Real Estate Geekette

We've been spared, here in the lovely Midwest, from diving prices and panicking sellers, and greedy greedy buyers. Not spared from foreclosures,  however, here in Ohio... There are many reasons for prices to fall. Take, for example, a school district nearby that has a 30 month supply of homes for...

I love my garden. Gardening, the whole earth-thing - makes me relaxed like nothing else can. I get great joy from going out daily to see what's new there - what new plant has arisen? Have the columbines multiplied? Did the iris morph into different colors this year (no!)? did the small Korean Lil...

Well, I have a ton of properties listed (ok not a TON but several). Of the vacant ones, I normally do minimal "staging" - for bath and kitchen, greenery, a touch of color, perhaps a small picture of a house in colors that go with the home's decor, nice, white towels wrapped in wired ribbon for st...

Ok, no, I'm not talking about urban areas rife with boarded-up houses. I'm talking about areas devastated by tornados, flooding, hurricanes, illness... you name it. In the US we have national building codes. As areas revamp and revitalize, we have local standards of how a home should appear in co...

I know the gas prices are ridiculous. I concur with my Twitterkin and with Maureen McCabe that the prices are ridiculous. Will this debacle somehow work for some real estate agents? Possibly. Let's say you have a client who is the usual age of today's buyer (roughly age 32). Let's say this client...

Ohio has made an inroad into the belly of the foreclosure beast. Must be why OCWEN was open to accepting a deal that was a large amount under what was owed for my client recently. They didn't fight much though my commission had to drop a bit. Here's what OAR published today about Gov. Strickland ...

I have inundated myself with learning more about Social and New Media lately. Hours and hours spent devouring books and Internet postings, as well as chatting with newfound friends/followers on Twitter and more have made me sleepless in Ohio tonight.It is, after all, 3:26am.That said, I am seriou...

Well whaddaya know. I tried and tried to get my SitePal avatar on my Real Living web site - and can't! Wah! That's the only downside to the site. Otherwise it's easy and fun to work with and has brought me lots of buyers and sellers!That said, avatars (animated or non-animated characters or image...

Ah, the thing Realtors fear... a vehicle breakdown! So - what do you do, but arrange for service and alternate transportation? And after that, is it a chance to organize what you have going, already? If you don't have to be anywhere, this may be the perfect time to tackle those piles of files and...

In the past years, many of my past clients are moving from suburbs or urban environs to the ex-burbs... the tiny towns, sometimes in other counties, that surround the greater Ohio Miami Valley. Whether it's Clinton County and its Hillsboro neighbors, Warren County and its Springboro arena, Miami ...