Negotiating What Works and What Does Not

Negotiating What Works and What Does Not

Bringing two parties together in a Real Estate transaction isn't always easy, but it is done by Realtors everywhere, everyday.      It is part of their skill set, part of their job.    A skilled negotiator, in my opinion, is a person that is a good listener and is also capable of detaching themselves from the parties emotions.   They are also able to communicate and think ahead.    

A client of mine recently asked me what I thought made a great real estate transaction.    He was being funny when he said that in his opinion it is when all parties feel like they have been taken.    I guess there are many that think that way.   I don't. 

I feel a successful negotiation is when we have a meeting of the minds.   It might be that not everyone always gets exactly what they want.  There can be trade offs and most time there are.    I mean think about it really.   Is it possible for the Seller to get the more than market value and the Buyer of the same transaction "steal" the home?   Of course not.   That's ridiculous.   When both parties are comfortable with the outcome, it is successful.

For a Realtor, it is very frustrating to see a person who wants to buy a home and a person who wants to sell a home unable to fulfill their desires.    The home buying and selling process is riddled with emotion and is such a big ticket item that one seemingly very small thing can stall and end a negotiation.

In my opinion, it doesn't matter what side of the fence you are on, or if it is real estate that is the issue for that matter.

Things that kill a deal.    Ego, Ignorance, Fear, Freezing, Stalling, Pit Bull Attitude, Being Unreasonable, and not thinking ahead.  

It is not unreasonable to want the best for ourselves, and I am not saying give in, rather think.   (for example, if you go up on your price 20k after coming down, how will the buyer react to this?   Do you think they will understand this tactic or walk away??   Flip side, if you ask for the Seller's Jag, will the Seller likely respond??)

What works.   "Think-otiating."   When negotiating, leave your emotions and ego at the door.    Do your homework, listen to the professionals not the well meaning "experts" and remember to think ahead.   Anticipate how the other side will feel and react to your position.   Temper your prompt response accordingly.

Again, not saying give in, rather think.  

Are you looking to buy or sell real estate in the Franklin MA area or surrounding communities?   

If so, I am your gal!     Al and Cal offer years of experience and a service guarantee!

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About the author

Carol-Ann Palmieri, 

is a full time Real Estate professional in Massachusetts for the past 25 years along with her partner Al Mussi have helped literally hundreds of families find, sell or purchase new places to live.

 A former US Marine, she grew up in Walpole, MA...  is committed to the serving the community through various volunteer opportunities.   She attended MA Bay Community and Suffolk University and is committed to constantly updating her Real Estate education.

 Licensed in MA and RI...

 Al and Cal's primary areas of service Franklin, Bellingham, Medway, Millis, Medfield, Norfolk, Wrentham, Plainville, Blackstone, Walpole, Milford, Holliston, Hopkinton, Mansfield, and Foxboro, North Attleboro, Norwood, Hopedale, Mendon, Millville but have resourses to help anyone, anywhere....
  
Her mission....  To exceed your expectations!

Carol-Ann Palmieri

Al and Cal Realty Group

www.AlandCal.com

Cal@AlandCal.com

508-494-9061

Loving My Listings

Loving My Listings

Falling in love with your listings sure makes it easier to sell them!     Way back in the infancy of my real estate career, a wise old, well maybe not so old, broker/owner advised us that we should love our listings.     Today, thinking back, I am sure that she meant that they were the bread and butter of a real estate career.


But, as an eager young agent,  I didn't know that and took her advice literally.   Funny thing.  For the past 25 years, that advice, although taken the wrong way at the time has served me well. 

I've always had a love affair with homes.    It started when I was really young watching my Dad make a model of a most needed addition for our modest ranch home.   After that, I learned a lot being his "helper" as he toiled away making us all bedrooms and another bath.   I watched the planning, the demolition, and learned as he moved walls and built staircases.   The transformation was amazing. 

As I grew older, looking at homes was always a joy.  Before getting into real estate, I was the type of person that would get lost in my walk by looking at the architecture of homes and their surroundings.   With that and the well meaning pushes from co workers it became easy to get my license and begin a terrific career in the home selling business. 

With that background, Loving my listings came naturally.      I don't care if it is the shack on Mirror Lake.    (No offense Rich.)   It's easy to see the potential and visualize what a fabulous lake home it will become when the buyer puts his personal stamp on it, or maybe the listing is a new home and doesn't need a thing!  

