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	<description>Queen Anne Hill is a beautiful and elegant area of Seattle.</description>
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		<title>Purchasing A Home With a Partner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Purchasing a home with a partner or significant other can be a challenging process. The following will hopefully help minimize common difficulties and challenges associated with buying a home together. Communication Communication is one of, if not the most, important facets of purchasing a home with a partner. By having open lines of communication, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.queenannehill.com/blog/2010/09/03/purchasing-a-home-with-a-partner/</link>
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		<title>Making Home Affordable Program: Help For Distressed Homeowners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration&#8217;s Making Home Affordable Program (HAMP) is a critical piece of the effort to bring relief to distressed homeowners and stabilize the housing market. What the program is attempting to do is to work with loan servicers to reduce a homeowners monthly mortgage payment. Homeowners that are struggling to make their mortgage payments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.queenannehill.com/blog/2010/08/17/making-home-affordable-program-help-for-distressed-homeowners/</link>
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		<title>Staging Your Home Virtually</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Technology has evolved to the point where you can edit and modify photographs to such an extent as to adding objects or smoothing a feature of the image. Many people are familiar with what staging a home involves. It requires someone to come in and set up and analyze the space and add furniture and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.queenannehill.com/blog/2010/08/13/staging-your-home-virtually/</link>
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		<title>The Five Most Important Traits In a Real Estate Agent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that in the past that only real estate agents had the knowledge of where homes were for sale, and knew the process of buying or selling a home. However, now the internet has made possible a place where anyone can go and browse for homes all across the nation. Still, an agent is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.queenannehill.com/blog/2010/08/13/the-five-most-important-traits-in-a-real-estate-agent/</link>
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		<title>Job Openings in Washington Increase For The First Time In 3 Years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 spring Washington Job Vacancy Survey Report recorded the first increase in the number of job vacancies offered since fall 2006. The survey indicated that companies were attempting to fill an estimated 38,732 open positions during the April 2010 survey period. While theses job opening indicate that the economy is improving, it is still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.queenannehill.com/blog/2010/08/12/job-openings-in-washington-increase-for-the-first-time-in-3-years/</link>
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		<title>Reminder: Tax Credit Closing Deadline Extended</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congress recently passed a bill that will extend the closing deadline on the Homebuyer Tax Credit. The extension lengthens the closing date to September 30, 2010. This deadline is for home purchases that had a signed contract by April 30th of this year. There will be no gap between June 30th and the date the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.queenannehill.com/blog/2010/08/12/reminder-tax-credit-closing-deadline-extended/</link>
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		<title>Housing Trend Moving Towards Smaller Homes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The current housing trend is to live modestly and forgo unessential large spaces for homes. First time home-buyers are leaning more favorably towards smaller homes as they&#8217;re easier to maintain, and require less energy to run. In lieu of new banking guidelines and stringent credit scoring practices large loans can be more difficult to obtain. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.queenannehill.com/blog/2010/08/12/housing-trend-moving-towards-smaller-homes/</link>
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		<title>Moving Your Pets Safely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Both dogs and cats can either travel with you in your car or take a plane ride. Think it over carefully if you are traveling with them in your car. Animals can get car sickness too. They are usually coping with the extra stress of motion and new surroundings as well as picking up on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.queenannehill.com/blog/2010/07/29/moving-your-pets-safely/</link>
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		<title>Easy ways to “Green Up” Your Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to be part of the conservation efforts and sustainability efforts in the world? Here are some quick tips: Start with appliances that are not in use. These can utilize up to 70% of your energy bill. They continue to use electricity even when not in use. The best way to combat that is to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.queenannehill.com/blog/2010/07/29/easy-ways-to-green-up-your-home/</link>
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		<title>How Important is the Location of a Home?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Location of a prospective home is paramount to your buying decision. Of the many things that can be changed about a home after it&#8217;s purchased, the location is just about the only one that you can&#8217;t change. There are a number of things you&#8217;ll need to consider to determine of a home&#8217;s location is right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.queenannehill.com/blog/2010/07/28/how-important-is-the-location-of-a-home/</link>
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