Travis A Martinez, Real Estate Consultant

This weekend is the annual Tour of Homes for the Bitterroot Valley.  I am very excited.  My favorite part is seeing all of the finish work.  The detail and intricacies of the finish work are amazing.  In fact after last years' tour my, then fiancee, and I got a wild hair and redid out bathroom with Venetian Plaster and ...

Candidate for Governor Roy Brown came to Hamilton Yesterday the 29th.  Roy made time in his busy schedule to meet with other local candidates as well as the local Realtors and Builders.  Among those in attendance were:Greg Chilcott (incumbent candidate for County Commissioner)JR Iman (candidate for County Commissioner) Jim ...

The House of Representatives passed the Housing Stimulus Package.  What happens next? The Senate will need to confirm it, which is expected to happen; the President will need to sign it into law, which is also expected to happen.  What does this all mean? Here is a great list from an article in the Wall Street Journal:Key points of ...

The prevailing interest rate is often referred to as the "cost of money."  Or more simply put the amount that you have to pay to use someone else's money.  Typically long tern money (30 year mortgages) is more expensive then short term (10 or 15 year mortgages) money.  Another way of looking at this is as an ...

It is the middle of June most of the country is hitting record highs in temperature and we have snow.  All week it has been switching between rain and snow.  Many people are complaining that we dont have "summer" type weather.  I am not complaining.  This is GREAT.  Last year we ahead a great summer filled with ...

As I read the article below I was a little disturbed at the lack of coordination in DC.  It stinks and there is nobody that is clean in this situation.  Read below and see for yourself.  Bush Set to VETO Homebuilders BillArticle Originally published in the Wall Street JournalMay 7th, 2008WASHINGTON -- President Bush and Congress ...

Are these admirable goals for an advertising campaign?  Or, maybe a better question is, is the goal of an advertising campaign to change consumer behavior or to just focus it?  Organizations such as MySpace and Facebook have truly changed the way we look at the internet.  They would fall under the Persuade, Change, and Influence ...

Every time I turn on the TV I see the gloom and doom about our country.  So we might be in a recession......So what?!?! There are opportunities around every corner.  If you want to be engrossed by the negative of the situation then you will not be able to see the opportunities that exist.  What opportunities you might ask.  If ...

We did it.  We moved yesterday to our new office on First Street in Hamilton.  We are across from Kmart and right next to Subway.  You know where I will be eating lunch Our new address is 1230 First Street, Hamilton, MT 59840. Our phone number is the same and all of the same great people are here.  The best part of it all is ...

On January 29th RealtyTrac® published U.S. Foreclosure Activity Increases 75 Percent in 2007.  This report highlighted the worst states for foreclosure filings and foreclosure rates.  At the end of the report there was a list of all of the states and their foreclosure stats.  Montana ranked 36th in the nation with 1,378 ...