The video clip is 1 minute & 38 seconds long from the movie "Christmas Plus One" a Lifetime movie. Some quick background to know PRIOR to watching the video clip: Michael (the young man you'll see in the video clip) originally had problems following instructions for writing articles at his job. He finally agreed to write about Christmas (per his boss' direction) even though he didn't want to (hasn't been his thing since his dad died when he was a teen during this time of year & they were both big into Christmas). You can see that even when his boss loved the article he wrote, what happens.

 The link to the 1 minute & 38 second video here: https://tinyurl.com/2zz6tv86

 Some quick tips to ensure you have success watching & hearing the video:

1) Ensure that you have working internet access so that you can successfully view the video.

2) After clicking on the above video link, click on the sideways white triangle that should be on the image of the video to play the video.

3) Ensure whatever device (i.e. phone, laptop, etc.) the speakers work on that device, are turned on (including any external speakers as well), and that the volume on all speakers (internal and external, if using) are loud enough for you to hear. NOTE: External speakers are speakers that you connect to your device to amplify the volume. (Disregard the external speakers part if you don't have these and/or aren't using them).

4) If you miss the video the first time (or more than first time) meaning after you click it, you didn't have the volume working/loud enough for you to hear, &/or weren't able to see the video, etc. try again by re-clicking on my video link until you are successful. 🙂

 The video clip is the perfect example of being pushed to a higher potential (taking a risk and not playing it safe). That's what life is about, knowing what risks are worth taking & not always playing it safe while realizing & achieving your highest potential.

The video clip is also an example of how when you hear, read, or see posts on social media (or life in general) about how when something bad happens to you, it's because something better is coming to you.

I hope this short video clip also encourages you for whatever rejection & struggles you're going through in your life because like I once said in one of my past newsletters after I watched "Can you feel the beat: The Lisa Lisa Story" true Lifetime movie, famous people have the same problems that we do, the only difference is that they are rich and famous.

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“Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be."--Sonia Ricotti

1. Is it a good time to buy a home in Puyallup? Is investing in real estate in Puyallup worth it? It wouldn’t be a good investment for the short-term (i.e., one-year).
 
For a 5-year investment the profit is expected to be around +10.06% which means that investing $100,000 today (March 2023) may yield a profit of $110,060 by 2028.
 
2. Will the median listing price of homes in Puyallup grow, rise, and/or go up?

Yes, the Puyallup home prices may rise from $379,202 to $386,531 in one-year.

3. Is it profitable to invest in Puyallup homes?
   Yes, the long-term profit potential is +1.93% in one-year.
 
4. Will Puyallup house prices fall/drop? Will real estate prices decrease in Puyallup?
   No. It is unlikely to happen.
 
According to this same source, median home values in Puyallup increased by 2.065% to $379,202 between February 28, 2022 and February 28, 2023. The average annual profit of a property investment was:
 
8.012% in 2018
5.863% in 2019
-6.151% in 2020
-0.20095% in 2021
2.160% in 2022
0.000001% in 2023

Based on Walletinvestor.com’s Puyallup real estate market research and report, the predicted sales prices will increase by 19.157% in the next 10 years. More supporting evidence of the predicted increase of the value of homes in Puyallup, is that over the last 12 months, the value of homes in Puyallup fluctuated: with an increase of 11 times and a decrease of one time.
 
Rockethomes.com provides data that doesn’t support now being a buyer’s market, however, by knowing this information can help you make better strategic decisions if you decide to buy. According to a February 2023 Puyallup Housing Market report updated the beginning of 2023, when asked if Puyallup is a buyers or seller’s market, they replied sellers which means prices tend to be higher and homes sell faster. According to this same source, it’s been a seller’s market since February 2022. The prices of homes in Puyallup keep rising, according to Rockethomes.com, homes in Puyallup have sold for 7.2% more than they did a year ago. However, even with the rising prices of homes so are the sale of them. In January 2023, 18 homes were sold in Puyallup compared to 114 in February 2023. They predict March 2023 to have +533.3% for homes sold in Puyallup (Rockethomes.com).
 
