“Outdoor Life” Names Bend #1 Town In US

April 19, 2011
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I feel a little like Mark Trail with this post. Outdoor Life Outdoor Life scoured the United States to find places where great hunting and fishing starts right at the edge of town. They came up with their top 200 towns for 2011. Quality of Life  made up 40% of the criteria; Outdoor Score (Gun […]

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Tetherow . . . New Paradigm

April 17, 2011
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A great review on the course at Tetherow by Jeff Wallach in Courses and Travel; this one is only for golfers. The Guys From Broken Top Don’t Like It I recently played Kidd’s Tetherow Golf Club, in Central Oregon.  The course has been open for two years and I can honestly say that in that […]

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Homes in Bend . . . March 2011 Sales

April 9, 2011
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March wasn’t just about the myriad of tremendous powder days at Mt. Bachelor . . . the Bend real estate market also showed a bit of early spring health. 152 homes sold in Bend, up a robust 34% from the 113 sold in February (homes in Bend); also, up about 3% from a year ago. […]

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Bend Dog Park Etiquette

March 24, 2011
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300 Days of Sunshine? Looks like the Bend Oregon real estate market isn’t cooling off with the weather . . .  my master is certainly busy, and it seems that downtown is bustling. Maybe it’s the spring break shoppers. I love the snow; this 300 days of sunshine shit in Central Oregon  (that the Chamber […]

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Musings of a mutt . . . Bend Oregon dog parks!

March 23, 2011
rooco ready to sniff, scratch, and bark

While I grew up in one of the swankiest gated communities and live in one of the nicest homes in Bend Oregon, at heart, I’m just a pooch.  I know that my aristocratic air and erect carriage are a bit misleading. Reality is I’m a dog who likes to pee where he wants, scratch what […]

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“Love Your Life a Little More” . . . Bend Oregon

March 19, 2011
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“Love Your Life A Little More . . . Visit Bend” Sure, we’ve got worries . . .  unemployment, the economy,  the earth quake/ tsunami in Japan. But, we’ve also got a pretty incredible lifestyle here in Bend .  I focus on the positive and write about hamburgers and snow-tubing.  Visit Bend has just produced […]

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Stuck in the Middle of Bend

March 13, 2011
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Stuck in the Middle of Bend (Oregon) A cool song made the rounds this week in Bend.  It was written by one Holly Hamilton to the tune of Stealer’s Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle With You.”  With lyrics like- Don’t know why I moved here at all; from California, this place feels so small I […]

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Pilot Butte Drive-In to Open on Westside of Bend

March 9, 2011
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In this  time when an “anxious, troubled nation huddles in tight clusters of fear and uncertainty, shot through with far too much war, economic grief, Tea Party idiocy, iffy cell phone reception and low-level karmic doom,”* I, too, tire of all the negatives associated with our economy and our real estate market here in Bend […]

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Deschutes County Foreclosures Halted

March 8, 2011
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Having worked hard on a number of short sales headed to foreclosure (many with B of A), I found an article by Brent Hunsberger in The Oregonian very interesting. Excerpts from the article appear below. Hundreds of Oregon Foreclosure Sales Stopped Sales of hundreds of foreclosed homes in Oregon have been halted or withdrawn in […]

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Tetherow . . . Green on the Greens

March 5, 2011
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Tetherow’s Commitment Building on a commitment to ensure environmentally sound philosophies and practices, Tetherow is not only one of the area’s only environmentally friendly golf courses, but it has extended that “green” mentality to the new custom homes under construction.  “Our vision from the onset was to create a world class golf experience that was […]

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Bend Homes . . . Sales for February 2011

March 2, 2011
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February 2011 Aawooo . . . the fluffy soft snow and frigid temperatures have returned to Central Oregon! I guess I have to retract all my whining from last month about the crummy conditions at Mt. Bachelor. February Bend Home Sales We saw the sale of 111 homes in Bend during February. Down a bit […]

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