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Check out my new logo! April 25, 2011
Of course I am still with Carpenter and using the Carpenter logo as required by MIBOR and Company Guidelines, but now, I also have my very own way to remind you of ME!
Watch for it!
Indiana Four Star Schools March 9, 2011
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The list of 2009-2010 Indiana Four Star Schools has been released by the Department of Education. A few highlights:
Avon Community School Corp.– Avon Intermediate East, Avon Middle School North and South, Hickory Elem., Sycamore Elem., White Oak Elem.
Brownsburg Community School Corp.– Brownsburg East and West Middle Schools, Eagle Elem., White Lick Elem.
Carmel/Clay Schools– Carmel Elem., Carmel High, Carmel Middle, Cherry Tree Elem., Clay Middle, College Wood Elem., Creekside Middle, Mohawl Trails Elem., Prairie Trace Elem., Smoky Row Elem., Towne Meadow Elem., West Clay Elem., Woodbrook Elem.
Plainfield Comm School Corp.– Brentwood Elem., Central Elem., Plainfield Comm Middle, Van Buren Elem.
Zionsville Comm. Schools– Eagle Elem., Union Elem., Zionsville Middle, Zionsville Pleasant View Elem., Zionsville West Middle
Awesome Listing Alert!! February 1, 2011
Check out this Carmel mansion! It’s not my listing, but I would be happy to help you buy it! Located on 116th Street in Carmel, IN. This gorgeous home has 5 bedrooms, 5 full baths and 2 half baths.
At just over 9,000 sq feet, and sitting on 28 acres, this home is truly amazing. It has 3 fireplaces, an inground pool, and an amazing location! Where else can you enjoy over 25 acres of serenity to roam, yet still be only 1 mile from US31? The entire first floor underwent extensive remodeling at a cost of over $300,000. A screened porch overlooks the gorgeous gunite pool, so you can watch the family splash and play. I can just imagine taking a great book and a cup of tea to sit by the fountain and goldfish pond. There are several outbuildings, including a barn that is over 100 years old on the property. The grounds also include a tennis court, slate patios and those amazing views!
Icepocalypse 2011 won’t stop me!! February 1, 2011
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Even though the weather outside is truly frightful, I’m still here and ready to work! I can still help you, answer your real estate questions, and take care of business!! So, don’t be afraid to call, email, text or send me a tweet or facebook message as we wait out the ice storm.
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- Checklist: Are you ready for another snow storm? (blogs.consumerreports.org)
Competitive Vs Compelling January 31, 2011
We used to say in real estate that your home must be priced competitively. Well, in today’s market, that just isn’t good enough anymore, especially if you need to get your home sold NOW. You need to go beyond just “competing” with other listings (who aren’t getting offers either) and price your home to COMPEL buyers to want to make an offer on your property.
If you want to sell your house, you need to get it on the market as soon as possible and price it right to compel buyers to want to buy it. “They” say that another wave of foreclosures are coming and that means a lot more competition to deal with.
4 Steps to Success!! January 27, 2011
I know them. Learned them yesterday at my Sales Rally/ 2011 Kickoff.
Are you ready? You think you can handle this?
Step 1. Get Out of Bed
Step 2. Get Dressed
Step 3. Go to Work
Step 4. Do Work
There you go, now you know!
Finally, REALTOR® Code of Ethics Protects Sexual Orientation January 13, 2011
I usually word it this way when talking to clients: “I would not and could not discriminate against anyone, so don’t bother asking me to”. Now it is official though, the Code of Ethics has been amended to include Sexual Orientation.
- REALTORS® shall not deny equal professional services to any person for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or sexual orientation. REALTORS® shall not be parties to any plan or agreement to discriminate against a person or persons on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or sexual orientation.
- REALTORS
®, in their real estate employment practices, shall not discriminate against any person or persons on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or sexual orientation. (Amended 1/11)
Foreclosures Are Like a Box of Chocolates January 11, 2011
This recent article, highlighted in REALTOR®Mag, discusses some of the horrible things we agents get to see when a house is foreclosed on. I recently had the pleasure of showing several bank-owned homes and got to see a few of these things all in the same day!
I often see bank-owned homes with stains on the carpet, but I’m not just talking about normal stains. Sometimes it looks as if the upset home owner has literally emptied the contants of their refrigerator onto the floor! Either that, or they “forgot” to let the dog outside for several days or let the children paint the floor with nail polish.
Of the 5 houses I showed this weekend, 2 of them had no kitchen sink. It is very common that people take their appliances with them, or sell them, when they are about to lose their house. One of those took it a step further… they had no KITCHEN at all! All of the cabinets had been removed, along with the appliances and sink.
One of the houses looked as if it had been broken into, there were 2 windows on the back of the house that were broken and covered with wood. This is another risk with vacant houses, squatters or people who think it would make a fun party palace. Another had spraypaint on the cabinets (hey- at least it had cabinets!) but the rest of the main level had been repainted… made me wonder what else had been spraypainted?
The worst I think I have ever seen was a home that had fleas. It was a few months ago, and despite the 4 bug bombs we found in the dining and living room, we still saw fleas everywhere! The house smelled horrible of pet “odors”, and had holes punched in the drywall by some angry homeowner. I wouldn’t leave the front entryway and I was still horribly disgusted by the house!
On more than one occasion I found that the house had no more copper pipes in it, they had ripped the copper right out of the walls (or crawl space in one home). It’s kind of a downer when the listing agent calls you to say that they suspect that the copper plumbing has been removed from the crawl space of the house your buyer likes.
When you are looking at foreclosures, or bank-owned homes, they come in all varieties. Some are actually quite nice or just need a little bit of paint. Others are in very sad shape, and you never quite know what you’re going to get. (Oh hey- foreclosures are like a box of chocolates– maybe I should re-title this post?)
Welcome Home?? January 7, 2011
Imagine this, you go on vacation and return to find that your home has been demolished!?
This happened to a Pittsburgh man when he returned from his holiday vacation this year! He bought a foreclosed home in November and was working on remodeling it when he returned to find that the city had accidently hired a contractor to demolish the house.
“Hall told the paper that upon his return he was shocked to find heavy machinery parked on the site of his former home when he returned on Monday to continue rehabbing it.”
