Reality sets in and you realize that $250,000 is a quarter of a million dollars! That's a lot of money but can it buy you the dream home you've worked so hard for all your life? Maybe. Defining your dream home is all about how you want to live and what you are willing to sacrifice to get what you really want - freedom and life without [...]
How's the real estate market in 2011 here in Coastal Delaware? I had a great conversation this afternoon with Gail Alm at Fairway Independent Mortgage and she shared the following news with me:
It's so easy to find everything about homes for sale on the Internet isn't it? All of the details that were previously only available to real estate professionals can now be found on Zillow and Trulia and a multitude of other sites. Some even proclaim that they know the value of any home in any town, based on public information pulled from [...]
Because of Twitter, I have gotten to know a remarkable woman that I never would have met in real life - Mel Tuttle. Mel is a 5th Grade Teacher in the Milford School District who was just named "Teacher of the Year!". She has two children and is one of the most energetic, active adults I have ever met. She is always discovering a new [...]
Many of you reading this still live in New York or New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, DC or even Connecticut or Maine. Your home is listed for sale so that you can move to Coastal Delaware. Right now we are working 24/7 and still having trouble keeping up. There are so many people looking to relocate to Coastal Delaware and [...]
In between showing homes to prospective buyers and visiting with current clients, there is the time alone in the car. It's my creative time to reflect on what I enjoy about this business of real estate. The other day, it hit me [...]
What is the difference between condo living and one of the new planned communities with a homeowners association? Until I became a Realtor, I always thought that a condo was an apartment-style home. Well I learned differently. Condo refers to the method of ownership, not the style of home. Not all condos share common [...]
How do you define active adult? Are you an avid golfer, a tennis fanatic, a runner or yogi? Do you get up every morning and take a brisk walk with or without your best friend? Are you more active if you live in an active adult community or not? Terminology doesn't define us but it does attempt to lead us in certain directions. You're an [...]
It's a chilly day in January, a good time to take a look back at 2010 and see what it tells us about the real estate market in Coastal Delaware. Bill and I moved here in 2003 and have specialized and focused on Baby Boomers who either live here or want to live here at some point. What kind of home are Boomers buying in what kind of [...]
We get requests like that all the time from people that have never even been to Coastal Delaware. I often wonder what difference it makes if you like or don't like a particular floor plan unless you already know you like the area and the community. You can look at pictures of houses, study the floor plans til you find the perfect one, but [...]
