Spice Up Dinner with a Visit to L & N International Market in Edwardsville. We had Callaloo (Jamaican Spinach) and Hot Garlic Noodles as part of our dinner tonight thanks to one of Edwardsville's newest stores -- L & N International Market. This small-but-powerful food lover's paradise is located
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01/23/2010
Today I talked with a couple of buyers who told me they had "heard something" about new loan guidelines from the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) but they didn't understand. They wondered what these government changes might mean for them and their chances of getting an FHA-insured loan on a h
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01/21/2010
Do you have real estate or Madison County, Illinois questions? We love to answer them here on the blog, so send yours any time. Got this question recently: "Hey, Nancy, What the heck are those things pictured on your Illinois real estate blog's mastehead?" You mean these things? This is the le
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01/16/2010
In the spirit of the New Year, the students at Lake Superior State University in Michigan create a list of 15 words that were mis-used, over-used or that were generally useless in the previous year. You can see the 2009 list here. So, I think for some fun to start our 2010 off right we, as agent
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01/14/2010
Yes, you can find homes for sale in Edwardsville, Illinois for less than $150,000. (That's Edwardsville's lovely Leclaire Park pictured here.) At the height of the market a few years ago it was more of a struggle to get into Edwardsville at this price point, but as of today, there are more than 5
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01/13/2010
"Won't you be my neighbor?" That old song from Mr. Rogers could welcome you to the Ginger Creek subdivision in Glen Carbon, Illinois. Currently, several single-family homes, a townhouse and a villa are on the market in the Ginger Creek neighborhood. The single-family homes range in price from $13
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01/12/2010
Have you been looking for a home in the Glen Carbon Illinois subdivision of Timberwolfe? Click this link to see the available homes in Glen Carbon's Timberwolfe subdivision. Timberwolfe is conveniently located off Meridian Road near IL-157 close to shopping, dining and Southern Illinois Universit
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01/12/2010
There's a building boom underway in the popular Savannah Crossing neighborhood in Glen Carbon, Illinois. Four new construction homes and two re-sale homes are now on the market. They range in asking price from a low of $215,000 for a three-bedroom/two-bath, 2,100-square-foot ranch re-sale home to
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01/12/2010
Most of my blog posts are more about words than pictures, but today I was graced with the opportunity to view the most magnificent sunset and I had to share it with you. Like much of the nation, here in St. Louis' Illinois suburbs we've been in a deep freeze for a number of days. At the confluen
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01/10/2010
