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Sweet Lights Hersheypark, Hershey, Pennsylvania 賓州免費聖誕燈飾A winter wonderland awaits at Hershey Sweet Lights®, A Holiday Drive-Thru Spectacular. Enjoy nearly 600 illuminated, animated displays from the comfort of your car as you drive through two miles of wooded trails.Hours 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM$20 per car
Search other homes in Hershey Listing Details:866 Sand Hill Road, HersheyMLS Number: 10265985Bedrooms: 4Baths: 2 FullSquare Feet: 2,376 Nestled at the top of hill on a double lot, the views are breathtaking every Season of the year. Walls of windows at the rear of the home bring the outside & natural light into the home. Hardwood floors in the LR, hall & 2 bedrooms. 3rd floor owners suite with bonus/family room. Side entry 2 car garage, central air and LL finished w/4th bedroom and family/game room. A joy to see! Click Here to View Listings
By Ken and Leslye Huebsch, Realtors - Harrisburg Homes for Sale 717.514.1793
(3x Individual Agent of the Year, Luxury Homes, First-Time Buyers, Residential Resales, New Construction)
Neighborhood Spotlight- Hershey, PA Thinking about moving? Hershey, PA has a diverse selection of neighborhoods and locations to choose from. Hershey is a popular choice and your interest may increase after seeing why. Hershey, also known as "The Sweetest Place on Earth," is a short drive from Lancaster, PA, Baltimore, MD, and Philadelphia, PA, and is the founding place of Hershey's Chocolate. Take a Day to Relax Hershey, PA is home to several beautiful spas such as the wildly popular Spa at Hotel Hershey, a luxury spa affectionately nicknamed "the Chocolate Spa" where friends and couples can relax together with traditional massages, hydrotherapy, facials, and more. Have Fun with the Whole Family Looking for an activity that's fun for the entire family? Take everyone down to Hers...
Smell the Peanut Butter Cups~717 Linden Road, Hershey Search other homes for sale in Hershey Listing Details:717 Linden Road, HersheyMLS Number: 10261278Bedrooms: 4Baths: 3 Full, 1 HalfSquare Feet: 2,767 Smell the Peanut Butter Cups! Linden Rd, desired In-Town Street Location! Walk to theatre, pool, schools, library & more. Total renovation. 1st Fl Master BR. This 4 BR/3.5 BA brick cape has granite ctops, SS, tile bksplsh, butler pantry & hardwd flrs thruout 1st flr. Relax on new porch to hear summer concerts or entertain in Sunrm w/flagstone that leads to brick patio. LL w/wet bar/game rm. Det. 2 car garage w/new metal roof! Click Here to View Listings
Room For Your Expanding Family~1708 Laudermilch Road, Palmyra Search other homes for sale in Palmyra Listing Details:1708 Laudermilch Road, PalmyraMLS Number: 10255143Bedrooms: 5Baths: 3 FullSquare Feet: 1,817 Looking for a 5 BR, 3 BA Ranch home nestled on 1.42 acre yet convenient to Lebanon, Hershey, Harrisburg and Rt 81, with room for an expanding family? Finished walk-out Lower Level w/4th & 5th bedrooms, Office/Exercise rm, full Bath, Family rm & bar/dining area. Side entry garage w/extra parking & pull down storage. Upper & Lower patios. Barn w/electric, roomy enough for very small car & loft area for storage. A joy to see! Click Here to View Listings
Buyers have many different qualifications when buying a home, the development being one. Below I have listed and linked these popular subdivisions in Derry Township to active listings within them. Derry Township is located in Hershey, PA. . . the sweetest town on earth! . . . and is attractive to buyers because of the school district, parts, walking trails, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey Park and of course the chocolate street lights! At Joy Daniels Real Estate Group we have exclusive Buyer Agents to assist your home purchase needs and exclusive Seller Agents to represent you with the sale of your home. Cambridge Commons Orchard Run Carol Acres East Palmdale Crest of Hershe...
