I recently met an interesting man who is a horse psychologist, who uses the expression "Be the BRIDGE not the BLOCK." I have been thinking about this expression for well over a week, pondering as Michael Jacobs might say. If you want to know more about him, his name is Kerry Thomas and he has a website with links to social media and podcasts etc at www.SensorySoundness.com. Hopefully, I will be doing an interview with him later in the month or beginning of next month.I decided to twist his expression a bit and make it OPEN the DOOR don't LOCK it!There are some clever elements to this phrase, we acknowledge there is a DOOR, sometimes it is open, often it is closed. There are many people wanting to find and purchase a home as this will give them security, a place in which they can decorat... 09/11/2024

We have all heard about the lack of inventory for the past several years and seen with our own eyes the rising cost of houses in our areas. But specifically this past year I have noticed that builders new in-fill construction and large mansion style homes are nearly always being listed at $2 million and above. Just today I got an invitation to an open house for a new construction home priced at $2,335,520.If not above $2 million these new listings are in the high $1.7 million and above category. And it is not like these homes are hanging around either, they are getting snapped up by buyers looking to live in award winning school districts.This also puts pressure on housing in the lower price points as builders are now looking for lots for future projects. So homes that would have been b... 09/13/2024

Roy Kelley mentioned about the Dahlia Exhibition at Longwood Gardens this past weekend. Well, it was a beautiful day on Sunday, so we took the short drive and spent some time enjoying the gardens whilst we were discovering the location of the Dahlia exhibition. I always enjoy the Italian Water Garden, and the fountain show in front of the conservatory with different music, they had some classics with Frank Sinatra and Billie Holliday and timing the fountains to their songs was clever.I have been very happy with the Dahlias I planted at home, but when we discovered the exhibit in the Longwood Conservatory and Ballroom area my jaw dropped. Admittedly many of these were from members of the Dahlia Society, so I think they might know a thing or two about growing them, but there were many ama... 09/09/2024

When you are buying a house you may encounter excitement and fear. The excitement moves you forward with hopes and dreams about your potential new home along the Main Line or in Chester County or one of the other surrounding counties, Delaware and Montgomery. Then you encounter the issues of low inventory, strong demand and most recently the rising interest rates. So now fear rears its head as you wonder if you will ever find a home to buy.This is where using a professional and experienced Realtor like myself helps out. To begin with we sit down together and go over the whole process so you understand how we find your home, how you finance it, write an offer, put a deposit into escrow and what happens to it, negotiate the various contingencies, how we respond to inspections and finally ... 09/13/2024