columbus ohio: Central Ohio Hero on Extreme Makeover Home Edition - February 11, 2007 - 02/10/07 01:23 PM
The February 11, 2007 episode of Extreme Makeover Home Edition is a Whitehall Ohio location! Columbus' own M/I Homes demolished and rebuilt a house for the family of former Marine Sergeant Jason L. Thomas. Whitehall is an eastside suburb of Columbus.
From the local website: "WATCH THE SHOW SUNDAY FEBRUARY 11, 2007" The local website has lots of great … (7 comments)
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columbus ohio: The Columbus Housing Partnership - 02/09/07 09:43 AM
Columbus Housing Partnership, or CHP as most call it, helps put families in homes in Columbus and they help them to stay there too. Columbus Housing Partnership provides homeowner education, credit counseling, manages free grant money for certain areas of town that can be applied to down payments and home purchases … (0 comments)
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columbus ohio: National Consumer Protection Week - Help before Foreclosure - 02/07/07 02:06 PM
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columbus ohio: Renovation Trials and Tribulations - 02/06/07 07:06 PM
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columbus ohio: Ten Best Cities to Sleep.... - 02/06/07 03:06 AM
Ines, Teresa, Craig Schiller, Brian Brady can sleep? Strangely I do run into Blogging Bonnie Erickson a lot in during the night... and what about those Codgers up at the crack of dawn?
1. Anaheim, CA2. Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA3. Raleigh-Durham, NC4. Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN 5. Chicago, IL 6. Pittsburgh, PA7. San Diego, CA8. … (14 comments)
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columbus ohio: The Columbus Zoo - 02/02/07 03:59 PM
Did you know the Columbus Zoo has half price admission in January and February 2007? That's over half way over now!
What do bulls, rabbits, groundhogs, bears and colts have to do with Discover Columbus? All those animals and more reside at the Columbus Zoo? The Columbus Zoo probably does have all … (2 comments)
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columbus ohio: Minerva Park Real Estate - 5 Reasons to Buy in 2007 - 01/31/07 02:25 PM
Minerva Park is a village in Central Ohio. It is a suburb of Columbus, one of the early suburbs. Minerva Park is in northeast Franklin County.
Beauty Winter, spring, summer or fall, Minerva Park is beautiful with it's mature trees, classic homes, lakes and ravines. The lakes in the village are for … (1 comments)
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columbus ohio: Is your blog a real estate blog or a place blog? - 01/18/07 04:54 AM
Bloggers: If you have another blog is your blog a real estate blog or a place blog? Or both?
What's a place blog? What is the difference in a real estate blog and a place blog? Is every real estate blog with a name of a city a placeblog?
"-It's about the … (16 comments)
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columbus ohio: Central Ohio Market Report - December 2006 - 01/15/07 02:37 PM
Consumers: Please visit Discover Columbus for CURRENT Central Ohio Real Estate Market Reports - this is old news but for some reason there are still a lot of views. Although ActiveRain / Localism has a category for market reports a local ActiveRain member was highly opposed to my sharing this information.
There … (0 comments)
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columbus ohio: 50 Years Ago.... - 12/31/06 08:17 AM
A little bit of history.
1956.....Active Rainer Rich Jacobson was born we celebrated big on Active Rain...a Members Only entry, real estate professionals who are not members Join! Word has it Rich was born December 22, 1956 in Klamath Falls, Oregon....
1956 Jessica Hughe's Lolita the Lammy was born in Italy (I covet that scooter!)
1956 Colo was born … (10 comments)
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columbus ohio: 5 Reasons to Buy Columbus Real Estate in 2007 - 12/31/06 05:01 AM
At the end of 2006 interest rates are historically low across the country. That's good news to buyers everywhere. If you listen to the national news about buying now you may not get the whole story though. "Real estate is local" and the good news for Columbus and Central Ohio is that buying real … (6 comments)
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columbus ohio: Clintonville Area Market Report - 12/15/06 04:03 AM
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The numbers in the chart below are single family, townhouse and condominiums for sale and sold in the City of Columbus, Clintonville area. Clintonville is on the north side of Columbus. The graph and chart show market demand by comparing current inventory to number of homes sold in a 15-month period. The statistics are for … (0 comments)
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columbus ohio: Central Ohio Market Report - 12/14/06 04:24 PM
The graph above is all of Central Ohio, the whole area covered by the Columbus Board of REALTORS®. The Columbus Board of REALTORS® Multiple Listing Service serves all of Franklin, Delaware, Fayette, Madison, Morrow and Union counties and parts of Champagne, Clark, Licking, Fairfield, Knox, Logan, Marion and Pickaway counties. The properties represented here … (0 comments)
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columbus ohio: Trulia Announces Advisory Board - 12/13/06 03:28 PM
Today Trulia real estate search announced an advisory board from the real estate industry.
