THE CHARLESTON NINE...It struck me today, after three days of news coverage of the awful events in Charleston, that we the people are in such a state! We are grieving with these families and yet we have no way to explain the atrocity or the reasoning behind it.Yet look at the way things are unfol
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06/20/2015
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE FRESH, LOCAL PRODUCE!!!This is a post that I wrote a year ago as we settled in here in the hamptons for a wonderful summer. This summer has begun with the normal crowds but this year more than last is a beauty--the weather has been spectaular and after that long horrible winter
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06/14/2015
THE TOWNHOME BUSINESS IS ON FIRE!!!...at least it is here in Southampton Village.It has been almost a year since I last posted something here on AR and it feels so good to be doing it again!,First of all, this has been a record two years for me in real estate so finding the time to blog has been
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06/12/2015
THE MOST OBSCENE THING TO HAPPEN.... There! I knew I would get your attention by the title! Now, I can tell you what it is: Activerain has been taken over by the likes of Trulia; and my blog posts and all the time I spent over the years since 2007, now belongs to this BEAST of a website! All my h
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01/28/2015
BIG HOUSES ON SMALLER LOTS: "AFFORDABLE LUXURY" In 2011, I sold two small capes on small lots (.33 acre lots) and a developer bought them through me. With my guidance and his builder's and Architect's acumen we created a whole new market for this historical Village of Southampton. Both of the ne
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11/03/2014
THIS WAS ALL ABOUT WASTING MY TIME!!! HOW TRUE! THE AR DEVILS (I USED TO CALL THEM GODS!!!) JUST CUT OFF THE BOTTOM OF MY POST--- MY TIME IS MY MOST IMPORTANT COMMODITY! Not too long ago, I decided to evaluate my time spent doing things in my business that are considered part of "Doing Busines
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11/01/2014
LOCAL PRODUCE, HEALTHY EATING AND FUN...ALL FOUND IN THE HAMPTONS!!! Farm stands are just one Iconic statement of the Hamptons...There are many but the Farm Stand is the stand-alone Icon that has been brought forward from the earliest times to now with very little if any change! The Farm land and
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08/02/2014
HISTORICAL AND UNFORGETTABLE: ONCE UPON A TIME IN SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE... Restaurants, movie theaters, library, playgrounds, drugstores, Grocery stores and more are all within a 1/2 mile radius within the Village limits here and that has been the driving force for homeownership in Southampton sinc
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08/02/2014
SOMETIMES THERE ARE TREASURES IN THE MOST UNEXPECTED PLACES: This morning, when I got the following comment on my 4th of July post from last year, I knew that I had to let you all see it. I couldn't figure out how he wrote this on that old post but it does not matter---he did and it is so inspi
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06/29/2014
4TH OF JULY IN SOUTHAMPTON, NEW YORK...UNFORGETTABLE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR PRECIOUS NATION! I am re-blogging this today after I got a comment from someone on this post from last year....the comment was an inspiration to me and was written by someone who is acknowledging the respect he has for
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06/29/2014
