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The Best MLS: The Northwest MLS and the Olympic MLS

What is the best MLS for the Sequim, WA area? This has been a hot topic among real estate brokers for at least a decade, and the big battle has been between two MLSs, the Northwest MLS, known as the NWMLS, and the Olympic Listing Service, known as the OLS. Which system is the best

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No Building Permit Spells Trouble

No building permit on a home can be trouble. What if you’re looking at a home in the mountains online in the MLS, and the home has no building permit? There are some homes that have been built intentionally “off the grid,” and some of these have no electric, no Internet and no public utilities

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How to Find a Sequim Home

How to find a Sequim home with video help is today’s topic. I’ve talked with hundreds of buyers in the past few years, and I’ve shown hundreds of homes. I’ve helped a lot of buyers find their ideal retirement homes. In the process I’ve learned what buyers are doing to search for their homes. I

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The Three Best Sequim MLS Sites

What are the three best Sequim MLS sites you can use to search online to find your home or land? Today I’ll share what they are and tell you exactly why these are the two best Sequim MLS sites. Best Sequim MLS Site #1 Our number one pick for the best Sequim MLS site is Sequim4Sale.com,

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Why I Do Not Recommend Open Houses

Open houses have been a disaster for sellers. Many sellers do want their home to be on the list of weekend open houses, because they are hopeful that their home will sell. I do not recommend my clients hold open houses, and there are three major reasons on which all of my clients concur after they

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Why National MLS Sites Can Mislead You

When you look at MLS sites (multiple listing service sites) to search for your home, you probably assume that the information you are looking at is accurate. Think again. Buyers call and email me several times a week asking about information they find on a national MLS site that turns out to be slightly wrong

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Why Do Pending Sequim MLS Listings Show Up on Consumer MLS Sites as Active?

Sequim MLS listings show up on all the public MLS sites as “active listings” even when they are sold and their status is pending.  This is confusing to most buyers who assume that if it is an active listing, it is still available.  Clients often asked me when they find out the home they want

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The Best Sequim MLS Listing Site

What is the best Sequim MLS site?  Some use Trulia or Zillow, but there is a much more accurate Sequim MLS site for buyers.  Some clients have told me that they use Zillow to find home values in Sequim, and some search Trulia for listings in the Sequim MLS.  Here’s what they don’t know.  The

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Is the Northwest MLS in Sequim and Port Angeles and Is It Important?

Is the Northwest MLS in Sequim and Port Angeles?  Yes and no.  Sequim and Port Angeles in Clallam County have two multiple listing services (MLS’s).  It’s unfortunate, because there are a number of negative implications to having two competing MLS’s.  Having two MLS’s creates confusion for buyers, and they may miss a home that is

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Sequim Real Estate Listings

Buyers who want to search Sequim real estate listings online have many options.  Years ago I wanted my clients to have a powerful Sequim real estate listings search tool that was easy to navigate, so I had my programmers create one according to my specifications and connect it to both the Olympic Listing Service and

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Sequim MLS on your iPod

Sequim MLS on your iPod – Now you can search the Sequim MLS on your iPod.  For all you passionate iPod Phone and iPod Touch fans in the virtual iPod world, you can now search the entire Sequim MLS and Port Angeles MLS with your iPod.  Here’s how easy it is. From your iPod go

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Sequim Water View Lots: Port Angeles Water View Lots

Water view lots in Sequim and Port Angeles are plentiful.   Since we are on the Olympic Peninsula, we are, of course, surrounded by water.   We have views of the John Wayne Marina, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the International waters looking toward beautiful Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.   To our immediate

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Where can I find the best Sequim MLS search site?

I believe the best Sequim MLS and Port Angeles MLS site where you can search all the local real estate listings is one I had programmed specifically with buyers in mind.   The reason this unique is because you can search the entire Olympic Listing Service and the entire Northwest Multiple Listing Service easily from

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Sequim MLS: Olympic Listing Service or NWMLS?

How about that Sequim MLS?  Sequim and Port Angeles are currently stuck with two multiple listing services (MLS). The Olympic Listing Service (OLS) has 100% of all local MLS listings in it, which is to say that all Sequim and Port Angeles agents are members of the OLS. UPDATED JANUARY 2021: You can read this

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Search the Sequim & Port Angeles MLS with Advanced Search

Search the entire Sequim MLS or Port Angeles MLS.   No money has been spared to give you the most advanced cutting edge MLS search tool, so you can search all the homes for sale in the entire MLS in Sequim and Port Angeles.   You can also search for vacant land. You can narrow

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Search the Entire Sequim MLS with Map Search

You can search the Sequim MLS and the Port Angeles MLS with a really cool map search at: Search Entire Sequim MLS This is a great feature, because you can instantly see on the map where the listings are located, and you simply click on any that catch your interest, and the page opens to

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Buyers of Homes Using Powerful Internet Resources

Buyers of real estate today are taking their searches and their methods to entirely new levels, thanks to the Internet.   Buyers want access to instant information that is free, and they do not want the kind of uncomfortable confrontation that occurs when they have to pick up the phone and call a salesman. I

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Sequim MLS Search with Map Search Feature

Now you can search the Sequim and Port Angeles MLS of over 1,500 listings with a Map Search feature.   Of course, you can also search with your unique parameters at the same time and see the property details by simply clicking on the listing indicators on the map.   Try it, you’ll like it.

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Searching the Sequim MLS and Port Angeles MLS v. NWMLS

The Sequim MLS and Port Angeles MLS consists of the Olympic Listing Service (OLS) and for some the Northwest Multiple Listing Service (NWMLS). All local brokers and agents are members of the OLS, but not all are members of the NWMLS. I’ve been meditating on this issue in light of the great conflict that stirs

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How to Search the Sequim MLS or Port Angeles MLS

You can search over 1,500 Sequim MLS listings and Port Angeles MLS Listings from my website at: Search MLS Listings. There’s a short audio on how to use the MLS search to find what you are looking for. If you are unable to find exactly what you are looking for, do not assume it doesn’t

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