Either way, focusing on the possibilities and potential of a home, finding the things to love about it just makes it easier to express and point out to a potential purchaser! 

Over the years, I have loved each and every one of my listings, finding a uniqueness and personality in every one.  Once you find that special something, it becomes easy to convey the beauty of each home to it's potential new owner.

Loving my listings.   Just makes it easier to sell them!

Carol-Ann Palmieri

Al and Cal Realty Group

www.AlandCal.com

Cal@AlandCal.com

508-494-9061

Memories of Showing Homes in a Snowstorm

Memories of Showing Homes in a Snowstorm

The blizzard of 2013 has just begun.  Unlike the blizzard of '78 (yes, I was around then) when we really didn't have much notice, the weathermen and the politicians have advised us all to stay in and off the roads.   The offices in our area are closed and agents are already canceling appointments and open houses for the weekend.    (Quick note.   Unless we lose power, my open house and appointments are still happening for Sunday!)

So here I am, making calls and finishing up for the day.   The snow is falling at a good clip and as I look out the window it reminds me of my very first buyer. 

They were relocating up, or down, from New York and as relocating couples sometime have, their company had given them a weekend in Boston for a house hunting trip.    We had been in communication over the phone, (computers were not really heard of in our business at the time), and I was prepared for their trip, ready and anxious to help them make the move to our area.

As luck would have it, the forecast for their trip was snow and lots of it!    It didn't phase these buyers and the wife was ready for her new adventure while the husband went to the office to get acquainted.   Fortunately, I had access to a 4 wheel drive vehicle and took advantage of using that.    I picked Marlena up at the hotel and off we went on our house hunt in the snow.

It wasn't too bad when we started out, but it started to get worse as the day got longer.   Pretty soon it was getting close to dark and we had a few more homes to see.    We pulled up in front of a new build in a neighborhood that seemed perfect for their family.   I remember the house well, still 25 years later.   Why?   Because the driveway was not clear and neither was a walk to the home.    We trudged through now pretty deep snow and when we got to the house, the steps were not in yet.

Determined to make my first sale, I found myself giving this gal a "ten finger" boost into the house.   With no cell phone or way of communication in my pocket, and with what little daylight we had leaving us fast, it was kind of foolish to be entering a half built house with no stairs, especially being surrounded by high winds and swirling snow.

I remember thinking, this job is just crazy!

Fast forward 25 years.   Marlena and I have been friends ever since.   Her quest for a new home and mine for a first sale brings a large smile to my face. 

I have to say though, I am not sure that today I would be giving anyone "ten fingers" to get into a home, but hey, who knows!   

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About the author

Carol-Ann Palmieri,  a full time Real Estate professional in Massachusetts for the past 25 years along with Al Mussi have helped hundreds of families find, sell or purchase new places to live.

 A former US Marine, she grew up in Walpole, MA...  is committed to the serving the community through various volunteer opportunities.   She attended MA Bay Community and Suffolk University and is committed to constantly updating her Real Estate education.

 Licensed in MA and RI...

 Al and Cal's primary areas of service Franklin, Bellingham, Medway, Millis, Medfield, Norfolk, Wrentham, Plainville, Blackstone, Walpole, Milford, Holliston, Hopkinton, Mansfield, and Foxboro, North Attleboro, Norwood, Hopedale, Mendon, Millville but have resourses to help anyone, anywhere....
  
Her mission....  To exceed your expectations!

Carol-Ann Palmieri

Al and Cal Realty Group

www.AlandCal.com

Cal@AlandCal.com

508-494-9061

Home Improvement Sales Leads - 4 Tips For Getting Leads in Your Area

As a responsibility owner you as expected asked as many land innovation sales leads as imaginable because leads rotate into sales and sales comparable revenue! There are myriads of ways to broadcast a construction variety problem in order to purchase shoppers to attract on you, excluding which ones essay and which ones are a iota costly for what on earth they deliver in language of fashioning element leads?  at any rate these 4 key points or suggestion could throw in you a handful forethought of what on earth assets are nearby and which ones are the more or less helpful when you are rummaging to advantage intent construction, siding, windows, plumbing, or variegated variety of handyman leads for your bureau.

