Our Blog

11. Collect Rents & Enforce Your Lease New landlords inevitably fail to enforce their lease terms properly. They’ve been a renter for much of their lives, they’ve fallen for all those cultural stereotypes about mean landlords, so they buckle at the first sob story they hear from a tenant late on their rent. Hear me […]

Google has halted its plan to construct a fourth building for its Kirkland campus, according to a research report released Tuesday.  The Broderick Group, which monitors commercial real estate in Seattle and Bellevue, noted the pause in its quarterly report of the Eastside office market. Google spokesperson Ryan Lamont did not confirm or deny the […]

In the world of service businesses, your pricing model can significantly impact your business’s profitability and sustainability. The most common types of service pricing strategies include hourly, project, value-based, and performance pricing. Each strategy has unique merits and challenges, which we will explore in the following sections. Hourly Pricing Most people understand hourly pricing. You […]

6. Never Make Housing Rules Involving Children Several years ago, many property managers had policies such as “one bedroom for every child.”  If a single parent and a child shared a bedroom, for example, the property management would require them to lease a two-bedroom unit instead of a one-bedroom. Unfortunately, you can’t do this anymore, […]

An increase in homes for sale across the Seattle area offered more choices to shoppers last month but brought little relief for the many buyers struggling with high costs and a still-tight market. New single-family home listings climbed by 17% from February to March in King County and even more in some outlying areas, according […]

Streamlining Success: How FSM Software Drives Productivity and Efficiency – Small Business Bonfire Home » Productivity » Streamlining Success: How FSM Software Drives Productivity and Efficiency Source link

7 Steps to Build Credit Fast All right, now that you understand how credit works, let’s explore the nuts and bolts of building your credit score.   Step 1: Check Your Credit Report & Fix the Errors The credit bureaus process billions of transactions every single day. You’re smoking crack if you think they don’t […]

By Seattle Times business reporter Pfizer’s closure of a Seagen plant in Everett will cost 119 workers their jobs in June, according to a notice released Wednesday by the state Employment Security Department. The long-anticipated Seagen pharmaceutical manufacturing plant was nearing completion until Pfizer, the pharma giant that recently acquired Bothell-based Seagen, announced in March […]

Here is a list of my favorite Psychological pricing techniques you can implement TODAY. Price Anchoring Price anchoring refers to the practice of establishing a reference point (the “anchor”) for a product’s price, which consumers then use to assess the value of other options. It’s effective because consumers tend to rely heavily on the first […]