Customer service must come first

How much would you pay for an egg? Fifty cents? Two dollars? How about $6,000?

CRITTERS OF NORTH IDAHO Getting acquainted with our flora and fauna

This new column will appear monthly in The Press.

Rates may exacerbate the inventory problem

By now you all know the Fed has increased the interest rates it charges banks to borrow. That increase has already impacted mortgage loans, but there is another impact that is sure to perplex would-be homebuyers. As rates near 4.5 percent, monthly payments will increase slightly over the payments at 4.25 percent. The difference on a 30-year loan of $250,000 with a 3 percent down payment will be about $36 — or about six lattes a month. Although some young people are perceiving the rate as unusually high — which it is if they started looking for homes a year ago — and finding it compelling to accelerate their search, they may find even fewer homes to choose from.

Whatever it takes to get on a roll

Sometimes, the light just goes off for a team and it gets on a roll.

THE FRONT ROW WITH JASON ELLIOTT: March 1, 2014

Two runs worth watching

You've got to hand it to both the Coeur d'Alene and Timberlake high school girls basketball teams.

Post Falls mulls new urban renewal district

By BRIAN WALKER

Another one bites the dust

Friday we received a call from an old friend who works in the title insurance business. It seemed as though she had dropped off the face of the Earth about a year ago when she left that business to pursue other endeavors. The other endeavors turned out to be a career as a real estate agent. She should be well suited to this career she thought since she had worked on hundreds of transactions and with dozens of Realtors over the course of her employment at a local title company.

Million dollar Rathdrum

Neighborhood of the Week: March 7

Classes commence

Most other area schools are expected to start in the next two weeks

COEUR d'ALENE - So, that was summer.

A new decade begins

One of the great things about a new year is just that, its newness. It offers a clean slate and a chance to start over, building a better year than the last. Yet, as we begin the new year the prospects are cloudy. As we seek the bright spots in the real estate market we do see some glimmers of hope.

Cheers, Idaho

Booze sales top $50 million

COEUR d'ALENE - Bottoms up, really up.

Realtors champion home ownership

Last week thousands of Realtors from across the country convened in Washington, D.C., for the National Association of Realtors (NAR) mid-year sessions; I was honored to be among them. During this annual event our senators and representatives set aside some time out of their busy schedules to meet with us and listen to our concerns about private property rights.

Riverview dreams in Post Falls

I write for a living, so it’s unlikely I’ll be purchasing waterfront property anytime soon.

Historic building up for grabs

By BRIAN WALKER

Long-awaited plan for midtown has mixed-use buildings, green space

COEUR d’ALENE — The city’s urban renewal agency is negotiating with a Coeur d’Alene firm to turn a piece of undeveloped land in the heart of the midtown business district into mixed commercial and residential property.

Idaho Fish and Game to negotiate skeet club land purchase

After debate about the Coeur d’Alene Skeet and Trap Club’s annual rent cast doubt over its future existence, it appears the club will remain where it’s been since 1965.

Bill to prohibit student IDs clears committee

The House State Affairs Committee approved two election-related bills on Thursday, including one to prohibit the use of high school or university student ID cards for voter identification at the polls. Rep. Tina Lambert, R-Caldwell, said that student ID cards lack the security measures and verification that are required to obtain other methods of identification.

Helen Marie (Walrath) Head, 73

It is with profound sadness in our hearts that we announce

County: Budget additions won't fly

Department heads worry about staff shortages, burnout

County cuts focus on retaining rather than recruiting

Don't surrender waterways to outsiders

Outsiders trying to control Idaho’s waterways This Monday, May 24, a critical vote goes before our Kootenai County commissioners.