Expert Advice from Amy & Kyle Bergquist at Keller Williams Legacy Partners
May is a busy real estate month. More deals are done in the spring than in other times of the year, and the month of May is right there in the middle of the spring. In most years, the months of April and May have the two highest totals of contracts written (buyers and sellers agreeing on a sale). May usually edges out April, but not always. It depends on how the holidays fall, and
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
So it’s been a few weeks since the buyer credit expired on April 30th. How’s the market doing now? Crickets. Can you hear them? This graph shows the number of contracts written for residential properties in Hartford County. Data is grouped by week and comes from the Connecticut Multiple Listing Service, which is deemed reliable but not guaranteed. 2004 was selected as the comparison year for three reasons: 1. The days/dates match up with 2010
Here’s an interesting article about a company in Milwaukee that has set up an indoor farm to grow fish and vegetables organically and sustainably. Sweet Water Organics has put together an aquaculture system that recirculates water between the fish and veggies, with each providing nutrients for the others. They are currently raising perch, tilapia, lettuce, basil, watercress, tomatoes, peppers, chard, and spinach. The system has been built in a formerly vacant factory. We’d love to