BEACH NOTES ... 12/29/2008 - 12/29/08 12:38 PM
2009 NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS ... for Owners, Sellers, Buyers, and "this Real Estate Agent"
 
Besides all of the holiday activities, family and friends, and more ... I enjoy the closing of one year and the beginning of the next.  It's like the end of a chapter in a good book, or even the move from one book to the next.  It's certainly the close of my 2008 Journal and the opening of my one for 2009.  In fact, since I've started writing journal entries my wife has continually purchasing the same journal type for one of my annual Christmas gifts.  … (1 comments)

BEACH NOTES ... 12/25/2008 - 12/26/08 08:31 AM
Merry Christmas from Ocean City, New Jersey
 
Where else can you be an hour from Philadelphia (and a ton of other locations) on a barrier island (which always impacts the weather in a generally positive way as compared to almost any place else), during the seven-to-eight months when most people forgot about us and our location, on a sunny fifty degree day.  So my wife and I started our walk from our Gardens home to the start of the Boardwalk on St. James Place.  We walked south passing a variety of other walkers, bikers, and surf board types taking advantage … (4 comments)

BEACH NOTES ... 12/18/2008 - 12/18/08 01:01 PM
I want to welcome readers to  ONmy first blog entry ... BEACH NOTES.  I'm new to "Active Rain," but not new to real estate.  I also write an "every Friday morning newsletter" entitled BEACH NOTES that goes to an extensive list of clients, both owners and buyers.  I generally complete about 40+ newsletters per year ... now for about the last seven or eight years.  Did 50 of them in 2007 when we were finishing our renovation and not taking vacations.  I also do a monthly BEACH NOTES for rental tenants as well.
It's difficult to reflect on the Ocean City … (7 comments)