Expert Advice from Amy & Kyle Bergquist at Keller Williams Legacy Partners
The City of Hartford told us that our house was built in 1910. It says so right on our property data card on their online database. Given that it’s 2010, we thought it would only be proper to throw our house a 100-year birthday party bash this year. I blogged about it a few months ago on our home ownership anniversary. I’ve been happily planning this party in my head for months now. It would
There’s a thoughtful editorial about living in Hartford in today’s Courant. Thank you Catherine Blinder.
Memorial Day weekend some of my clients were kind enough to bring me a quart of freshly picked strawberries. It was a really thoughtful act. And the strawberries were delicious. We talked about our favorite places to pick strawberries in the area. In previous years I had always gone to Rose’s Berry Farm in Glastonbury. I’d stick to the Hebron Avenue field because it was closest on my trip over from Hartford. These folks were
Today was an exciting day in the “My Town is Better Than Your Town” battle. First, we received our new copy of Hartford Magazine and it ranked the best towns to live in within Hartford County (note: I don’t know when they’ll update their website to show the current article). There are 29 towns in Hartford County, so it laid them all out for us, segregated by town size. They used 21 factors in the
Kyle and I try to be do-it-yourselfers where we can. Lawn care, painting, small carpentry projects. You know, easy stuff that our schedule allows us to do and ones where if we screwed up we wouldn’t electrocute ourselves or flood the house. We’re getting into the warmer weather now, so it should be time for us to start planning and planting our vegetable garden. Maybe you followed our Tomato Experiment last year. It was the