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Hartstene Pointe with Mt Rainier in the distance!

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Photo taken by Paul S. Henderson, ABR, CRS, GRI, SRES, Realtor® with RE/MAX Professionals of DuPont, Lacey & Hartstene Pointe WA. Making real estate services a positive experience for home buyers and sellers in DuPont, Lacey, and Hartstene Pointe. I have also served Pierce, Thurston, Mason, and Kitsap counties for over 10 years now.

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That's the beauty of Hartstene Pointe, we can see and appreciate the snow from a safe distance!

©2010 Paul Henderson, We can get our fill of snow at a distance..., All Rights Reserved
Photo taken by Paul S. Henderson, ABR, CRS, GRI, SRES, Realtor® with RE/MAX Professionals of DuPont, Lacey & Hartstene Pointe WA. Making real estate services a positive experience for home buyers and sellers in DuPont, Lacey, Hartstene Pointe or Pierce, Thurston, Mason, and Kitsap counties for over 10 years now.

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How can you get mad at someone being early?

We have all had a vendor be late or not show up for an appointment. On January 26^th I had an appointment with a satellite television provider out at Hartstene Pointe. I had a client who had signed up for a bundle deal for internet, phone and satellite TV but lives out of state and asked if I could be there to meet the installer. No problem!

I am one who doesn't like to be late for an appointment and the service provider was scheduled between 8 and noon. I left my office at 6:30 AM to make sure I had plenty of time to reach the house and turn the heat and lights on. At 7:15 I drove through the gate at Hartstene Pointe and into the drive way of my client's beautiful view cabin. I walked up to the door only to find a "Sorry We Missed You" door hanger on the front door. I had;

• called my client the night before to confirm the appointment...
• my client send me the confirmation e-mail with the correct date and time...
• made an effort to be 45 minutes early...

I got on the phone and called my client to see where I had gone wrong and everything was scheduled as planned. I looked at door hanger again only to find the date he had been there was January 22^nd at 2:30 pm. A note said "No line of sight for service Work order cancelled."

The neighbor has 2 satellite dishes from the same provider with the same trees. Couldn't the service tech call and provide this information since he was 4 days early? I called the 1-800 number which told me that I was still on the schedule for today and that he would be there as scheduled. I read the person on the phone the door hanger and was assured that wasn't the way they do business. So I waited until noon and guess what, no one showed up, duh.

It could have been a waste of time, but with an incredible water view and high speed internet at Hartstene Pointe, the 4 hours, slipped by in a heartbeat. I was also able to provide a service for a client in need...

So in my mind, there is only one thing worse than being late for an appointment, that being 4 days early!

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We appreciate the sun no matter how high it is in the sky at Hartstene Pointe...

©2010 Paul Henderson, The winter sun at Hartstene Pointe..., All Rights Reserved
Photo taken by Paul S. Henderson, ABR, CRS, GRI, SRES, Realtor® with RE/MAX Professionals of DuPont, Lacey & Hartstene Pointe WA. Making real estate services a positive experience for home buyers and sellers in DuPont, Lacey, Hartstene Pointe or Pierce, Thurston, Mason, and Kitsap counties for over 10 years now.

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Many stock futures rose modestly Tuesday as investors are betting that upcoming economic reports will show more signs of growth.

A report on the housing market in December is expected to show continued improvement in the battered sector. Major indexes rallied Monday following encouraging signs about growth in the manufacturing sector.

Overseas markets mostly rose following gains in the U.S. on Monday. Some Asian markets gave up gains as speculation remains that China's government will continue to try and curb runaway lending in an effort to avoid speculative bubbles.

Australia's central bank unexpectedly left a key interest rate unchanged. Australia, which was the first major central bank to start raising rates coming out of the global downturn, said it is concerned about sovereign credit around the world and China's policy to slow its economic growth.

Stocks are trying to rally for a second straight day after a week and a half stretch that saw major indexes tumble over concerns about tightening regulations on the banking sector and the sustainability of a recovery.

Investors are turning their attention throughout this week to economic reports to determine if the growth seen late last year is continuing. The reports culminate with the January employment report released on Friday.

Many in the market go on reports, so its very important to us, when we look at stats as well.