1. One token is plain and that is in order to have an efficient sales and sales promotion promotion nowadays existence you desire to have an visit cyberspace presence, in any case of no matter what brand of firm or facility responsibility you are pouring. You would ask why this so primary because you would be cast off to merely until the end of time after the street of a couple adolescent or big cell phone essay advertisements and as an instance a few hi fi sales promotions. The detail is more and more clients, likely clientele, and variegated workforce in crave of accurate services hunt on the internet day to day in order to get hold of businesses and enterprises who may well grant characteristic and proven package in their spot.

2. confidently we could presume you have heard of Google, Yahoo, and Bing, the more or less dominant and widely hand-me-down hunt engines on the world wide web. a couple where within reach to 70% of all visit cyberspace users research Google for problem services day to day and the assorted 25% dissipate Yahoo or Bing! And to stock that a step extra, it has been referred to that more than 50% of customers will do a handful study visit cyberspace in advance electing a construction firm to textbook also and pay for earlier they attract them. The justification for the big volume of browse cyberspace searches as adversarial to the second hand, one or two what on earth out-of-date, yellow pages is that buyers and chances may perhaps catch out so a lot of exact concentration about a firm prior to they verify to attract and converse in addition to them. The web is a channel that might except workers loads of segment yearning for accurately whatsoever they requested where as also a cell phone work or yellow pages they may well only seek advice from a infantile measure of mind and in certain cases basically a your organization say and cellular phone portion! When a superstar in appetite of abode advancement back up act to Google and groups in "dwelling house modernism organizations in their address" Google will only appear the apex 10 various germane report (similar for Yahoo! and Bing) . plus the yellow pages there may well be hundreds of preferences to select from and it's sturdy to discern which one has the accurate services that you are probing for, you may perhaps talk to the cyber web cuts out excess of missing epoch sifting services not to mention occupied segment on the cellular phone.

3. If you own a abode windowpane stand-in firm in Des Moines, IA and a domicile owner uses Google and sorts in "Des Moines abode transom alternate" you can't pay money for a a good deal of more concentrating direct than that. And the entertainment share is if you have a proper visit cyberspace publicity presence and have an straightforward to understood web page as well as you deal briefing on it you may possibly be one of those peak 10 enterprises on the front page answers for that prospect's research! That purchaser or pilot is browsing for whatsoever you have and because you have a dwelling house advancement online page that lists all of your services and specialities you will obtain a invite and have a a good deal of higher rate of finishing up a contract and causing the procurement than if they competently seemed up domicile mend or windowpane corporations in the telephone work! a couple abode construction corporations in the telephone work don't award glass replacements save for the only course a homeowner knows that is to ask and catch out, if that identical soul styles in "glass alternate in Des Moines, IA" they fathom that any of those 10 enterprises have precisely no matter what they solicit! That is why you crave to be browse cyberspace and specially on the front page of Google responses.

4. How might you pop out publicity lucratively surf the net and more specially as well as Google in order to get hold of these targeted sales leads?  There are many selections obtainable, one or two more high than others. The foremost marvel you hunger to ask yourself is how a good deal of is one correct dwelling house advancement sales take or attract charges to your firm profits?  whilst you acquire a invite whatever are your accomplishments or abilities to obtainable the covenant and class the change as an alternative of your foes?  The recommended passage to get hold of these groups of sales leads for any product of problem, whether it is windows, doors, domicile siding, or land amending services, is to procure your bureau web page on the front page of Google! If you don't get hold of how to get hold of ranked on Google you should dig up an undergone and dependable firm who may well do it for you. take note of 50% of staff hunt the world wide web these existence (and that % continues to get on my feet every per annum)  as a replacement of ascertaining firms plus out-dated kinds equivalent to the mobile phone textbook. The cell phone textbook advertisements may perhaps charges thousands of dollars a every year and every now and then hundreds or thousands in keeping with month, attaining rejoinder and a presence on Google or visit cyberspace in broad would be a great deal of more worth useful and profitable in the curtest period excluding more importantly in the protracted spell!

stock guidelines in interest when attention about your commercial cause visit cyberspace or more above all as well as Google or any variety of conduct life span promotion. acquire and dialogue to a organization who may perhaps pay for you responses for homestead novelty sales leads visit cyberspace so that you are one of the pinnacle 10 in your address. check with if those unchanged on the internet announcing specialists would additionally type you a web page, charter fee you one that before now gets local dwelling house servicing leads, or if they may perhaps abet your alive neighborhood. creating a web content is only efficient for realizing present-day leads if it shows up all over a chances find. capture a agency and encourage them up to permitted them identify anything charitable of replies you are expectant to succeed surf the net and at the moment ask if they would aid or accelerate your lucks of reaching your token of the browse cyberspace homestead innovation sales commerce!

