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National Beer Day! Western MA, How Are You Celebrating?

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I just found out on Twitter that today is National Beer Day!

We can’t let this go uncelebrated now, can we?

Western MA is home to some great micro breweries and close to lots of craft beer hotspots, too. Several restaurants brew and distribute beer, such as Opa Opa, Cambridge House (just below the line in Granby CT) and Northampton Brewery and there are lots of great “watering holes” that specialize in offering great beers on tap like The Dirty Truth.

If you want to join the celebration on Facebook, there is a group you can join.

What is your favorite beer? How will you be celebrating National Beer Day?

REALTOR Safety in Western MA and Beyond

realtor safetyOn my drive into work today I listened to a story on NPR’s Marketplace about real estate agents attending courses to carry concealed weapons. In this day and age a large number of the properties that a REALTOR goes through are vacant and oftentimes not very secure. These properties are inviting to animals and worse yet, vagrants.

When entering a distressed property, I am always nervous and make sure that someone knows exactly where I am. I haven’t yet run into a circumstance where I have met a person squatting in a property, but often when doing occupancy checks on foreclosed properties the immediate past owners are still there and can be hostile.

I don’t feel a pressing need to carry a firearm in Western MA, but I can understand why a real estate agent in other parts of the country might have a higher concern.

Fellow REALTORS in Western MA and beyond, remember to stay safe.

If you want to listen to the story that I heard this morning it is here.

photo courtesy of floodllama on flickr

Why Should You Work With REALTOR, Lesley Lambert?

Choosing a Western Massachusetts REALTOR is a process that should be done after you have researched the agent’s abilities and heard what other customers have had to say about their experience working with this real estate agent.

I had the pleasure of helping a great couple who was relocating to Western Massachusetts this month. Their college friend is a real estate agent in Chicago and he used Facebook to post his referral and read this blog to research me before sending his friends to work with me. I love when a fellow REALTOR sends me a referral because other agents are very often more critical than clients.

These buyers, Doug and Judy were living in temporary housing hours from work and without their pets. We spent some time searching and negotiating, but last week we closed on a terrific house that they were very excited to move into.

Here is what Doug had to say the day of the closing: