Chocolate Avenue Real Estate - From the Sweet Street

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has been promoting their homeowner's assistance program this week to bring about awareness of these programs which have been in place for almost 25 years.REfinance to an Affordable Loan (REAL) offers 30 year fixed mortgages to those who are less than 59 days past ...

It's October 29 and hockey season is already 3 weeks old. I guess the warm temperatures don't matter to true hockey fans.Central Pennsylvania has it's own hockey tradition, the Hershey Bears have been a part of the American Hockey League since 1936 and have earned eight Calder Cup trophies in the...

This one didn't get any headlines. There were no local politicians making trips to the headquarters to try to convince the owners to stay. There was no going out of business sale.The Lumber Yard which was located almost directly behind our office here in Hershey closed it's Hershey location  and ...

A few month's ago I wrote a post about Casey Serinwho was described as the world's most hated blogger named on the amount of negative comments his blog was receiving. Well, Casey is back (sort of) with a new program called Foreclosure Help Book that h'es started to market in the blog I linked.He ...

What is Lebanon Bologna? No it's not the words spoken by local county and city officials.Lebanon Bologna is, per Wikipedia "a type of semi-dry sausage similar in appearance and texture to salami, although it is somewhat darker colored. Made from salted beef, it has a distinctive smoky taste, owin...

One of the fun Fall events here locally is the Hershey Park In The Dark that will be open for the next two weekends.Even though the park has been closed since mid-September, it reopens for this Halloween event for the next two weekends for Halloween fans of all ages. The hours are Fridays 4 to 10...

At first, I was worried it might be me... But according to an article in the Daily Telegraph, it's 107 year old Olive Riley who resides in the Central Coast of Australia.Olive's Blog, called the Life of Riley, is full of stories about growing up in Australia when it was still a colony and about h...

The "Mortgage Foregiveness Act" is designed in such a way that people who sell their homes in a "short sale" situation will not be penalized by having the difference between the sale price and the mortgage balance become income for IRS tax purposes.The program, however, has some "holes" in the ac...

The annual Fall Meet of the Antique Automobile Club of America starts next Wednesday, October 10, here in parking lots of Hershey Park and the Giant Center. The automobile flea markets and car corrals are open every day at 7AM (thru Saturday) and feature literally thousands of vendors, new & used...

I wrote quite a few blog posts last Winter and Spring about the Hershey Company's decision to cut jobs in the US and Canada in order to move them to Mexico. My articles mostly outlined my view that the company, in spite of the founder's desire to keep Hershey as a thriving community, was tearing ...