Chocolate Avenue Real Estate - From the Sweet Street

There hasn't been a lot of progress or good news since the last update. There was a meeting scheduled for Friday the 16th between the union local and management but it was cancelled due to the snowstorm. It is rescheduled for next week.There was a telling article in the Harrisburg Patriot News on...

Lebanon County Residential Statistics for January 2007By School District                   #Active      Average List Price      #Sold      Sold Avg.     DOMAnnville-Cleona                           30            $275183                  0                0          0  Cornwall-Lebanon             ...

I think it's a fair assumption that most of the folks who write blogs and post comments on AR use the service to enhance their internet presence and hope that will eventually help with lead generation and referrals from other professionals. A few months ago the "founders" added a spell checker at...

The lack of transparency in the Hershey Company's job status announcements continues. In mid-week, the company announced that they were going to outsource their Hershey Gifts operation to a company in St. Louis and that the 50 workers at the facility would receive other offers locally or a severa...

There is an increased level of anger locally over the announcement by the Hershey Company that there may be job losses in manufacturing and perhaps other segments in the company business locally.There was a rally yesterday attended by over 200 people in support of the workers and insupport of ret...

Even though I moved back from Florida a year ago this week, I still get a lot of "real estate spam" from agents and builders in Florida that have never updated their databases, even though I try to opt out. One of the companies that provides this "service" to agents has so many different lists th...

What Will Happen to the Bean Counters When TheyMove All The Beans Offshore? Hershey Foods finally announced the expected yesterday, the plan to close their plant in Ontario early in 2008 and will make additional job cuts within 2 years. Since about 500 jobs will be lost in Canada, it is anticipat...

Our office will be holding two first time homebuyers seminars the week of February 25, 2007.They will be Sunday February 25th at 1:30PM and Wednesday February 28th at 6:30PM.We will have two lender representatives on hand to help with questions and prequalifications if desired.To attend, call  Ju...

The Pennsylvania Home Show at the State Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg opens next Saturday, February 24 and runs thru Sunday March 4.One of the highlights is a brand new 2000 sf log home constructed by students at the Cumberland-Perry Area Vo-Tech School Student Chapter of the NAHB. This home wi...

After posting yesterday (My Turn to Rant) I was utterly amazed this morning when I left to go to Harrisburg that no additional ice and snow removal had occurred in the area.And the state still has not opened Interstate 78 or Interstate 81 for traffic. This event ended on Wednesday afternoon. We h...