As a result of rising sale prices of homes in Puyallup, Rockethomes.com advises that if you’re buying a home in Puyallup, you could end up paying more than the asking price since 34.2% of homes here are sold above the asking price according to data for last month. To provide further data supporting this point, in February 2023, more than 39 listings in Puyallup were sold above the asking price. During that same period, more than 37 listings were sold at the asking price and 38 sold below. (As mentioned at the beginning of Rockethomes.com’s research, by knowing this information can help you make strategic decisions such as don’t pay more than the listing price!)

What is the news saying about the current housing market? According to a local news article on mynorthwest.com on March 1, 2023, “Seattle’s housing market has cooled: is now the time to buy?” They discuss their opinions and advice from local real estate experts. According to their article, “Seattle’s once-sizzling housing market has cooled off a lot which is potentially good news for those looking to buy. Because according to a National Survey, housing prices across the country declined for 6 months in a row. That drop has been the sharpest in San Francisco and Seattle.”
 
Although this same source thinks it may be potentially a good time for buyers, they want us to be aware of these 2 but’s:

1. There aren’t that many houses for sale.
   
2. Interest rates are much higher than they were a year ago. The current    rates in Puyallup are 6.39% for a 30-year fixed loan (according to          businessinsider.com).  
   

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Calev, a Bellevue, Washington realtor remembers that a year ago there were bidding wars for homes that were for sale compared to now, “It’s not that way; it takes a little longer. About 40% of homes sell in the first 30 days, which is still not bad. It used to be 80% of homes were selling in the first 30 days.” According to Calev housing prices have dropped: “From the height of the market, which was in May, they came down 15%,” she said. According to this same news source, the main reason being because of the high interest rates. According to this same source, the week before last (mid-February 2023) mortgage purchase applications had declined by 18%. That’s the lowest level since 1995! Purchase applications were down 41% in just one-year.
 
Luke Zender, a Washington home lender, stated: “I think there’s great opportunity here again. It’s important to get into the home.  It’s kind of like the term, ‘marry the house, date the rate’. The rate can change and you can refinance at any time.” That’s the pitch from many lenders because the house you buy today will most likely cost less than it did a few months ago.
 
For up-to-date news in the Real Estate market, visit: https://www.realestatenews.com/ which is a daily news website focused on the residential real estate market.
 
By: Carly Calabrese 

Carly Calabrese is a highly motivated entrepreneur and professional writer in Puyallup, WA. She has written for & been published in various publications: Woman’s World Magazine, Eatonville Dispatch Newspaper, SouthSoundTalk.com, Tacoma.com, the Tacoma Art Group, the Tacoma Daily Index, the Federal Way Mirror Newspaper, South Sound Magazine, Showcase Media Magazine, the Business Examiner, & the Puyallup Herald Newspaper.
 
She is also the founder & manager of a Covid-19 awareness & support blog. Visit: corona-virus-awarenessandsupport.blogspot.com to learn more and post appropriate and productive comments to her posts.
 
If you know of a freelance or remote and U.S. based only writing or editing project or position for an individual, business, OR are an editor yourself for a publication that hires for this, please email Carly at: [email protected].  Thank you! 🙏

If you’re looking for a movie that’s real, has strong, smart, and empowered women that aren’t afraid to go against the grain, you’ve come to the right place. Many of these movies you may have seen before, maybe one that you haven’t. Either way, grab the remote and get comfortable to watch by yourself or with that special someone as there’s sure to be a scene in any one of these movies that will make you chuckle or at least smile.
 
