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This Realtor needs to start going to the gym again.  I showed 14 houses today, and every time I got to the top of the stairs; I was too winded to talk about anything notable on the 2nd floor....        I have a gym membership that I dutifully pay for every month, but it's no secret that I'd much ...
06/06/2012
I just started a new book yesterday, If You Were Here by Jen Lancaster - and I can hardly put it down. I’ve heard Fifty Shades of Grey being described as “mom porn,” and I just might describe If You Were Here as Realtor porn…. sans sex – sorry.  I’m only 100 pages in so far, but it’s eerily famil...
06/04/2012
Here's something I've struggled with for the past several YEARS.  (Just now thought to blog about it....)  And, maybe "struggled with" is too dramatic.  Let me modify my opening; Here's something I've wondered about and wished I could effectively experiment with for a while now: What is the best ...
04/12/2012
The Answers: Kitchen #1          e.) $162,500   Completely remodeled 3BR/2BA home in Maryville.  Situated on 0.39 acre with an oversized 2-car detached garage.  Main floor laundry, tastefully decorated, and move-in ready!              Kitchen #2 d.)  $545,000 Completely renovated historic home on...
04/10/2012
Here's a fun little real estate game to play....  Match the kitchen to the price point:  Kitchen #1            a.)  $78,000      b.)  $250,000      c.)  $112,500      d.)  $545,000      e.)  $162,500      f.)  $118,500       Kitchen #2      The kitchen is the heart of the home - whether you're a ...
04/09/2012
It's time for a new blog post.... about "time".  The other day Matt was telling me about having lunch with his mentee.  (I thought he said "mint tea" to which I replied, "Since when do you drink mint tea???")  Matt's mentee asked him about maintaining a work-life balance; and Matt had a pretty in...
04/02/2012
In a recent conversation with one of my sellers I was asked, "How much do we need to reduce our price to in order for you to guarantee our house will sell?" Eeeeek - what a hideous word, "guarantee". "Let's reduce it to $10.... then I guarantee your house will sell to someone or I'll promise to b...
01/17/2012
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I just finished reading "Sex and Real Estate" by Marjorie Garber.  I'm giving myself kudos for all the effort it took me to read this book to completion - so that I could report on it for all of you.  First, when I ordered the book from Amazon - the front cover was, in fact, "Sex and Real Estate,...
01/14/2012
Our down-sizing/right-sizing took an amazing amount of coordinating.  We actually had three sets of friends buying four different properties - all in the same day - all contingent on another sale happening. The link below will take you to a pretty cute video - outlining the basic idea of our home...
01/08/2012
Matt and I recently sold our 4BR/3BA single-family home complete with formal dining room, sun room, and fenced yard…  and bought a newer, smaller TOWNHOUSE.   Newer…. as in new construction.  Smaller…. as in three bedrooms, three baths, no formal dining room.  Townhouse…. as in attached to our ne...
01/05/2012
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