Dear Buyer: I am so glad we've decided to work together to find your next new home. It will be a pleasure to be your buyer's agent. But before we get started, I want to make one thing perfectly clear. I will never, ever sell you a house. Now, before you decide I'm crazy, let me explain how this
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04/08/2009
If you don't know a Tudor from a Victorian or a raised ranch from a bi-level, you've come to the right place. Sometimes, it seems like real estate has it's own language. There are contract terms, financing terms and style terms. This will be an on-going series of posts helping you - the buyer -
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04/08/2009
I spent yesterday hanging out with a lot of my husband's friends from work. One friend, we'll call him "Walter", decided to inform me that one day buyer's agents will be obsolete. When I asked him why, he told me that whatever an agent can do he can do thanks to the Internet. Wow. I decided to
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04/07/2009
Did you know that May is National Bike Month? Every child should have the opportunity to hop on a bike, strap on a helmet and enjoy the feeling of freedom that comes from flying down the road under their own power. Sadly not all kids in our area have access to bikes they can call their own. That
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04/07/2009
If you're new to the Edwardsville area, or anywhere in Madison County, get ready for a treat on your radio dial. WSIE 88.7 FM is the on-air gathering place for jazz lovers in the St. Louis metropolitan region. Operated by Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, WSIE brings a full schedule o
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04/05/2009
The massive ConocoPhillips EnCana Wood River refinery in Roxana, Illinois is expanding, bringing great new jobs to our area for skilled craftsmen and contractors. That's excellent news for Madison County, Illinois in the midst of the ongoing national recession. According to the companies, the $2
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04/05/2009
Back in 2005, anyone with a real estate license could sell a house. Snap a picture, stick a sign in the yard and put the listing in the MLS with a one sentence description and you were done. Those days are long, long gone. The numbers in my market indicate that the chances of selling a home in
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04/02/2009
Neruda is recognized as one of the finest restaurants in Madison County and nothing could be finer than joining Madt Mallinckrodt and his crew, including Chef Rick Counts, for one of the Edwardsville establishment's official winemaker's dinners. On Thursday, April 16, 2009, Neruda will host a fiv
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04/01/2009
