I just listed a terrific townhouse in Brandywine @ Thornbury. It's a great 3 bedroom home with a finished, walk-out basement, a one car attached garage, an enlarged deck overlooking open space and it's move-in condition! Here are the details:
So much to Offer!
137 Stirrup Circle, West Chester, PA 19382 View Map
Charming, comfortable and cozy townhouse in popular Brandywine @ Thornbury. Entry foyer with hardwood flooring, living room with fireplace, dining room, eat-in kitchen with sliders to over-sized deck overlooking woods, finished walk-out basement, attached garage, spacious bedrooms which include the master bedroom suite with private bath and walk-in closet! Sellers are even including the washer, dryer and refrigerator! Great home for a great price!
Details
Asking Price:
329,900
MLS:
5619560
Bedrooms:
3
Bathrooms:
2 1/2
Subdivision:
Brandywine @ Thornbury
Contact Info
Susan C. Mangigian Realtor
Main 610-719-1700 Cell 610-299-6237 Dir 484-356-2965 Email | Website
Carl E. Williams
Home Loan Officer-Acct Exec
Chase New
120 Gibraltar Road
Horsham, PA 19044
610-325-1500 Email
All information is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed.
Over the course of the past few weeks, a very large dog has been roaming our neighborhood. He looks like a greyhound and he is huge. He is also not neutered, which is obvious because, as I mentioned, the dog is huge!
I have been bitten by big dogs before, so at first, I was a little leery of this one.
Yesterday, JJ was going crazy. He wanted to go outside and play.
I called the police yesterday, just to report that this lovely animal has been running the neighborhood and eventually, and very sadly, would be hit by a car if his owners didn't start behaving more responsibly. The officer that came by wasn't able to catch the dog but later that day, he was back on my deck, salivating on the sliding glass door (that would be the big dog and not the policeman) and JJ wanted outside .
After making sure that Major would play nicely, I ran and got my camera. Looking at my cute little fluffernutter staring into the eyes of this huge dog almost made me drop the camera! I was able to get close enough to the dog to get his name and telephone number. His owner was at work and apparently he has someone who is supposed to let Major out on a dog lead rather than just let him out. He lives on a busy street near our neighborhood and I suggested to him that it would be a damn shame if this sweet dog was hit by a car because he was let out to roam the area. Hopefully he will be more careful in the future.
Wouldn't it be nice if everyone played nicely, regardless of our differences? Wouldn't it be nice if our skin colors and our size and shapes were not a factor in how we treat each other? There are a lot of things we can learn from animals. This lesson is huge.
Today, 11/5/09, I am thankful as always for JJ. I am thankful that the Phillies made it to the World Series 2 years in a row! I am thankful they didn't lose in the first 4 games and, in my opinion, gave us an exciting season. I am thankful the sun is shining, my children are safe and well and that life is good.
West Chester Borough is a college town and a wonderful place to visit. Thursday night was the annual Halloween Parade. Words just can't do this town justice as a place for families and friends to gather to celebrate life. I'll let the pictures do the talking!
The marching bands from all 3 high schools and West Chester University were in attendance!!
Various color guards and cheerleaders...
Adults and children alike were in costume... Santa even made an appearance, although he looked a bit peaked.
State Senator Dinniman along with his dog and Representative (my all time favorite) McIlvaine Smith were also in attendance!
My son Max and his friends enjoyed it immensely!
I always enjoy going to events in West Chester borough. If you have never been there, it's worth the trip!
What a great day it was today, if you don't count having to be up, dressed, hair done and make-up on by 7:30 AM. I am not a morning person so this kind of rushing around tends to stress me out. We were car pooling to Philadelphia today to attend the RE/MAX Demand Success, Today and Tomorrow seminar hosted by none other than Dave Liniger! Dave did not disappoint and gave us tips on prospering in today's economy and in the market ahead. Then, as my bosses are prone to do, the agents in the office who attended were treated to a great lunch at Maggiano's Little Italy on 12th Street. Twelve Schstreet as someone from my hometown would probably say! Lunch was great, the company and laughs wonderful. I can't say enough good things about both of my brokers, Mike Santoleri and Mike D'Adamo. Two great men who treat us wonderfully and provide the latest in learning and technology so we can all be our best.
After lunch and the ride back to Chester County, I was treated to a hero's welcome from none other than my beloved JJ.
This little fella throws me a wiggle parade every time I come home. His entire body shakes with the sheer joy of seeing me again! The best part is, he will do the same thing if I am gone for 5 minutes or if I am gone for the day! I almost can't bear to leave him early next year when I go to my first RE/MAX convention! Weighing a week away with my best female friends at a convention in Orlando and missing JJ is a tough choice. I will miss him, but I am going!
Tonight, I am taking my son Max and his best buddy Alex to the West Chester Halloween Parade, where I am sure a good time will be had by all! Our 3 high school marching bands, representatives from the local fire departments, antique cars and lots of kids in costume will float past us as we cheer from the sidelines. Maybe that will be me cheering and Max and his friend pretending they don't know me!
