I hate candles and plug ins. I don't think they help homes sell.
01/03/2012
http://nyti.ms/nr5U0U If the house has red walls, should you paint before you go on the market? See what NY Times says! They also suggest some really nice paint colors.
09/22/2011
I am thrilled that stager Starr Osborne and her firm Taylored Transitions www.tailoredtransitions.com has won Best of Philly Home Staging. I give Starr's book Home Staging That Works to all my sellers. Starr outlines all the steps in kind, doable language giving sellers a doable blue print for
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08/27/2011
It is not that she is not tech saavy. She has a computer. She found me on the internet. She found a bunch of potential houses on the net too. She just doesn't bother with email. I guess she has Facebook so Facebook and texting are all she uses. What is Facebook etiquette anyway? I barely know her
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07/11/2011
Penny Hull of Raleigh, NC recently wrote a post about how buyers these days are willing to go without some of the upgrades they had wanted in the past--like more sq footage and landscaping. However, one thing, she finds, is more important than ever: Upgrades that save you money every month on ene
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05/15/2011
What is up with this scenario? Assured, together single woman decides to buy her own home. She doesn't need to wait for her prince! Then the prince turns up! Why is that? I just ran into a client from 7 years ago. She told me she met her now- husband at a dinner party the week before closing! I g
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05/10/2011
Thank you to Natalie Washburn and the Erie Board of Realtors for sponsoring a Polley broker continuing education course on Real Estate Law. If you haven't been to Erie, I strongly recommend you visit. The beach is amazing! They don't call them Great Lakes for nothing. At my motel a few miles from
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04/28/2011
http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/fashion/20Cultural.html?scp=4&sq=why%20we%20don't%20answer%20the%20phone&st=cse Wow. This article is called "Don't call me, I won't call you." It was in the NY Times last week. I thought it was just me: I consider phone calls a burd
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04/10/2011
My buyer had an 840 credit score, 20+ years on his job and 20% down. Why couldn't he get a mortgage commitment? His wife of 10 years is from Bali. She has a "green card." Last year, they lent the wife's sister $6500 in cash. To buy the new house, the sister gave them $6500 back--in cash. No bank.
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04/07/2011
My deal just blew up. The out for the buyers was a little glitch with the financing that is easy to correct. They used it to bail the day before settlement after they had a long talk with the neighbors. As far as I know, the neighbors didn't put down the house or say anything bad about the seller
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04/06/2011