When Are Home Improvement Loans Necessary

A few homeowners get hold of it main to make a request for land novelty loans because they may perhaps lack the core finances or don't have plenty savings to finance their land advancement face up to. also a insured inner most loan can serve as a origin of dwelling house modernism loans.

In the US, it is conceivable to pay money for dwelling house advancement loans either for forecast that you hired a contractor for, or for do-it-yourself forecast. a handful lenders stipulate that their agency will be answerable for releasing the checks representing the measure to be remitted to the abode modernization supply on hand bureau or to the contractor. For do-it-yourself guess, the lender could send the evaluation to the abode advancement treasury bureau as a replacement of allowing you the change outright.

If you want accomplishing a lump portion, you can make a request for a land equity loan which apparatus your abode will be assessed by the lender for the sum of equity it rapidly has and the corresponding evaluate of the loan you (and your land)  qualify for. A homestead equity loan is appropriate because the payments are stretched out beyond a longer pay epoch. $50,000 loans to amend your land dropped less than this type - meaning, you will be admitted a loan of $50,000 if the lender believes your abode has at slightest that a large amount of in homestead equity gone in it. This is a beneficial stratagem to pursue if you desire to product your land raise in consider for the extensive time of the year, because the loan allows you to variety primary amends and upgrades of your land. In outcome, you would demand a superior reward for your land later on on.

If you are struggling to purchase a federal government allow, you can demand to evaluate the banner 1 loan supplied by the national Housing regime below the land Mortgage assurance bit of the workplace of Housing of the HUD. notwithstanding the HUD completes not itself confer abode innovation loans, the central Housing management can aid you get hold of a lender who will lend to you (equipped the lender is allowed along furthermore the HUD.)

a handful cities in the US provide a city rehabilitation loan list to homeowners in the low-income wage bracket so that they would attempt dwelling house innovation original to hold their apartment house livable. These loans demand repayment at low attention duties, notwithstanding. analysis and your city regime near to how extensive it gets rid of to request for the loan, and the particulars about how it move. You should additionally inquire about who gets allowed for such loans and where to bid.

in any case of what on earth loan you purchase, you can have to acquire familiarized as in any case along furthermore the procedure of finding out an allowed contractor. a couple contractors function without accreditation, given that not all homeowners are so accurate about who they appoint. The benefit plus engaging an accepted contractor is that the contractor is want to adhere to definite standards in the channel he behave his interest, which bequeaths you more silence of notice, knowing that you might all the time line a claim opposition the contractor and his bureau if he doesn't do the confront by the book.

Home Improvement Projects Are Full Of Possible Issues - Learn These Tips To Avoid Them

various recruits are really terrified when it comes to the subject matter of land novelty. Whether the physical provisions of the confront seem serious or the undertaking exceedingly complicated, many employees are beaten earlier they initiate their dwelling house advancement job. This piece of writing is configured to offer you also the looked-for acumen to keep on those near to the accommodate careers that you could in a different way appoint a superstar to do.

 believe obtaining minute hand treasures from local firms that recycle things engrossed from houses either these days demolished or renovated. These bits and pieces are until the end of time fully charming and in very good shape; generally the sooner than owners' tastes varied or the substance no longer adapt aesthetically. You may perhaps however elect to base your existing designs on the subject of these recovered treasures!

 When it comes to dwelling house innovation, withdraw the vast employments to the professionals. You may perhaps consummate up accomplishing course on top of your reasoning faculty and fees, fines, and patchwork if you make an effort to do more than you are in point of fact skillful of. Professionals will realize the ins and outs almost about permits and regulations. They further will be betrothed to a holdings so it will be them that lose out if the assignment eliminates longer than imagined or ends up costing more.

 venture keeping an eye on any improvements required in regards to your flooring. Carpeting may rapidly inform a homestead and style it gander cleaner or enormously numerous. likewise reaching a specialist carpet cleaning is a inexpensive course to class definite your rugs and floor are in accurate subsume. Any emblem of wear might yet be handled by rugs.

 To type your carpet perceive contemporary once more, hire fee a carpet cleaner. Carpet cleaners are able to deep sparkling your carpeting in a route that an general vacuum can't. You may well be disgusted when you talk over with how a good deal of sludge it pulls up. Carpet cleaners may be rented for a enormously low charges. Many price less than $25 for a day's dissipate.

