Seattle Real Estate Companies on Twitter

If you’re a regular reader of my blog, then you know I enjoy posting about and exploring social media, especially how it relates to the Seattle real estate and mortgage industries. This week I’d like to take some time to introduce some Seattle realtors’ Twitter profiles that I enjoy following for updates on the real estate market in Seattle.

Seattle Realtors on Twitter: Cooper Jacobs

Cooper Jacobs posts regular links to their listings, which are often in my own neighborhood, Queen Anne.

I enjoy following updates from what the Cooper Jacobs realtors are listing and selling, including island homes and even houseboats.

To check out more of Cooper Jacobs’ listings, visit their website.

Seattle Realtors on Twitter: Washington Association of Realtors

While Washington Realtors is an association of Washington and Seattle realtors, their Twitter feed provides great links to articles about the Seattle housing market, home sales in Washington, and more.

Though they’re based out of Olympia, most of the information they post is relevant to Seattle realtors and Seattle mortgage professionals as well. Check out the Washington Realtors website for more information about the organization.

Seattle Realtors on Twitter: Sam DeBord

Sam DeBord is a Seattle real estate broker and writer, who regularly posts links to relevant Seattle real estate articles and blogs.

He also links to his listings and to Seattle-area information, even if it’s not specifically about real estate.

Visit Sam’s website here.

What Seattle realtors and real estate companies do you follow on Twitter? Recommend them below so we can follow them, too!

Seattle Neighborhood Map

I’m lucky enough to work with many local Seattle families as well as people moving to the area and looking for a Seattle mortgage.

For those of you who are new to the area, I know the city can seem daunting at first, though once you get to know the neighborhoods Seattle will quickly feel like home.

I’ve decided to post two of my favorite Seattle neighborhood maps to my site, to serve as a reference to both newcomers and long-term Seattle residents.

This first map comes directly from the Seattle government’s website, and is more or less the ‘official’ Seattle neighborhood map.

This next map I discovered on Pinterest. A Chicago-based company, Ork, creates these beautiful neighborhood maps of cities across the United States, including Seattle. It’s a lot more fun than the official Seattle map, and in some ways easier to read.

Do you have a favorite Seattle neighborhood map that you can recommend to new Seattle residents?

Seattle and Snow

Seattle is famous (or is it infamous?) for our weather. The average yearly rainfall in Seattle is about 36 inches, which, surprisingly is actually less than both New York City and Washington DC. However, when most people think of Seattle they imagine cool, drizzly days. And they wouldn’t be wrong.

This week we’ve experienced what I like to call Snow Panic. As a tremendously hilly city, ice and snow can turn us into one giant metropolitan hazard. Businesses have temporarily shut down, people are working from home, and the airport even closed for awhile this morning.

Although this week’s snowstorm was predicted to be “the worst blizzard in 30 years!”, it looks like we’ve gotten less snow than they originally expected.

I’m sure many of us were dreading something similar to the snowstorm that befell Seattle in December of 2008. People in from out of town were stranded for days, as the airport cancelled and postponed hundreds of flights.

If you’ve got five minutes to spare, check out this video someone took in November 2010, as cars repeatedly slid down an icy Capitol Hill street.

How are you surviving the great blizzard of 2012?