About Flathead County, MT

Rent To Own! 50% rent credit! Gorgeous 3 bedroom, 2 bath 1500 square foot home with a 2 car garage on a fenced 2 acres in beautiful Kalispell, MT. The fenced 2 acres is great for your horses or other animals! There is a redwood deck, lap siding, metal roof with a well and septic. There is electric heat but also a wood burning stove so utilities are minimal!!! Home has incredible views of Lone Pine State Park with wonderful trails and hiking available to you! Rent is only $1000 per month and first months rent and money down required to move in. Please contact us at 406-250-9553 with any questions or visit us at www.50statesrent2own.com. Until next time....

Pete Olsen

Rent To Own Homes, LLC

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Sailboat came out of Flathead Lake today for the winter. The lake gets drawn down in preparation for next Spring's snow melt, so the 30' boat is lifted out and put on blocks for the winter. Always a little sad to see another sailing season pass, but looking forward to skiing!!

Kalispell and Whitefish city elections are coming up. The Daily Interlake is full of campaign news and opinions. Be interesting to see if there is a changing of the guard in November.

It appears that the long awaited Kalispell Highway 93 bypass construction will be going out to bid very soon. I have yet to hear where the funds are coming from to actually build it, but they must be there available to use.

I had lunch yesterday at Kalispell Regional Hospital with client and friend Dr. Melissa Hulvat. Melissa is the new breast surgeon at the hospital. She has been very busy speaking during this breast cancer awareness month. If you have to go through such a trauma, Dr. Hulvat is the gal you want to take care of you! I got a tour of her clinic, very homey and comfortable - for a doctor's "digs" as she calls them.

WINTER??? What is normal weather for NW Montana? Who knows. 2 weeks ago we were 15-20 degrees above normal. Now we are the same difference below normal. Snow yesterday, now today, bitter cold. My horses are putting on their winter fir as quickly as they can, but will blanket them for the next couple of days. Next week the weather promises to return to "normal" temperatures.

Kalispell Ski Club swap is this weekend at the fair grounds. Plan on getting my ski pass for Whitefish Mountain Resort photo taken so I am ready when the mountain is ready.

Winterizing the bee hives this week. They are hunkered down in the bottom feed box trying to stay warm. A lot of honey there for them to eat and get through the winter.

Flathead Valley Community College has a very well done play we saw last night, "The Art of Dining". Good for a few laughs. Great turnout. Love the new theater.

Good day for knitting. Camas Creek Yarns has a beginning class this morning. Stop by Colter Coffee for an Americano and walk down to the yarn shop to be in the cozy store and re-learn how to knit.

Okay, I missed the blog update last week, I was working hard! 4 buyers in 3 days. 1 relocation, 1 out of state buyer, 2 buyers getting in on the $8000 tax credit and they need to close by November 30, 2009.

It was a weekend of fund raising dinners. Saturday night at Flathead Valley Community College was the auction/dinner for the Glacier Institute and the Big Creek Camp for kids. During the school year, school groups go to the camp to learn about critters and life in the wilderness. In the summer, intercity children arrive for week long camps to be exposed to something outside of their normal environment. They hike/backpack/raft/fish etc. Great cause!! The camp is on Forest Service land across the river from Glacier National Park.

Sunday was an awesome dinner at Kandahar Restaurant at the Whitefish Mountain Resort for the Flathead Community College Foundation. Chef Andy wowed us all with his usual local and unique offerings. He is the best chef and the most creative!!

Summer weather continues with temps in the 70's to 80's. That will come to an end later this week, so taking each sunny day as it comes!