home sales: COLD CALLING - Shouldn't you Research the Neighborhood? - 03/31/13 05:14 AM
If I wasn’t a real estate agent I’d probably hang up but...
 
I usually hang right up from solicitors, especially since I’m every Do Not Call List that you can be on for all of my phones and multiple times, but you know we still get them. Usually automated, sometimes that good old “we are not asking for money pitch!).
 
Yesterday I got a call that went like this.
Hello Barbara. This is John from “xyz” realtors. (Did not say which town but I knew where he was from and it was across the county). Did you know that … (20 comments)

home sales: Why Renters and Buyers Should Use a "legitimate" Real Estate Agent - 03/01/13 07:25 AM

Buyer/Renter Beware. You may not get what you expected!
I happen to tune into Anderson Cooper’s program this afternoon when they were discussing real estate scams found on Craigs List and similar sites by people who don’t actually own the properties and are renting or selling them. These people find foreclosures and abandomed buildings, change the locks and claim that they own them, and proceed to advertise them for rent or sale!
There were three different couples who were interviewed. Each loosing over $9,000 between renovations and upgrades before the bank came and told them that they did not own the … (2 comments)

home sales: HGAR - OUR NEW ASSOCIATION of REALTORS® - 02/09/12 03:37 AM
What does WPAR + RCBR + OCAR Equal?
 
 
 

              Lower Hudson                                    Mid-Hudson Bridge                             Woodbury, New York
Our new association that has combined Westchester/Putnam Association of REALTORS® , the Rockland County Board of REALTORS®, and the Orange County Association of REALTORS® We are now The Hudson Gateway Association of REALTORS® - or HGAR.HGAR will combine oversight of our EAMLS which services Bronx, Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties as well as the Great Hudson MLS which services Rockland, Sullivan, Orange and Ulster counties.According to Nancy Kennedy, who was installed as the First HGAR President,  and spoke at our inaugeration event January 19th, … (0 comments)

home sales: PREPARING TO SELL OR BUY A HOME IN SPRING! - 01/17/12 06:17 AM
 
You are sitting around the fireplace having a hot cup of chocolate and thinking about moving to a warmer climate! Or, perhaps after the first major snowstorm you are thinking about moving locally to a condo or co-op where the snowblowing is done by the complex!  Or, downsizing to a smaller house, condo or co-op up north and buying one of those bargains in the south before the market heats up! 
You also may be a young, growing family who is thinking of  buying a bigger home starting in the spring, so that you can close when the children are … (0 comments)

home sales: POSITIVE OUTLOOK FOR 2012 SALES - 01/06/12 03:19 AM
I WOKE UP THIS MORNING AND FOUND THIS ARTICLE ON MY GOOGLE MAIL FROM NAR!  IT SAID "SHARE!" so HERE IT IS IN CASE YOU DIDN'T SEE IT!  ANY POSITIVE NEWS ON REAL ESTATE SALES IS GOOD NEWS!
2012 Home Sales: Positives on Many Fronts On January 3, 2012, in Breaking News, Economics, by Robert Freedman <!-- --> <!-- AddThis Button Begin --> Share|   NAR released its latest pending home sales index figure last week and for the second month in a row the index is up. But more than that, the index has broken 100. This is significant because … (2 comments)

 
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Barbara Bartell-Kamp

Westchester County NY Rentals, Condos, Coops, Home

White Plains, NY

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