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Excellent Entry Level Investment Opportunity!Two-Family home just listed for $174,900.  First floor unit has 2 bedroom and has been occupied by the same family for many years.  Rent is currently $520 month to month.Second floor was originally the same layout as the first but one of the bedrooms w...

Only 4% of Real Estate Agents start out in this business. Here is some insight into my other profession.  As I recall I took a liking to "drafting" as part of an exploratory course back in grade school and listed it as my occupational plan in the 8th grade yearbook. In high school I wound up wit...

Recently I was tagged to write a MeMe and one of the comments said "What I want to know is what was your first career"  Instead of going into a detailed answer I thought it would make a great on-going subject for many people and decided to start a group.Below are a few highlight from a NAR report...

My run yesterday must have been a little slow because I got Tagged three times.  I first hit came while I was out running from Thesa Chambers, next George Souto gave me a poke and since I wasn't moving fast enough the fitness queen Suzanne Sands gave me a jab.1 - I grew up in West Haven as a poor...

Yesterday Broker Maggie dropped a few cents in the comment section of my blog and it reminded me how quickly pennies can add up to Big Bucks.  The POWER of the PENNY.  I ran into this illustration several years ago at some seminar.  Cannot recall what product they were peddling and never offered ...

 The real estate market is flooded with new agents.  According to a report released by the National Associations of Realtors a few days ago 23.2% of the members have joined within the last two years.  This rapid influx of new agents has contributed to declining incomes for Realtors over several y...

OPEN HOUSE -  Sunday May 20th, 2007 between 1-3 pm.  The Location :  383 Brushy Plain Road - Branford, Connecticut 06405 The Description:   Nestled amongst hundreds of acres located in the north western hills of the Connecticut shoreline town of Branford sits a 3000 SF Contemporary Colonial that ...

Well, Flat Matt is off to his next destination.  He should arrive in North Carolina early next week.  His Connecticut adventures started out on Thursday with a little shopping, running, pizza & beer. Friday he was off to the Peabody Museum at Yale to visit the Trilobites and he spent the day Satu...

We decided to take a few days off and putter around the yard after the long winter and an extremely wet spring.  Our first project was to remove some large trees growing a little to close to the house.  After downing a few and trimming the brush we both needed a break, cannot spend the whole day ...

My anniverary is coming up in a few months and I found the perfect romantic gift....  How does A Romantic Paris Vacation sound.....?Well, I decided to start planning... Went to Google Maps and clicked to get directions.Typed in our starting point "New Haven" and destination "Paris"Walllaaaa.... I...