Pool Homes for Sale in Edwardsville, Illinois If you've been making do like the folks on this page, instead of enjoying an inground pool of your own, maybe it's time to look at pool homes in Edwardsville. And, it's hot outside. Which is really the best excuse I know for wanting a new home with
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06/18/2011
How are home values in Edwardsville, Illinois? As you might imagine, this is a question I get all the time because people are confused and anxious about the worth of their homes.If you look at the national media, you might be forgiven for thinking that everything in real estate is bad news. So le
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06/18/2011
Goshen Gourmet: St. Louis' Gooey Butter Cake This is another one in a series of posts about the food culture of the St. Louis area. If you're relocating here, we indigenous people might be eating some things that puzzle you -- or downright horrify you -- when you first see them on a plate. Today
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06/13/2011
Glen Carbon Homecoming, June 17-18, 2011 It's time for the annual Glen Carbon Homecoming, Friday, June 17 and Saturday, June 18, 2011. The lively festival takes place along Main Street in Old Town Glen Carbon, opening Friday at 5 p.m. and Saturday at 4 p.m. Festivities will end at midnight on bo
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06/13/2011
Troy City-Wide Garage Sale, Saturday, June 18, 2011 Gather your friends and your dollar bills -- it's time for Troy's city-wide garage sale. The annual sale will take place Saturday, June 18, 2011 from 7 a.m. until 2 p.m. Click here to see addresses and some of the items that will be for sale.
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06/13/2011
This weekend I arranged to meet a long-time customer at an REO home in Edwardsville. She and her husband are interested in this foreclosure as something they can live in whiile they renovate it back to the standards of its very nice neighborhood. We spent about 45 minutes at the home, talking abo
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06/13/2011
There are bandits in the Edwardsville/Glen Carbon, Illinois area tonight. Masked and dangerous bandits. We thought the seed from our front porch squirrel-proof bird feeder was disappearing a little too quickly. (Don't you love how the evidence is all over his nose?) If you have a critter problem
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06/12/2011
If you're relocating to the Edwardsville or Glen Carbon, Illinois area, you may want to start following these Twitter updates. My favorite local Twitter users tweet on real estate, kids activities, community events, and -- best of all -- restaurant and shopping discounts and deals. Follow these
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06/06/2011
Jeanne M. Gavish wrote a great featured post today about how long real estate agents should be taking to respond to online customer inquiries. You can read her post here. As Jeanne pointed out, studies find that most consumers expect a response to their queries pretty much immediately -- so that'
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06/03/2011
"Nancy, you made my day! I am so happy!" That's what I heard from my giggly home buyer client in Granite City, Illinois this week when her offer was accepted on a nice brick ranch in a terrific location. I had called to let her know that negotiations were over and the seller had agreed to her pr
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06/02/2011
