Sellers who have a problem with de-cluttering can get valuable help at the web site of Mary Pankiewicz, www.Clutterfree.biz. So can all the rest of us! I just had a very interesting conversation with Mary Pankiewicz, whose monthly messages I’ve enjoyed. Her blog comes to me regularly and
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10/23/2012
My new listing was a big house on a main street in Bethesda, MD, long before we moved to Tennessee. This beautiful home was newly renovated by an investor I worked with there. I’d find him properties with “great bones” in a fine neighborhood – ones to which he would add a lot of value and I
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10/14/2012
My new listing was a big house on a main street in Bethesda, MD, long before we moved to Tennessee. This beautiful home was newly renovated by an investor I worked with there. I’d find him properties with “great bones” in a fine neighborhood – ones to which he would add a lot of value and I
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10/14/2012
BOOK LOVERS IN JOHNSON CITY TN will want to mark October 19 & 20 for the Summit Leadership Foundation Book Sale. There will be over 1000 books, priced from $.25 to $3.00. As the message said, everything – “classic novels to biographies, religious texts to children’s tales, foreign languages
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10/09/2012
The Towne Acres neighborhood garage sales are planned for Saturday, October 13, 7:30 am to 3:00 pm. I may want to postpone my own so I can visit so many of my neighbors that day. Let’s hope for a lovely warm, dry day like some of the great days we’ve had recently. Johnson City requires a
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10/09/2012
Sycamore Stitchers’ annual quilt show started today, Thursday, October 4. This great free show is open 8-4pm, through Saturday, and 1-4 Sunday. Forty-five members of this group and others show their work and you have a chance to help choose “People’s Choice.” I go home from shows like thi
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10/04/2012
My Active Rain friend, Alan May, posted this useful checklist. I've probably told all my buyers this, but just in case, here it is again. People just can't understand why it's not a good idea to close some credit card, for example. Trust your lender and your agent to help you stay out of
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09/11/2012
At the doctor’s office, the LPN noticed that I live on Sharon Drive and mentioned her friend who lived on my street. I knew they’d recently sold, which revealed to her that I was a real estate agent. Then she said she’d been thinking about buying an investment property since she had a son in m
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09/02/2012
This isn’t about real estate, but some days are too special not to share. Today I went to see Edna Haynes. The sitter said she’s not really asleep – talk to her. Today she was awake and alert and instead of being somewhere in the past in her mind, we had a good talk. It was a special day
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09/01/2012
Jerry Conway at Office Max in Johnson City made my recent purchase a comfortable and pleasant process. There’s nothing I dread more than having to buy new office equipment . Too many choices, too little confidence in my ability to choose the best for my needs. After looking at a number of
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08/28/2012