Archives of real estate blog entries for January 01, 2017

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My Four E’s of Blogging…

By Kathy Streib, Home Stager/Redesign

A Recipe for Blogging It’s been a few years since I wrote about this but the beginning of a new year of blogging might be a good time to haul it out of the mothballs of my mind. Blogging can be a challenge. There is always the dilemma of what to write about. There have been many posts by members here offering excellent topics to help jog your mind. Liz and Bill Spear wrote one about summer blog topics. For me, it boils down to 4 Es. When I write a post I hope that my post has at least one of these E’s in itEducationalWith some topics, I hope to inform the reader. Often, it’s regarding staging...what it is and what it isn’t. You have only to read a post by one of our inspectors, for example, to learn about why you shouldn’t pressure clean siding on a home by Jay Markanich or how ... 01/02/2017

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To New Beginnings

By Les & Sarah Oswald, Broker, Realtor and Investor

(Realty One Group)

To New Beginnings Starting my year with SAVERS January 1st, the start of a New Year. New beginnings, new thoughts, new hopes, and new goals are in the works for many today. There are 365 blank pages in my book waiting to be filled by me. Many of my friends were probably out late or better yet, early this morning celebrating the arrival of a brand new year. I, on the other hand, couldn't stay up to welcome the new arrival. 2017 will be different. Why do you ask? Well, it will be a year filled with gratitude.... daily gratitude whether it is a good or bad day. There is always something to be grateful for. One can be grateful even from failures. Without failure, one is unable to grow or learn. So for 2017, I will be grateful even for my failures. I have been lucky to come upon the book ... 01/01/2017

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A New Year's Eve Tradition: Scaring Away Evil Spirits

By Andrea Bedard, Fluent in Real Estate & German, M.A. ABR ASP CIPS

(Thompson Company, REALTORS® 240.593.2860)

I am across the pond for a few days to celebrate, end the old and begin the new with the people most important to me. Germans go crazy (and I mean that in the most loving way) on New Year's Eve. It's legal to purchase fireworks (but for some brands) and put on a show... perhaps you can imagine how noisy it can get during this one special night. It starts in the early evening, intensifies in the last hours of the old year and peaks a few minutes after midnight. There is a very good reason. Fireworks are set off to scare away bad spirits. Way back when, some 450 or so years ago, it was mainly to deter the God of War, Wotan. Thus, the more, the louder, the brighter (nowadays).. the better! I had all intentions to post a little video, capturing the spectacle from a hill overlooking the cit... 01/01/2017

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Paper versus Electronic Calendars - What's your preference?

By Bunny Terry, A Different Kind of Realtor in the City Different

(Keller Williams Santa Fe)

I'm sitting here on January 1, nursing a very tiny hangover from some really nice bottles of Silver Oak that I shared with friends last night, thinking about 2017. Dreaming really, once again, of having a year that's supremely well-organized, in which I follow up diligently with every new potential client and all of the old ones, in which I plan ahead for meetings rather than in the two hours right before. That sort of thing. Just like last year, I'm trying to figure out what system of calendaring and planning works best for me. And I'm curious. What do you love about the system you use? What do you dislike most?I seem to have settled on a nice combination of a hard calendar that I carry with me and my Google calendar that syncs from my computer to my Android and vice versa. This mornin... 01/01/2017

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Last Week's Favorites on ActiveRain: December 25th-31st

By Patricia Kennedy, Home in the Capital

(RLAH Real Estate)

These are my last favorites from 2016, which was, for me at least, mostly a good one. Hope you are all out having fun ringing in all of your New Year's Resolutions and when you're ready to read a few, here are some of my suggestions:My favorite things: The real estate edition SmartZip Analytics: Warning! this will stick in your brain for days!Pointing us in the right direction. Alan May: I'm guessing this one started me thinking!Whose Tree Is This? The Scott Loper Team: And it's not even about Christmas trees!Are You Marketing You Yourself The Agent at your Open House? Fred Griffin: I picked this older post up on a reblog!Goose Party!! Dick Greenberg: Animals just know when you don't like them! From Nightmares To Dreams...Carlisle, PA Maria Sapio: It's all about real estate!Do You H... 01/01/2017

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I will. I will not in 2017

By Mike Cooper, Broker VA,WV, Your Neighborhood Real Estate Sales Pro

(Cornerstone Business Group Inc)

Every New Year is a great time to set a course for the year that follows. It's a good time to set aside things that rob your life of energy, ideas and peace, and it's the perfect time to create happiness, success and joy. In business, there are many things that are constantly vying for your time. What you yield to will help determine your future. I don't make New Year's resolutions, but I do make plans. This year, I will make some course changes. For instance: I will focus on positive things and refuse to focus on negative things. There are plenty of negative things in the world, but there are also plenty of positive things. The glass half-full half-empty debate overlooks the fact that the glass is refillable. I will fill my mind with positive thoughts and refuse to dwell on the negativ... 01/01/2017

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Have a Wonderful 2017!

