Your Beautiful Home Your Spring Home Maintenance Checklist Owning a home means there is always maintenance to do!  While every home is different, there are commonalities that each home shares.  Here is your basic spring checklist. Personalize it as you need and please provide any feedback! Happy Spring! 🌼 Spring Home Maintenance Checklist 🔧 Outdoor Maintenance Inspect the roof for missing, curling, or […]
Your Beautiful Home Your Fall Checklist Leaves are changing color.  It’s a perfect time to attend to those fall home maintenance tasks.  While I don’t relish the end of summer, I do look forward to the day we do our fall checklist.  It is a lot of physical work and we get a little dirt on our clothes, but we are […]
Uncategorized Don’t be Fooled…   We are constantly hearing warnings about fraud.  It is rampant across the country in all businesses.  We are bombarded with fraudulent texts, emails, and calls.  There are schemes to notify us that we have a toll violation or an urgent issue with a delivery. The goal of these urgent messages is to scare us […]
Market Trends 2025 Predictions – just ask me the future Recently I posted a video on 2025 predictions.  I clearly state in that video: I have not yet been granted clairvoyance to predict the future. That is a vague Star Wars reference- for you fans out there. I cannot tell you what the future holds in real estate due to the overwhelming number of influences […]
Buying and Selling Read This! Thanks for reading this. The point of this article is to recommend actually reading. I am not talking about reading classic books or that disclaimer that we all blindly sign-  but actually READ  legal documents.  We all need to read and to understand our legal agreements. My father was an attorney, my husband went to […]
Buying and Selling What’s going on down there? Trends in Sewers Do you love the latest fad? The term fad conjures up visions of wild print shirts or bell-bottom jeans. While fads are fun in fashion and art and popular culture, some fads or trends spring up as an expensive marketing ploy.  Other trends are the result of new knowledge.  Almost every profession experiences trends or fads […]
Buying and Selling Practice what you preach… I moved.  Thank God the move was from one office location to another and just down the street.  I am excited to announce that I moved from my old Coldwell Banker office to our merged Coldwell Banker office location at 209 Central Avenue in Westfield.  This is the #1 office in New Jersey! It is […]
Uncategorized How come you don’t know? My mail carrier loves to chat about two things: Notre Dame athletics and real estate in the neighborhood. As a Real Estate agent with 10 years of experience, obviously the more challenging conversation for me is the ND sports talk. I keep tabs on game scores and rankings just so it sounds like I know […]
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Your Beautiful Home Home is where the Heart is February is American Heart Month. Get it: February, Valentine’s Day, Hearts. (Subtlety is not my strong suit.) Well, I’m NOT a doctor, so I am not qualified to advise you about heart health. It is said that “Home is where the heart is” and I am qualified to advise what is great for your home […]
Buying and Selling Sometimes It Feels Like Moving a Boulder It’s common for us to make resolutions at the start of each year. I know I do. For like a decade now, my resolutions have been similar.  It is likely a deep character flaw that has prevented me from keeping these promises of self-improvement!  Why is that?  Most likely because we set a higher goal […]
Your Beautiful Home Sitting on a Cloud and Thanksgiving Menus Throw-back Thursday!  This is an article I had written last year, but it is always timely as we look forward to Thanksgiving. My addition for 2022 is the Fall Home Care Checklist: Clean out gutters Turn off outdoor faucets Empty and store hoses Winterize sprinkler system Check doors and windows for insulation Make sure to […]
Your Beautiful Home Going Hard on Fall Dear Mary- My DYI decorations look like my 5 year old was in a fever dream while she was  painting. Where can I go for ideas? Help! My Response- One of my favorite things about being a New Jersey Real Estate Broker is seeing beautiful homes and well-designed spaces. I am obsessed with everything to […]
Market Trends Your Next Wise Move There are a lot of mixed messages about the economy in the news today.  What is going on with the local real estate market?  I have three positive messages to share with you. Buyer demands remains strong. While we may not have multiple bids on every house, or we have fewer offers, well-maintained properties still […]