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Mt. Hood National Forest Lease Fee Update

Monday, November 22, 2010
by Liz Warren

If you're a cabin owner in the Mt. Hood National Forest, Fran Lanagan, the permit administrator at the forest service, wants all cabin owners to be aware of the current status of next year's lease fees. Here is her statement and a revision underneath:

 

Mt. Hood Cabin Owners

Cabin Owners,

I made a mistake on the fee information I sent out.  I’m so sorry!

Here is the correct information.  Simply put, 2011 bills will be the same as 2010, but we must also add the current inflation index which is less than one percent.  So, the Forest Service will bill you for the same amount paid in calendar year 2010, with the addition of the annual index.”

I am very sorry about my error.  Thanks so much to MHFHA for helping us with the communication.

Fran Lanagan
Permit Administrator
70220 E Hwy 26
Zigzag, OR 97045
503-622-2031
503-622-5622 fax
www.fs.fed.us/r6/mthood/summerhomes

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Mt. Hood Sales Stats Year to Date for 2010

Sunday, November 21, 2010
by Liz Warren

Here are the numbers from RMLS for 2010 to give you an idea of what is happening as of the end of October. Average sale prices are down nearly 20% compared to last year. This is obviously due to the foreclosure sales this year at the lowest end of the pricing range. Our pending sales compared to last year at this time are down 23%. This reflects the difficulty in getting mortgage money in current times. Most sales that become pending through the rest of the year will probably close in 2011 with the banks moving at a snail's pace. Here's hoping 2011 will see lots of improvement!!

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Mt. Hood Sales for October 2010

Sunday, November 21, 2010
by Liz Warren

Eight total sales for the month of October. Here they are:

 

Three foreclosures this month and several second homes with price tags over the $300,000 mark. Finally, a sale in Government Camp!

 

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Morning Coffee

Tuesday, November 16, 2010
by Liz Warren
Monday Morning Coffee

INSPIRATION FOR TODAY:

"Ideas come from space. This may seem astonishing and
impossible to believe, but it is true. Ideas come from out of space."
- Thomas Edison


STRIKE IT RICH!

From the "Commercial and Financial Chronicle" (December 10, 1932) comes this quote from an article entitled "El Dorado":

"El Dorado, a country rich beyond all precedent in gold and jewels, lies at every man's door. Your bonanza lies under your feet. Your luck is ready at hand. All is within; nothing is without, though it often appears that men and peoples by dumb luck or avarice or force or overreaching strike upon the sea of prosperity. Man individually and collectively is entitled to life in all abundance. What do you seek? Pay the price and take it away. There is no limit to the supply. By a full and powerful imagination anything can be brought into concrete form."

Thomas Edison was a man of 10,000 ideas - a virtually endless supply. Grasping those ideas that he attributed as coming "from space," he created a long string of life-changing inventions. By his "full and powerful imagination" he brought the light bulb into its tangible form.

Inside each of us lies that same power - to see the future through our own imagination, and then cause it to happen by taking actions consistent with its manifestation. As author Wayne Dyer said in his book by the same name, "You'll see it when you believe it." By understanding the power of your own imagination, you are capable of creating your own "El Dorado," both in the physical and the spiritual plane.

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Mt. Hood Auction for Welches School

Monday, November 8, 2010
by Liz Warren

This Saturday, November 13th is the Welches School Auction at the Mt. Hood Village Resort in Welches. This is a free event and the Silent Auctoin is from 5 to 7 pm. The dinner is from 6 to 8 pm and the LIVE AUCTION is at 7 PM.

The dinner is $10.00 and will be Asian Cuisine: Featuring Chicken, Yakisoba Noodles, Stir Fry Veggies, Fried Rice and Egg Rolls.

This auction helps benefit the Welches School kids and auction items include weekend getaways, local artist works, lift tickets and many local services.

