Irina Fernandez

After saying Good Bye to WA state and real estate last fall, I am coming back to Active rain from Romania. I really would like to start a side business related to Real Estate, can you please share with me your opinion. Is it something you migh use yourself? If so, please add me to you email or skype contact as your graphic designer.

Skype: irina_fernandez

Email: irina.artist@gmail.comAfter

We sold our house yesterday. What sold our house in this slow market? ME. Just kidding.

Paintings, updates and attention to every detail. We kept our house staged and extremelyclean from the very first day on the market. We put new furnace in, new tankless water heater, good appliances. We spend 25,000 on landscaping last spring. Well, we didn't know that we are going to get a job transfer. Sound view and some fantastic wall finishes completed the package.

And how important the photos of the listing? Our buyer is actually in New Orleans right now, her children came to see the house and loved it. But their mum said, yeas, let's buy it, after looking through photos of the house I took on Internet. How amazing is that?

Than we got a call from a different agent that was quite upset because his buyers were ready to put an offer on our house too. So, if you really like the house - do not wait, make an offer or you can loose it.

So, for me, my Real Estate career is almost over. It was an interesting experience even in a very slow market. Also, I got a second job - real estate photography, that I am enjoyng and exploring every day. I hope to continue working as a photographer in London. Thank you everyone who was reading my real estate blogs. I am going to post only Photo related blogs in the next couple of months.

We have been on the market 40 days! Everyone who came to see this home loved it, but no buyers yet. We also drooped the price from $379,000 to $374,990. It did not change much, so I believe that price is not as important as timing now. We had people begging us to rent it to them, because they can not get mortgages.

Well, we have three months more before we will have to pay for two places. I created this slide how, to be able to send all photos we have to people interested in the house.

http://www.slide.com/r/7ubF2J2U5D_YgXOIZwDYDbj-Pl6uRgpj

I really like this web-site.

American people are incredibly kind. They do help others all the time. I collected many art supplies and toys in my neighborhood and sent it to an orphanages back to my motherland - Belarus. I find so much support here. On the other hand, in Belarus, it is hard to find anyone who is willing for free to deliver this boxes from one city to another one. People in the third world countries just do not understand a principle of charity. They used to have problems, they used to have no help, and they no more want to help others.

I would say even more - if my parents will try to give something to the orphanage in their own town, they will get no thank you. People will look at them as they have too much and trying to show off. It makes me so sad. That's why sometimes I feel that America should help themselves first, before they try to change the rest of the world.

I just competed a new mural - oil painting. It was sold as a commission work at Charity action. I just wanted to share this image with you, because it is a nice reminder about childhood.

Museum of Glass.

Tacoma Museum of glass in the one place you can not miss when you see the city for the first time. It is the most unusually shaped building in the downtown. I lived in Tacoma almost three years and I have been in museum three times. The last time I visited it I was completely amazed by spiritual creative energy and the fact that the best glass artist in Italy came to Tacoma to teach his techniques.. I spent three hours inside and I didn't want to leave. The new inhibition is full of the best glass vases in the world; it is so beautiful and inspiring! If you go there, my advise to start with a theater room. It shows a short movie about an artist - Limo Tagliapietra , who is the world's greatest living glassblower artist and who's works are shown in the galleries of the museum.

Read about an artist here:

http://www.museumofglass.org/exhibitions/lino/