Female Empowerment Movie #1: The 2003 release of “Mona Lisa Smile” starring Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Marcia Gay Harden is a fictional movie about a fictional art professor at Wellesley College in the 1950s. The film was inspired by the social and cultural ways of life of the 1950s when women were encouraged to become wives and mothers, even after having more career opportunities after WW II. According to Google AI, the film is also inspired by an article about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s time at Wellesley in the 1960s, with the screenwriters choosing to set the story a decade earlier to explore the social pressures of the previous era.
 
The synopsis on the movie cover is an accurate description: “Mona Lisa Smile is a funny, inspiring and uplifting film about an art history professor with a lot to teach about life and much to learn about romance.”

​Female Empowerment Movie #2:  The 2000 release of “Erin Brockovich” based on the true story of a real woman’s experience fighting for justice for herself, her 3 children, and a legal case against a large corporation that no law firm has dared to do before. One of the most famous, true, and funny scenes from the movie is when her boss and attorney, Ed Masry asks her for “her number.” She responds back listing off various significant numbers in her life; from the age of each of her children, the number of dollars she has in her bank account, and the number of times she assumes he’ll call her.

​Female Empowerment Movie #3:  The 2001 release of “Legally Blonde” starring Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, and Matthew Davis is a romantic comedy about Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority president, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and a blonde. Expecting to be proposed to by fraternity boy, Warner Huntington III, she is dumped for not being serious enough when he goes to Harvard Law School. She decides to attend Harvard Law School as well, to win him back and show how “serious” she can be. Although she receives prejudices’ and stands out, she thrives; wins a high-profile murder trial by using her unique skills and knowledge to prove her client’s innocence, builds her own self-confidence with her newfound passion for law, graduates with honors, and finds another guy who appreciates, loves, and commits to her instead.

​Female Empowerment Movie #4:  The 2022 release of “Call Jane” starring Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver is based on the true story in 1968 about the “Jane Collective” an underground network in Chicago that provided safe abortions to women before Roe v. Wade made them legal. While the characters in the movie were fictional, the organization’s mission, its methods, and the overall story of its members providing and performing abortions are all based on the real collective, which helped over 11,000 women between 1969 and 1973.

The synopsis of the movie: A drama portraying a suburban housewife, Joy that develops a life-threatening condition after becoming pregnant. Unable to get a legal abortion even after an appeal of an all-older white male board at a hospital, she seeks help from “Jane” the collective of an underground network of women who provide safe, but illegal abortions. Joy eventually joins the collective to assist with the abortions.

Female Empowerment Movie #5:  The 2006 release of “Devil Wears Prada” starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway is another great movie about career, love, and relationships in general. It is about Hathaway being an assistant to an impossibly demanding New York fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestley (Streep), a job that “a million girls would die for.” Just when Hathaway thought she’d never become like them, she does (and not just with making her outer self over) that she has to decide whether she wants to continue to have the job that others would kill for.
 
IMPORTANT to note: There will be a “Devil Wears Prada 2” movie that is scheduled to only release in theaters in the U.S. on May 1, 2026. Anybody want to see this movie with me? Email me (my email is in my byline at the bottom of this article) and let’s put it on the calendar now. And if you haven’t seen the first movie (“Devil Wears Prada”) ensure you watch it before seeing the second one with me. 

By: Carly Calabrese
 
Carly Calabrese is a highly motivated entrepreneur and professional writer in Puyallup, WA. She has written for & been published in various publications: Woman’s World Magazine, Eatonville Dispatch Newspaper, SouthSoundTalk.com, Tacoma.com, the Tacoma Art Group, the Tacoma Daily Index, the Federal Way Mirror Newspaper, South Sound Magazine, Showcase Media Magazine, the Business Examiner, & the Puyallup Herald Newspaper.
 
She is also the founder & manager of a Covid-19 awareness & support blog. Visit: corona-virus-awarenessandsupport.blogspot.com to learn more and post appropriate and productive comments to her posts.
 
If you know of a freelance or remote and U.S. based only writing or editing project or position for an individual, business, OR are an editor yourself for a publication that hires for this, please email Carly at: [email protected].  Thank you! 🙏