Carbon County, in particular Jim Thorpe School District, has been facing "spot reassessments" for some time now. They are not called that - it is really the School District appealing a property's assessed value based upon a sales price (since the assessment was set to be 50% of the "market value
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08/04/2008
If you go to Localism and find the information about Lake Harmony useful or interesting from a local color viewpoint, you may also want to go to www.lakeharmonyneighborhood.com. This is locally-oriented site which allows local residents and visitors alike to post comments, pictures, news, events
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07/30/2008
Albrightsville Fire Co Blood Drive The Albrightsville Volunteer Fire Co is having another blood drive. This one will be from 1 to 7PM on August 4, 2008. Contact the fire company for more details or contact Carol Meeker from Donor Services at the Miller-Keystone Blood Center 610-926-6060 extensi
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06/14/2008
Internet Crusade (the company which conducts the e-PRO Course for NAR) had an announcement on their Real Town website that the recent final judgment from DOJ about the investigation and suit against NAR was a WIN for NAR and regular brokers and MLS systems. BUT - There was an article in the 5/28
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06/13/2008
Maybe some relief from Tax Assessment Issue Just read an article in the June edition of The Pennsylvania REALTOR® about two companion pieces of legislation being taken through the process in the State Legislature. The House version was introduced by Rep Tim Seip of Schuylkill County (HB 1438 an
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06/11/2008
I am an elected Township Supervisor (1 of 5 total) and we hired a professional Planning/Engineering firm to conduct the surveys, guide the Township through the legally required steps to create a Comp Plan and to write the plan for us. I went to the first public update meeting last night held in
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06/09/2008
Well it is again one of those two times a year when Lake Harmony and the area surrounding Long Pond, Pa becomes the 3rd Largest city in the state of Pennsylvania. NASCAR Racing is coming for one of their two events held each year at Pocono International Raceway and it's unusual tri-oval tests th
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06/04/2008
Just saw an ad on the AR Home Page for articles from Branching Out and My Word Tree.com Seems like a possible source for real estate articles for use in an email drip campaign or newsletter service. Of course there are others like Reaty Times and Inman, plus a lot of the national real estate br
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06/03/2008
"I just read a comment about agents with lots of points but few listings or sales. Had not thought about that before. Of course, to know that you need to know the agent involved or have access to their MLS info etc because you would not learn that from the Rain itself. The point I have is why s
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06/02/2008
If you are an area business and involved with the PK Coucil or the CCCC and are interested in having a booth or table at the event, please contact Anne at 570-401-0618 and tell her you saw this blog about the event. She can give you the needed details for costs and booth ideas as well as get you
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05/28/2008