Chocolate Avenue Real Estate - From the Sweet Street

I've included a link to the Inman News blog to a post written by Glenn Roberts late yesterday.Inman BlogIn the article, he quotes Alan Yassky, a "National Association of Realtors representative to Move Inc.'s board of directors", in a speech as cautioning brokers to carefully examine where the li...

  Today is the first day of a ten show six day run for the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus here in Hershey at the Giant Center.The circus is presenting the "Red Show" which is known as Bellobration in honor of Bello the Clown, the featured performer. The link to the circus has all of the...

Every day, thousands of tourists visit the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. At least, they stand out front and take photos, usually of a friend or family member standing at the fence.Many people never go 100 yards up the street to look at the tired old building that shares t...

One of the benefits of living close to the major northeast cities again is that I can drive on my schedule, see what I want to see and do what I want to do on my own schedule. I'm no longer bound by Delta or US Air schedules and fare rules.Since I had no major reason to attend any of the Saturday...

I have read many of the blog posts, plus a myriad of opinions on the RealTalk and ePro forums since Monday morning regarding the Sixty Minutes piece on Sunday. My years as a viewer go back to the Harry Reasoner, Mike Wallace and Morley Safer days and the Point Counterpoint sixty second debates wi...

Hopefully this is the last of these posts about Hershey Companies cutting 3000 jobs in the US & Canada and creating 1500 jobs in Monterey Mexico.The company announced last week that they would be closing all of their Canadian manufacturing operations by the end of 2008, which includes the already...

The teachers of the Annville-Cleona School District will be striking effective this morning. The district, located in Lebanon County midway between Hershey and Lebanon, has an enrollment of about 1850 students and serves North Annville and South Annville townships, the town of Annville and the bo...

I'm writing this as a warning to anyone who uses Myers Internet service and especially real estate brokerage managers and owners of mortgage brokerage businesses.On Friday, May 11, as I was winding down for a 2 day weekend I opened some mail to find a letter from some company called Credit Mediat...

Realtor.com has started to run commercials on select television programs to make sure home buyers and sellers recognize that this is still the most visited real estate site.It's kind of like one of the automotive websites that opens in a warehouse full of homes for sale and then drills down to th...

I will be conducting an introduction to the e-Pro certification program on Friday afternoon May 4 at 3PM at the Carbon County Association of Realtors 180 South First Street  Lehighton, PA 18235.The program is about 60 minutes and we do offer a discount for the course if you sign up through a cert...