Lesley Lambert

Apr 09 2012

Five Reasons Why I work so hard as a REALTOR

Family is the most important thing to me and I know it is for my customers and clients in Western MA real estate, too.

A day like yesterday, Easter Sunday, reminds me why I work so hard as a REALTOR.

I thought I would take a quick moment to share the top 5 reasons (besides the five in the photo above):

1- finding the right home as a home buyer in Western MA is such a personal and important decision. This will be the home that you celebrate holidays in.

2- selling your Western MA home to move onto the next chapter of your life is intensely emotional and I want to help ease the transition.

3- the future of your entire family rest in these decisions and I never take the level of importance, or my role in it lightly.

4- it matters to me to get things done right. I worry about my clients and customers as if they were MY family.

5- it allows me the ability to provide well for my family. Not in a strictly financial sense, but in a flexibility of schedule that I wouldn’t have in another field.

I very much enjoyed my holiday with my family this weekend and I hope you did with yours, as well! When considering who to hire for your Western MA real estate needs, why not choose Lesley Lambert of Park Square Realty…the realtor who puts your family first to help her family, too!

Selling Your Home is Emotional – Tips For Working Through the Home Selling Process (westernmahomes.net)

Apr 06 2012

Jazz Workshop in Northampton with Tap Dance!

Lesley Lambert: Tap dancing REALTOR (Photo credit: LesleyLambert)

This tap dancing REALTOR had a really amazing time on Tuesday night. There is an awesome Jazz Workshop every Tuesday at Page’s Loft in Northampton and this week it was a tap dance jam, too!

Morriss and I had gone to the workshop a few weeks ago and while signing an email form I mentioned to the organizer that I wished there was a wood floor because their music made me want to sit in as a tap dancer. I was so excited when he told me that there was a tap workshop coming up.

This Tuesday Morriss and I excitedly arrived at the venue in time to see most of the headliners, Tap and Tray and the Fool (their performance name) made up of two tappers from Germany, Kurt Albert and Klaus Bleis and Josh Hilberman of Boston. They were fantastic, smooth and fun and oh so cool in their complicated rhythms. Here they are performing “Buck and Wing”:

After their performance the workshop jam began and the floor was opened to other performers. I was really intimidated and scared to tap, but I also knew that I would really regret it if I didn’t. I was chatting with Sharon Arslanian and she brought me to the floor and next thing I knew I was performing!

It has been a very very long time since I danced in public, much less performing improv, but what a rush! I shared the song with Stefanie Weber (my maiden name!) and we took turns sharing our renditions. She is an amazing performer and has some really cool projects going on.

We didn’t get any video of me dancing on Tuesday, but here is a short video I posted awhile ago:

Tap Dancing in Advertisement (westernmahomes.net)

Stefanie Lynx Weber

Apr 05 2012

Selling Your Home is Emotional – Tips For Working Through the Home Selling Process

Buying or selling real estate is an emotional business no matter what, but when you are selling a home that you wish you could keep it is much more emotionally taxing.

I have worked with many clients who are selling their beloved home for a number of reasons: job relocation, need to downsize, moving to a retirement community or divorce. Even when they are excited about the next phase in their life, it can be so difficult to let go of the home that they have loved so much.

I can empathize and understand this intimately as I had to sell my home five years ago. I thought I would live there until I grew old. I had built the home with my own hands and every part of the home was there because I chose it. It was so difficult to walk away from that home, but I did discover some tips and tricks that worked for me and have worked for other clients experiencing an emotionally difficult move.

#1- Redecorate and stage the home specifically for sale. You usually need to do this anyway, but in my case I made this process the opportunity to begin detaching emotionally. As I removed personal items and took down decorations I began moving both physically and emotionally. I painted the interior and moved furniture around. With my items gone, a different color wall and the furniture in a new arrangement it didn’t feel like my home anymore. Now it was a house for sale, a commodity…not a home. It was time to find that new home.

#2- I said goodbye. This may sound goofy because clearly a house can’t hear and doesn’t care who lives within it, but I thanked my house and wished it well with it’s new owners. I said goodbye over and over again.

#3- Small steps. Once the decision has been made to make the move you need to take one thing at a time so that you won’t get overwhelmed. Putting too much on your plate or thinking too far out in the process will cause you anxiety and emotional strain. You do, of course, need to plan and have a strategy in place, but you don’t need to extrapolate on a daily basis.

I met with two clients this week that were experiencing this and after leaving one of them I recorded the following:

Apr 04 2012

398 Maple, Longmeadow MA Affordable Ranch Home for Sale

Are you looking for an affordable start in the lovely Western MA town of Longmeadow, MA? Book an appointment and bring your checkbook…this is the one for you!

Affordable Home Seeks Loving Family for Long Term Relationship