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Sep 14 2010

Fall Maintenance Tips for Home Owners

It is almost Autumn in Western Massachusetts and this is an important time of year to be concerned with maintenance. As a REALTOR with Park Square Realty in Westfield, MA 01085, I am in and out of homes that have neglected their regular maintenance and have seen the negative effects upon the home’s value.

I wrote this article for Masslive.com that gives home owners in Western Massachusetts some things to think about for future improvements as well as a to-do list for right now.

Take a look and then take advantage of our lovely fall weather to get prepared and preserve your home’s equity and value!

Sep 14 2010

Does your Western MA REALTOR do this?

In today’s tough marketplace it is more important than ever that your home be marketed to the most potential buyers in the strongest format possible.

As a professional real estate agent at Park Square Realty in Westfield, MA 01085 it is my goal to be constantly learning, evolving and creating new marketing strategies for my home sellers. A large part of my marketing plan is internet based. Take a look at my listings and ask yourself, “Does my Western MA REALTOR do this?”

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Sep 09 2010

Virtual Vision Board

Do you know what a vision board is? It is a board with images that are indicative of things that you want to attract into your life. Pictures, poems, items can all be posted to remind you daily of your goals and aspirations. This visualization tool is said to call into the play the Law of Attraction. My sister has a prominent one in her kitchen, but I have never taken to the idea. I don’t know if it is because they called it a “Law” and I dislike rules or if it is an aversion to paper, but it just never appealed even though I appreciate the concept.

Recently I have been thinking about my life as it was, as it is now and as I dream that it will be and got to thinking that it may be time for a vision board. Being the internet geek that I am I have decided to create a virtual vision board instead of the traditional type.

I figure that by posting my vision board here in the public eye I gain a few things that a board at home could not accomplish:

1- accountability
2- support
3- assistance

I call upon you, my friends, clients and unknown readers to help me and I will do the same for you. See what my goals are and maybe you can help by applauding my efforts, reminding me to stay the course or even referring some business my way. Who knows if this will work, but it sure can’t hurt!

I want to take my daughters to Walt Disney World……soon.

To have a bit more free time and expendable income to travel more with Morriss.

To travel to more Real Estate BarCamps and PodCamps.

More time with my friends

I would love to install hardwood floors in my condo

To take my mom on a trip to Ireland

This is a work in progress and will change as my goals and aspirations shift and grow. My sister is one to say that you have to put things “out in the universe”, so that is what I have done. Law or no law, I hope to attract these events into my life.

Disney photo credit
Morriss and Lesley and Lesley’s Friends photo credit
REBCORL photo credit
Hardwood floor photo credit
Ireland photo credit

Sep 08 2010

FourSquare-endipity

This is a true life social media tale about the serendipitous nature of FourSquare.

I am a sometimes user of FourSquare. I would use it more often if I had a different phone, but my antique Blackberry Curve can’t seem to handle the application very well and often freezes when I am trying to check in places. That I will solve shortly when I get my iPhone and after my true life experiences this summer, I can’t wait to use it more often!

This One Time In Vegas….

Morriss and I were on our vacation with a final destination of Utah, but the first night was spent at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas. I managed to coax my phone through the check-in process to discover that the editor of my Masslive.com real estate articles, Laura Merwin was also staying there. I have never met Laura face to face and was excited to create a spontaneous meet up, but our schedules didn’t connect. All the same, I thought it was a lot of fun to see that someone I “knew” was there at the same time and afforded our #westernma friends on Twitter and Facebook a chance to chat about how random life is at times.

Put Me In Coach!

Over Labor Day Morriss and I took our kids to a baseball game at Camden Yards in Baltimore and I checked in. Moments later I saw that a friend, Derek Massey, was also checked into the ballgame. We tweeted during the game and he came by before he left to have a quick visit. It was awesome to see him even for just a moment and it never would have happened if it wasn’t for checking in on FourSquare!

Round Peg in a Square Hole

On our return drive from Baltimore, Morriss and I stopped at a rest area in Connecticut. As we were stretching and letting the kids run a bit, a woman approached and asked if we were Lesley and Morriss from Twitter. We admitted to the crime and she introduced herself as Heather Brandon (@heddafeddah) who is one of my first Twitter friends and someone with whom I have shared a lot of Mom themed discussions. She recognized us from our Twitter avatars and I am so glad she came over to say hello! This instance has nothing to do with FourSquare, but was so similar in the serendipity department that I had to share it, as well.

photo(2) — Heather Brandon and I at the rest area

I have written a post with ideas on how real estate professionals can use location based technology in their career, but this is really the power of these applications. Social media is about being social and this is a powerful way to put people together in the same place at the same time.

Be sure to friend me up over at my FourSquare profile so we can have a spontaneous meet up one day!

Do you have any serendipitous social media tales to share? Comment!

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