Things are good in the "D" right now. That's the old English "D". The Tigers are starting their post-season run tonight in New York after one of their best seasons in decades. The Lions are 3-0 and appear to be for real this year. Hockey is just getting started in a place they call Hockey Town US
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09/30/2011
The market is full of foreclosed homes, many of which are bank owned and in need of repairs, sometimes before they can even be lived in. Until now, the only option for homebuyers was to try to get an FHA 203K loan. The 203K loan program is a great way to get the money needed for home repairs, bu
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09/29/2011
I must get 8-10 emails a day from people claiming that their service is absolutely essential to my success as a Realtor®. Many of these are ads for various services that are focused upon social networks, with Facebook being the obvious one, followed closely by Linked-In these days. There are tons
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09/27/2011
My wife and I went to The Stratford Festival Theater on Tuesday for a matinee performance of Camelot and then spent the night in Woodstock. What a nice day. Stratford is a delightful little town about 20-30 minutes northeast of London, Ontario. The Stratford Festival is an annual series of plays
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09/22/2011
This past weekend was sort of a last Hurrah for Summer in Milford, Michigan. We had something for everybody going on over the weekend. On Saturday and Sunday the 2011 Milford Home Tour provided access to five of our Village homes (four of them historic homes), plus visits to the Milford Histo
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09/19/2011
Just a reminder that the Milford Home Tour, presented by the Milford Historical Society, is this weekend. Presale tickets are on sale at the museum and at Acorn Farm, Main Street Art and Your Nesting Place. Ticket prices are $15.00 for adults and $13.00 for Seniors. This year we have 5 beautif
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09/13/2011
I'll admit up front that this is a long post; however, the topic is too important to serve up a Reader's Digest version. We are all dealing more and more with short sales and with the various documents that the lenders have developed to go along with those transactions. The most prevalent are the
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09/13/2011
From Voltaire comes today’s advice ditty: "Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats." Don’t forget to sing in the lifeboats was the title of a recent little book by Ross & Kathryn Petras that provided advice taken from the sayings and writings of great people through
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09/12/2011
A bunch of us were discussing the current real estate market in the office the other day, when it hit me that we’ve all fallen down the rabbit hole and are now wandering around in Wonderland with Alice. That would seem to be the only logical explanation for the madness that is real estate these
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09/09/2011
In addition to being a Realtor in Milford, Michigan, I'm also the President of the Milford Historical Society (MHS). The MHS was founded in 1974 by a group of local Milford residents who wanted to preserve the history of our little Village. The main mission of the MHS is running the Milford Histo
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09/08/2011
