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I love this house!  When I first got to Skaneateles I fell in love with Highland Ave, just outside the Village.  I thought there was a place I could walk the dogs (Anna and Sebastian then) and Alex would find friends.  It seemed so congenial - space between homes, large yards, small homes as well as larger ones.  Alas, there were none at the time I could afford, so I came as close to it as I could.  I still walked the dogs there, though, on the loop. So here is your chance - 3862 Highland Ave, open Sunday from 1:00 to 3:00.  It has three real bedrooms but also the possibility of a fourth which could be part of an in-law suite on the entrance floor.  Two-car attached garage, LARGE inground pool, almost an acre (.99!) with privacy trees and a barely used road between you and the neighbors to the south.  Inside are hardwood floors, a wood-burning fireplace, kitchen with stainless steel appliances, and a sun room that was so bright when I took the pho...

 The lot I have listed down Firelane 21B now has the possibility of a 1500sf. camp being built for it.  And for only $350,000 - brand new! The owners have built several of the cottages on the road in the past 20 years and so we sat down to write up what it would cost for them - Lake Country Construction - to build another one on this lot. The price floored me.  The camp would have a basement that could be a walkout.  Upstairs a bedroom, full bath, family/living room and kitchen.  The top floor would be left unfinished at this price, but could be a huge master suite or two bedrooms.  The camp was already built for someone else, so if you are very interested I can show you which one it is. The beauty of this plan is that you get a totally new house that would contain your fixtures, your layout, your choices.  Renovations cost more than new builds, in many cases, and trying to retrofit an old camp is difficult.  This one is a blank slate - you deco...

Sunday from 1:00 to 3:00 I will hold 115 Raspberry in Camillus open.  The price has just been reduced to $299,900 which makes it a bargain! Not just a four-bedroom home, it also has a fifth bedroom over the garage and larger than the others, I think.  A corner room, now used as a media room. Not just one of many homes with back yards looking at other back yards, it has more privacy thanks to trees planted by the owner and the way the house was situated on the large lot. Not just a full basement, but one finished in three ways: a kids' playroom in part, an adult bar, and the owner's office.  Still room for storage, too! Not just an eat-in family room, but also a formal dining room and formal living room (with a bay window and a view!) Not just a pretty kitchen, but one with stainless steel appliances, stacked laundry, newer ceramic tiled floors and a gas fireplace at the far family room end. Come and see it!  ML#S285298 for photos....Take Route 5 from 695 to Ike Di...

This business is one of ebb and flow.  One week the phones are fairly quiet, and the next I am working 12 hour days.  The one sure thing to start the real estate juices moving is if I go away.  I took a day to go down to the city and see Alex, Rachel, and Liam.  I told people this ensured a house would sell, and even picked out the house that would sell this time, and sure enough it did.  I spent a lot of my time standing in the park by the East River arranging showings (that get more difficult the farther away I go) and accepting offers.  I plan to be away a lot this summer to stimulate business!  The real estate magic even worked down there.  After months of looking, they found a two-bedroom apartment just where they wanted to be and for less $$ than they had expected!  (Still more than the average Central New York mortgage, but still...) Thank goodness...there's another little boy coming in August! So currently in the Skaneateles area of t...

All that's fit to print... Housing Association Tasmania executive director Stuart Clues said it was the perfect time to buy a home. "The net result for ordinary Tasmanians is that you're going to get a house built on time and on budget at the lowest interest rates we've seen. They'd be crazy not to go for it. " Mr Clues said the cuts should show all Tasmanians that there was no better time to escape the rental cycle or build an investment property. Go on, you know you want to.

When I went through my hotsheet today I sent off yet another new listing to some clients.  I thought I better do the update, before I got overwhelmed and it made less sense.  I put in the criteria, and came up with 23 new listings since the last update!  Oh my!  But then when I went through their history I discovered that while they had a new number and in a fair number of cases a new Realtor, 13 were actually re-lists of homes that hadn't sold. The verifiable new listings can be broken down by Village (2), Waterfront (1) and Town (7).  There are now a total of 91 active listings in the Skaneateles area of the multiple listing service. In the Village, two great houses came on - one close to a million and the other close to half a million.  We have some gorgeous homes in the Village! The Town homes range from a low of the mid-$100,000s to over half a million.  Large, small, with or without acreage - we have a great selection at this time of year.  ...

Time is beautiful. Given enough time you can get fat, bald and start to sprout hair from your ears. Suffering those indignities is worth it because time also builds something else - an artillery. As Sun Tzu said, "while you sweat an imprint into your couch, your enemies sow the seeds of their destruction." Predictions have been made and forgotten by most. Those without shame and something to sell can forever make those predictions without fear of second guessing. Welcome to Tasmania, where the print media is a contemptible landscape of irrelevant whiskey-nosed boozers and their fresh faced, empty headed underlings. You know the type, tweeting while watching Q&A on Monday night allows them to believe they're the state's intelligentsia. Luckily there's me. Thoroughly lazy, yet occasionally motivated by the chance any of Tasmania's lamentable journalistic stock will rip me off and highlight something original. The odds aren't good. The Mercury's pumpe...