Pennsylvania Real Estate Update

How Long Your Home is On the Market MattersIn this Buyer’s Market it is very important to show lower numbers of “days on the market” for the home you’re selling. Why does the number of days on the market matter? To simplify it all, it comes down to giving a sense of desperation to buyers. A buyer who sees a home on the ...

Everybody knows that fresh paint is the simplest way to make an old house look new again. But you’re also warned when selling your home don’t go crazy with color or stick with neutrals so what should you really do?Should you paint a room a blazé white or off white and leave it with no real personality or should you make an ...

I have been pondering almost daily this great financial debacle that we have gotten ourselves into and how it happened. Now I understand Barry Obama likes to point the finger at the GOP or George Bush, but it started way before "W" became Number 43.  It seems to me that this whole mess can be traced back to Post WWII America and ...

  NEWS RELEASE For release upon receipt.For more information contact Steve Snell, Executive Officer, RAYAC at (717) 843-7891. RAYAC Releases 2008 Home Sales Statistics “There’s no surprise that local housing numbers reflect the state of the national economy,” says Steve Snell, executive officer of the REALTORS Association ...

Well, here you are. Just where you said that you would never be when you excitedly planted that For Sale sign at just the right spot in your front yard last spring. I'll bet that you even peeked out of the window as the first several cars rode by, halfway expecting them to come to a screeching halt, just to get the first look at your domestic ...

What? What's that you say? Every day I am asked by someone, "...when is the market gonna bottom out?".  Well folks here's the deal, think of it as a 3 Day Goin Out Of  Business Sale. Are you with me so far? What day would you want to go?The First day with the best selection?The Second day with the ...

I know we are all struggling with the gasoline prices, heating oil and propane are out of control as we all well know. The first time I filled my propane tank around Thanksgiving it was about $700.  Then in January I had a stroke when it cost $1200 to fill the tank.  And if I thought that was "bad" I should have called the ...