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Active Rain Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Engines We are less than a week into “Spring” but the Spring Market has already begun in Westchester. Things are getting busy, as the cyclical nature of our industry turns to the most active period between now and July 4th. If this is the year you are looking to buy that first home, or even if […]
Active Rain Bucking the Trend A Shameless, Brazen Self Pimping Piece Follows. All sold data is taken from the Empire Access MLS:  Much like the rest of the country, there is still a significant malaise over the Westchester County real estate market. From January 1, 2010 until March 26, 2010 there were 708 single family homes sold in Westchester County […]
Active Rain Short Sale Seller: Everyone is Getting Paid But Me. Just about every home sale is stressful on the seller. A short sale, given the higher stakes and financial ramifications, often has even more stress for the seller than a typical transaction. On a few occasions, I have had a short sale client lament that they are “left out” in a way, in that everyone […]
Active Rain Why I Will Happily Shell Out the 40 Bucks For my colleagues in the real estate industry…”politics makes strange bedfellows” I’ll preface my thoughts by tipping my cap to the memory of Elizabeth Taylor to make a point: when you think of the late Ms. Taylor, what number do you first think of?  If the number is her 8 marriages, may I suggest 100,000,000. […]
Active Rain What Can You Buy for $540,000 in Tuckahoe, NY? What Can You Buy for $540,000 in Tuckahoe, NY?  $540,000 goes alot farther than a few years ago in places like Tuckahoe. Take for example this 4 bedroom, 3 bath 2800 square foot home our buyers recently closed on. They got a big living room and formal dining room, a family room with a fireplace, […]
Active Rain Wordless Wednesday: Spring Snow
Active Rain Forget About the Furniture It all starts out innocently enough. The seller comes in at the tail end of the home inspection and meets the buyer. They press the flesh, exchange some small talk, and the conversation drifts around to the furniture. The seller might be willing to sell some. The buyer likes some of the pieces. Like many […]
Active Rain Buyers Want a Home, Not an Agent For my fellow agents:  Steve Loynd has written a post I relate to quite a bit- the experience of shelling out big bucks to a service that promises to deliver a pipeline of prospective buyer clients to your inbox, only to pull the plug after thousands of dollars down the drain with no return on […]
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Active Rain What Does $825,000 Buy in Pelham, NY? What Does $825,000 Buy in Pelham, NY?  Here’s what you can get for $825,00: A 2300+ square foot 4 bedroom 3 bath 1920’s Lewis Bowman designed New England colonial on over a third of an acre in Pelham Manor. It has a rocking chair porch, patio, plenty of parking, and a manicured lawn. Inside is […]
Active Rain Hail to my Son the Champion I’m going to indulge on a completely non-real estate topic because I am a proud dad. On Saturday, my son Luke won first place at his pack’s Pinewood Derby event. He is on cloud 9 and so am I. Luke is in 3rd grade and in his thid year of Cub Scouts. Our first two […]
Active Rain Honor Earlier this week, I called a For Sale by Owner to show their home to a buyer I am working with. We just put their home under contract and need to find that next move up home for their family. They are nice people, and while I do not work with buyers as often as […]
Active Rain My 3 Gold Star Bloggers Craig Daniels has challenged us to name 3 bloggers we love– the sort of folks that if a glitch in Active Rain were to erase our subscription list that we’d immediately seek them out again. I have more than three, but the limit is three, so I’ll refrain from mentioning bloggers I know are on […]
Active Rain Answering the Broker Haters in the New York Times The following is a comment I wrote this morning on this article on real estate brokers in the New York Times. The piece was on smaller brokers contrasted with larger ones, and as is common in Times articles on brokerage, the haters were out there in the comments telling us how bad brokers are.  I […]
Active Rain How to Prepare Your Home for Sale How to get that Westchester County Home Staged to Sell! First, make sure the landscaping is appealing with decorative additions. A mere lawn won’t do.  Next, consider the Feng Shui of the “regular guy.” If you think your home might appeal to a certain niche, leverage that fact. This home, for example, would be great […]
Active Rain Speechless Sundays: The First Step is a Doozy
Active Rain Yapping I was invited by the Larchmont Rotary Club to speak on real estate this past Friday. It was a cool experience. I was unaware of the Rotary and the good work they do, but that, along with lunch, was a cool fringe benefit. And they gave me a pen.  Not long ago I blogged about […]
Active Rain Floods in Westchester County We had some massive flooding yesterday all over the county, closing most of the main highways, such as the Saw Mill Parkways and 9A. It was probably a mix of the thaw upstate along with torrential rtains the past few days. I snapped an amazing video of a parking lot in Hawthorne that looked more […]
Active Rain What Does $295,000 Buy in Ossining? $295,000 will get you a solid 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath colonial in the village. The one we just closed on yesterday was built in the 1980s at the end of a dead end street in the Sparta neighborhood, walking distance from the Arcadian Shoping Center and the Jug Tavern. It boasted a finished walkout basement with […]
Active Rain OK, It’s a Wrap: the 1400 Day Short Sale is CLOSED Last year I blogged about the 1,096 day short sale I had in Putnam County getting a “final approval.” The thought entered my mind that blogging about such a snake-bitten file prior to closing might jinx it, but with a final approval and a solid buyer I thought “what could go wrong?” Plenty.  I won’t bore […]
Active Rain The Joys of Dewinterization It is a rare thing for me to have to reconnect and heat up a winterized home, especially as a listing agent, but I did just that today for a short sale scheduled to close Monday. The interior temperature when we started at around 1pm was 39 degrees, and it was cold and rainy today. […]
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