By Nate Gerard, CDPE, East Metro Twin Cities Realtor
(Keller Williams Premier)
My Apology to Alex Lifeson of RUSH… and Gratitude for a Great Gift! Since I’m the beneficiary of a great kindness from Alex the time has come take responsibility and apologize for my musical absurdity! Like many of the RUSH faithful in my age group (mid 40’s) it was Tom Sawyer that put the band in the forefront of our collective consciousness. I wasn’t even 12 but at that time it was Neil’s fills and complexity that caught my ear. As I grew and consumed all the music that came before and after Moving Pictures I also set down my trumpet and picked up the bass. While there were many guitar idols to look to there were only a few on the Bass and Geddy was at the top of my list. Combine that with my two best friends playing drums and the result was focusing on those instruments and those two...
So much to do in Hershey, Pennsylvania during the holiday season! Hershey Sweet Lights ~~ A winter wonderland awaits at Hershey Sweet Lights, A Holiday Drive-Thru Spectacular. Enjoy nearly 600 illuminated, animated displays from the comfort of your car as you drive through two miles of wooded trails. Families return year after year for this holiday tradition. Admission is charged. http://www.christmasinhershey.com/hershey_sweetlights.php Hersheypark Christmas Candylane~~ The magic of the holidays comes to life at Hersheypark Christmas Candylane. With two million twinkling lights, rides for all ages, festive decorations, and Hershey's Product Characters decked out in their holiday best, there is something for all to enjoy! http://www.christmasinhershey.com/ch...
In the interest of fairness and balance I want to present the other side of the coin that I wrote about the other day...'What do I do when I'm not previewing...?' Good question, go on appointments! There was a question I had taped to my mirror and in my car that drove my business, and it still does; What do I have to do to get an appointment today? My entire business plan was centered on this. I knew my financial goal and how many units that meant, and each sales unit had a client conversion ratio that always came back to the same basic premise, how many appointments do I need to go on to get a listing or a sale? To prove this my coach used to count the steps backwards from a paycheck. You only get paid at a settlement You only get to a settlement if clients have signed an agreement Cli...
By Cal Yoder, Homes For Sale in Lancaster PA - 717.413.0744
(Keller Williams Elite)
Today we settled on 133 Trail Road in Hershey, PA. another PA homes and real estate for sale which is now sold. The buyers are friends who bought the house to create a home for their daughter who is in medical student and who will be gettng married in the spring. Tom and Brenda are friends from way back. We used to spend time playing pinochle and our children grew up together. Fast forward and we had not seen one another for some time. I had been Tom and Brenda's pastor back in Souderton, PA, but we moved to Lancaster in 1997. Now 14 years later, our paths crossed again when they contacted me about helping them find a home. I am very glad to have a PA homes and real estate for sale sold. Want me to help you sell your PA home so that it is no longer for sale, but sold. Or if you would li...
No, I'm not talking about me... But we now have a new reason to get back into the old practice of previewing properties during our work day. Not such a new concept for some of us; I am a big fan of this practice. Recently in Central PA our multi-list launched the public access side of our multi-list. This isn't such a big deal when we look at it as agents; we have had public IDX access to our listings for years. What is new about it is that when the consumer public hears about it as the "Public side of our whole MLS database" they will flock to it. Even though our own websites have as much and sometimes more data from multiple MLS IDX feeds, for some it might be seen as an unvarnished look into our secret world, unfiltered and untainted by brands. Am I saying I don't like this new devel...
Hershey Hotel, Because You Deserve It - I'm Glad My Hubby Thought I Did. This month my husband, Brian, and I celebrated our 24th wedding anniversary and he treated me to a wonderful dinner out at the Circular Dining Room at the Hershey Hotel. We've been to some really nice places over the past 24 years, but I really enjoyed that night. I just wanted to share a little about that experience with you. If you've ever been to a restaurant and felt treated with a little less respect than others because you were placed in a corner table, you will never feel that at this restaurant. Milton S. Hershey purposefully created a circular dining room because he didn't want corners. You will feel very special at this restaurant from the moment you walk in. After we finished dinner, our waiter an...
