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Custom built home on a quiet cul-de-sac. Fantastic open floor plan. Main level offers gourmet kitchen with 21x10 morning room, double wall ovens, maple cabinets, extra large island and walk in pantry. Vaulted great room w/stone fireplace, formal living and dining rooms w/hardwood floors, office &...

I just attended a class on how the $800,000,000,000 stimulus package is going to affect the real estate market. I can't give three hours of information in 57 seconds so here's the scoop in a nutshell.  If the package passes in its present form and it looks like it is, here's what to expect. The r...

5572 Streamside Dr Galena, OH 43021.  Custom built home on a quiet cul-de-sac.  Fantastic open floor plan.  Main level offers gourmet kitchen with 21x10 morning room, double wall ovens, maple cabinets, extra large island and walk in pantry.  Vaulted great room w/stone fireplace, formal living and...

Updates galore in this 3 bedroom, 1 bath ranch style home.  Last 5 years: New kitchen with oak cabinets, windows, all interior trim & doors, all exterior walls have new insulation/wiring/drywall, exterior porch, patio, privacy fence, furnace, storage shed, and bathroom

Know someone with an attitude?  I guess we all have an attitude, but I mean a bad attitude or a negative attitude.  They are hard to deal with, eh?  My cynicism is sometimes misinterpreted as negativity.    Just read a scary article from MSN website which reveals the media's love for the negative...

Salt acts like little termites quietly eating away at your concrete and your car while you sleep.  This winter has been particularly snowy and icy and that means your car is dripping all that road brine on your garage floor.  When temperatures get above freezing, get the hose out and wash off all...

Currier & Ives cape cod style log home nestled in the middle of nearly 4 acres.  Close to shopping.  Decks and deer. Porches and ponds.  Birds and bees.  Fireplaces and Florida room.  Recent updates include Geo Thermal, Pella windows, roof, driveway blacktop. 2819 square feet including the finish...

You've heard about it.  You watch TV shows about it. But does it really work?  Regardless of the economy or the market when you sell your house it's a beauty contest.  Even in our current real estate market experienced, professional agents are selling houses if they are properly staged.  That mea...

We are currently looking for people like you to share referrals.  In this challenging market, it makes sense to combine forces and fight the battle together.   As the market continues to be challenging for all of us, John Jacobus continues to meet these challenges head on with his experience, pit...

WE ARE SO LUCKY!  Columbus ranks #1 You know I really am BIG on central Ohio.  Even though the  fishing is tough, hunting is terrible (except deer and who hunts animals that commit suicide in huge numbers by throwing themselves in front of speeding autos), lakes are so over crowed that boaters ha...