 

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Morning Coffee

Monday, November 8, 2010
by Liz Warren
Monday Morning Coffee

INSPIRATION FOR TODAY:

"A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other
people will alter towards him.... Let a man radically alter his thoughts, and he will be astonished
at the rapid transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life. Men do not attract that
which they want, but that which they are.... The divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves. It is
our very self.... All that a man achieves is the direct result of his own thoughts.... A man can only
rise, conquer and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can only remain weak and abject and
miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts."

- James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh"


ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE!

It's so simple . . . the advice given in the above quote . . . and so true. Each of us has the power to elevate the value and quality of our life, simply by "lifting up" our thoughts, by placing our hands firmly on the wheel of positive thinking. Earl Nightingale gave an example in one of his taped programs. He said imagine that you are the operator of a huge piece of earth-moving equipment. You are perched in a small cab, hands on the wheel, and have the ability to move vast amounts of earth. Would you take your hands off the wheel and let it run itself into a ditch?

Your mind, and hence your thoughts, mirror that steering wheel. Through positive thoughts, you guide your life in a direction that produces positive actions, resulting in positive re-actions from others. Refusing to keep your hands on the wheel will quickly deliver you into life's ditches.

Life today is complex. It brings with it many opportunities for negative thinking. They range from the personal early morning "Hurry up, we're going to be late!" to the mid-day business crisis of "The deal isn't going to close!" Another quote goes like this: "Think you can, think you can't, either way you're right!" Again, it's your choice, isn't it?

The next time you feel frustration and doubt creeping into your vocabulary, think of a time when you felt really good about a similar situation . . . then replace the negative thought with a positive statement. As another wise individual once said, "Our lives are what our thoughts make of it."

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Mt. Hood Art Wine and Music Festival in Welches Oregon

Thursday, November 4, 2010
by Liz Warren

Keep the date open for the weekend of  November 13 from 10 AM - 8 PM and Sunday, November 14 from 10 AM - 5 PM. It's the 21st Annual Holiday Art, Wine & Music Festival at the Resort at the Mountain.

Here are some of the wineries and artisans that will be there over the weekend. A passport for the wine tasting is $15.00 and the event benefits the Oregon Humane Society.

  • Hip Chicks Do Wine
    www.hipchicksdowine.com
    Hip Chicks do WINE is an urban boutique winery in Portland, Oregon. Opened in 2001 -- any winery who boasts both a Wine Goddess and Wine Maven simply HAS to capture your attention! It is their hope to rescue the fun-at-heart beverage from the stranglehold of vocabulary-obsessed neophytes who mistake wine as a free pass into so-called maturity. Come taste how they do it!
  • Bodhichitta Winery
    www.bodhichittawinery.com
    Bodhichitta is Oregon's first not-for-profit winery, located in the heart of the Willamette Valley in Salem, Oregon. Their products represent our connection and respect for nature, the environment and one another. They donate to charities at the local, regional, national and international level. Bodhichitta Winery strives to live up to its name's Sanskrit roots and motto: Passion for wine, compassion for others. Stop by their table and 'connect' with them!
  • Oak Knoll Winery
    www.oakknollwinery.com
    Located eighteen miles west of downtown Portland, Oregon in the beautiful countryside near Hillsboro, Oak Knoll Winery offers visitors a 'retreat from the fast lane.' No doubt Festival guests will enjoy an Oak Knoll retreat right here!
  • Lujon Wine Cellars, Inc.
    www.lujonwinecellars.com
    Lujon Wine Cellars was conceived in 2005 by father and son team Lewis and John Derthick, hence the name Lujon. The wines they create are small production hand crafted wines. Their motto? In vino veritas!
  • Noble Estate Vineyard and Winery
    www.nobleestatevineyard.com
    Noble Estate Vineyard and Winery is a small family-owned business established in 1999 dedicated to producing quality Oregon wines. Located in Eugene, Oregon in a small wine growing region of the southern Willamette Valley, this area has been blessed with a climate similar to that in France and the volcanic soils of Oregon also contribute a delicacy that enhances their wine flavors. Taste for yourself!
  • Methven Family Vineyards
    www.methvenfamilyvineyards.com
    Methven Family Wines is famous for boutique wines including Riesling, Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir. Their 2007 Pinot Gris was a Double Gold Winner at the 2009 Oregon Wine Awards. You may be able to taste a future award-winner during the Festival!
  • Vitis Ridge Wines
    www.vitisridge.com
    Making wines since 1995, this group of five partners operates a small boutique winery producing approximately 2500 cases of wine per year. Talk about boutique!

