Silver Lake Privileges with a low assessment ($265/year) make this lovely 10 year old home even better! Make every weekend special living in the unique community of Silver Lake Ohio.
Excellent schools, beautiful surroundings, small town feel yet close proximity to shopping, local attractions and yes, even work!
Silver Lake residents only have access to sparkling 100 acre spring-fed Silver Lake with clubhouse, lifeguards, reservable picnic areas, paddle boats, canoes, sail boats, rowboats. The fishing is excellent, and the lake is well stocked. Silver Lake is an affluent community, with tree-lined streets perfect for walks and bike rides. Much character and charm, plus many familiar faces. It's a place that reminds one of an earlier time - but it's here for you today.
A beautiful newer home with lake privileges is a rare commodity in Silver Lake! Come and see it today while you have the chance!
If you always wanted a real-live train set in your own backyard, then dreams really do come true! The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad is right in your backyard at Hickory, a great place to live along the Towpath Trail!
Like to be close to nature? Live here and bike without traffic...be near the river...live near the park!
Close proximity to all...Less drive time gives you back YOUR time!
All in a sustainable, beautiful community that offers a friendly, traditional neighborhood!
Come and discover Hickory today!
Dawn Maloney, REALTOR®, ABR, CDRS Elite, with RE/MAX Commitment.
Serving Hudson and Northeast Ohio since 2003, Call 330-990-4236.
For those of you who just can't wait till the end of the quarter and because I wanted to know too...Here is the market report for Hudson, Ohio for April & May 2009.
Type of market: BUYER'S
Your selection is incredible! We have over 13.5 months' supply of properties at the current rate of sales.
There are 231 available properties right now in Hudson OH.
Average price is $372,983, lowest is $109,900 and highest is $1,750,000.
Average days on the market: 154. Average list price per square foot: $133. Average square feet: 2775.
Average price reduction since original list: 3% Active Listings, 12% Contingent Listings. Translation: Prices are very good!
27 properties went into escrow in April and May 2009 in Hudson OH.
Average list price is $313,120, lowest is $79,900 and highest is $519,900.
Average days on the market: 122. Average list price per square foot: $114. Average square feet: 2651.
32 homes have been sold in Hudson OH in April and May of 2009.
Sellers received 94.56% of asking price, but only 92.5% of original list price.
Average list price was $290,710. Lowest was $112,000 and highest was $450,000.
Average days on the market: 163. Average square feet: 2,528. Median price was $249,250
Sales for the last six months in Hudson OH:
78 homes were sold. Average Days on Market: 174. Average sq. ft. was 2,686.
Sellers received 92.92% of asking price, but only 87.5% of original listing price. Did I not say prices are very good?
Average sales price was $296,906, low was $87,500 and high was $750,000.
Median price was $257,000. Average price per square foot was $108.40.
All figures are from NEOHREX.
Dawn Maloney, REALTOR®, ABR, CDRS Elite, with RE/MAX Commitment.
Serving Hudson and Northeast Ohio since 2003, Call 330-990-4236.
There isn't much that happens in this world without sales. Please read this and be considerate of the next good salesperson you encounter. Thanks, Wendy!
My husband and I had to go shopping for a new television last weekend. The old one was about to die - its channel guide was getting fuzzy and my eyesight is already "bat-like". We researched our options online, found one we wanted, then set out for a reconnaissance mission to Sears, Best Buy and yes, Sam's, at my Hubby's insistence.
Right away, at our first store, Sear's, there was our new flatscreen- and it was a lot less expensive than the internet price! I got really excited. The on-duty salesman, Lee, came over and quietly introduced himself to ask if we needed any help. My husband asked if it the t.v. had built-in speakers, and Lee said "Yes". Hubby didn't give signals to talk further (being an engineer), so Lee said to call him if we needed more help.
My husband and I walked up and down the aisles but I already KNEW it was the t.v. we wanted (OK-- " I" wanted). Hubby and I whispered ...."I really want it, let's get it now!" I said. My husband agreed.
I called Lee over and we said "We'll take it". He said he would have to check their inventory (sigh). Sadly, there were none in stock, but if we ordered it then, we could have it in three days.Hubby and I looked at each other. I said "Let's order it", but my husband wanted to finish our mission and go to the other stores.
Before we left, I asked the salesman, Lee, "Are you commission sales?"
"Yes", he responded.
"Then I want you to get credit for the sale if we call or come back to order the t.v. I am a salesperson, too, so I respect that."
Lee then filled out a customer-finder form so we could let any of the other Sears salespeople know we were "his" customers.
Hubby and I completed our research at the other stores. Sears was the best price by far. I sent Hubby to get the t.v. the next day. "Make sure you give the on-duty salesperson Lee's card so he gets credit!" I instructed.
"Why?" he asked innocently, being an engineer, "He didn't do any work. He answered one question."
