Bonnie Cox's (bcox210) Blog

  Now showing!   Open house in Severn, Maryland June 28, 1-3pm  Just ten minutes from Frt. Meade, yet secluded, quite and surrounded by trees. This 6 bedroom, 2 and one half bath colonial has one of the largest lots in the neighborhood on almost one acre.  This mini retreat is in a residential ne...

  Open House Sunday, June 21 and June 28th, 1pm-3pm Excellent location in New Cut Farms.  You'd never know you were in a neighborhood once you venture down the driveway     to this 6 bedroom, 2 and one half bath colonial.  One of the largest lots in the neighborhood on almost one acre, this mini ...

Anyone who lives in Maryland has probably read in the "Sun" and the "Aegis" about tragedy of Altieri Homes.  Are they criminals?  Or victims of the economy. Altieri Homes is based out of Columbia County.  They have been charged by Maryland's attorney general with taking deposits and payments from...

Did you know that closing a high limit credit card can actually hurt your credit score?  This was a very interesting story I picked up at an obscure internet site and something that most consumers should consider when facing applying for a mortgage. The article involved a story about "Rachel" mak...

This isn't about my 20 pounds of weight gain in the last four months.  It's not about my shifting proportions, nor is this about my loss of skill in walking in Stilettos (I'm five-foot, nine.  Stilettos are for lodging into targets on the archery field.) The center of balance that I am talking ab...

A compelling lesson I learned from my then fifteen year old son in 2003. After a particularly crushing career development meeting with his guidance counselor at school, My son Rich was visibly upset. Richard is learning disabled with ADD and Ausberger's Syndrome.  He had spent his entire school c...

Since I am stuck down here at my mother's house for the next five days (away from my familiar real estate . . . Maryland), I have little to do but plan my week's activities for when I get back, watch the news (ugh) and catch up on Active Rain.  Both of the latter made me hot under the collar toda...

Hmmm . . . Obama signed a measure allowing mortgage companies and banks to restructure loans for millions of American families facing foreclosure.  This is like  bandaid that won't stick to the wound!  What good is this going to do? I am so bumfuddled as to the lack of common knowledge of cause a...

As most of you well know, it gets a little depressing when you read in the news and on blog posts that there is a "second wave" of foreclosures coming.  Yeah, yeah . . . just cut to the chase and give me the bad news. It is even more depressing when customer after customer is putting their home o...

To undersand why I love Harford County, Maryland so much, one would have to understand where I came from.  I was born just outside of Philadelphia, lived most of my childhood in Delaware and most of my children's childhoods in upstate Pennsylvania (The Endless Mountain Region). I moved to Marylan...