5 Market Meltdown Tips To Get Your House Sold Faster
October 24th, 2008 categories: Expired Listings Help, Home Sellers
The state of real estate for some vacillates between panic and high anxiety. So, I’ve put together my 5 Real Estate Market Meltdown Tips To Get Your House Sold Faster.
We all feel a little befuddled, like the meltdown puddle on the floor of the Stock Market bottom that we
haven’t hit yet.
Or maybe we have and we just don’t know it.
That’s the thing about market turnaround’s. We can’t predict when they will happen, but we know that they will. And we can get prepared for the ride up.
So, if wading through the daily housing and financial news has you a little depressed, then I recommend that you get up and get going.
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Podcasting My First 24 Hours
October 21st, 2008 categories: A Realtors Life
Until recently I always thought about a Blog or a Website as informative, pleasure reading. I’ve been a voracious reader all my life. Words on the page, a good story, are magical to me. Can’t throw a book away. I catch up on my reading with my morning and evening coffee as you probably do.
Books were the treasures of my childhood as my Mother and Grandmother read Peter Pan and even Shakespeare to me. I devoured books when I learned to read, spending many Summers hangin out at the Library. Even loved to read the Encyclopedia which makes me kinda geeky I guess.
Like almost everyone, I have an iPod. One of the first ones, a gift from one of my children. To me listening means music. I love to listen to and play a little music. It’s a joy!
The word, Podcasting is called a “portmanteau”, a word that blends two functions, iPod and broadcast. Read about the growth and history of podcasting in Wikipedia. It’s a fascinating story from only 526 entries Read the rest of this entry »
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Podcast Audio Real Estate Feature Announced
October 17th, 2008 categories: A Realtors Life, Fun Things To Do, Lifestyle
Main Line Pa Today is announcing a new Podcast Real Estate Feature.
You can now receive Podcasts
and listen to local real estate news. Get you real estate market updates, community and fun things to do when you want them and listen at your leisure.
Choose your favorite way to listen.
First, you can Just click on the “Listen” Tab at the top of each post to listen to the audio for an individual post.
Or, subscribe here, Main Line Pa Today Audio at our Odiogo Contact Page offering all of your top audio favorites beginning with iTunes.
You can also choose the left side bar Odiogo Podcast Subscription Feed Button to receive all posts to your favorite audio as well.
Contact Judy by email or call 610-889-5509 at Prudential Fox and Roach Realtors Devon Home Marketing Center. Leave us a comment if you like. Tell us what you like about Podcasting.
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Expired Withdrawn Unsold Listings|Help For Sellers-Part 2
October 16th, 2008 categories: Expired Listings Help, Home Sellers
Expired, Unsold Real Estate Listings Can Be Revived With The Right Plan “IF”
Just because a real estate listing is expired, unsold or withdrawn from the market, doesn’t mean that the
real estate sale is dead and gone forever. Far from it.
We can revive Expired, Withdrawn, Unsold Listings with the Right Marketing Plan which includes the right listing price.
Often what’s needed is a new, fresh approach. Because if you keep doing the same thing you’ve always done, you will get the same results you’ve always gotten.
Effective Real Estate Marketing has changed dramatically in a short period of time. And like all rapid changes, some learn new skills and keep up with the changes and some do not.
First, the Realtor® is responsible for preparing the Comparative Market analysis, CMA to help Seller decide on the best Listing Price. Second, the Realtor® is responsible for the design and implementation of Read the rest of this entry »
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Blog Action Day-Survive To Five-Save The Children
October 15th, 2008 categories: A Realtors Life, Fun Things To Do, Lifestyle
It was Winston Churchill who said, “You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give”.
Today is World Wide Blog Action Day and the topic is Poverty. This is a “me too” blog post day in the hope that we can generate one or thousands of “me too” actions to help alleviate poverty in our own country and internationally. I was reminded by Brian Clark over at Copyblogger. His eloquent post is inspiring. Brian writes the way we all wish we could. If you have a Blog, you’ve heard of Brian Clark.
Donate to Save The Children, where an admirable 90% of your donation will go out the door to help real children. Save The Children, Winston Churchill and a love of good writing appear to be what Brian and I have in common. How about you?
Survive To Five – Knit An Infant Cap
Save The Children – Survive To Five – Knit One To Save One There are several Infant Cap Designs for the novice and experienced Knit or Crochet crafter. Many of my friends like to knit and crochet. Use your talent to help an infant survive through a program sponsored by Save The Children called Survive To Five-Knit One To Save One. There are pdf and word format patterns here for knitting an infant cap to send to Save The Children and instructions for hosting local events.
Send me your pictures of infant caps you donate and I’ll post them here.
Update 12/23/08 – With gratitude to Lynn Anne and Pia and other caring knitters, who made it possible for us to send 14 Infant Hats to Save The Children “Knit One Save One”. These hats and letters will be presented to President Barack Obama, January 2009 on behalf of the millions of at risk infants around the world. Sponsored by The Warm Up America Foundation.
Grace and Peace, Judy
JP
Pia Block
LynneAnn Mueller
JP
It’s about sharing a belief that one person can make a difference if each of us just takes a step in the right direction, and then another and another. This is mine. How about you?
