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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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