This past weekend, I got a visit from my first born, home from college for the day. He left with a full tank of gas, a full trunk of food, including my homemade gravy (sauce for you non-Italians) and we were left with warm hugs and emptier wallets! It's always great to see him, he's a great young man.
Today, 10/29/09 I am thankful, as always for my sons Mike and Max, my little love JJ, my family, my friends, my bosses, Mike and Mike and for life in general. So many things to make a person smile every day. You just have to look for them sometimes!
The sellers and I have just reduced this absolutely gorgeous home in East Goshen! This is no trick! You will want to treat yourself this Halloween to seeing one of the nicest homes on the market at this time!
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919 Nathaniel Drive, Wentworth, East Goshen Township, West Chester, , PA 19380 View Map
Reduced! Don't miss this gorgeous home!
If you've been dreaming about a larger home but don't want to give up location, your dreams are about to come true! This gorgeous home at the end of a cul-de-sac in Wentworth is a must see. New ultra kitchen and master bath, gorgeous flooring, every upgrade, in absolute move-in condition. Don't wait to see it!
Susan C. Mangigian | Realtor | Re/Max Preferred Main 610-719-1700 | Cell 610-299-6237 | Dir 484-356-2965 | Email | Website
Carl E. Williams | Home Loan Officer-Acct Exec | Chase New 120 Gibraltar Road | Horsham, PA 19044 | 610-325-1500 | Email
You may be thinking E + R = O looks like some kind of algebra problem or something and may even be bringing you some nasty math class flash backs, but not to worry... ;)
E + R = O is ‘formula.'
...A formula to create whatever kind of outcome or result you want from your life. BUT, only useful if you're ready to accept responsibility for every outcome in your life up until this point, both personal and professional.
...Meaning, you're willing to give up all blaming, complaining, justifying and finger pointing. You'll need to surrender now to the "If only __________ , I would be better off" type of talk otherwise you'll keep getting the same outcome over and over and over again and again and again.
Want a different outcome? Feeling stuck in certain areas?
If so, then let's take a trip down the hallways of E + R = O, shall we?
I learned about this formula from Jack Canfield, author of the world famous, best seller: "Chicken Soup For The Soul." It goes like this...
Event + Response = Outcome
You ‘respond' to a particular ‘event' in your life, which then creates your ‘outcome.' The event itself does not cause the outcome; YOUR response to the event causes the outcome. Events are emotionless. They are not people. They are not controlled by anyone, they just happen, and they will continue to "just happen" to you, me, all of us...
Here's an example:
Let's say I give you $1,000, and you ‘respond' by spending it all shopping. Let's say I give that same $1,000 to someone else and they ‘respond' by investing the money for a year. A year later the $1,000 is now worth $1,200, meaning they earned 20% on the money...
The first person ‘responded' by spending the money, the second ‘responded' by investing the money. Same $1000, two different outcomes, right?
Here's a better demonstration of E + R = O that I did in a live seminar I hosted recently here in South Florida...
As a demonstration ONLY, I role-played with a young woman in the audience by saying to her: "What if I told you that you may be one of the stupidest people I've ever met." I asked the audience to raise their hands if they felt this would lift the young woman's self-esteem. No hands went up. I then asked if they felt it would lower her self-esteem. Almost every hand went up...
...which meant they missed the message. They missed E + R + O.
In the demonstration, when I said "You may be one of the stupidest people I've ever met," the young woman could have ‘responded' in two ways:
She may have been thinking: "Oh my goodness, Andrew's only known me a few minutes, how does he know?" That would no doubt lower her self-esteem.
Or...
She may have been thinking: "How could Andrew possibly think I'm stupid? He doesn't even know me. I am well educated, have a successful career, good relationships. I am confident in myself, have a strong self-image, I'm happy, plus, I'm one of the more attractive women in the room, he probably can't keep his eyes off me anyways." That wouldn't damage her self-esteem a bit, now would it?
You see, it's not what Andrew said to the young woman, it's what the young woman said to the young woman after Andrew was done talking that will ultimately create HER outcome...
Same ‘event,' different ‘response' = YOUR desired ‘outcome'
Don't take this formula lightly. It works every time without fail. So if you want a different ‘outcome,' create a different ‘response.' Easier said than done, I know, but try it on and watch what happens. You may surprised by the ‘outcome'...
I cannot sing. It is pretty much unanimous among the people who know and love me that I cannot sing. I don't care what those people say, I love to sing. I sing all day, all night and every time I am in the car. Max, my 13 year old has a request. That I do not sing in the car. Pffttt. Too bad, I say. I try to refrain when he has his friends in the car, but sometimes, it just pops out. I can think of a song for almost anything my kids say to me. The latest conversation with Max was whether or not 13 is too young to have a girlfriend. I think so. He disagrees. Next thing I know I am singing "they try to tell us we're too young".
My own mother regularly turns off her hearing aides when I sing. Seriously. I do have a few loyal friends that insist that I sing well, but frankly, I think they are lying! The other problem is that I am hearing impaired. This is a two part problem. The one part is that I can honestly not hear how bad I am and the other part is I rarely get the words right, because I didn't hear them correctly in the first place. Lyrics.com is one of my favorite places!