And take a peek at just some of the confirmed artisans you'll enjoy too. If you have time -- study up on their websites before you come! You'll enjoy their beautiful work more than ever!

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Time to Buy On Mt. Hood-Great Interest Rates

Thursday, November 4, 2010
by Liz Warren

Is this the perfect buying opportunitiy? Motivated sellers left and right and some of the best interest rates in 50 years? Sellers with their properties on the market right now going into winter are the most serious sellers of all!

Rates can't be beat! Here are the predictions from the National Association of Realtors and the Mortgage Broker's Assocation for the next year plus:

Interest Rates

So, to keep your monthly payment low and manageable, now is the time to make that purchase because even if prices go down, your monthly payment will be fixed at a lower unbelievable rate.

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Collins Lake-Government Camp Sales

Thursday, November 4, 2010
by Liz Warren

It's been a dry spell for Collins Lake sales in Government Camp since January. Although the market is quite saturated with inventory, finally two units have closed in November. Both were cash sales but the prices a bit surprising.

Collins Lake Condo Sales

Both of these units were foreclosures. The one selling for $234,000 was originally sold in November of 2005 for $439,000.

Financing is difficult for units, that is, if you can find it these days. Conventional lenders are placing these units under the "condotel" umbrella.

From Wikipedia: A Condo hotel, also known as a hotel-condo or a Condotel, is a building used as both a condominium and a hotel.

Condo hotels are typically high-rise buildings developed and operated as luxury hotels, usually in major cities and resorts.[1] These hotels have condominium units which allow someone to own a full-service vacation home. When they aren’t using this home, they can leverage the marketing and management done by the hotel chain to rent and manage the condo unit as it would any other hotel room.

So it goes with Collins Lake. This might be a hard pill to swallow for unit owners but until financing loosens up, this will be the hand dealt.

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Morning Coffee

Monday, November 1, 2010
by Liz Warren
Monday Morning Coffee

INSPIRATION FOR TODAY:

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
- Francis Bacon


SOW GOOD SEEDS!

James Bender, in his book "How to Talk Well," tells of a farmer who grew prize-winning corn. Each year he won the blue ribbon at the state fair. When asked how he did it, the farmer explained that he shared his seed corn with his neighbors.

Pollen from ripening corn is carried by the wind from field to field. If the farmer's neighbors grew inferior corn, he felt that cross-pollination would steadily degrade his own prize-winning variety. If he was to grow good corn, the farmer felt he first had to help his neighbors grow good corn.

Having a good attitude and achieving your goals works the same way. How you view the world is affected by the attitudes of others, and vice-versa. Surely you can think of a time that someone else's dark outlook on life caused you to have a bad day. Your positive, can-do attitude can be easily cross-pollinated by the negative thoughts of others.

So . . . why not share your award-winning, success-oriented approach to life with your neighbors? By simply sharing a smile and a kind word with those around you, you can improve everyone's outlook. That thought can be carried a step further, too.

Can you imagine a farmer purposely planting corn in a field adjoined by a field full of briars, thorns and thistles, owned by a farmer with no intention of improving it? While it's a noble cause to improve the lives of others by sowing good seeds all around, it is sometimes necessary to do your farming elsewhere. By spending your time with others who share your aptitude for excellence, your own personal value will increase.

When picking a field in which to grow your dreams, choose your neighbors wisely - then sow only seeds that improve everyone involved. It's your choice.

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