Expert Advice from Amy & Kyle Bergquist at Keller Williams Legacy Partners
I have a slight addiction to bread. One of my favorite places to visit is the First & Last Bakery Cafe, located in the South End of Hartford at 920 Maple Avenue. Atkins Diet be damned! It’s a very pleasant place to stop in and get your fill of carbohydrates. They’re open Monday through Friday from 7:00am-4:00pm and 8:00am-3:00pm on weekends. In addition to a wide variety of artisan breads, they also offer fantastic sandwiches
Have you ever asked yourself if you bought the right house? Kyle asked me that question this morning. Talk about conversation starters at breakfast! My response was “Well, I don’t know. Which house would we have bought instead?” For background purposes, we looked at a total of 25 houses over 3 days in the towns of Hartford, West Hartford, Farmington, Glastonbury, and Wethersfield when we relocated from Virginia four years ago. We were not familiar
Hartford’s Elizabeth Park opened its annual Spring Flower Show yesterday. You can stop by the greenhouses any day until March 20 between the hours of 9:00am-2:00pm. Check out a bounty of tulips, daffodils, and other varieties of perrenials. On Saturday March 22 the flowers will be sold between 10:00am-2:00pm. If you’d like to purchase flowers, I would recommend arriving about 45-60 minutes early, as there is always a long line when the sale begins at
I recently received a few off-line comments about my recent post regarding real estate inventory levels in the Greater Hartford area. Remember, real estate inventory for a specific town is calculated by taking the current number of homes on the market in that town and dividing it by the number of closings during the previous month in that town, or some derivation thereof. In my calculation, I used February of 2008 to get the resulting
Great news this week for home sellers and buyers in the Greater Hartford area. The CTMLS (the database most Connecticut real estate agents use to share information about your home) has increased the photo allowance from 10 to 20 pictures for each listing! So, when you’re surfing Realtor.com or Raveis.com or whatever website you use to look at homes for sale, now you should be able view more pictures. Obviously this puts more pressure on