By Mer­ri Ann Simon­son Think­ing about sell­ing your prop­er­ty? You may want to con­sid­er research­ing, col­lect­ing and com­plet­ing the items detailed below. This is not a check list for plant­i­ng flow­ers on your porch and paint­ing your front door, you can go to the inter­net for that infor­ma­tion. This list is to pre­pare sell­ers in  Con­tin­ue Reading

Mer­ri Ann Simon­son checks in again with anoth­er entry in her San Juan Island Lifestyle Video series. This one shares with you Real Estate in 2020 with Pur­ple Power…

San Juan Island Real Estate Mar­ket Sum­ma­ry In review­ing the year-end results for 2019, the sales dol­lar vol­ume for the real estate mar­ket in San Juan Coun­ty per the North­west Mul­ti­ple List­ing Ser­vice was $299,854,773 which reflects a small decrease in vol­ume of 2.3% as com­pared to 2018 when the vol­ume was $306,903,509. The Coun­ty  Con­tin­ue Reading

San Juan Coun­ty Depart­ment of Com­mu­ni­ty Devel­op­ment (DCD) is now accept­ing eli­gi­bil­i­ty appli­ca­tions for detached ADU per­mits pro­posed out­side of urban growth areas and activ­i­ty cen­ters. ADU eli­gi­bil­i­ty appli­ca­tions must be received no lat­er than 4:30 pm Feb­ru­ary 10, 2020.   In 2020, six eli­gi­bil­i­ty slots are allowed for the con­struc­tion of new ADUs and  Con­tin­ue Reading

The Cat­tle Point Estates Own­ers Asso­ci­a­tion oppos­es BLM’s pro­posed changes to the San Juan Islands Mon­u­ment. See their let­ter to the BLM below… To: Bureau of Land Man­age­ment Direc­tor Re: San Juan Island Nation­al Mon­u­ment RMP for Cat­tle Point , San Juan Island, WA From: Cat­tle Point Estates Own­ers Asso­ci­a­tion PO Box 644 San Juan Island, WA 98250  Con­tin­ue Reading

Orna­ments now avail­able by dona­tion at the Home Trust Office Being able to par­tic­i­pate at the Farm­ers’ Mar­kets through­out the year and at the Hol­i­day Mar­ket in Decem­ber has been a won­der­ful means of out­reach to our entire com­mu­ni­ty for the San Juan Com­mu­ni­ty Home Trust.  Not only have these Mar­ket inter­ac­tions led to new  Con­tin­ue Reading

Mer­ri Ann Simon­son is back with more real estate tips and infor­ma­tion for you… Cus­tom Con­struc­tion or Buy Exist­ing and Remod­el? In the cur­rent mar­ket it is much more afford­able to buy an exist­ing home than it is to pur­chase new or cus­tom con­struc­tion.  Why is that?  The costs of mate­ri­als and labor did not cor­rect as  Con­tin­ue Reading

Mer­ri Ann Simon­son shares anoth­er video in her San Juan Island Lifestyle series… This video fea­tures our Chardon­nay Shop­ping event. Shop local!