http://www.simplyledyard.com

I'm originally from the city of Pittsburgh. I was born, raised and attended school there. I still love Pittsburgh and all that goes with living in the city - a championship football team, shopping, museums, music and the arts. But you gotta love living in a small town like Ledyard, CT, as I have...

I could write a book about showing houses in Eastern Connecticut.  Some chapters would be about the houses themselves.  Others would be about the clients.  Maybe the chapters could be divided into emotions.  Funniest Showing.  Scariest Showing.  And of course, a whole chapter would be dedicated t...

Visistat - another one of my favorite things!   In the past, I've blogged about how I use VisiStat to track visitors to my Eastern CT Real Estate Blog.   I love watching the visitors show up on the live statcaster on my desktop.  Sometimes when we are feeling goofy, I'll yell out the name of the ...

Did you ever lose a big deal, a wonderful listing, or a high end buyer?  Did you ever beat yourself up over it?  If only I had said this, or done that?  I always tell my agents when they lose business to think about it for just 15 minutes. Take only 15 minutes and think about what you might have...

These are a few of my favorite things - Part 2 - Food Edition!As an Italian kid, growing up in the City of Pittsburgh, food was an important part of my life.   Besides the typical Italian fare, we were a family of bakers. As a little kid, 50 years ago, my sister and I used to call grandma's favor...

Many bloggers here are super geeks aka techy genuises.  You know who you are. You can look away now. For those of you still looking, I'd like to share a tiny corner of my REAL ESTATE TECHNOLOGY TOOL KIT:  Contact Management:  Agent Office is my contact management software of choice.  It works wel...

Ledyard, CT is a small town.  Although we have the world's largest casino, Foxwoods Resort Casino, within our borders, we are a mostly rural community with a population of about 15,000.  Technology came late to the Ledyard area.  We have only had high speed internet service available within the l...

Today in the Norwich Bulletin, our local newspaper, is a story that involves 2 neighbors fighting over a busty mailbox.  Yes, I said "busty"  not rusty.  Two neighbors on Route 44 in Pomfret, CT are fighting over a mailbox disguised as a busty mermaid.  It seems that the creator feels the mailbo...

Ledyard is a small town with 15,000 people.  Besides owning a real estate business in town,  I also serve on the Ledyard Town Council.  When I am in the local grocery store and someone stops me with a question, it can be to ask about the price of their neighbors home... or whether their street w...

My name is Linda Davis and I am a weather weenie!I'm not sure when I first developed such a keen interest in weather but it was sometime after I moved to Ledyard, CT in 1974.  In fact, I am so much of a "weather weenie" that during the 2004 Hurricane season, I signed online to a paid weather ser...