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What should I do?

Is that just kind of a throwaway time of year?

What have we seen here in the Pacific Republic?

This is really interesting.

Let's take it from a seller's perspective first. Let's say that you are thinking about selling your house.

Now it depends on where your house sits amongst the houses in your area. So for instance, if you have the nicest house in the area

and you're like, there's not a nicer place

with a better yard, a better layout,

the remodel we did is fantastic in my neighborhood if you know that

you're at the top of the range then you would probably do well to sell that in

spring because there's going to be a ton of competition and if you know and you're

confident in your bones that you can crush the competition well then you're probably

going to get a really good action on your house. Now however however, if you are honest with yourself

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