If you're at all intererested in or passionate about our state park system and state-managed recreation areas, please note that the parks are scrambling to determine how to cut budgets by about $4-million prior to the end of their fiscal year....leaving just a few months to make major budget adj
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02/10/2008
As a current member of Hilliard Schools' volunteer Citizen's Finance Committee, a former member of the school district's Board of Education, and a founding member of the political action committee CAGH (formed to foster voter approval of the new Bradley High School), I believe the upcoming March
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01/27/2008
Because of the significant variety of homes in the community, built by many builders across a few decades, sale prices have tended to vary by year and across all price ranges. It's probably true that emotion plays an even greater role than usual in a home purchase in "The Hills." Moreover, Hid
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01/27/2008
So what's the impact on the general public and real estate markets of the Federal Reserve's rate cut on January 22, 2008? If you're watching the cable news channels, it's probably hard to say how the various commentators are reading their tea leaves...especially depending upon how ratings-consci
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01/24/2008
Local school districts face painful decisions as voters vent their frustration over rising property taxes. While voters reel over the ultimate effect of yo-yoing energy costs, for example, how are they most likely to respond in the ballot booths? The upcoming operating levy for the Hilliard (Ohi
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01/16/2008
At a local board of Realtors meeting yesterday, another husband & wife team asked me if we'd be interested in working with them and some other agents to come up with some sort of counterefforts to the current constant flow of bad news about the housing market. We're familiar with the NAR campaig
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01/16/2008
The state of Ohio's Department of Natural Resources' purchase of conservation easements on thousands of acres in Vinton County begs the question of its impact on land values, local economies, and tourism. The simplest answer might be that the Hocking Hills Region is moving a bit further south and
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09/08/2007
Am wondering about the appeal and impact of home video tours now available on realtor.com, and guessing that few agents are posting them. We're seeing higher numbers of views for home video tours, although they aren't at the same levels as those for traditional Visual Tours. How important is th
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09/08/2007
We've been members of Hideaway Hills, a private gated community & certainly one of Ohio's best-kept secrets (intentional or not....) since 1999, and have built a new home (sort of in between a full-time and second home) here after remodeling an older cabin and selling it to friends a few years a
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07/26/2007
After seeing the cable news channels report this morning about the May housing market figures, read in the local paper that the market's the softest it's been since 1992. While all real estate might indeed be local, this former broadcaster knows that news these days tends ever more so to not be.
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06/26/2007
