My Real Tacoma: Adventures in Rehab Loans

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 rent my...

My Real Tacoma: My First and Only Place

  By Erik Hanberg When I moved back to Tacoma in 2002 after four years away, I was blown away by the changes downtown. I loved that it was starting to feel like a real city. When I landed a job downtown, I decided I would take the plunge and move downtown as well. I...