Susan Mangigian, Chester County Realtor

I have a pool.  It's the best investment I ever made in my home and the worst experience of my life as far as things getting done around the house.  If I ever moved again, I would want a pool, but I would want to buy a home with a pool, not put one in.  It's the most frustrating exercise.  Unless...

Here it is.  The last Thursday before Christmas Eve.  I've been busy delivering gifts and calendars to clients and pretty much getting into the spirit of Christmas.  This lawn decoration at a client's home made me smile.  I've shopped till I just about dropped and still have wrapping and baking l...

One of my favorite movies is It's a Wonderful Life.  One of my favorite lines from a movie is at the end, and in the inscription from a book Clarence gives George. "Dear George, remember no man is a failure who has friends. Thanks for the wings. Love, Clarence."In my life, if this is true, than I...

It's the week before the big day!  I've always been the helper in the kitchen for holidays since I've been married.  No, let's not get ahead of ourselves, my husband doesn't cook.  It was my mom, who always came and stayed with us for the holidays and cooked all the main dishes.  My job was to ho...

Stop the world, I want to get off!  How any times in a week do we feel overwhelmed by all of the things that life throws at us?  Lots of times, if we're honest.  I read about this a lot and it seems  that the way to be happy is to be grateful.  When I take the time to stop grousing and look aroun...

I'm a woman of a certain age.  56 years old, to be exact.  Well, to be really exact, I'd have to say 56 years and 42 days old as of this writing.  I don't know what time I was born and the only person that can tell me, is sadly no longer here.  But that's a different kind of blog post.Meriam-Webs...

Starting about now, the Chili Cook-Off is one of my all time favorite happenings in West Chester borough.  One year, I participated in my office's chili making and while we didn't win, we sure did have a good time.  It's a gorgeous day in West Chester today and I'm looking forward to tasting awar...

As hard as  it is to believe, it's now the last week of summer as we know it around here.  I think the local public school, West Chester Area School District, is starting before Labor Day this year.  This is my first year without a child going to public school as my youngest is now a college stud...

Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds ,you can grow flowers,or you can grow weeds.  That's a quote.   I have no idea who said it but it's a pretty apt metaphor for my mind and my garden.  At the moment, both places are growing both.I just paid an exorbitant amount of money to have mo...

There is not much that I can add to a week that had me celebrating both of my son's birthdays.  This is the first year ever that we haven't celebrated birthdays together in Ocean City, NJ.  This is also the first year ever that my boys weren't living in the same home with us when they had a birth...