By Rene Fabre, Practicing Philosophical Eclectic of the Arts

(ARFCO Media)

Last Friday I was driving down North Central Avenue in Kent. I’m on my way to Maggie’s On Meeker to meet my friend Dave for a holiday get together over breakfast. My head’s in a deep think year-end buzz about life, the universe, and everything. You know what I mean.“Wasn’t 2016 like totally something else?” Indeed it was, I’m thinking... My thoughts are running fast this morning, like a free-form jazz rap. “Who needs media today!? Not me, I’m self streaming live, baby!”My internal kaleidoscope is busy juxtaposing random arrays of past, present and future, when it surfaces... I’m grateful. All things considered, 2016 was a very good year and I’m thankful for family, friends, work, successes, failures, encounters, several events, and a few great adventures too. When I look to 2017 it’s wi... 01/01/2017

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Blog posts

The Lakes At Honey Hollow Sell Your Condo With Realtors Lawrence and Sheila

By Lawrence "Larry" & Sheila Agranoff. Cell: 631-805-4400, Long Island Condo and Home Specialists

(The Top Team @ Charles Rutenberg Realty 255 Executive Dr, Plainview NY 11803)

Who Should I Call To List My Hauppauge NY Condo For Sale In The Lakes At Honey Hollow? Call LAWRENCE "LARRY" AND SHEILA AGRANOFF, Licensed Real Estate Associate Broker and Licensed Real Estate Salesperson. We List and Sell Condos, and are very familiar with the Long Island Condo Real Estate Market. Call our Cell 631-805-4400. Sellers: Do you have a Condo you would like to list and sell with Experienced Long Island Condo Realtors? Buyers: Do you want to hire Realtors who work in the Long Island Condo neighborhoods? Lawrence "Larry" and Sheila Agranoff have experience listing and selling Condos on Long Island. According to public records of the multiple listing service, in 2016 Condos in The Lakes At Honey Hollow sold between $385,000 to $435,000. These statistics are reflected sales fro... 01/01/2017

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Top Decor Trends for 2017

By Chris Muellenbach

(Muellenbach Real Estate - First Weber Real Estate)

As I write this, it is 10am on December 31st and CNN informed me that it is already 2017 in Sydney, Australia. Happy New Year! As you celebrate the new year, there are cliches you're likely to hear tonight. Someone will wear something glittery and someone else will affectionately refer to them as The Ball. Someone will make a joke about kissing the family pet at midnight because they’re single. Some cliches will be with us forever, other trends come and need to go.If your resolution is to update your home decor this year, I have scoured the interwebs and come up with the experts top interior trends for 2017. Greenery, specifically Pantone 15-0343 is the 2017 Color of the Year. Pantone, the company that makes color their life's work has determined that Greenery "is a fresh and zest... 01/01/2017

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Things That Do Not Determine A Home's Value

By Tony and Suzanne Marriott, Associate Brokers, Haven Express @ Keller Williams Arizona Realty

(Serving the Greater Phoenix and Scottsdale Metropolitan Area)

Debbie Reynolds "Appraisers use data based on past sales. They do not use emotions and use an arms length evaluation to arrive at the value."Right on target - and - re-blog! Seller's Have Biased Opinions of their Home Values Many have their own opinions based on how they feel about their homes and their own evaluation. Some check online evaluation services and this is very misleading. The truth is the value is determined by what a buyer is willing to pay. If the buyer is using a mortgage then the value may be determined by an appraiser working for the lender. Appraisers use data based on past sales. They do not use emotions and use an arms length evaluation to arrive at the value. These items do not determine a home's value. What you paid for the home. How much you have invested into... 01/01/2017

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A New Year's Eve Tradition: Scaring Away Evil Spirits

By Andrea Bedard, Fluent in Real Estate & German, M.A. ABR ASP CIPS

(Thompson Company, REALTORS® 240.593.2860)

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Eleanor McClintock

By James Dray

(Fathom Realty)

Eleanor McClintock was born in Hartford, Connecticut back in 1902 to Thomas and Sara. She could trace her ancestry back to an old American who made the journey on the Mayflower to the New World. She was described as a tomboy and being an independent and solitary child. She and her father were close but had a very difficult relationship with her mother beginning at an early age.The family moved to Brooklyn in 1908 where she graduated from Erasmus Hall High School. she continued her education at Cornell, studying agriculture, she became fond of jazz and botany receiving her BS in 1923. She continued her studies concentrating on something which she will forever be written down in the history books for (more on that shortly). She received her PhD in 1927 from Cornell.In 1930 she was t... 01/01/2017

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