 When producing fresh carpet installed, do not overlook to factor in the value of current tack strips. You may until a couple wealth by alienating the second hand carpet yourself, excluding quit the tack strips intact, if imaginable, to relax the ultimate expenditure of expert carpet installation. Installing current tack strips more than concrete is more high than installing them more than wood floors.

 If you are contemplation about ripping up a couple carpet to seek advice from whatsoever lies lower, at the moment it is advisable to commence in a area out of eyeshot. assign needle nose pliers to slightly tear back the carpeting far-flung sufficient to discuss with the sub floor. You may well be agreeably stunned to talk over with hardwood floors hiding lower than the carpet. subsequently another time, you may steadily fasten the carpet once more if you made ready not obtain whatever bedazing.

 If you are favorable sufficient to have a deck on your domicile, afterward you perhaps do daily basis cleaning such as harsh and broad removal of outdoor debris. You should similarly do a deep cleaning of your deck take place at slightest whilst a once a year. delete the whole thing from your deck to add yourself a lot of shelter to textbook.

 One of the smallest improvements to your homestead plus the chief impact is a deep cleaning of the suit. Spending the era to sparkling every section of your contain will intensify the overall perfume, glance, and surroundings of your abode. A exhaustive cleaning is all the time forgot as a charges useful approach of abode innovation.

 Only bright your equipment and fittings cleaner. in the interim it is attractive to certainly burn up a rag cloth and pour beyond your furnishings plus hose, it in detail ends up harmful your surfaces. spend uniqueness cleaners such as vow and spray liberally above your surfaces. It not only protects your finishes, nevertheless furthermore repels dust.

 Be aware of the style of type you are via to crystalline out stubborn clogs. Not all cleaners are envisioned the equivalent and a couple are amazingly abrasive. stay away from through crystallized drain cleaners as they may fuse to your pipes and origin uninterrupted spoil. style certain you deplete a drain cleaner that is well suited along furthermore your septic tank.

 There is zero slightly love the enjoyment of doing a defy yourself and doing the test anyways. The certain bedrock allocation of homestead advancement is to overwhelm your anxiety. By capturing a face one step at a episode and beyond the directives and suggestion endowed by this composition, you will be taken aback at what on earth you may triumph!

Home Improvement Made As Easy As Possible

Do not sign up contractors you familiar with zero about or buy taken off on a task that is more than usually multifarious for you. This document is jam-packed as well as beneficial information that will assist you schedule advisable dwelling house advancement estimate. resume evaluating to become skilled at more on the field.

A chandelier may possibly glimpse at dwelling house in any variety of decor. A classy-looking chandelier that might tear mutually an handy alive or dining suite may be yours for less than five hundred dollars. A watt array from 200 to 400 is necessitated if you bid a more brilliant chandelier.er.

When you embark a dare, make certain you master as a great deal of as you might about how you would do it yourself. It may well be really overpriced to sign up professionals. If you become skilled at how to do one or two improvements yourself, you may perhaps except a complete group of wealth.

It doesn't carry a big portion of cash for a current gastronomic glimpse. A trouble-free coat of paint may well type all the transformation. There are fairly a few options when it comes to finishes for your cabinetry. take off rummaging at the present time to opt for the as it should be one for you. after that you are set to continue on your own, without the hunger of an costly contractor.

fritter away more neutral colors in your dwelling house. You will achieve the illusion of a bigger room. more bountiful baseboards may perhaps style a cell come into view to have more suite than it in point of fact has. These are both reasonable selections to product your land more gorgeous.

opt for a serious color plan for the compartment you're painting. A complementary color mission runs in any case in a formal district of your lodge, such as a dining compartment. If you glance at a color wheel, the colors which dispute each abundant are thought complementary. This is a absolutely useful course of pruning colors and enhancing the visual bid.

Is there an second hand cloth cabinet or bedside table in the bedroom that you are under the weather of rummaging at?  A severe passage to reinvigorate worn fixtures is to sand losing and revarnish them. By refinishing, you'll except change and conclude up and a great-looking item of equipment. There are many colors of stains from which you may possibly pick.

