Almost every day, we will receive a call or an email from an investor looking to pick up an investment property or a homeowner looking for a property that "needs work". Often times, they will ask "what about foreclosures ? " "what about HUD homes ? " and the like ? The good news is that there
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08/10/2008
Stephanie and I had the opportunity to take a moment out of the day and take a walk at Liberties Walk and Liberty Lands Park in Northern Liberties today. Frequently on the weekends at Liberties Walk local artists will set up booths where they display their art, jewelry, crafts and the like. Tod
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08/09/2008
The below picture is not the best quality or resolution that is because it was a long time ago. It is myself standing next to the for sale sign when my parents sold their house in Houston, TX and moved the family to Virginia Beach, VA. It looks like I was really enjoying the virtues of real e
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08/09/2008
Stephanie and I received a card in the mail yesterday from our client Brian, a new homeowner in Fishtown (Philadelphia Real Estate). Brian was simply awesome to work with. His girlfriend found "The Somers" on our Philadelphia Real Estate Website from a Craigs List ad. She told Brian these are
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08/08/2008
My Realtor has 20 Years of Experience. That means he is good. Right? Wrong !!! The below are the questions you should be asking: 1) Is your Realtor a Full Time Realtor ? Full time means the Realtor is a career oriented professional not just doing it "on the side" in addition to their "real job
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08/08/2008
About six weeks I posted a blog entry about Stephanie and I buying an investment property in Bridesburg (Philadelphia Real Estate) - see Investment Property in Bridesburg . Our goal was to have the property updated and rented by August 1st. We have the property fully updated - we received an
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08/06/2008
Yesterday we listed a property in Juniata (Philadelphia Real Estate) from a seller who found us online. She found us from our answering a Trulia question concerning the Philadelphia Real Estate market. We had a great meeting last night, she is very happy to have found us, and we are thrilled
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08/05/2008
Today when my wife Stephanie and I were on way back from hosting open houses in Port Richmond and Old City, we were driving in to our condo parking lot in our Northern Liberties home at 2nd and Poplar and saw the mural at the end of the street (Newmarket St) being worked on by two local artists.
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08/03/2008
19122 makes up Olde Kensington and Yorktown. Some people will refer to the area as JUNOGI (just north of Girard Ave) Contact Chris and Stephanie Somers at thesomersteam@yahoo.com for more information and market statisitcs and trends regarding Olde Kensington and the Olde Kensington real estate m
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08/03/2008
19125 makes up Fishtown and New Kensington Contact Chris and Stephanie Somers at thesomersteam@yahoo.com for more information and market statisitcs and trends regarding Fishtown and the Fishtown real estate market.. From August 2007 to July 2008, there were 944 units listed, of which 355 are pend
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08/03/2008
