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2009
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The For Sale by Owner question keeps rearing its head in the media. Mostly recently the redoubtable New York Times featured the subject as its lead story in its Sunday Real Estate Section, with the headline: "Agent or No Agent?" The subhead read: "The conventional way of selling a home, throug...
12/29/2009
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As deadly serious as the real estate business can be, especially today, situations can become interesting, even humorous, where so important a matter as money is concerned. The feature event about money, of course, is the dance around the price at which a house should be listed and sold, and the...
12/19/2009
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Fire has always held an irresistible fascination for mankind, starting with the very survival of our distant ancestors for warmth, light and for cooking. More recently in the evolutionary cycle, fire has been harnessed, controlled within fireplaces, again for heat, but later for prestige and atmo...
12/05/2009
Everyone still loves a beautiful kitchen, even if we're spending less money in upgrading what we have. For a recent story in my local newspaper, I interviewed the owner of our most successful independent appliance store who gave me the lowdown on how things have changed on the kitchen scene. The...
12/02/2009
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When it was first published, "Use What You've Got," written by that uber real estate guru Barbara Corcoran, was recommended to me by a fellow agent (well, actually a woman agent, and I always listen to what smart women tell me). It took me a while to connect the dots between what Barbara was say...
12/01/2009