Trulia's New Release:
"Through interactive heat maps, neighborhood guides and property listings in all 50 states, a consumer researching a home for sale on Trulia.com is easily connected to the property page of the real estate professional most … (5 comments)
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columbus ohio: When do we start getting the "Hazard Pay" - 12/12/06 06:26 AM
A 74 year old man taking pictures of a house on the north side of Columbus "for a real estate company" was shot yesterday.
Channel 4 News Story "Man, 74, Shot During Attempted Robbery, Three Men Interviewed, Released"
I heard about it as breaking news at 6:00 yesterday (it happened at 1:30 PM.) I wanted … (14 comments)
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columbus ohio: Top 25 Influential People in the Industry - 12/11/06 08:03 PM
Who does Realtor Magazine Online call the 25 most influential people in the real estate industry today?
These 25 people are " Real Estate's 25 Most Influential Thought Leaders" according to Realtor Magazine Online:
Mo AndersonPat Vredevoogd CombsVirginia CookHarold CryeAllan DaltonP. Wesley Foster Jr.Bob HaleMargaret M. KellySteve MorrisFrances Martinez MyersPamela J. O'ConnorAllen M. OkamotoSteve OzonianRonald J. … (9 comments)
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columbus ohio: Real Living Now in 16 States - 11/30/06 01:35 AM
Real Living just announced its move into the Connecticut, Kansas and Virginia markets, increasing our presence to 16 states. We have a webcast on our Real Living Business Center home page (our intranet) about recent expansion which I watched earlier today.
One of the "stars" of the webcast (video), Susan Eidler of Real … (11 comments)
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columbus ohio: Mortgage Fraud tied to Terrorism? - 11/21/06 07:10 AM
How does that go...? 'sometimes truth is stranger than fiction."
As a real estate agent what would you do?
"This is how it works. Targeting new or newer homes in affluent suburbs that have languished on the real estate market for months, interested buyers offer to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars … (35 comments)
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columbus ohio: "Nuts. Nuts, and lots of them" - 11/17/06 03:17 AM
Weekend events in Columbus include one very important to many football game.
Poll who's going to win the game?
The University of Michigan is warning their students about dangerous neighborhoods in Columbus. They are bringing their own police.
Michigan bloggers have travel advisories about where to NOT venture in Columbus on Saturday along with various … (6 comments)
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columbus ohio: Central Ohio Inventory and Sales - It's a buyer's market! - 11/16/06 05:43 AM
Consumers: Please Visit Discover Columbus for CURRENT Central Ohio Real Estate Market Reports - this is old news but for some reason there are still a lot of people visiting. Although ActiveRain / Localism has a category for market reports a local ActiveRain member was highly opposed to my sharing this … (0 comments)
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columbus ohio: Franklin County Inventory and Sales - It's a buyer's market! - 11/16/06 05:21 AM
Consumers: Please Visit Discover Columbus for CURRENT Central Ohio Real Estate Market Reports - this is old news but for some reason there are still a lot of people visiting. Although ActiveRain / Localism has a category for market reports a local ActiveRain member was highly opposed to my sharing this … (0 comments)
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columbus ohio: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - Central Ohio - 11/15/06 01:17 PM
Columbus Ohio's M/I Homes was selected by ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" to build a house for a Whitehall, Ohio family.
Real Living has partnered with M/I Homes in this project as a sponsor. Real Living is hosting M/I Homes' new Web site that provides more information about the project including a day … (11 comments)
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columbus ohio: Beat Michigan Week - 11/13/06 03:01 AM
It' beat Michigan Week in Columbus Ohio. I'm looking for some Buckeye football fans on Active Rain. Elaine Reese and Karen Villa Schweinfurth were doing OSU proud on Active Rain early in the season. Karen wrote:
Do you know where your family is?