I also love to sing happy birthday to my friends on their birthday. This is generally greeted with either a groan or laugh but always with the words, "you don't have to sing the entire song". I ignore this. I am making joyful noise!
On the first day of school in September, when "mom held hostage" is over, I can be heard belting out Barbra Streisand's "Free again"!
I love Broadway musicals and have been known to sing all of the parts! Not well, but hey... if the only songs you heard in the forest were from the birds that sang well, it would be a pretty damn quiet forest! There's a quote from someone in there, but for the moment, I can't remember who said it. My favorite musical is They're Playing our Song!
Sing, sing a song. Sing out loud. Sing out strong. Sing of good things, not bad..... Sing of happy, not sad! Sing, sing a song. Make it simple to last your who life long. don't worry that it's not good enough, for anyone else to hear, just sing... sing a song!!!
So, for today, 10/22/09, I am thankful for music. It makes our souls soar, it lightens our load, it brings us together. In my case, it makes people laugh! So sing! Sing a song!
I live and work in East Goshen, Chester County. It's a lovely township, some liken to the suburbs of Delaware County, as East Goshen is sometimes as far West of the city of Philadelphia as some buyers would like to be. The mission statement of the township, as per their website is as follows:
Endeavor to be one of the premier communities in Chester County by continually improving the quality of life while, at the same time, managing growth and development in a manner consistent with the protection of our environment and preservation of our natural and historic resources.
I can speak to my experience here as a convenient, clean and welcoming township that boasts two gorgeous parks, with great walking paths, a responsive township, some decent pizza places and a place to get one of the best Italian hoagies and cheese-steaks this side of the river!
East Goshen is part of the West Chester area School District. My college aged son, now at Kutztown, had a very nice education going through the school system and my younger son is having a successful time in middle school.
The following are market statistics form the past year, October 2008 to the present time. All numbers are compliments of TREND MLS. The numbers show that East Goshen is quite a diverse township with homes ranging from modest condominiums to large executive homes.
There are currently 141 active listings in the township with the current average list price of $500,194.
During the past year:
Minimum Prices are $112,000 Original List Price and $110,000 Sold Price.
Maximum Prices are $1,595,000 Original List Price and $1,500,000 Sold Price.
Average Prices are $362,731 Original List Price and $334,241 Sold Price.
Average days on the market for the past year is 89! Not too bad considering what is going on in other parts of our country. Average days on the market so far for October, 2009 is 47 days!
I am the marketing agent for two of the homes currently on the market.
426 Eaton Way is a lovely one bedroom condominium located in the popular over 55 community of Hersheys Mill, listed at $193,900.
919 Nathaniel Drive, a gorgeous colonial that sits at the end of a cul-de-sac street and has a new kitchen and master bath, listed at $698,800.
If you are interested in knowing more about East Goshen, or any part of Chester County, or if you just want to know where to get a decent Italian Hoagie, call me or email me. I'm happy to help.
While perusing a diet book called The Full Plate Diet, I came across a quote from Albert Einstein. "A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"
This got me thinking. I am a fairly optimistic person prone to occasional fits of deep blue that don't usually last very long. What do I need to be happy? The first that popped into my head was JJ, my dog.
Of course my children make me very happy, but there's nothing quite like the uncomplicated, undemanding and totally no strings attached love that you get from a dog. Having spent my entire life yearning for a dog and finally getting JJ last summer, I honestly can't believe I lived this long without him.
Another thing that makes me happy is quietly reading a book. If I have to picture my happy place in my mind, it would be on the porch of the house we rent every summer at the beach. My feet up, my hair being stirred by a soft ocean breeze, a full glass of my home made ice-tea on the end table and my JJ right next to me. One hand turning the pages, one had stroking my best friend in the world. Yes. That's it.
The smell of a baby's warm head is another of my happy places. I can so remember my babies as babies and the feelings that welled up in me when I held them in my arms to nurse them. Surely there is nothing quite like it.
The warmth of a cat and the contented sound of it's purring. I had a cat from around aged 9 until I was about 22 or 23. Cleo was her name and she slept on my bed, right next to my pillow. Cleo had a loud purr and she would start to purr the minute she walked into my bedroom. She purred as I fell asleep and for a long while after she died, I simply couldn't fall asleep without the sound of her steady rumbling in my ear. Animals have always been a big part of what makes me happy.
Having been away from church for many years, it's been a pleasure to be back in the fold, so to speak. After every service, they now sing a song called Bind us Together. We sing this while facing each other across the aisle. It's a lovely song and I find myself singing it for most of the day afterward, thinking of my sons and how bound we are to each other in love. My mom and I are very close and we talk almost daily. She is another of my happy places and I am so grateful to have been raised by such a warm and strong woman. She's very funny too and says just about whatever pops into her Italian head. I love that little woman!
What else does a woman, or a man need to be happy? The knowledge that your children are safe and well and happy, a warm animal by your side, a good book, a nice glass of wine, laughter with friends, contented fullness from a good meal shared with people you love. There's not a thing here that requires a lot of money. But these are things that this woman needs to be happy, and how lucky and blessed, that these are the things I have.
So, what does it take for you to be happy? I'd really like to know.
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