I’m so excited to present the first Get Real Tacoma Podcast! Episode 1 is an interview with Laurie Cinotto, a Tacoman who created the blog Itty Bitty Kitty Committee! The story of Laurie Cinotto’s world famous (Tacoma-Based!) blog is an unusual one. Laurie and her litter of tiny Siamese kittens (The...
Sometimes writing market updates during the worst housing crisis in the history of our country can be kind of a bummer. The foreclosures, the short sales, the empty inventory… it’s so much more fun to talk about people in Tacoma buying million dollar houses, right? I mean, who are these...
Zara Mediterranean Cuisine is Tacoma’s newest restaurant. Located in Downtown Tacoma on 15th & Pacific across from my very favorite place, Pacific Grill, Zara is like nothing else we have ever had downtown! They open this Thursday, August 18th. Since early this winter we have been hearing that something new was...
Ok, Ok. Marilyn Strickland is the Mayor of Tacoma. And I think she’s a pretty great Mayor, actually. But I’M the Mayor on Foursquare of some awesome local places, and I thought I’d talk about them here today! For those of you who are not familiar with FourSquare, it’s an...
By Kevin Stirret Jones As a senior mortgage officer at Bank of America, I’d been in the mortgage business since 2002 and the time had finally came to buy my first home. My family and I have actually lived in the same house since 2001. We’ve been fortunate to...
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