ARCHIVED BLOG POSTS
2013
Am I terminally weird or is everybody like me in wanting to surround ourselves in our homes with highly personal things that remind, motivate and inspire us to achieve certain goals, both professionally and personally? As a realtor who writes, I know well that when a home is on the market and pro...
07/31/2013
Besides serving as a way to find where you live, can the name of your street influence the perception of your home and its value, positively or negatively? The thought occurred to me a while back when I read a newspaper report about a complaint among residents of a certain town in Putnam County w...
07/22/2013
You can’t always believe what you see, hear or read, even if it appears among “All the News That’s Fit to Print” in The New York Times and is supported by research by the new professional designation of “experts in happiness,” associated with such prestigious educational institutions as the Harva...
07/16/2013
While maintaining house gutters and drains in good working order can indeed be a real drain, it’s one of those essential jobs that can’t be avoided in protecting your life’s major investment. When I lived in the city, my house had a Mansard roof, only slightly pitched, that drained beautifully fr...
07/08/2013
Do you remember the story of Chicken Little, the fable in which the central phrase is “The sky is falling?” Normally we apply the phrase to people who manage to incite an unreasonable fear in others, and recently I was told about a prospective homebuyer who had the heck scared out of her by the w...
07/03/2013
