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In 2006 I wrote about my problem with my client with the Fish N’ Flush. There were people who loved the aquarium commode and others who were less than enchanted. Reactions were strong, but fortunately my dilemma was fictional.
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On Tuesday this week, our group of 9 top producing Realtors in the Birmingham Bloomfield Realtor Network held another of our broker tours. Dmitry and I held open our brand new listing in the Estates Section of Bloomfield Village that we had just put on the market the day before for $1,650,000. I […]

Realcomp, our MLS, sends me real estate statistics every month because I asked to be on the special list of recipients of real estate stats.  Along with their report comes a note that says the stats are not for redistribution.  Hence, I have not been publishing them on my blog.  But our association of Realtors […]

Oooops, I mean where is Kwame? Can the mayor of Detroit really try to hide from the Sex Lies and SMS scandal? We have not seen him in Michigan since the news broke this week. Trying to run away from your problems is such a fine example to set.
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Thanks to Logan Albertson for the use of this clever photo. In light of yesterday’s post, many Michiganders might be wishing they were from a state shaped like a different body part…
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Or, “how bad is the market?” Yep, we get asked that all the time.
First, let me say that we are busy. Our business has been very steady since we started selling homes in 2001. We’ve always looked at this as a business, not a hobby or something to fill our idol time now that […]

In a modern day twist on a James Spader film, Detroit’s Hip Hop Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, and his Chief of Staff, Christine Beatty, have the State of Michigan watching aghast as details of their extramarital affair are paraded before the world. Unfortunately, in addition to the 5 children and the 2 spouses (one […]

Kudos to the City of Bloomfield Hills for the efforts they are taking to find out why buyers chose (and don’t chose) to live in Michigan’s wealthiest zip code. We received this email yesterday from the City asking for our input. Competition is high for home buyers right now, and unsold homes result […]

I happened upon a blog today on www.redfin.com , a San Francisco area real estate site. The author, Brenda Keener, brings up the topic of “Staging for Living”, a service that we home stagers are schooled in and offer to our non-selling clients. Here is the post in its entirety:
Staging Your Home - […]

The Federal Reserve Board cut the federal funds rate today by three quarters of a percent – the largest single reduction since 1990 and the first between meeting rate cut since September 2001.  The Fed wasn’t scheduled to meet to discuss interest rates until next week and it is quite unusual for them to reduce […]

Today I step gingerly back into the gentle, or not so gentle, tides of real estate blogging. Over the last months, most of my energy has been used to care for my terminally ill father who passed away last week. Dmitry and I have kept up with our existing clients, referred out some […]

Turmoil and challenges generally result in change and there sure have been some significant changes in mortgage lending over the past year! I’ve been working in this business for over 15 years and have never witnessed anything like it. However, it’s not all bad. Sure some loans are not being made that […]