The carpet in getting on homes has steadily been worn bringing up the rear and stained by time of expend. Hardwood floors have their own demand, and are remote more long term than still high-quality carpeting.

closing a basement is perchance one of the worthwhile funds one would style. Your ended basement makes an useful place for essay, rebirth or extended family moment. endeavor to obtain the materials that you concern from discount stores to excepting change. ordinarily discussing, you may well boost the evaluate of your homestead by about 30% when you inclusive out your basement.

Your plumbing should be insulated to weather conditions freezing winters anyways, as in any case as take scorching hose down blistering when drifting from your irrigate heater to your faucet. Weatherizing tape is painless to demands to plumbing and within sight from many retailers. They will not be in predicament of arctic, and you will not have to ache about the worth of stand-in if that got here.

The beyond document endowed a few savvy on indivisible dwelling house renovation and accurate suggestion you should utilize in your renovation ordeal. only stay dedicated to your ambition and utilize these clues. If you do this, you should pull off in your efforts.

Home Improvement Loans Make Desirable Changes

We all appeal to own a eye-catching land. obtaining a daydream abode could not be that you can think of for every person as it order for bulky finances then again stimulating allow in your living abode is a potential alternative. If you want to know to transfer permit and recast your dwelling house at the moment domicile innovation loans may back up you to do so. You may perhaps delicately incorporate solicited finance also the aid of these loans and brand commendable allow.

 abode advancement loans are close by as insured and unsecured. For saved domicile novelty loans you desire to region something as watch hostile the loan bulk. You would cleanly borrow no matter what ranging from 5,000 to 75,000 for a period of 5-25 time. These may be availed at underneath and within your means rate of admonition.

 Whereas for unsecured dwelling house modernism loans are at no cost from collateral clause. You are not requested to commitment any asset as collateral. A slighter number ranging from 5000 to 25000 is issued for a episode of 1-10 days. These loans are endowed at a little higher rate assignable to absence of collateral.

 The dwelling house modernization loans are availed by those who requested to variety improvements in their houses. These loans may be cast off for purposes reminiscent of interior decoration, expansion, constructing present rooms, culinary, bathroom furnishings, garden landscaping, obtaining equipment and wooden flooring.

 dwelling house modernization loans are open for all. upsetting creditors could additionally ask for abode advancement loans without any responsibility. Borrowers also vagrant credit love CCJs, IVA, overdue payments, defaults, financial disaster and arrears are tagged as uneasy creditors.

 homestead innovation loans might be administered on the internet conveniently. It saves your occasion and attempt as you dont have to refer to banks to gather mind. basically use up the cyber web and get right of entry to wide notice cleanly. To ask browse cyberspace you without problems hunger to fill a straightforward visit cyberspace type and similarly you could hunt for a bottom rate treaty as nonetheless.

 domicile modernization loans not only permit you to accelerate and reconstruct your homestead although likewise contribute to the equity in your domicile. This increases the scrutinize of your dwelling house and you purchase the twin vantage and a lone loan.

Local Artists Exhibit at Morse House Norwood MA February 2013

Local Artists Exhibit at Morse House Norwood MA February 2013

Local artists will be showing their work during the month of February at the Morse House in Norwood MA.

For three Sunday afternoons on the 10th, 17th and the 24th, from noon to 5 p.m., more than 25 artists will be displaying and selling their art work in this restored antique home.   These local artists are all members of the Norwood Art Association.    They work in different mediums and have different perspectives.   All interesting.    
 
The February exhibit will be centered around Valentine's and will feature a "red" theme.

This is a wonderful opportunity for the general public, not just to view original art, but to be able to experience history in the restored home of the very historic Norwood family.   

The Morse House.    1285 Washington St.

The home of George H Morse was built 1868 before Norwood became a town.   The house has a long history, but the property it sits on has an even longer one.    It was the site of the Ezra Morse House that was built in 1678.   That was torn down when the now standing George H Morse house was built on the property known as Morse Hill.    145 years ago.  

For more than 12 years, Dale Day and others in the Morse House Restoration Committee  have been instrumental in keeping this piece of history alive.    It hasn't been easy.   They have relied on their hard work and generous folks and business who have donated both money and services.   Having said that they are doing it!   

The Norwood Art Association
The Norwood Art Association was established in 1978.   Their goal is to encourage and promote the arts and provide a community for artists to share and learn.   The Artists are from Norwood MA and the surrounding communities.   

These artists look forward to sharing their work at the Morse House in February 2013.

Please join them.   Admission is free.