Champions in the making
A comment on Karen's blog about Saturday … (4 comments)
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columbus ohio: Top 10 Riskiest Housing Markets - Fall 2006! - 11/12/06 05:46 AM
Now that I have your attention let me recommend a real estate blog I really like The Real Estate Bloggers. The Real Estate Bloggers has a list of the 10 Riskiest Housing Markets Fall 2006 on their blog. This list comes from the PMI Institute.
The good news, Columbus is on the list … (36 comments)
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columbus ohio: Location, location, location - 11/11/06 02:39 AM
"Big deals send up red flags" "Sales of 14 upscale homes at well-above-market prices raise suspicions of flipping" says an article in the Sunday, November 05, 2006 Columbus Dispatch written by Geoff Dutton. What kind of sale prices are we talking? What kind of differences... one home sold for list price... $0 difference … (12 comments)
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columbus ohio: Vote - 11/07/06 05:38 AM
The Columbus Board of REALTORS® is voting online for the first time. If it said somewhere prviously that my friends at Internet Crusade are manning the virtual voting machines I missed it. The vote for CBR directors opened today at 12:01 A.M.
Dear Maureen, Members of the Columbus Board of REALTORS® are encouraged to vote on-line for 2006 … (12 comments)
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columbus ohio: Real Living is so web 2.0 - 11/04/06 07:24 AM
Real Living has a blog. The blog has an entry yesterday that Real Living has an entry in Wikipedia...Wikipedia is so web 2.0 Wikipedia's Real Living encyclopedia entry
Of course Coldwell Banker has an encyclopedia entry in Wikipedia but local Coldwell Banker King Thompson doesn't have a Wikipedia encyclopedia entry yet. Re/Max Intl has a … (14 comments)
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columbus ohio: The Short North - Columbus Ohio - 11/02/06 01:02 PM
The Short North Columbus Ohio - Inman Stories - Real Living
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is a video worth? A video about The Short North in Columbus Ohio, calls the neighborhood "downtown." While the neighborhood is urban, The Short North is not downtown, it is just north of downtown, … (2 comments)
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columbus ohio: Columbus Ohio - 10/23/06 05:28 PM
Columbus Ohio is the big city that no one expects. Columbus is the 15th largest city in the United States. Columbus is the largest city in Ohio and the state capital.
Columbus is unique for a city of it's size in that it is still growing, geographically and populationwise.
Columbus is in Central Ohio at … (6 comments)
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columbus ohio: The Best Open House List in Town, isn't real estate still local? - 10/11/06 12:41 AM
Active Rainer Carolyn Nelson of North Carolina wrote a nice blog entry about a Free Open House Ad opportunity,
"Welcome to Neighborhood Open Houses.
Finally, one place to find Open Houses in your area. Maximze your open house traffic by listing your open house here on line at Neighborhoodopenhouse.com "
The site … (23 comments)
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columbus ohio: Buckeye Football - Champions in the Making - 10/07/06 06:12 PM
So another big win for the Buckeyes. Wow what a game. I missed some of it to show homes. So Elaine Reese, grease your buckeye, you'll be headed to Arizona for the big game. We should meet up. My buckeye flag is flying proudly on the porch and my "nuts are … (4 comments)
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columbus ohio: Mona Lisa smile - 09/18/06 07:42 AM
deja vu..."Mona lisa, mona lisa...." I don't know why but I Googled the lyrics to Nat King Cole's 'Mona Lisa' recently.... the comments on Michigan Blogger Sara Lipnitz Active Rain Blog from her Florida admirers caught my attention...
" Sara,
You know I love reading your blog! That Mona Lisa smile won me over.. … (15 comments)
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columbus ohio: A New England Village in Central Ohio - 08/24/06 08:16 PM
Worthington Ohio is a transplanted New England Village, settled by people from Connecticut. Worthington is a Columbus suburb inside the 270 outerbelt. Worthington has a village green that is still used today, but cows do not graze there as they once did... (there are cows down the road but that's a different … (2 comments)
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columbus ohio: Coast to Coast - 08/21/06 11:02 AM
Are you southwest of Ohio? Phil who is walking coast to coast across the US to raise funds for cancer research may be headed your way. Phil planned to stay along Route 40 but talking to an Ohio farmer west of Columbus he made a decision. On his blog 'Coat to Coast' Phil wrote:
"The … (2 comments)
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