"You buy a house and live in a home" is an old saying that Real Estate agents should understand better than anyone. Or so you would think. I seem to think most of them love the "selling you a house" part, but don't really care about the you "living in a home" part.Anybody who knows me knows tha
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08/17/2009
TIME'S RUNNING OUT!!! If you're a first time home buyer and you want to cash in on the $8,000.00 tax credit available to you, you better get started now! As of August 4, there will only be 118 days for first-time purchasers to take advantage of the credit. The transaction must close b
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08/06/2009
New York City. A long, long time ago....It was a weekday, I remember that. I took off from work, got up early and headed uptown. It was somewhere in the 50's, which I thought was an odd place for a Hugo Boss Sample Sale. This was my first Sample Sale. Even though the doors didn't open for ano
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07/31/2009
Note: This post pertains to the towns of South Orange and Maplewood NJ. Real Estate is local, what's happening here may not be happening in your town.As quickly as the onset of the winter of '08 put the housing market into a deep freeze, so it seems these sunny spring days have not only thawed i
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05/29/2009
“How’s the Market doing?” This is still the number one question I get asked when people find out I’m a Real Estate agent. I usually preface my answer with this caveat, “Well, you know, the numbers and figures you hear about are National statistics, which is great fodder for the cable chatterers
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04/08/2009
“Opportunity’s got but one hair on it’s head and you’d better pluck it before it goes by.”So I came home early the other night and found myself in the rarest of moments. The house was empty. Not as in I had been robbed and the place was left vacant, no, something even rarer. Nobody else was ho
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03/27/2009
As a Real Estate agent it seems as if every deal I’ve been involved in lately has had some environmental issue come up. From leaky abandoned oil tanks buried in the front yard, to mushroom moldy basements, to ancient asbestos wrapped around water pipes. And all these issues raised concern and q
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02/11/2009
