: The home we are looking at has the driveway in to it as well as a little roadway behind it to other homes. We were told we would not be able to use that road to get to our backyard. Why would that be?

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