Fischer Homes is holding the Grand Opening for a new model home this weekend at their Watercrest at Landen community.The Keaton, LOOKS like a patio home and features many of the current features of patio homes. You can have single floor living with the huge first floor master suite The floor pl
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08/03/2020
If you think of all the tools a real estate agent might use to sell a home, a chainsaw might not be high up on the list of things that would come to mind, but over the years I've done a number of things that many would consider out of scope for a typical real estate agent.An old counter top left
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08/02/2020
Despite all the changes relative to COVID precautions, homes are still being bought and sold at normal levels. Below is a comparison of Cincinnati MLS 2019 showings (blue line) to 2020 showings (gold line). You can see recent weeks of 2020 are almost identical to the same weeks of 2019. Sure,
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08/01/2020
We don't do a lot of business with vacant land, but it is part of our business.Living between Cincinnati and Dayton, there's still plenty of undeveloped land to go along with the typical subdivisions and country estates.Of course land comes in a variety of styles. Wooded or empty, flat or sloped
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07/31/2020
I'm not a high pressure sales guy. You might expect me to be if you didn't know me better. After all, an agent only gets paid when you buy a home and sign the papers, so why wouldn't I want to get to that payday? Maybe a little arm twisting might make it happen faster, right?But my basic philo
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07/30/2020
I'd like to be watching the baseball game right now.The dogs are giving me the "let's go outside" look.I've got an engineering report that MUST be finished tonight before I go to sleep. Doesn't matter exactly what time that is, midnight, 1 a.m., 2 a.m., but I've got a commitment to keep.My webma
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07/29/2020
Some posts I write are suitable for lining a birdcage within a few days of publishing. They were meant to be disposable.Other posts I write to (hopefully) stick around for a LONG time.This weekend I got a call from a subdivision post written in 2012. Now it wasn't to buy or sell a home (this ti
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07/28/2020
2020 has been a bit of a strange year (candidate for understatement of the year!) and that's applied to real estate too. Some home segments have been impacted more than others, and that's been the case for 55+ community home sales. As of tonight, this Heritage at Miami Bluffs patio home is back
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07/27/2020
On the market Thursday afternoon, under contract by Sunday afternoon. That tells you a lot about the local condo market: there aren't enough of them for sale and if you snooze, you lose! It's critical to get to a showing in the first 24-48 hours or there's a good chance it is gone just like th
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07/26/2020
One of the things you learn working in corporate America is you never know where what you write will end up. Emails get forwarded, then forwarded again, and again, and again. The domino push has started.Suddenly your "private" audience of one is now an entire department and subject to a Reply A
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07/25/2020