"Honey", I said, "If someone called me up because they found a house, then grabbed me to write an offer, would I not deserve a commission? Some deals are easy, some are hard. That's just the way it is. Lee might have killed himself with the previous three customers. They might not have bought, or maybe they did not give his card so he didn't got credit when they did buy. Yes, we were ‘easy', but not all sales have to be ‘difficult' to make the salesman deserving."
Hubby went back to the store, and there was a different salesperson there, not Lee. He did a lot of work to take the order from my husband. I asked Hubby what he said when he gave him Lee's card... He said....
Will it loosen up the really good inventory because homeowners could move up?
What would happen to prices?
Will it bring out more buyers?
Or will it all still stall due to JOBS?
What do you think? It looks as if this time, the $15,000 Homebuyer Credit will succeed. It has bi-partisan support. Tell your representatives in Washington how you feel about it right away. This may be in effect in the next 60 days.
"There's a hat for every head!" Or as my dear friend Deb Kalbaugh says it, "There's a butt for every seat!" While we usually mean, "There's a buyer for every house," I would like to say there is an ideal offer for every ideal contact.
Identifying your ideal contact lets you know what to offer to attract the right person to your listing, to your office, to your meeting, to your life.
Who is the ideal person you want to connect with:
For your listings?
As a buyer?
For networking/referrals?
For a listing...
I usually start with the seller. I know I am looking for someone like him/her. What interests them? What type of reading/movies/entertainment do they like? What needs did this house meet for them? What appealed to them the most? Then direct your marketing to this person - the words you use for ad copy, where you advertise, etc.
For a buyer...
This may fall into professions or hobbies, educational interests, sports, cars, etc. Lane Bailey has built a great niche for buyers who love garages. Others focus on waterfront buyers or golfers or skiers, and they have a built in list of what attracts these buyers and what they like - what they read, foods they like, clothes and gear they find exciting...Again, direct your marketing to this group of people. If your ideal buyer loves a certain magazine or tv show - you need to be there in some way, shape or form. Whether you wrap the magazine in your own branded envelope or buy them a subscription or advertise in it - be where they are, in the way they like, on a regular basis.
For networking/referrals...
First, determine what you have to offer and why you want to network. It's a two way street. If you go into this looking for what you can get out of it and not what you can give, you are wasting your time and theirs.
I highly recommend anything that Jeffrey Gitomer or Seth Godin has to offer on networking. They say it much better than I can. Be sincerely interested in people because you are truly interested in getting to know them. Give them reasons to trust you with confidences, and they will keep your confidences. Be a safe person who can be trusted to look out for their interests.
Identify who you wish to spend time working with, growing with and loving. Offer them what nourishes, grows and edifies them, in a way that makes them comfortable or entertained or engaged.
It brings a flock of people into your life for all the right reasons.
"If You Want Beautiful Birds Clients, Offer What They Like"
If you look outside at my house, you will see robins, cardinals, sparrows, blue jays and occasional crows. Nothing too exciting in birdville in Ohio. Average looking birds, plentiful, nothing to write home about.
However, when we put out feeders with certain types of seed, we began to see brilliantly colored finches - yellow finches, house finches, purple finches. Regularly.
If we put out a jar lid of grape jelly, Baltimore Orioles magically appear. Regularly.
If we fill a container with sugar solution, brilliant green and red hummingbirds arrive. Regularly.
What's my point? Those birds were there, but we didn't see them because we didn't offer what they like and need.
If it seems that there is nothing exciting happening in your business...lots of people all around, but nobody interested in buying or selling...not too much in the way of results or thrilling possibilities...maybe it is because you are not offering them the tasty nourishment they eagerly seek.
Trust me. They are there. You just haven't offered them what they want, the way they want it.
Just as the elusive colorful birds and songbirds were nearby... We didn't see them until we started offering food they liked. No chasing. No begging. They came to us.
Once you offer potential clients what they like and what they need - a targeted diet, if you will - you will see wonderful clients magically appear. Regularly.
And that part of your business will get easier, because you aren't chasing them. They are gladly coming to you.
Next: Identifying your ideal client lets you know what to offer them!
Dawn Maloney, REALTOR®, ABR, CDRS Elite, with RE/MAX Commitment.
Serving Hudson and Northeast Ohio since 2003, Call 330-990-4236.
You try to get to the park every weekend...why not live there?
Small-town traditional living within a stone's throw of downtown Akron. Located in the heart of the Little Cuyahoga River Valley, Hickory is situated across from Metro Parks trailhead, close to Cuyahoga Valley National Park with miles of trails, wildlife and scenic woodlands.
You will also enjoy the fun of the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad right in your backyard. It's like having a lifesize trainset of your very own!
It's a short ride to downtown, far from the hectic pace of city life. Designed to include a mixture of classic architecture and charm. Homes feature every modern convenience and energy efficient construction and exciting floor plans.
Dawn Maloney, REALTOR®, ABR, CDRS Elite, with RE/MAX Commitment.
Serving Hudson and Northeast Ohio since 2003, Call 330-990-4236.
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My husband and I had to go shopping for a new television last weekend
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