Making Your Home Your Own

I ran into a neighbor the other day and our conversation went along the lines of this: Neighbor: Hey, I have a real estate question for you. Now, I’m not looking to sell my home, but I’ve heard that having a lot of books is bad. Is that true? [Side note: many of my neighbors and friends preface their real estate questions with “I’m not looking to sell my home” whenever they ask me a

Presto, Change-O in West Hartford

Some people balk at the difference staging can make when selling a house. Well, let me tell you, I’m a believer. I recently listed a house in West Hartford that was staged to sell. I’ll be writing a more detailed blog about the process once it closes (it just went under contract today, after 7 days on the market), but I want to give you a preview of what a difference staging can make. This

What is this Room?

If you had to hazard a guess at what this room is supposed to be, what would you say? It’s located to the left of the stairway in a center hall colonial… This room is a Dining Room, living an alternate life as a Billiard Room. And when I listed this home in the West End of Hartford last summer, this room was very confusing to buyers. At the open house I hosted, about 70