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New from Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, our 25 ‘Best Neighborhoods.’ Thanks to our friend Meredith for this tip! Here are links:

20 Places to Live Now

5 Places to Live – Where You’ll Want to be in 2016

Also just posted, a new ‘by the numbers’ recap. This is one of the best charts available, and includes info for us city kids, as well as North & South folks. A must to share with your data folks:

107 Neighborhoods by the Numbers

Thanks to Seattle Met for this newsy report!

- Julie McCullough Hale, Ticor Title & Escrow, RRNetwork.com

Seattle’s Best Neighborhoods

Time for Seattle Magazine’s annual ‘Best Neighborhoods’ review.  Their recap mentions:

Westlake Avenue North, South Lake Union
12th Avenue, Capitol Hill
Greenwood Avenue North, PhinneyWood
24th Avenue Northwest, Ballard
Upper Fremont Avenue North, Fremont
Rainier Avenue South, Columbia City
Airport Way South, Georgetown
34th Avenue, Madrona

Compliments to Seattle Magazine, for this interesting article. Also in this issue, ‘Emerging Neighborhoods,’ and more.  Vote for your favorite on the magazine’s Facebook page:

Seattle’s Best Neighborhoods — Facebook Photo Gallery

6 Plat Map Pointers

Plat maps got you flustered?  Our pointers will help!  Visit the latest Ticor Blog:

6 Tips for Reading Plat Maps

We’ve even included a free, downloadable ‘tip sheet.’  Easy to share and save. 

Ticor’s Techies advise that we’re seeing some lively traffic on this post. That tells us to keep this rich content coming your way.  Look for more details about ‘Plats’ in next month’s post.

- Julie McCullough Hale, Ticor Title Company, RRNetwork.com

Michael Katz

Claim Your Oscar  

We all work a lot, prospecting for new clients.  Seems to me that it’s worthwhile to stop a rethink what to ask, and what to say, once we have those important appointments.  Katz has some fun, telling us to be comfortable with being unique.

In his words, how you apply your own unique knowledge to each client’s particular situation, is what matters.  And I agree, that this is how we all work best. How we get our next customer too.

Spring Market …… coming soon?

If the last couple of days are any indication, could be that we have a Spring Market winding up. So, please book those Title & Escrow orders with me and Ticor!  Our talented Property Info Team would love to help you prepare for the weekend. Discounts too, for online orders.

CONTACT Ticor Prop Info HERE

Coffee meeting happening next week. I’ll explain some changes we’ve made here at RRNetwork.com, and welcome you to join me. Details, just connect with me in the usual ways! Thanks all.

- Julie McCullough Hale, RRNetwork.com

Wondering what to expect, when working w/ an REO property?  We’ve just published a sample timeline for you at Ticor’s Blog.  Here’s a link:

Ticor Blog – REO Process

You’ll also notice other timely topics here, including:

How to Remove Someone from ‘Title’

Delegate these 5 Tasks & Save Time

With each topic, there’s either a ‘Downloadable’ form, or a Video, which includes further info. 

- Julie McCullough Hale, Ticor Title Company, RRNetwork.com 

Marketing made easy and affordable — sounds great, doesn’t it? With Ticor’s ‘Good Neighbor Gazette,’ you can have it both ways.

For $2 / month, download your own newsletter. Just add your contact info, and your pic, if you like, and you’re done! Distribute via:

- Email
- In person with ‘pop bys’ or visits
- via Mail

And now, ‘GNG’ can be downloaded three months in advance. Our tech whiz, Matthew Sweet, has created a ‘shopping card,’ where you can preview each issue, then download several months at once. Pretty handy!

Here’s a preview of January 2011 issue:

Read more details from Matt here:

Update — New GNG Shopping Cart from Ticor

View January, 2011 issue, & see more samples, and order yours right now here:

Ticor New and Improved GNG!

King County Courthouse, along with our offices, will be closed this Friday, 12/24, in observance of the Christmas Holiday.

- Julie McCullough Hale, Ticor Title Company, RRNetwork.com