Ok, time to get back in the game...I've been doing lots of other stuff and now it's time to get back out in the'Rain' So let's take a deep cleansing breath and jump right in. The news has been crazy all year, "the market's up", "the market's down", "prices are up", "prices are falling". To me none of that matters. What does matter is how has YOUR year been and why? Back in December I wrote about this, and it's still true. If you sit around and worry about the market you'll have a lousey year. So let me hear from y'all out there. How's your year been going and what did you do to get some new business? Maybe a twist or turn added to your Open House marketing, or even something new and techy. Let's throw them all out here and see what we can find. I'll start, I have made an extra effort to...
I really love the fall weather here in Pennsylvania. But I also love the fall real estate market. Buyers seem a littlemore serious...seem could be the important adjective here, and homes that are lived in seem more festive with more holiday decorations. In my humble opinion a home never looks better than when it's all lit up for the Christmas season. But back to reality, is colder, wetter, and it gets dark sooner...so whats so great about the fall Jim? We have always had good 4th quarters, my best settlement months have either been July or December. Why? I don't change when the weather does. The systems and processes that generate new business day after day shouldn't change. I had a coach who used to give us a Fall Countdown each year about this time. He said if you don't get something ...
Ok, Summer's here and you're getting itchy for a week off, and so are all the consumers out there. They have the same lives we have: kids to the pool, kids to the movies, trying to find a few days to escape to the beach or the mountains or where ever. Summer can be a little slower because we and the consumers both have other things going on. So, how do you keep generating traffic for your Open Houses? I know some you out there aren't having so much trouble with this, but if you plug this into your situation you might even get more traffic; and isn't that the name of the game? First of all you have to believe that Open Houses are good. I have always been a big proponent of Open Houses being a big part of your prospecting plan, especially new agents. But they can be more than that. You ca...
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RE/MAX REALTY SELECT D J Winter(717) 441-2794www.HomeSold123.comhomesold123@gmail.com "Well done is better than well said." Benjamin Franklin Ben Franklin is well known for his kite flying. Whether it was by the lightning striking his kite, or by his later inventions, he is credited with many contributions to electricity and the use of energy. Wouldn't it be something if we could harness that power and get it into our homes to run our lights, TV's and other appliances? I'm not an engineer, but I know that in nature, and in business too, there is a lot of wasted energy. At RE/MAX we focus our energy in order to deliver Premier Customer Satisfaction. My focus is on getting the right marketing in place, handling problems with appraisals, credit, and processing, and in generally manag...
Denise (my Wife) and I were working on her weekly activity planner today and it made me wonder if I ever discussed my theory about how every day of the week should have it's own theme. So here it is...remember that old children's song "today is Thursday, today is Thursday, what do we do today?" Well if it's Thursday, it must be the day to burn up the phone lines with calls to Buyers . I like to call all the Buyers in my pipeline on Thursdays to see who wants to go out and see some houses this weekend. It also gives me the opportunity to just stay in touch and update their status. Now as a coach and trainer I get the resistance to this concept..."Oh, I don't want to call them all each week and be a pest." Then don't be a pest, Do Your Job! My philosophy is that If a consumer gives me the...
Now that the tax incentive is over and we're back to business, I think it's time to get back to your Farm. My favorite thing about getting one listing is that I should be able to get at least one more in the area. Did you ever notice that as soon as one sign goes up in a neighborhood, another pops up soon after? So why not get that sale too? You should have told the seller in your marketing plan that you were going to let the neighbors know all about theur home so that they could tell their friends...And you should have told the seller that you were going to advertise their home and even do an open huse or two...you might have even told them you were going to promote the home to some move-up neighborhoods nearby... Well did you...really? These are all the marketing activities we know t...
The 2010 Children's Free Care Fund events are already underway at the Hershey office. Every year all 130+ Howard Hanna Offices band together to raise money for the Children's Free Care Fund. In 2009 fundraising efforts raised $568,763, and during the past 20+ years, the company has raised more than $6.1 million. Each office works tirelessly and holds their own holiday "Choo Choo Chow Chow for Children" events that culminate with a Holiday Event attended by agents and staff, their clients, neighbors, family, friends, surrounding businesses, news people and sports celebrities for holiday entertainment, raffles, silent and International auctions and lots of holiday cheer - but most of all, for the care of children. The Hershey Office will hold their event this year at the Hershey Masonic ...