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Real Estate Broker/Owner - ERA Andrew Realty
The real estate market in Middlesex, Essex, and Suffolk Counties in Massachusetts is doing great! There are tremendous opportunities for buyers having so much inventory to select their next home! It's a very achievable goal to own your own home or first investment property!

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2009 

I finally completed and passed the test for my New Hampshire Real Estate Broker's License.  The licensing board sent me my license today. It's now official! I had 5 clients in the last year that were looking for homes in both northern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.  Ultimately after co...
06/11/2009
This morning I met not one, but two FHA appraisers at my listing.  FHA appraisers are tough enough sometimes, never mind two of them at the same property at the same time!  It was a scary thing when they both showed up.  Be aware if it's a high balance loan, they will send two of them. They went ...
06/09/2009
Today's closing was one of the few lately where everything went great!  It's been a long time since I had an "easy" transaction.  The buyers were reasonable; the sellers were even more reasonable.  The listing agent was a professional -- as was I, the buyer's agent :)  The Mortgage officer actual...
06/08/2009
More and more often lately, my team and I have been running into "non-realtors" who just don't know how to represent their clients or even know what their responsibilities are in a transaction!  It's just incredible.  Most recent scenario is a licensee who worked for 2 years doing rentals, decide...
06/07/2009
My team members and I have put 10 properties under agreement in the last two weeks.  On my last 3 listings, my seller clients have had multiple offers to choose from.  The offer my seller accepted tonight was well OVER asking...haven't said those words in a LONG time. The buyers are coming from e...
06/05/2009
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Carol McDonald

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