Expert Advice from Amy & Kyle Bergquist at Keller Williams Legacy Partners
Last week the results for the Connecticut Mastery Test were released to the public. The Courant has put together a nice page for quickly seeing data, while the official results website allows users to generate detailed reports. As expected, there has been a flurry of commentary on the results for different towns. The West Hartford results are being debated on West Hartford Forums, Talk of West Hartford, and The West Hartford Blog. I’m sure that there
Last week I reported on real estate market statistics for the spring in a number towns in the Greater Hartford area. Most towns had seen a significant decline in the number of closed sales when comparing April through June of 2008 to 2007. While those statistics are troubling for sellers, they are also troubling for those who earn their living in the real estate industry; your local real estate agent, closing attorney, mortgage broker, home
I recently received showing feedback for one of my sellers. The buyer didn’t like the layout of the house. All I could conclude from the feedback was that the buyer didn’t like that very typical house style. There was nothing my seller could do to improve this objection for future showings. Which brings me to the subject of issues with a house that cannot be fixed. Some houses are cursed with in-cure-able conditions. Here are
I recently received an email from a reader interested in the West Hartford market. Because their question was related to property taxes, something people are fixated on most of the time, I thought I would share the conversation with the masses… When looking online, every once in a while I am thrown off when i see two similar houses that have two totally different “estimated tax” amounts. A good example i found this morning is:
I’ve always wanted one of those miniature rooms on the top of my house. You’ve seen them before, usually on larger houses or down by the shore. It turns out they’re called cupolas and pronounced CUPE-o-la. Technically the term covers protrusions of all sizes, from the capital dome to little vents on barns.  I would definitely want one with windows that I could go up and sit in. Like this one here in the West End. It’s