With COVID we all gained new skills, or improved on ones we were already using. I am becoming quite adept at making video tours of listings. I always do them for my own listings, not that they sell the house, but it helps to differentiate me from other agents. Facebook open houses can be fun as well, I had one client host an open house on Facebook when we were all but shut down for in person showings. She did a great job and we had several people on line watching.Well, recently I have a relocation client who lives out of state. He has some very specific parameters for his home search. So, as he is not here a lot of the time, I have been going to listings and making a video walk through, highlighting what I like and what I don't in relation to his parameters. I have pointed out where a y... 09/21/2022

 Happy Fall Everyone! Some of you are wondering what happened to Philadelphia Steals & Deals. Some of you could not care less. Well for those of you who missed me the truth be told I was enjoying the three S's - socializing sunshine and swimming. At the time I was not, I was out there working selling and listing Real Estate but I did do some shopping but mostly in small local boutiques and online. I found most of the big brand stores had inventory from years past nothing new.Just recently I shopped at a small boutique that has shoes and specialty clothes. Called "Hot Foot" and they carry clothes called "Talk of the Walk"  The owner told me there would be a shortage again this year of newer fashion items. What they did have would be very expensive. So her advice was to buy now as invento... 09/23/2022

Every  morning I walk our dog. Jackie, who is named after Jackie Robinson, because Annie my fiance's mother grew up in Brooklyn and was a lifelong Brooklyn Dodgers fan. When she got Jackie, she wanted a baseball name and thus Jackie. We have posted lots of photos of Jackie who is very low energy.Basically I drag Jackie on our walks, she acts like a resistance ball always behind me. That is unless she notices a fox, or you mentionthe word fox and she gets excited and rushes ahead searching for the fox, nose to the ground.As I have mentioned before we recently moved from West Chester, to West Grove.  In West Chester we lived in a golf course community.Now where we live, in a 55+ community called Big Elk, due to the Elk River nearby is a tad more rural. Hence the photo that leads this post... 09/23/2022