It is hard to believe it, but it has been nearly 4 years since I first collaborated with Eileen Hsu on a condominium transaction in Manhattan. I had known Eileen from our shared online repartee, but it wasn't until I was contacted by a prospective short sale seller that we met in real life (IRL)
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02/02/2013
More homes sold because prices came down. That would be one clear message in looking at the December sales figures for single family homes on the Hudson Gateway Multiple Listing Service in Westchester County. Transaction totals were their highest in six years with no special stimulus and buyer ap
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01/06/2013
You can all exhale. The Fiscal Cliff deal passed in the wee hours of last night extended the 2007 Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act which was due to expire at midnight. According to NAR, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 passed the Senate 89-9. There was an awful lot of concern among r
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01/01/2013
The chatter on the Interwebs lately is that a law that has been sacrosanct for generations, the right of a homeowner to deduct their mortgage interest on their income taxes, is now in jeopardy due to the fiscal cliff we collectively face in the wake of the Recession. What a shame. It is a shame
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12/19/2012
MLS or Multiple Listing Service software needs to catch up with what consumers want and what brokers need to stay valuable to our clients. The data is there; the means of using it to our best ability has not yet caught up. The software an MLS uses for their platform affects the job we do as agen
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12/17/2012
True story: about 2 years ago, while looking at homes in Lower Westchester, my clients and I entered a place that must have had a collection of 200 vases on the shelves of the living room. While over the top, we considered it benign until we walked into the home office upstairs and a coffee mug t
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12/16/2012
I think my street cred as a social media savvy real estate broker is well established. I have embraced the high tech approach since starting my firm and it has certainly served me well. The firm will end the year close to the top 7% of area brokerages by transaction totals for 2012, and we have g
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12/08/2012
As you know the East Coast has endured a natural disaster in Hurricane Sandy that still has many of our communities reeling. My family was one of the "lucky ones," with an 8 day power outage and 2 weeks with no phone or Internet. We spent 8 days shuttling 4 kids from home to office where there wa
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11/21/2012
People familiar with me and how I run my brokerage know that I am not a big "meeting guy." If an agent or associate broker needed something, they could call or email me. Much of our training has always been in the hands on mentoring mode rather than a group lecture. And my team loved that they di
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10/18/2012
