In single-family houses, the air conditioner compressor can be a problem for you or for your neighbors, depending on where you place it. If it is your machine, your windows will be closed when it is running, so it has to vibrate a lot before it will get on most people’s nerves. Where houses are
Public information: The Department of Education publishes district profiles. To open a report card, write the town or district into the box for “Search for your Report Card.” Then use the hyperlinks below that to see the information. Within this data, you will find information about not only test scores, but stats on the qualifications
When our clients consider buying into a condo association, we remind them to check the association rules. The rules are binding and affect daily life. Some of the rules that irk our clients actually make some sense, when you remember that condos are owned by people. People will be people. Bigger buildings often have rules about
Memorial Day is when we honor the servicemen and servicewomen who died in the military. In the current wars, there have been far more men and women returning injured than not returning at all. They carry the physical and psychological wounds, as well as the memory of their fallen comrades. Dead: 6855 Wounded:
This spring, FNC published a look at the rate of price increases in cities throughout the country. Real estate is appreciating at a healthy rate, nationally. It seems that Boston MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) was too big for its britches last year and had a slowdown in growth. The headline is scary, for those who
K asked: I'm looking at house-buying on a 3-5 year timetable, ideally in Camberville or neighboring communities; watching companies like GE move into the area and biotechs and internet companies continue to expand in Kendall Square; and curious to take the temperature of the market, from someone who's closer to it than I am, in
This article is designed to make you crazy, buyers. Prices are up. We all know that. But, by how much? Funny, they don’t tell you anything relevant to your search. There is no chart of local information. Just a couple of paragraphs about why the housing bulls are dancing the gig. The article is from
Mortgage underwriting change. What does it mean to you? There’s a new version of credit analysis that will be part of the approval process. Changes will start having an effect when the new Fannie Mae Desktop Underwriter* launches June 25th. It will allow lenders to discern between applicants who carry balances on credit cards vs.
“Did you know that if a seller receives only one offer on your property, that the probability that it will close is 90 percent. If a seller gets multiple offers, the probability that it will close is only 50 percent…” I heard this statistic in a negotiating training run by Bernice L. Ross. I queried
Ron Rothenberg 4Buyers Real Estate I’ve had a new energy-saving device for over a year, and I love it, and it has more than paid for itself a few times over, and it only cost me $20.00 at the Mass Save store website. It’s an Evolve showerhead, and it saves energy and solves the problem