This summary includes Rainier Beach, Upper Rainer Beach, Dunlap, Pritchard Beach and Kubota Gardens, with a north boundary from Kenyon, south boundary of Bangor, east boundary 62nd Ave South, and West Boundary of Martin Luther King Way, using the information available on the NWMLS.

Currently there are 50  active  residential listings  on the market.

• Low         $129,90
• Median   $ 299,975
• High        $1,350,000

Currently there are 18 condominium units on the market

• Low $79,900
• Median $134,400
• High price $400,000

Currently there are five  multi family houses on the market.

• Low $295,000
• Median $549,00
• High price $1,200,000

Currently there are 9 vacant residential development lots on the market.

• Low $80,000
• Median $110,000
• High price $1,999,950

1. I will try to be positive, not saying anything negative about anyone,  will find the nicest things to say all the time, and have  and have a smile on my face…………… until about  mid March when my family and friends thinks my behavior is not natural and encourage be to be “realistic”. Then I will go back to being realistic.
2. I make and keep my plan to pay down all my short term consumer debt, until that thing that I needed that I wasn’t planning to buy, or wanted to buy is needed to be purchased.
3. I  will try to update Facebook with relevant and meaningful posts, until I forget and update my Farmville status.
4. I will work diligently to make my lived environment a better place, by recycling, reusing, and conserving.   Should I keep burning wood in my woods stove to save gas?  Should I turn the lights out and go to bed early and get up early?  I don’t think so.
5. I will try to be in better shape and loose weight , through November 2010, until Fumiko follows all the 1940’s cookbooks and uses lard in everything  and it starts to rain and I stop biking, and become a computer  chair potato.
6. My Farmville becomes supper mighty awful big plantation, before I realize that the time I spent should have been growing imaginary food, but real food.
   I will post on real estate blogs   and will meet some really interesting people who will want to buy and sell real estate.
7. After becoming LEED AP, in OM, I actually use it as a member on a team to certify buildings.
8. My construction project this year will be limited to completing the projects I have started or have promised to do.
9. Travel this year will be from Pullman to Hiroshima with Coupeville on the side.

Columbia City Station.   The second day of light rail service brought the long awaited light rail to Columbia City.   As the light rail is not in “Downtown” Columbia City, people will walk between the station and the business district.    The idea that a transit needs to be in the central business district  is only one way for a community to be served by transit.

I am not sure how “green” my wood stove is? The wood stove insert in the basement is kicking out a bundle of warmth right now, but when it is not burning, it is a conduit for cold air from outside. It is an older stove and the flue is not tight fitting, and the fire box is small, so can’t leave a big log burning. I have to burn small scraps of wood. Last summer I collected l that would have been thrown away from various construction projects, so the fuel is somewhat green. Probably the best practice would be to insulate the basement walls. The problem is that it is hard to be motivated in July to insulate

This summary includes Rainier Beach, Upper Rainer Beach, Dunlap, Pritchard Beach and Kubota Gardens, with a north boundary from Kenyon, south boundary of Bangor, east boundary 62nd Ave South, and West Boundary of Martin Luther King Way, using the information available on the NWMLS.

Residential listings
Number of Listings 38
Low $ 124.900
Median $ 331,975
High $1,900,000

Multi-family Listings
Number of listings: 6

Low $ 350,000
Median $ 539,900
High price $1,249,000

Vacant or Development Listings
Number of Listings 12
Low price $ 99,000
Median $ 160,000
High price $1,999,950

Condo listings
Number of Listings: 19
Low $ 45,000
Median $143,950
High $310,900

Mayor Elect McGinn is holding a town hall in Rainier Beach High School this evening.  I will be attending to  ask questions about how economic development can be brought to the valley.