Chocolate Avenue Real Estate - From the Sweet Street

 In a decision today by Lebanon County President Judge Eby, the Lebanon County Commissioners have been ordered to reassess all properties in the county by the end of 2012. This is due to a property tax assessment appeal by a local couple in 2006 in which they stated "the county's failure to condu...

 This afternoon at Hershey Park Stadium, the Steelton Highspire football team beat the team from Clairton 35 to 16 to win the PIAA Class A Football Championship. Steel High which encompasses the broughs of Steelton and Highspire (both Harrisburg suburbs) finished with a record of 16-0 and only tr...

 Some of the current financial meltdown has moved into the professional sports business in the past few weeks,The most recent was this week when the NFL announced there would be layoffs affecting more than 10% of it's employees. And at least one team has cut back staff due to reduced revenue.  On...

 Some of the current financial meltdown has moved into the professional sports business in the past few weeks,The most recent was this week when the NFL announced there would be layoffs affecting more than 10% of it's employees. And at least one team has cut back staff due to reduced revenue.  On...

The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education recently released their report called Measuring Up 2008 ( http://measuringup2008.highereducation.org/index.php ) which measures the progress of higher eduction overall in the country and on a state by state basis. While Pennsylvania's num...

Yeah, I'm tired of dealing with tires left in REO properties!  I know we occasionally get a REO property where the owner has left a used tire or two still in the garage. I mean those properties that have stacks and piles of used tires just rotting away.  For instance, we were assigned an REO prop...

Now even the local Mall is in default and facing foreclosure   Commerce Bank, which holds the mortgage on the Harrisburg Mall, announced yesterday that mall owner is in default and the bank is seeking possession of the property.   According to the mortgage holder, the mall owner has been in defau...

That's right. The Harrisburg CBS television station was placed as a home market for the Baltimore Ravens since under the NFL rules and television agreement, WHP-TV's viewing area is within 75 miles of the stadium.  Now there is some history here. When the Colts were in Baltimore, they played on B...

One of the negatives about living in a smaller market is the lack of transportation opportunities when you just have to get out of town. The Harrisburg International Airport is a very nice facility converted from the former Olmsted Air Base with a new terminal, very long runways and short securit...

Well, it might. According to an article published Friday in the Pacific Business News, a new law in Hawaii called the Mortgage Rescue Fraud Prevention Act could mean some real estate agents would be practicing as "Distressed Property Consultants" which requires them to abide by a separate set of ...