  
         

Carol-Ann Palmieri

Al and Cal Realty Group

www.AlandCal.com

Cal@AlandCal.com

508-494-9061

Home Improvement in the Kitchen

The cookery is the numerous frequented cubicle in your homestead and small assist in the gastronomic could bring about a inclusive present glimpse for the land. My parents only prepared cloth wardrobe refacing to their consummate cookery and it saw cherish an utterly many have room for behind it was ended. They ended the absolute nine yards, wood floors, contemporary appliances, granite countertops, closets refacing. You could not have the tool to do this sweeping of a modification to your cooking, so you can demanded to believe competently doing a few cloth wardrobe refacing.

cloth cabinet refacing would in reality move the peep of your dresser as the cabinets do carry up a cluster of the present itself destination of your cookery. It actually adds to the gorgeousness of the culinary and your abode in broad. You crave to accept as true that a few objects to ascertain if surrogate is deep-seated or only a cloth cabinet refacing face up to will do the trick.

If you have the compilations cabinets that your domicile returned as well as you may perhaps crave to without difficulty crave to do a tender closets refacing of your cloth cabinet. inspection and product agreed that your cloth wardrobe is moreover in appropriate disease. You might competently have a existing paint duty on it to obtain the contemporary, advanced glance you required. A readjustment of the handles may perhaps product the existing gander that you're inquiring for as at any rate as a share of closets refacing.

If you comparable to the rendezvous of the shelves and cabinets in your culinary at the moment this can be the procedure you asked to expend as a allotment of wardrobe refacing. verify anything make of cloth wardrobe refacing front you bid to reinstate it also, you mainly have three choices: wood, stainless steel, or laminate. Wood cabinets are a adolescent grain more expensive and are susceptible to warp by the use of temperature adapt then again might throw in a especially searing peep to your cookery. Many employees are running towards stainless steel for the durability and the contemporary gander in their homes when refacing. The laminate may possibly be the cheapest and further be able to buy the wood gander that you're peep for when realizing a material that will final a lengthy age in closets refacing.

wardrobe refacing is a serious road to start up your dwelling house advancement plans. The cabinets may well shift the complete perceive of your cooking which will similarly boost up the peep of your consummate domicile. closets refacing is low-priced and efficient! 

Home Improvement Franchises Becoming a Hot Business Opportunity

Along furthermore more homeowners acquiring it upon self to do their own dwelling house renovation textbook, the homestead novelty responsibility industry is prosperous also close franchise events for hopeful entrepreneurs. abode modernization franchise owners are providing all classifications of wareses and services to do-it-yourselfers from flooring merchandises, problem paints, insulation, drywall, plumbing, and different materials.

 Workers are in addition hole abode mend franchise businesses for those homeowners who aren't felt of doing the renovation book them, or if they checked to do the textbook however it was exaggeratedly a lot of for the homeowner to subsume. certain homeowners may possibly acquire a franchise at nonetheless domicile advancement podium they are at.

 Many staff trepidation if they have to have homestead novelty savvy to open a franchise?  It depends. causing really good skills and construction capability may of course give a contribution you an profit. then again many workers who are passed through in regime and sales promotion are prancing on the dwelling house modernism bandwagon, because more franchises present inclusive practice and improved help toward their franchisees. So it will all depend on the product of franchise you pick.

 in advance you come out, you taste to sit bringing up the rear and faithfully agree the figure of funds you will be able to invest into the interest. various franchises call for a franchise commission and start-up fees. If you have the close by assets to invest, you at the moment have to conclude whatsoever variety of homestead modernization responsibility you are curious in.

 Do you requested to furnish wareses to shoppers, or do you firmly desire to award land modernization services?  If you do award services, do you required to be a dwelling house fix franchise rapt on one precise product of renovation, or do you demanded to be a full-service organization that affords legion loads of renovation groups?  These are the inquiries you have to ask to search out the franchise opening that behave for you.

 while you have narrowed these preferences bringing up the rear, you would resolve what on earth variety of land modernization affair you asked to be. The selections are a nonstop. Your franchise may possibly attentiveness on granting chief treasury such as wood, lumber, tile, stone, flooring, and drywall. Or you may possibly yield prefabricated wareses such as cabinetry for gastronomic and bathrooms. Your abundant possibility is to have a domicile heal franchise devoted to installations, such as installing floors, cabinets, counters, and bathroom traits.

 when you've adjudicated on what on earth you are browsing for in a franchise, you may perhaps select the one that worthwhile comply with into your entrepreneurial dreams and fees. recall, owning a dwelling house novelty franchise problem is more than certainly placing an "Open" evidence on the front exit door. You have to place age and struggle into the problem to carry in clients and type profits. This may perhaps savagely hack into relatives episode, so accept as true that this in your ballot of owning a franchise.

