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How JtRealty Lost A Combined 65 lbs: You Can Too!

rmahan — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:59:57 +0000

Leave the city behind, get to the mountains and get healthy. Click here for full story of how five agents lost a total of 65 lbs (of the stuff below) from their waist lines. Get outside and be vital today! Contributing author — Ryan the Realtor: svelte, lean and mean, all around good guy. [...]

10 Tips to turn Spring Cleaning into Spring Staging!

holly — Sat, 12 May 2012 20:05:43 +0000

Have you been sitting on your property and perhaps thought to pull it off the market and wait it out? Try staging first! Here are some tips that will put a slow moving sale into a bidding war. I used a few of these tips to stage a home and it sold in 3 weeks for [...]

What’s the Junk in Your Trunk?

rmahan — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:58:30 +0000

Personal Questions and Answers from Ryan the Realtor I am not talking about your bootie, but rather examining the quality of one’s life by the junk in the back of your vehicle that allows you to get outside and do your groove thing. While Ryan the Realtor at 35 years of age still asks big [...]

5 Ways to Improve Curb Appeal, for FREE!

Emily — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:26:51 +0000

For the second weekend in a row, I’ve been outside in my yard trying to spruce up the house and get rid of any traces of the winter. After a trip to the grocery store yesterday, I pulled in to the driveway and was pleasantly surprised about how great the house looked. The cost? FREE. [...]

Sellers: Take Control Over This “Buyer’s Market”

Emily — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:26:09 +0000

You’ve heard it a thousand times. It is a buyer’s market. But what exactly does that mean for sellers right now? Well it means that your house may no longer speak for itself. The market is flooded with inventory, which means that buyers can be pickier than ever when it comes to spending their hard [...]

Repair work: Troubleshoot before you pay!

Emily — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:10:02 +0000

Have you ever had to call a service company to come to your home to repair something only to find out that it really wasn’t “broken”? Although you were probably happy that it wasn’t something serious (and expensive to fix!) you were probably also frustrated that you had to pay someone for something so simple. Before you call the repairman [...]

Has spring really sprung?

Emily — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:36:49 +0000

I’d like to take a second to discuss what everyone else has been discussing, this amazing weather! While quite unexpected, these beautiful days and mild nights have been so welcome for this non-skier (shh!). I spent all weekend outside with my kids, and got a taste of what this summer will bring. We decided to [...]

Taking a step back

Emily — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:55:19 +0000

I read this article today on one of my favorite real estate blogs, The Zebra Blog and it really hit home for me. Sometimes in the world of real estate it is easy to get caught up in numbers and emails and negotiations and forget about what this business really is. This is people, human [...]

Bearfoot Creek vs. The Rest

Emily — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:35:07 +0000

Last week I discussed why one should choose Bearfoot Creek in the Mount Washington Valley over another trailside home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It was brought to my attention that while the comparison is great for people that do not know what area of the country they’d like to be in, it doesn’t hold true [...]

National Geographic: “North Conway: One of World’s 25 Best Ski Towns”

Emily — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:03:32 +0000

North Conway has done it again, it was just named one of National Geographic’s World’s 25 Best Ski Towns! First Trip Advisor, now National Geographic! Check out what they had to say about our awesome town here. With all of this press, ski homes are sure to be in high demand in the coming weeks! Contact us today [...]