Zero Dollars Spent on heat so far this season. We were hoping that our new home, with its ICF walls would prove to lower our heating bills. So far the home is meeting and exceeding our highest expectations. Here we are getting close to November and we have still not turned on the heat. On ni
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10/17/2008
Having trouble justifying your Realtor's commission? From time to time we all have to consider how we get paid, and how we pay others for the services they provide. I recently hired a lawyer to help me get clear title to a piece of property. I was amazed at the process he used to calculate my f
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10/10/2008
Is this a good time to buy? You bet your bippy! What people really want ot know is whether the market has hit the bottom yet. We will only know where the bottom was when we look back from some distance. Then it will be too late to have bought at the bottom. Now I am going to ramble a little.
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10/07/2008
Homeowners who are facing foredlosure may want to read the information on the new HUD program that became effective earlier this month. In a nutshell, this program "encourages" lenders to participate in a program to write new loans that will replace troubled mortgages. The new loan is based on
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10/04/2008
In this market most buyers and sellers as well as their agents need some knowledge of the SHORT SALE process. What is your best advice to consumers and professionals when it comes to short sales, either on the sale side, or the purchase side. Most of us don't want to become the latest and greate
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10/01/2008
We finally moved in to our new "built green" house on the Susquehanna River. It has been quite hot here for the last several days, so dispite our recent conversion to thinking green, we buttoned 'er up tight and let the AC run. (set at 76 degrees, so we're being a little bit good!) This morning
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07/10/2008
The Central Penn Business Journal has recognized the efforts of several Realtors who have earned the designation EcoBroker in order to bring environmnetally responsible practices to the business of helping their clients buy and sell homes. The article by Eric Veronikis, with photography by Amy Sp
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06/17/2008
Glenn and I have just built a fairly green home for ourselves (with the help of our favorite builder-who isn't particularly eco-savvy). We did some things right, and some not so right. The EcoBroker course helped tremendously, and I guess it was good to experiment on my own project rather than
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06/11/2008
Today I had a call from a family searching the nation for the ideal community to call home. Their "ideal" is a community that is, or shows promising signs of becoming, progressively "green". Access to the arts, theatre, and cultural diversity also rank high on their wish list. They value avai
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06/10/2008
And now a word from our turf man.............. My chief engineer at Musser Turf Services tells me that as the dry hot summer months begin we need to get down to bunny eye level and take a look at our lawns. Try this: 1. Stoop down a bit and look across the newly mowed lawn. Is the surface fres
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06/07/2008
