Am I crazy !?
I signed with Caldwell Banker to list my house in Amesbury for $______
I have no plan for what if my house does sell. Then again, I’m of the mind that it’s the other side of the coin that says “if you buy a snowblower, it will surely not snow all winter”. I’m [...]

My house is on the market and as we have all heard, the market is generally not good. Some places in the US are doing alright and others are seriously hurting. I’d say my area is pretty much in the middle - slow but not desperate.
My realtor has not had much activity for my listing [...]

I took a couple of days off to get some work done on the farm. The progress is slow but that’s attributed to the housing market more than anything else.
This trip had just one goal - to lay the boundary of the building site. Everything is a mater of scale on the farm and [...]

The source for my post’s title is a book by Sarah Susanka. I am in the midst of designing a new home. At the same time, I am watching all of these “dream homes”, “home improvements”, “this old house”, “rezoned”, etc. shows of TV. The TV shows keep showing bigger and bigger homes - [...]

I had my house on the market for about 75 days. The realtor I had just was not working out so when our agreement expired I let the house come off the market for a short while.
I signed on with another Realtor - one who is well known in my neighborhood and has a [...]

I’m an optimist at heart and a realist for things that are in my own life. That hit home last year. Although, if anyone were to sit down through more than a couple of drinks, they’d realize “reality” is sometimes a tough thing to swallow and those phases of grief (Shock, Denial, Bargaining, Guilt, Anger, [...]

I am designing a new home and one, I hope will prove both to me and others that “size matters” but this time I don’t mean “bigger is better”. My goals are 1000sqft footprint - that means it includes all interior walls, furnishings etc and thus the traditional definition of living space will be some [...]

I was blog surfing this morning and started with a “link post” (one of those posts where the writer lists a bunch of links and perhaps includes a one-line comment. From there I followed it to a sane post (but not one I necessarily agreed with). And from there I got to an editorialized [...]