The express train from Grand Central is pulling into Peekskill station. All-day, you’ve been looking forward to tossing your tie and briefcase into your car parked steps from the station and taking a brisk walk along the riverfront before heading home. It's just five minutes away. Perhaps you’ll
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11/02/2021
More and more homeowners are getting the Halloween holiday spirit and will be spookifying their homes, inside and out. The National Retail Federation predicts that in 2018, total spending for Halloween is expected to reach $9 billion. Celebrants are planning to spend an average of $86.79 per capi
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10/03/2018
A colleague (thank you Mary) recently sent me a link to an excellent article all about stinkbugs that ran recently in, of all places, The New Yorker. (Is there anything too erudite for those guys to cover?) For readers who don't know what a stinkbug is, (you must live in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Sou
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03/16/2018
We received a concierge call from Zillow yesterday, the call went something along these lines... Note: We have the Zillow listing information up on our screen before the call gets put through. Lead: "I want to buy this house, what do I need to do to make sure I get it?" GPS: "Sir, this property
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06/23/2017
I drove past a former residential listing I couldn't sell the other day. It has been listed with two other brokerages in the county including mine and none of us could sell it. Too bad too. Nice house, corner lot, well laid out and maintained in a good neighborhood. But the location and curb appe
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04/12/2017
Imagine my surprise when this notice of a Pre-Foreclosure was emailed to me earlier today. According to the public records it says, this property is in pre-foreclosure! WRONG!!! Yup, Zillow get's it wrong again!This property was sold by Global Property Systems, I was the listing agent - Title
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12/21/2016
Late last year I wrote a blog which received a lot of attention on Active Rain, a social networking site for Realtors. It was about a listing I was taking on a home which had been on the Hudson Valley, NY real estate market for three years. I was pretty confident it would sell, so why this hubri
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04/09/2015
This adorable country home oozes with charm with pristine hardwood floors, & many original 1920's features, mixed with useful updates such as triple pane tilt windows, & a really effective pellet stove to keep costs down, PLUS two furnaces, o
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10/22/2014
Take one large colonial, add a pristine townhouse, then join them at the hip, and presto, you have just created the most wonderful living situation for your parents or extended family. The current owners did just that, and now you have the opportun
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10/21/2014
This immaculate, almost-new bi-level offers much more than location! It's beautiful, with wonderful mountain views of the orchards and vineyards of marvelous Marlboro! Light and bright, set back off the road with cathedral ceilings, pristine
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10/21/2014