Concetta Pepenella's (pepenellarealestate) Blog

Located on a large corner property sits an old Colonial at 420 Tompkins Avenue Staten Island, The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum. Owned by the Order of Sons of Italy. This blog will be dedicated to Antonio Meucci "The father of Inventing the Telephone.           Who invented the telephone? A) Alexander ...

Concetta A Pepenella and Joseph D. Timmons INVITE YOU TO SHARE IN THE JOY OF THE BEGINING OF THEIR NEW LIFE TOGETHER WHEN THEY EXCHANGE VOWS ON SATURDAY, THE TWENTY NINTH OF NOVEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHT Connie & Joe on the balcony overlooking the bay on our wedding day in Tottenville. Married ...

Congratulations! You've decided to become a homeowner. MGIC's Buyers Ed program is a great resource to assist you in purchasing a home. It's an easy to understand tutorial. After completing the tutorial take the quick certification test to receive your Homebuyer's Certificate of Achievement. Plea...

Today September 9, 2008 At the SIBOR (Staten Island Board of Realtors) round-table discussion, the Parks Department gave a presentation of the proposed roads for the landfill. The meeting didn't have attendance as the Molinaro meeting had during the Borough Presidents presentation on the future o...

Borough President James P Molinaro and his senior staff presented to SIBOR (staten island board of realtors)  roundtable group, plans for a road through the former Fresh Kills Landfill. Fresh Kills is 2200 acres with 18 miles of roads that were built to support 40-ton sanitation trucks. Photos an...

Where do the buyers come from? When I go on a listing presentation that's one of the first question a seller will ask, and with good reason. The seller is about to hand over to me the biggest investment of their life, to trust me to bring a qualified buyer to purchase the property, and handle all...

Many sellers think that an overpriced property can reduced if it doesn't sell. The danger with this is by the time the property is reduced to "fair market value" buyers loose interest in the property and think there is something wrong with the property.  Buyers then question; Why it hasn't sold? ...

Whats involved with selling my house?  That's the first thought just before a property is put on the market for sale. How long does the process take? Where do we start?  Here is the step by step that I use in my Listing Presentation: Decide to Sell Selecting Agent Determine Needs & Desires Unders...

Grasmere Staten Island is located a few minutes from the Verrazano Bridge on the East side of Staten Island; with many small ponds and lakes. A busy neighborhood plenty of shopping close by & the busses roar thru the neighborhood en route to Manhattan or Brooklyn,  mostly working class people liv...

Foreclosure Rates Continue to Spike on Staten Island. This is the story NY 1 News requested for My 'Broker Opinion' here on the island. I included a link so you can read the interview.   My interview with New York 1 News  click here Michelle Park did a fine job with the final product, a real prof...