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	<description>BETTY JUNG, Broker, RE/MAX equity group, inc. &#34;Successfully Selling Real Estate Since 1975!&#34; 12550 SW 68th Parkway, Portland, OR 97223 (503)495-5220 or Toll Free (888)927-6789</description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PGE ASSISTANCE (Portland General Electric)
Now that Christmas and the holiday season are almost over, perhaps your financial picture has become magnified.  If you need help, are out of a job, our local PGE might help. PGE offers payment options during these difficult times here in Oregon:

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		<title>Disturbing Comment On My Blog &#8211; Graff</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written several articles now about graffiti and my dislike for it.  Recently, I received a comment on one of those posts that disturbed me.  I&#8217;d like to know if it is disturbing to you as well?
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		<title>Mortgage Market In Review &amp; Portland #13</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Author:
Bob Chiodo, CFP
Equity Home Mortgage

 
Forbes magazine just came out with their &#8220;Costliest Cities To Live&#8221; list and Portland ranks at #13.  Seattle ranks #9 out of their top 10. 
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		<title>Market Update:  More Predictions About Our Oregon &amp; Portland Economy</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/more-predictions-about-our-oregon-portland-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OUR LOCAL ECONOMY
The other day I indicated there was a meeting that was going to be held at our Home Builders Association about our local economy.  Here&#8217;s the report from OregonLive on what the economists said at that meeting:
&#8220;Real estate consultant Jerry Johnson predicts that Portland-area home prices will hit bottom in January at about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=27256&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For The Birds &#8211; Christmas Bird Count</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/for-the-birds-christmas-day-bird-count/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I saw a bird in my yard I&#8217;d never seen before.  It had white polka dots on its sides, chocolate brown on its head and top body, and black on its underside.  I need to find him in my bird book to see what it was and what kind of food to leave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=27356&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Fall Hikes Around Portland</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/5-fall-hikes-around-portland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m loving our Fall weather.  If you&#8217;ve noticed, I haven&#8217;t written much about real estate lately.  That hasn&#8217;t been on purpose, but I guess I&#8217;ve just been enjoying our Fall.  I&#8217;ll get back to real estate again soon, promise. 
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		<title>Choose The &#8220;Local&#8221; Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year at this time I wrote about the importance of patronizing local retailers in your area.  Here we are still with hard times facing many people particularly small business owners and the owners of retail establishments.  Did you know Portland has a program where you can get rewarded for doing your shopping locally?  KGW recently posted a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=27068&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Market Update:  Portland, Oregon Housing Market Q3 2009 Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is Part 2 about our Portland, Oregon real estate market for Q3 2009:
OREGON HOUSING PRICES
OregonLive recently reported that Oregon will see 5th worst housing market in the next year:
Oregon&#8217;s single-family home prices will fall another 1.8 percent between September 2009 and 2010, the fifth biggest decline projected in the First American CoreLogic Home Price Index. The states [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=26890&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Market Update: Portland, Oregon Housing Market Q3 2009 Part 1</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/market-update-portland-oregon-housing-market-q3-2009-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy, Recession, Bubbles, Housing Market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate RMLS Stats & Market Updates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s Part 1 about the housing market in Portland, Oregon for Q3 2009.  Part 2 will appear on Sunday. 
HOUSING APPRECIATION
Portland State University issued their Third Quarter 2009 Real Estate Report indicating which areas showed appreciation during the most recent quarter of 2009 &#8211; Q3:



Courtesy Portland State University. Click on Image for Better View


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		<title>2009 Fall Leaf Recycle Drop-Off Sites</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/fall-leaf-recycledrop-off-sites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Remodeling, Home Improvement, "Green", Energy, Recycling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out my Lake Oswego Living.A Photo Blog later today, there will be a new photo posted.  Every Monday a new one will be added.
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This Fall must have been the prettiest we&#8217;ve had in a very long time.  At least, I don&#8217;t remember having one this nice where all the leaves were in their finest colors.
 