Contact or Call Judy 610-889-5509
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Real Estate House Values|Expired Listings Help-Part 1
October 13th, 2008 categories: Expired Listings Help, Home Sellers
Where’s The Real Estate Party With The “Sold” Presents?
Having a real estate listing expire it’s listing contract without being sold is a little like giving a party with no food, music 
or presents. Inviting all of your friends to come and celebrate with you but then telling them to come back later for the real fun.
Everyone arrives at the party with great anticipation of enjoying the company of the guests, good conversation, food and music only to have the host announce, “please come back next month when we will have the “real party” with the decorations, the food, drinks, dancing and presents!
Would you go back? Probably not. But it happens every day in my real estate market of the Chester County Pennsylvania Main Line area when listings expire without selling. And it’s mostly avoidable.
A listing that expires it’s listing contract unsold is an enormously painful event for both the Seller and the Listing Agent. The number of expired listings is growing. So what can be done? Read the rest of this entry »
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Does Your Elephant Have A Name?
October 10th, 2008 categories: A Realtors Life
You know it. You’ve been there. It’s the elephant in the room. Something you’d rather not know. It nags around the edges. Oh, there’s an elephant in the room! It’s the moment in time when everything changes.
Writers write about what they know. But sometimes the elephant in the room steals the paper and pencil and the words get stuck.
This is a blog about real estate, my community, my neighborhood and helping people realize their home ownership dreams. I take no small amount of pride in what I do. I love to share what I know. The hope is that I can help someone who needs it. Some people say that I’m a really good Realtor. I try to be a really good person. Mostly I succeed.
Like most of you, I’m not a financial expert. I’m still struggling to understand who, what, when and how? The answers I don’t have are the same ones you don’t have.
I keep thinking about a time when it seemed like the grownups knew what they were doing, then I remember that I am one: Read the rest of this entry »
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432 Sharon Drive, Wayne Pa 19087 Ranch Home For Sale
October 8th, 2008 categories: Featured Listings, Home Buyers, Lifestyle, Montgomery County, Open House
First Time Buyers? Downsizing Buyers? – Welcome Home!
SUNDAY OPEN HOUSE - November 23, 2008 2-4pm
November 23, 2008 Sunday Open House 2-4pm
432 Sharon Drive in Wayne, Pa is a charming Ranch Style Home. Located in the popular community of “Waynewood” in Upper Merion Township. Here you will find a location that offers incredible convenience for your daily living. Just minutes to the popular King of Prussia Mall for fabulous shopping or to the Wayne Strafford Train Station for commuting to the Lower Main Line or Center City as well as all major corporate centers and the popular Roberts Elementary School. Upper Merion Township also boasts a Senior Center on close by Henderson Road, offering activities and services. Preview our Virtual Tour of 432 Sharon Drive or click on the “Virtual Tours” tab above. MLS#5430504 Call for an appointment today.
Just Like A Vacation Home But With Convenience and Upgrades
As you approach Sharon Drive from Croton Road, you feel as though you’re entering a Pocono Mountain vacation retreat home when you see this lovingly cared for property, surrounded by filtered sunlight, yet Read the rest of this entry »
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Tredyffrin Real Estate|3rd Quarter Median House Solds
October 7th, 2008 categories: Chester County, Market Trends
Sold (green), Under Contract (blue), Expired (purple)
The Third Quarter Median House Sold Report for Tredyffrin Township in Chester County, comparison between September 2006 and September 2008, shows a real estate market that’s holding it’s own despite incredible waves of good, bad, worse and confusing news from the Credit Markets.
Since I’m a glass is “half full” kind of person, I love bringing you some good news.
A recent report from our Trident Mortgage Company, for example, reports that Trident is sound and well funded with money to lend. My Trident representatives tell me that they have not turned away a single borrower for lack of funds to lend. Now that’s good news and good management by Trident.
The Median For Sale Price is down 2% from $489,900 in 2006 to $479,000 in 2008, while the Median Sold Price for the same period has increased 22% from $339,000 in 2006 to $525,000 in September of 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
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Fun Things To Do-Fall|Halloween 2008
September 29th, 2008 categories: Chester County, Delaware County, Fun Things To Do
Fun Fall and Halloween Things To Do October 2008
October, in Pennsylvania and along the Main Line and Chester County Pa starts with a few tinges of color in the leaves 
and finishes in a blaze of glory just about Halloween time. Fall In The Main Line and Chester County area offers some great choices to enjoy the beauty of the changing of the Seasons including, festivals, historic tours and family fun events picking your own pumpkins, Fall hayrides, parades and Corn Mazes:
Fun Fall Things To Do in The Main Line and Chester County Pa Areas ~
Sixty-eighth Chester County Day Fall House Tour benefits Chester County Hospital sponsored by Chester County Historical Society – 10am – 5pm October 4, 2008
Giant Pumpkin Carving Demonstration at Longwood Gardens in Delaware County – October 11th – 12th. Expert pumpkin carvers create “gourd-geous” works of Read the rest of this entry »
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