vandekar: When to list your home and how to price your home for sale - 02/03/08 01:32 PM
When your home goes on the market is an important issue, and I don't mean Spring, Summer, Fall or Winter. Presuming you are not selling your home your self, choosing the right broker to list your home is also important not only for when the home will be listed but for several other reasons … (4 comments)
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vandekar: Is anyone working? - 01/31/08 11:47 AM
We have had for sale a home that is moving towards foreclosure. As the end of last year drew to a close we persuaded the owners to drop the price to encourage some sort of an offer, aware that it would not cover their responsibility to the bank. we made clear … (4 comments)
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vandekar: Open your heart and give more smiles - 12/19/07 11:52 AM
I read a lot of things every day, positive re-affirming messages to keep my attitude in the right place. Sometimes I don't get to read them till later, sometimes right away. This just popped into my inbox and as I was reading the email this adaption of a well known poem/story I think … (0 comments)
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vandekar: How are you? - 12/11/07 07:07 AM
A simple question, asked many times a day, however, the answer is often ignored. Are we like this with our customers, asking questions but ignoring the answers? Do we think we know everyting already.
Every time I hear that we have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as … (10 comments)
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vandekar: Market Statistics for Tredyffrin Easttown, PA - 12/10/07 10:59 AM
Just over a month ago I looked at the statistics for this year to date and last year for the same period. This morning I checked those statistics to see if November had dramatically altered anything.
For January to the end of October in 2007 only 11 homes less sold than 2006. If you add … (0 comments)
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vandekar: The Main Line - 12/02/07 06:39 AM
Before the 1600's Lenni Lenape Indians called this area their home. In the 1600s William Penn sold land to a group of Welsh Quakers for ten cents an acre, it sells for quite a bit more nowadays per acre,although not known as the Main Line this was the beginning of the … (0 comments)
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vandekar: Have you tried...? - 12/02/07 05:53 AM
The last few weeks I have been getting ready for 2008. It started when I decided I was dissatisfied with my harvest for this year. Looking at my results I realized I had been a lazy farmer and it was nothing to do with the market. I sat down with my manager and we … (4 comments)
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vandekar: Does blogging bring business? - 11/16/07 03:03 PM
A couple of months ago my cell phone rang. I am staring at the number not recognizing the incoming call, with Trudy telling me to answer it. I noticed she recently does exactly the same, which is funny as she has to put on her glasses to see the numbers. anyway, I … (5 comments)
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vandekar: Don’t read this if you don’t want to know the truth about recent home sales in T/E! - 11/15/07 08:08 PM
It is always interesting to study home sales market statistics.
As any economist will tell you statistics don't lie, they just can be manipulated to say what you want. The numbers below are for all home sales in the Tredyffrin Easttown School district irrespective of price. I have taken the identical period … (2 comments)
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vandekar: Thank you for your service - 11/11/07 11:10 AM
We have just returned from a short Veterans' Day service at our local memorial to the fallen in Berwyn, PA where we live. It was attended by some politicians, Jim Gerlach, Carole Rubley and Duane Milne who all spoke. It was a beautiful service with the rendering of the National Anthem, … (2 comments)
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vandekar: Home InspectionProcess - 10/19/07 07:33 AM
Part of the process of selling or buying a home is the home inspection. However, many people do not understand the purpose of the home inspection. So let's look at what it is not and what it should be whether you are a seller, a buyer or simply a homeowner.
As a … (0 comments)
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vandekar: Giving more than 100%...maybe this will help. - 09/17/07 01:46 PM
I do not know where this came from, but our manager shared it with us the other day in a meeting and I thought after a little editing it was worth passing on.From a strictly mathematical viewpoint it goes like this:What makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? … (12 comments)
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vandekar: How involvement in the Suburban West Realtors Association helped my career. - 09/17/07 08:37 AM
This is a copy of a recent article I wrote for Realotr News, the September/October 2007 issue.Simply put I am a great believer in giving back to your industry. Before becoming a real estate practitioner in the United States, I was an antiques dealer in the United Kingdom. One of the … (0 comments)
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vandekar: Training for Iraq video - 08/24/07 01:45 PM
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vandekar: Selling a home with a Wachovia mortgage? - 08/13/07 10:25 AM
We just heard from one of our conveyance staff that Wachovia have recently changed their systems for providing payoff information.
It now seems that this is a several step process and you need to allow plenty of time to obtain the final payoff amount.
First you have to fax them an authorization form … (2 comments)
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vandekar: As a newer American this is touching - I hope you enjoy it as well! - 07/30/07 09:19 PM
My wife Trudy sent this to me today, as well as to a young Marine departing on a six month deployment, and our son who is preparing to deploy to Iraq for a second time. It is comments written by Isaac Asimov in 1991. As a newer citizen this touched me, … (5 comments)
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vandekar: Seven ideas to help you sell your home. - 07/24/07 08:50 AM
When it was a strong seller's market, do you remember that, we had countless seminars on how to write an agreement of sale that was attractive to the seller. Well, now we are in a strong buyer's market and what can we do to help our sellers make their home or … (5 comments)
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vandekar: Weekend Open House traffic still good. - 07/23/07 08:42 AM
So here we are in the depths of July, many people away on vacation and we are still getting good traffic at Open Houses. I was again sitting a home we have for sale in Devon and Trudy sat a wonderful farmhouse we have for sale in Glenmoore set on 5 … (1 comments)
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vandekar: Going back to Iraq - 07/23/07 08:27 AM
Well, we have been hoping he would go on a Marine Expeditionary Unit, or their posting to Iraq would be cancelled but it looks as if our son Jeremy is going back to Iraq sometime in October. Last tour he wrote emails regularly letting us know how it was, hoodwinked us … (7 comments)
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