Is Your Home Worth More or Less Than The Assessed Value?
Have you ever wondered how assessed value relates to market price?  Should you use assessed value to determine how much to offer on a property or home you wish to purchase?
Many Skagit County homes and property were given new assessed values recently, causing property owners to [...]

 
 
“Wow, We Really Did It!”
That’s the phrase heard from Coldwell Banker Island Living REATLOR and Guemes Island resident Karen Everett, who was among three people honored at an awards banquet held at the Majestic Inn in Anacortes,WA Friday night to celebrate the official success of the “Save Guemes Mountain” campaign.
 
It’s also the phrase heard from [...]

Have Fun Saving the Mountain this Friday
A Live and Silent Auction in support of  “Save the Mountain” is slated for 7-9pm this Friday, September 18th, at the Depot Arts Center in Anacortes. We’ve already raised more than $2 million but the closing date of October 1st is getting near and we still need to close [...]

 
 
      Join your friends and neighbors at Schoolhouse Park on Guemes Island in a celebration of the Mountain and the community spirit working to preserve it for the public to enjoy.
 
 
 

     The festivities run from 10:00a.m. to 4 p.m. and include live local music and a wine and beer garden. 
      The garden opens at noon, and all [...]

 
The campaign tally to Save Guemes Mountain recently reached $1,768,736. This is $108,005 more than our last tally in late June. Included in this latest tally is a tremendous response to the $200,000 anonymous matching grant announced on June 2nd.  Every donation after that date is matched!  It also includes a $50,000 grant from the Boeing Charitable Trust [...]

Please click on the graph to enlarge.  If you would like to see this chart for your price range, for a different time period, or for a different geographic area, please contact on of our Coldwell Banker Island Living real estate agents for more information.
 

Six diverse Guemes Island gardens will be open for tour on Saturday, June 20th, from 10a.m. to 4p.m.  Tickets are $10 and available at the Community Center (just up from Anderson’s general store) on the day of the tour.  All proceeds will go the the “Save the Mountain” Fund. 
Several well-known Guemes artists will have their work [...]

       
Guemes Island is a 6-7 minute ferry ride from old town Anacortes (6th and I) and is in the southeastern part of the San Juan Islands. The Guemes ferry is run by Skagit County. The short wait time makes this picturesque island only 2 hours from Seattle.

With only 550 full time residence, the [...]

 
Guemes Island
 
 
 
 

Photo courtesy of Karen Everett
 
If you are looking for something fun and different for dinner, try Anderson’s General Store on Guemes Island.  A few of us girls recently walked on the six o’clock ferry to Guemes Island for dinner.  What a fun way to get to dinner! 
 
 
Anderson’s General Store has great service and the [...]