Paddy's Blog

Happy New Year!  Today is January 4, 2012.  How are those New Year's resolutions going?  Mine are going fairly well... a few bumps in getting the routine adjusted but I think I am on the road to success.  My goals include taking care of me with exercise and good nutrition, taking care of my famil...

Are you looking for a new home in New York?  Like many of your fellow house hunters you are starting your search on line and that's a very good place to start.  I encourage all my clients to spend time looking at information about the areas they are considering moving to and to look at the on lin...

Happy New Year!  What was your New Year's resolution?  I have a few but one I intend to start working on right now is to make sure people who want to buy, sell, or rent a residential property understand what Agency is and how it can affect the home buying process.   In New York every person who h...

Short Sales are on my mind these days.  I have a great one listed here in Pine Bush and have had many requests to go out and look for short sale properties from buyers I have been working with too.   Let's talk the reality of value on a short sale property.  Many of the buyers that I work with ar...

Please help our freind Clint get his wish.  He and his family have been so inspirational to so many.  Let's help him get his wish!  I have shared some amazing real estate training tips and have changed many real estate agents businesses and careers.  Right here on the rain, I've shared, coached a...

We all have dreams about the type of house we want to live in.  The location is perfect.  The condition is straight out of House Beautiful magizine. It has all the bells and whistles.  Unfortunately many people reach a little too far towards that dream and find themselves caught instead in a nigh...

Should I buy now or wait until things settle?  Well that depends your current situation.  Are you living rent free somewhere or are you paying someone else's mortgage?  What was that I said?  Yes if you are paying rent you are paying someone else's mortgage.  Someone else is getting all the tax b...

First Time Homebuyer are you are ready to take the plunge?  You have scrimped and saved, scarificed immediate pleasures for the long term goal and now is the time.  So how do you go about finding that perfect first home for you? You might start by looking at listings on line or driving around are...

The curtain is about to go up on Pine Bush High Schools Fall Production, Promedy, a comedy about the misadventures of a high school prom.  From picking a theme to the anguish of rejection the students stumble their way through to the big night. All the stereotypical high school types are represen...

I have so missed my freinds here at ActiveRain.  Unfortunately I have been less enthusiastic about Real Estate  due to the conditions that we are forced to endure as agents these day and I have not found time to blog here as much as I used to.  It seems there are no deals that go smooth as silk a...