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		<title>Market Update:  Bank-Owned vs. Short Sale Stats, What Housing Bust? + PDX Best Neighborhood</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/market-update-bank-owned-vs-short-sales-stats-what-housing-bust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreclosure, Sub-Prime, Short Sales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN just reported that Oregon in comparison to the rest of the U.S., is doing better than most:
&#8220;Portland is the shining example of smart growth. In 1973, Oregon passed an urban growth boundary law, which required that each of the state&#8217;s municipalities set a line in the sand on which open land could be developed.
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		<title>Fall On Sauvie Island &#8211; Portland, Oregon</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/fall-on-sauvie-island-portland-oregon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I wrote a post Fall Leaf Lovers&#8230;I don&#8217;t recall as beautiful a season as we&#8217;ve been having this Fall around Portland.  Almost any road you go down, there are leaves in every color imaginable.  At this time of year, you also hear a lot about the pumpkin patches on Sauvie Island.  During the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=24898&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/not-so-ordinary-farms-around-portland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tired of the usual tourist traps or the same places you keep visiting with your children?  Here are some out of the ordinary local farms to go to instead.  Your trips will be educational, I guarantee.
Rossee Possee Acres Elk Farm.  Working elk farm, petting zoo located in Molalla.  32690 South Mathias Road, Molalla, OR.  97038.  Check on hours before heading [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=21909&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jail Time For Graffiti Taggers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers know that I dislike graffiti and have written a couple of posts about it. I think it makes a community look dirty, unkept.  Now from Los Angeles comes word that a tagger received a 3 year 3 month jail sentence.
&#8216;&#8230;..Sheriff&#8217;s officials said they had evidence that Yazdani had marked hundreds of freeway overpasses, concrete walls [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=23235&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portland Zip Codes With High Concentrates of Radon</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/zip-codes-with-high-concentrates-of-radon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I received an email requesting further information on a blog post I wrote about radon back in January in N.E. Portland that has been called &#8220;Radon Ridge&#8221; by the media.
Her question to me was where in Northeast specifically were those areas.  Attached is a map showing those zip codes reported by Portland State University to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=24252&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Financing In Portland You May Not Know Or Think About</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/financing-programs-in-portland-you-may-not-know-or-think-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[100% Financing – USDA Loan
If you thought the no money down, 100% financing was a thing of the past, there is still the USDA 100% loan here in Oregon that you might qualify for. There are income restrictions and limits as to the location of the property.
The USDA Home Loan program is a great program [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=24337&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fall Leaf Lovers</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/fall-leaf-lovers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autumn declares its arrival with leaves turning bright crimson, vibrant orange and vivid yellow and it&#8217;s one of my favorite times of year.  We here in Oregon are fortunate to experience all four seasons and Fall is now in full swing.  With schools in session, there is a brief lull before the holidays.  Take a trip [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=24265&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unmployment &amp; Housing In Portland, Oregon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been cleaning up some of my posts from the past 16 months since I&#8217;ve been blogging.  Over that time, I have written many posts about unemployment and obviously housing.  It amazed me to see how many posts I had written where I indicated Oregon&#8217;s economy was strong, growth was good and that our employment situation was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=23604&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon Ranks High In College Towns + The High Cost of An Education</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/oregon-ranks-high-in-college-towns-the-high-cost-of-aneducation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a question I&#8217;ve been asking myself for years and have never found or seen the answer.  Why do college books cost so much?

Having had a small book-seller business, I have sold new books and college books.  The cost of those books to the public is horrendous yet no one seems to question the high cost of those books.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=22844&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting To Save The Farm</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/fighting-to-save-the-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past May, I wrote a post &#8220;The Line Drawn Around Portland&#8221; discussing  the process that will define how the Portland metro region will grow and change in the next 50 years to accommodate more residents and commerce.  Those changes are being studied for Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties (including 20 cities). METRO will be making [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=22808&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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