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Today we offer you some fine real estate related horror stories, courtesy of The Real Estate Tomato’s Carnival. Speaking of Carnivals, Jim Cronin (the Tomato) won this week’s Carnival of Real Estate.  Its been a fine week at the Tomato House.
Take a look at some of Jim’s picks.
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Written by Maureen FrancisSKBK Sotheby’s International Realty, 248.430.4450
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Mark your calendars for Saturday, November 11th. SKBK Sotheby’s International Realty is promoting the benefits of living in one of Michigan’s finest downtowns: Birmingham.
You are invited to visit 12 In Town Birmingham homes for sale, many of which have never been held open to the public before. InTownTour.com has all the details and a map […]

Yesterday morning we put up a post about Jack White’s house. I almost just wrote Jack Black. I wonder if a lot other un-hip people confuse the two?
Hanan Levin, from Grow-A-Brain, is like a rock star in the world of real estate blogging. Stop in on just about any real estate blogger’s blog roll and […]

Metro Detroit has a rich musical history. Think Motown, Bob Seger, Kid Rock, Eminem, Ted Nugent, Mitch Ryder and The White Stripes. My non-hipster self has to confess that though I have heard of The White Stripes, I know more about them from reading about them in the papers than I do from listening to […]

If you are home seller in South East Michigan, its probably been a rough road. This week we had a couple of exciting things happen that we thought we should share to let you know that there are buyers making offers out there.
We took a new listing in Birmingham last week. A very nice home. […]

This year, for the first time, the entire Beverly Hills Village Commission is up for election on November 7th. All but one sitting commissioner is running for reelection. The incumbents are joined by 8 challengers.
The candidates are:

Ron Berndt
Rosanne Koss
Soter Liberty
Victor Marshall
Patrick McCarthy
Jon Oen
M. Lee Peddie
Dorothy Pfeiffer
William Jay Reynolds
Pam Rijnovean
Todd Stearn
David Taylor
Gladys Walsh
Hugh Woodrow

The election started […]

A few words about our newest blog rollee. We are excited to have another South East Michigan Realtor to read, Ann Arbor’s Todd Waller. We just found Todd’s blog because he took home an Oscar in the Carnival of Real Estate for a very fine piece about doing everything it takes to get your home […]

If you’ve never really cared about cars, now is the time to care. Especially if you live in Michigan. Our state depends up us caring.
I have to tell you, I don’t follow the automotive industry as carefully as I should. Yet I live in an area that is seemingly dependent on almost only this industry. […]

Keeping track of home sales in your neighborhood is always a good thing. Its a way of monitoring the status of your investment, just like you would the stock in your portfolio. We’ve always encouraged our clients to be familiar with surrounding home sales.
Today we are kicking off a new service for our market. We […]

Dear Mrs & Mrs. Seller,
Personally, I love local politics. I am a channel 15 junkie. That is our local cable access channel that airs Birmingham City Council meetings, Beverly Hills Village Council meetings and lots of other very local programming like the annual bloodhound parade. It’s the best reality TV around. And I like knowing […]

Hosting the Super Bowl this year was certainly fun for Detroit, but even this non-sports fan finds the Tigers’ participation in the World Series more than slightly infectious. In honor of their achievements we bring you some other Big Cats.
Honey, Get the Tiger Poop. A Reuters piece on uses for tiger do-do.
Some delicious looking Tiger […]

A few months ago we organized a tour of SKBK Sotheby’s Beverly Hills listings. It was a big success. One of the things that we did was map out all the listings for our web site and flyers. At the time, the maps were a bit of a pain to do well without buying mapping […]