Massachusetts Real Estate and Social Media

It's hard to believe how winter is sneaking up on us. Thanksgiving is next week, and I haven't even cleaned up the Halloween candy wrappers yet. It seems like there is such a long pause from the Fourth of July until Halloween, like holding your breath, then- whoosh! it's holiday after holiday, ea...

I can't tell anymore what is useful, and what I just like fooling around with. Last comment I had to a post suggested hooking up with the Cribs ap on Facebook; I have been fooling around with it. I also came across vFlyer, which I really LOVE- it's similar to postlets in that you lay out a flyer-...

I was poking around looking at statistics yesterday, and came across a Boston Globe article that claimed that foreclosures were up 300% from the year prior. The chilling thing about this is that it was written in 2006. We were only seeing the tip of the iceberg then, and maybe are now.And, having...

I just saw a recipe in a blog that reminded me of why I love this time of year. When I was a little shaver, my grandmother would make bread pudding. She was a great cook, anyway, but as a child, i specialized in desserts. For years, she made the pedestrian type, which is excellent in and of itsel...

I just read an interesting article that echoed something that we were talking about at work the other day. We had seen several photos in our MLS- these were of bathrooms that not only had no particularly interesting features, they had the seats up. Now not only did the bathrooms seem nondescript,...

I may date myself by saying this, but I can recall when the advice for selling your home was to keep your own style, and make it look lived in, only cleaner. (Another bit of advice was to paint your front door in a bright, contrasty color- an archaeologist scraping doors would be able to tell the...

My mentor, Christina, brought up this question the other day: being professionals, how should we present ourselves in public, even when we are off-duty, so to speak?This reminded me of something that happened years ago when I was a K-8 art teacher. We all knew that children have a great difficult...

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This was interesting- the article entitled "Horror Story" is the tale I am referring to. How many agents (and buyers!) has this sort of thing happened to? I remember my first week as an agent, when I was sent out to bring an appraiser through a property for my broker. Should be an easy task, but ...

I remember waiting in line with my children. They were never the most patient individuals, and at times the wait was excruciating. One day we had a particularly slow cashier, and when we were finished and safely ensconced in the car, I told them that they had to be more accepting of other people....