stories: Spring Forward, after the storm ends
- 03/07/13 06:52 AM
Daylight Savings Time begins at 2:00 a.m., Sunday, March 10th, 2013. There will be no time between 2 and 3 a.m., as we all turn our clocks forward. Right now, the snow is blowing sideways, and a dreary day is turning to night. Speaking of time, a fellow Realtor posted this on Active Rain. It made me laugh. My 14-year old son will probably find it hilarious. See you when the storm is over. That is, later!
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stories: When Real Estate Turns Unreal
- 03/05/13 06:48 PM
This article appeared in the Washington Post last week. I don't know what to say about this marketing idea. I've seen the lot and the house that's currently on it. Yes, there's room for a gigormous house, but I wonder if the proposal is realistic. The area has certainly grown a lot since I went to school a few miles down the road in the 70s, but building some kind of palace? It seems out of place, at best. To me. Perhaps I should let this piece -- about a stunt to sell a piece of property once owned by Senator … (7 comments)
stories: Exclusive Listing Agreements - The Way It Used to Be!
- 02/13/13 08:15 AM
I have a friend who lives in North Carolina. Her great-grandfather was a real estate agent back in the days when a real estate "listing" was a piece of paper on a list hung on the wall or in the window of a salesman's store. At some point, he gave her an interest rate book of the sort we used to use to look up mortgage and interest payments before calculators and computers "revolutionized" those long lists of extrapolated data. The book is worn, thumbed through, and yellowed with age and use. Along with the book was a pad, or booklet, … (3 comments)
stories: Eco-friendly and appealing Austin, TX home
- 02/10/13 10:52 PM
Here's a very cool, and/or warm, house. The wicked cool part predominates. I'd love to live here. (Especially after a three-day snow storm that's left more than 100,000 people still in the cold.) Wouldn't you? The Edgeland House There's so much good information about this home from the authors of the web page that I'm going to leave all the talking to them. I'll add only this one teaser photo.
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stories: Aftermath
- 02/10/13 11:03 AM
It's not over 'til it's over. After my last post about the Nemo Storm on the South Shore of Massachusetts ("Day of the Walking Dead"), the power was on until 3 p.m., then mysteriously shut off. Just then, Kathy and her parents came in with hot pizza from Kingston. The place had been mobbed, but the owner was just glad to be able to serve everyone and use his inventory, which might have gone bad otherwise. So we finally got our pizza, and we ate it in a house without power. It turned on an hour later. We cheered and turned … (2 comments)
stories: Day of the Walking Dead
- 02/09/13 10:31 PM
When we think and talk about the comforts and security of home, we take an awful lot for granted. We enjoy enormous luxuries unavailable to anyone, anywhere on this planet, at any time up until the last few generations. Storm Nemo is over, and the power is back on here at my house. 250,000 people across Massachusetts are still without power, most of them within 50 miles of me. Recovery efforts are in full gear and will bring most of us back on-line quickly. There are people living on Staten Island whose power still hasn't been restored two months after their disaster. … (26 comments)
stories: Nemo's here
- 02/07/13 10:55 PM
Let 'er blow, Cap'n! The snow's started. The snow blower is fixed, gassed and oiled, with the hood cover on. The phones, flashlights and other devices are charged. There's food in the fridge. The office is closed. My clients are prepared, too. So we're ready for a great blizzard! This is what New England winters are all about. Just a normal weekend for the mountains of southwest Colorado, but here, it's a stay-cation! As long as the electricity stays on, the hot tub will be simmering away, waiting for us to plunge in and let the snow fall on our heads. … (3 comments)
stories: Me ... and the Seldom Scene, on a video-less Super Bowl Sunday
- 02/03/13 01:13 AM
The Seldom Scene is a bluegrass band that strongly influenced my childhood, both generally and musically. Their lead singer, John Duffy, had an oft-repeated line he used when introducing one song: "And now, for a medley of our greatest hit." More about that below. Since I had exactly one comment on my previous post, my variation on that theme is: I'm sorry to disappoint all my fan, but I won't be able to make or post the video blog that I promised for today. I'm on up desk from now until noon, and then I have work to do with clients. … (0 comments)
stories: Rain, Wind, Crazy Rain -- Coincidence?
- 01/31/13 06:42 AM
I joined Active Rain last week. The weather's been unseasonably warm the last two days: in the sixties when the normal highs are in the forties. The warmth came with some seriously stormy conditions.
This morning I woke up early to the sound of wind and rain whipping against the house and the sliding glass doors to the balcony. Where I live, there's always some urban "night glow", but when I pulled the curtains to see what the storm looked like, I couldn't see a thing. Dark as a dungeon. But wet. Really wet. And windy. Up at Blue Hill, … (6 comments)
stories: The South Shore Report's grand opening
- 01/23/13 02:33 AM
Hi! Welcome to The South Shore Report. I'm writing this blog about the land, homes and people of the South Shore, Massachusetts, communities along Route 3, which runs from Cape Cod up the east coast of Massachusetts to the southern end of Boston. When you drive up Route 3, with the Atlantic Ocean on your right, you will pass through a number of towns along the way.
These are beautiful, old towns that were settled within 30 years after the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. They grew as Boston, 40 miles north of Plymouth, became an important commercial … (2 comments)
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