Northeast PA Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Webinar from Penn State Extension

TUESDAY TIP: Learn about Marcellus Shale, Fracking, and How It Affects Our Environment In Northeast PA It’s difficult to ignore the fact that natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania, including parts of Pike and Wayne County in Northeast PA, is a hot topic. There are passionate feelings both for and against drilling (and hydraulic fracking) for [...]

Photos: A Very Important Part Of Selling Your Home

Tuesday Tip: Great photos give your home an edge! Most of today’s home buyers look online first, often before even contacting an agent.  Currently, there are more than 2,400 homes for sale in Pike and Wayne County.  Aside from listing price and location, buyers choose and dismiss homes based on the pictures.  If a home [...]

Tuesday Real Estate Tip: Don’t Be Fooled By Photos

In this digital world, it seems crazy that REALTORS put listings on the MLS or on their websites with few, if any, photos beyond the “Main Photo.” Pictures are very subjective. You are at the mercy of the skills of the photographer! A great photographer will highlight a room’s positive points. An unskilled photographer may [...]

Selling Your Home & HGTV: Tuesday Tip

Generally, I enjoy watching HGTV.  It’s terrific for ideas on staging, updating, landscaping.  But please, remember this is entertainment…and some of the advice given is really BAD, in my opinion. One of the worst shows, IMHO, is My House is Worth WHAT. My House is Worth What features a real estate agent taking on the [...]

You Can’t Be The Prom Queen If You Don’t Go To the Dance

You Can’t Be Prom Queen if You Don’t Make it to the Dance….Or, You Can’t Sell Your House if The Buyers Aren’t Interested.

Pocono Pest Control: Tuesday Real Estate Tip

Mice are such cute little creatures, when they are in a cage, running on their wheel or curled up into a warm fuzzy ball, asleep in a pile of fluff. But when they boldly stroll through your kitchen, uninvited and unwanted, brazenly swiping kibble from the dog’s food bowl, and hiding behind the refrigerator, they [...]

Freecycle™ Pike & Wayne County PA – Tuesday Tip!

What is Freecycle™? Freecycle™, in its own words, is “a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer (them’s good people). Membership is free.” [...]

Are Your Closets SCARY? Tuesday Tip for Real Estate

When you put your home on the market, one of the first things you need to do is de-clutter. But you already know that. But what do you do with your clutter? If you’re like most people, you may stick it in the best hiding place available: your closet(s). Unfortunately, the closets are among the [...]

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