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	<description>My thoughts on Bellingham, the Real Estate market, and more</description>
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		<title>How to Lower Your Interest Rate without Refinancing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With home prices staying flat at the moment, and no sure signs of when prices will rebound, the best bet to create more equity in your home is to pay down your mortgage faster! This sounds a little old fashion, and when I remind people of this, they get a strange look on there face. This has simply NOT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulsbellinghamblog.com/?p=671</link>
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		<title>Zero Down Loan Program Coming Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was just announced that the USDA Zero Down loan program is coming back! This program is funded through the Rural Housing Administration, and allows buyer under a certain income limit to buy Zero Down, outside of city limits. In Whatcom County, all areas are included outside of the city limits of Bellingham. A couple of homes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulsbellinghamblog.com/?p=664</link>
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		<title>The New Shortsale Option: HAFA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The expansion of the government&#8217;s Home Affordable program now includes a program that should help many sellers in distress and need to sell. If you&#8217;re behind in you&#8217;re mortgage payments, and/or owe more than you&#8217;re property is worth&#8211;the new HAFA program gives you an excellent alternative option to the typical shortsale process.
  
To qualify under Home Affordable Foreclosure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulsbellinghamblog.com/?p=655</link>
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		<title>2 Week Promotion on Beautiful Bellingham Home!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[3959 Trickle Creek Blvd in Bellingham is offering a promotion that expires on August 9th!  Just reduced to $316,000, plus offering a $4,000 bonus for this week only! This $4,000 can be reduced off the price, or go towards paying your closing costs.
This is a like-new 4 bed, 2.5 bath home with 2,086 sq feet.

It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulsbellinghamblog.com/?p=643</link>
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		<title>June Statistics for Bellingham, WA Real Estate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As expected, May and June have both been slower than typical for this time of year, in large part because of the expiration of the tax credit. Pending sales were respectable (82) in June, but inventory of available homes for sale continues to rise. (see below)

With inventory rising, the supply of homes is increasing to it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulsbellinghamblog.com/?p=629</link>
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		<title>New Listing at 5144 Marshall Hill Rd, Deming, WA, Priced at $204,000</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is really beautiful home and property. Deming is located about 20 minutes east of Bellingham, WA off of the Mt. Baker Hwy. You feel like your in your own private Oasis on this big private lot, with a stream and waterfall. Every window of the house looks out to trees, and the home has been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulsbellinghamblog.com/?p=616</link>
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		<title>Bellingham WA Home Prices: Cup Half Full or Half Empty?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bad news is that Bellingham home prices are down 7.5% in the last year. The good news is that Bellingham, WA home prices are still up 88% over the last 10 years, and still up 203% over the last 20 years. That makes the Real Estate appreciation in this area rank in the 97th percentile nationally!
Today&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulsbellinghamblog.com/?p=607</link>
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		<title>Bellingham&#8217;s Marine Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a sunny day in Bellingham, the most popular park by the bay has to be Boulevard Park, by a long shot. That is where my wife and I find ourselves the most often. But just below downtown Fairhaven and the ferry terminal, and huddled between the shipyards of Fairhaven, there is another much less popular public park [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulsbellinghamblog.com/?p=603</link>
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		<title>Trade-Off&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When working with buyers looking at homes or condos in Bellingham and Whatcom County, they have the luxury of incredibly low interest rates today, lower prices, and more selection.
What has happened  though, is buyers expectations have gone up at the same time.  Buyers want the $300,000 house for $275,000, or the house that was selling for $600,000 (last year) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulsbellinghamblog.com/?p=593</link>
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		<title>2565 Finkbonner Rd, Bellingham, WA, For Sale for $209,950</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apologize if this is being cliche, but this beautiful home is definitely a one-of-a-kind! 
2565 Finkbonner road Bellingham, WA, is a home located in the Gooseberry Point community, which is about 20 minutes to Bellingham, and about 10 minutes to Ferndale. It has a Bellingham address, but is in the Ferndale School district.

The home was originally built in 1954, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulsbellinghamblog.com/?p=577</link>
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