Did You Burn the Bridge and Lock the Door?In the current real estate environment where every offer seems to be a "low ball" offer, it's important to ask yourself one question. If the two parties couldn't come to a satisfactory meeting of the minds: "Did you leave the door open?" or did you burn
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02/28/2011
Making the Ones And Zeros Hit Warp Speed!Despite the perception that engineers just HAVE to have the latest tech toys, BLiz has been piloting a circa 2003 Dell Inspiron 5100 into the blogosphere. We've added RAM and more than doubled the warp core hard drive, but bit by bit, our dependable Dell
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02/27/2011
Paying It Forward: Sponsoring IzabellaAs we've gotten older, the question "What do you want for Christmas" has gotten harder and harder to answer. God has blessed us both personally and in our business, we have no true needs to request when our family asks us. More and more we find ourselves s
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02/27/2011
We Got An Offer On Our House. What's Next?Dear Liz, You've gotten us an offer on our house! YEAH!! What's next? Signed, Ready to Respond! Dear Ready, First off, congratulations on getting an offer on your home! Remember when you trusted us that getting all your condition items addressed PRIOR
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02/26/2011
"Cleopatra: The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt" at the Cincinnati Museum Center Through September 5 2011One of the fringe benefits of living in Warren County is the proximity to both Cincinnati and Dayton, and here's one of the times it REALLY pays off! The Cincinnati Museum Center is hostin
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02/25/2011
Cincinnati Home And Garden Show February 26-27 & March 2-6 2011Are you ready for Cincinnati's LONGEST running home and garden show? This one is the grandaddy of them all for our area, running since 1970 and sponsored by Fifth Third Bank at the Duke Energy Cincinnati Convention Center (located do
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02/25/2011
Friday Foto: Old Man Winter Says I'm Not Gone YET!! We've had some warm weather lately, enough to ALMOST think it was Spring....but we know better! February and March both typically mean a little snow is left in the clouds :) Last night started with some steady rain, but this morning a few fla
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02/25/2011
How You Live In Your Home and How You Sell It May Be Entirely Different!Let's just get this out of the way up front. Selling your home is going to be inconvenient! We're most likely going to ask you to make changes from your every day life. We're going to start at the street and work our way t
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02/23/2011
Surviving The Serengeti: I'm A CroGirEleCheLiWildGoose!Okay, I bit on the Surviving the Serengeti challenge! I mean, what's not to like? A couple of chapters of easy reading, take a quiz, write a post! Doesn't sound all that different from a normal day around here!So I download, I read, I fig
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02/23/2011
Newport Aquarium Launches Flat Penguin Program!First off, the Newport Aquarium is NOT running all their penguins under a steamroller! :) But the penguins are on a mini-vacation while the Penguin Exhibit gets a MAJOR overhaul, so they're hiding out. Where you may ask? Well they could be ANYWHERE!
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02/21/2011