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Bling vs. bones: How to best evaluate a home

Jul 15, 2016, 4:13 PM | Updated: Oct 10, 2024, 1:51 pm

Time is precious, especially when making a decision to buy one of the few homes on the market.

How do you tell if a home is solid, even though a ton of deferred maintenance is needed? How to make the most of your time before making an informed offer?

Join host Tom Kelly and Dylan Chalk, a certified home inspector and author of The Confident House Hunter for “Real Estate Today” on KIRO Radio.

Associated Press

Military judge sets June 2028 trial date for alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

A U.S. military judge on Wednesday set a summer 2028 trail date for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three others accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The trial is scheduled to begin June 5, 2028, 18 months later than the January 2027 start that prosecutors had requested. The additional time is needed to […]

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KIRO 7 News Staff

Point Defiance Zoo’s polar bear is leaving Tacoma

Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium’s 5-year-old polar bear, Laerke, is moving.

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South Sound Business...

South Sound Business

WSECU Names New CEO After Nationwide Search

Originally published on South Sound Business. Olympia-based credit union WSECU has named Harry Zhu as its next president and CEO. He will succeed Gary Swindler, who is retiring next month after 37 years with the company, which has locations across Washington. Previously, Zhu spent 13 years with Alliant Credit Union, where he held several senior […]

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right turns...

Gee Scott and Ursula Reutin Show

‘Sometimes it’s just bad design’: Gee backs Wilson’s push to ban right turns on red, says real problem is infrastructure

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is directing the city's lobbyists to ask state lawmakers for the authority to ban right turns on red at any intersection.

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Palestinians walk past a food-aid warehouse damaged in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a nearby ...

Associated Press

Official leading Trump’s Gaza ceasefire effort criticizes Israel for its attacks

UNITED NATiONS (AP) — The official in charge of President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan for Gaza criticized Israel on Wednesday for its attacks on the war-battered Palestinian territory and warned that the alternative to the U.S. proposal is the next war. Nikolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace high representative, insisted to the U.N. Security Council […]

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Jake Skorheim and Spike O'Neill Show

‘It’s the culture of the department itself’: Spike says SPD’s staffing crisis goes deeper than any one chief

The Seattle Police Department has lost 69 officers this year, and currently has just 929 officers available to answer 911 calls.

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Bling vs. bones: How to best evaluate a home