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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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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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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the day after Christmas and you find yourself with lots of used gift wrap from all those presents that were under the tree.  Most recyclers won&#8217;t accept it curb-side.  Now what to do with it all?  Here are some tips from KGW&#8217;s blog and Metro.
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Merry Christmas to all of you!  I appreciate you &#8220;following me&#8221;, tweeting me,  being  &#8220;friends&#8221;, &#8220;connections&#8221;, &#8220;peeps&#8221; and readers of this blog. Thanks again and Happy Holidays! 

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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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MERRY CHRISTMAS From Betty Jung 2009

Most of my life I celebrated Christmas on Christmas eve.  Therefore, I am posting my Christmas wish for you today.
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		<title>13 Tips For A Stress-Free Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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I saw this post the other day.  It is actually entitled &#8220;13 Tips for a Stress-Free Thanksgiving&#8221;.  However, I am sure it would apply to Christmas as well.  I&#8217;ve read it over and over and think I probably will need to read it again:
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Author:
Merry Christmas to all!!
 Bob Chiodo, CFP
Equity Home Mortgage, LLC
www.ResCommLending.com
Apply Here
(CLICK ON IMAGE FOR BETTER VIEW)

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		<title>In The Eye Of The Beholder</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is my &#8220;just fun&#8221; day.  The day I write about nonsense, off the wall things, or anything and everything other than real estate that strikes me.
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		<title>Market Update:  November 2008 vs. 2009 Condo Stats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our November 2009 RMLS™ report was issued the other day and I posted the full report on my blog.  At the very end of that report are the condo charts for November 2009.  Below are the numbers as to what sold comparing November 2008 vs. 2009. 
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		<title>Christmas Lights Walk In Westlake &#8211; Lake Oswego</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/christmas-lights-walk-in-westlake-lake-oswego/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc. are all about family and spending time at home.  According to a recent report, most Americans would rather be at home at this time of year.
Last week I was out trying to take Christmas pictures for my new photo blog - Lake Oswego Living.A Photo Blog.  I took 18 pictures and not one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=28000&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What In The World</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/what-in-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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Our National Association of Realtors® recently published a report on the state of the real estate market throughout the world.  If you think our real estate market here in Oregon is crazy, look at the chart above and see what some of the other countries throughout the world have been going through. 
New Zealand&#8217;s real estate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=27429&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lake Oswego&#8217;s Booktique</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/lake-oswegos-booktique/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Located in Mercantile Village, right off Kruse Way and Boones Ferry Road in Lake Oswego, is the Booktique.  There have been on-going discussions about it moving to another location.  However, now due to an agreement with Providence Hospital who owns the premises, the Booktique is staying at its location in Merchantile Village.
The Booktique is a used library book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=27844&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Market Update:  November 2009 RMLS Stats &amp; Signs Of Improvement Or Not</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/signs-of-improvement-or-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy, Recession, Bubbles, Housing Market]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our November 2009 RMLS™ Stats were published yesterday.  Here&#8217;s the full report.  Prices are still down by 11.4% from even last year although closed sales increased by 72.4%.  I think that&#8217;s still residue from the first-time home buyer&#8217;s tax credit that everyone had assumed would end at the end of November and rushing to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=27908&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disturbing Comment On My Blog &#8211; Graff</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/disturbing-comment-on-my-blog-graff/</link>
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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?
Here&#8217;s what the reader had to say:
&#8220;Okay so you don’t like graffiti on your house, nor does anyone, fine. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=27111&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lake Oswego Police Blotter</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/lake-oswego-police-blotter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I typically write something off the wall, different, of personal interest or whatever isn&#8217;t related to real estate.  Recently at a local Starbucks®, a Lake Oswego Police Officer and a Clackamas County Sheriff were joking back and forth about what was going on in Lake Oswego, at least as far as crime, breaking of the law, etc.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=27388&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage Market In Review &amp; Portland #13</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/mortgage-market-in-review-portland-13/</link>
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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. 
They looked at cost of living expenses in six categories: grocery items, housing, utilities, transportation, health care, and miscellaneous goods and services  New York was #1 as the most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=27868&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Market Update: FHA Stats</title>
		<link>http://bettyjung.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/market-update-fha-stats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From our RMLS™ comes this information regarding FHA:
We all know that FHA Loans have increased in the past few years with the changing market, but how much? I recently ran some numbers on financial terms, a required field in RMLSweb, that may shed some light. These numbers are for the Portland metro area (Clackamas, Columbia, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=27849&subd=bettyjung&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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>See Christmas Ships Aboard Lake Oswego Willamette Trolley</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All Aboard!  The Willamette Shore Trolley is about to commence their Christmas schedule.  Ride the rails from Lake Oswego to Portland, along the banks of the Willamette River, with a stop in Johns Landing to view the Christmas ships parading up and down the river.  Call to make reservations (503) 697-7436. 
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		<title>Market Update: New Construction &amp; Smaller Houses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty Jung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW CONSTRUCTION &#8211; Nationwide &#38; West Coast
The National Association of Home Builders reports that in October, nationwide housing production fell 10.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 529,000 units in October as builders awaited word on whether an important home buyer incentive would be extended.  Single-family housing starts declined 6.8 percent in October [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bettyjung.wordpress.com&blog=3363339&post=27347&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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