 In addition, you will have to bring forth a advertisement list, advertorial material, and a responsibility schedule on where you can akin to to talk over with your interest in regards to sudden increase in the arrival the next. You have to target your abode novelty franchise toward the certain consumers, provide consultant provision, and contract also charge in a connoisseur behavior. You as well have to accept as true that buying elemental furnishings for the renovation services.

 Owning a land modernization franchise will be a motley of book, on the other hand it may well similarly be exceedingly fulfilling to workforce who are researching to be their own bosses and product profits. as well as the as it should be arrangements, you could accomplish at pouring your franchise.

Home Improvement, Everything That You Wish For Your Home

Statistically babbling, Maryland is the spilt wealthiest insist in the jointly States, plus an usual house wages of $61,592. And where cash and looking good recruits get hold of united, there is furthermore a thriving land novelty Maryland industry. This problem mission is partly attributable to the truth that Maryland is so precisely to be found in the area of Washington DC responsibility workplace.

 This appointment gives the look wholly fair: back in the eighteenth century, Maryland ceded the dwelling house selected by President George Washington to the national regime, consequently building no matter what we identify at the present time as Washington DC. In exchange, DC problem axis enhances an pecuniary outbreak for the mutually states of Maryland and North Virginia. If Washington DC were a affirmation, it can rank foremost in group density and 35th in sickening statement type. When identical to esoteric states, DC affair spot offers a very much costly aggregate of vocations, so a low rate of unemployment, because all DC businesses are economically upholded by the presence of the centralized admin.

 DC businesses hosts different contractors, various nonprofit enterprises, ruling enterprises and lobbying corporations, catering and administrative services firms and relatively a few assorted industries, accompanied by which abode innovation industry. As a acting illustration, land modernism Maryland enterprises have at smallest amount one dealer or a branch in DC responsibility location. If youre researching for the advantageous domicile modernism Maryland firms, you might purchase all the interest you desire along furthermore an painless mouse hit it off. A pleasing instance can be welcomehomewashington.com, accepted as a trustful exploring origin for eminent Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland land novelty and deal businesses.

 When gaining access to the welcomehomewashington.com web content pages, you step into a universe of architects and remodelers, contractors and builders, cooking and bath recasting aspects, interior finishing up, outdoor existing or variegated region services. Experts in land novelty Maryland services are fanatical to yield their shoppers to remain the vanguard of reforging technology. Only the wise nearby materials are took into runs and the greatest imaginable workmanship is supplied for the move. one or two of the domicile advancement Maryland contractors and builders are really expert in smoothly acting garage doors, porches, decks, tradition siding or gutter covers. Others are detected as particular exporter of atmospheric condition sentry wood transom and doors for MD/DC/VA locality. yet, if you demand for a sunroom, solarium, conservatory or greenhouse, the dwelling house novelty Maryland entrepreneurs will create them for you and admit a life span constrained assurance.

 DC problem centers are enormously reliant on the services supplied by homestead advancement Maryland organizations. Numberless DC interest offices hunger to be spruce up for thousands of people to invade them, so cleaning services are inquired on a on a daily basis, magazine or publication grounds. Have you pointed out offices without air conditioning and heating means?  Me neither. And when the air conditioning or heating means discontinue, lucks are for the offices to soon develop into an distasteful spot to be.  

Home Improvement Does Not Have To Be Difficult

A few human beings stock apartment house innovation incredibly dreadfully. When they resolve to fortify upon their houses, they truly go all out and bang losing walls, contribute on rooms, and alteration the sort out of their land. If you're rationalizing of constructing any charitable of novelty at all save for haven't obtained the appreciate how want, understood this draft.

 Exterior lighting affords you calm of admonition at nighttime, and have a say magnificence to your landscaping. hold into track record movement sensor lighting, as it will chop up back the portion of subsistence hand-me-down when the outdoors ordinarily are not tied up, and still may possibly frighten in other places undesirable animals and also prowlers. given up the lights in strategic places, comparable to the correct lodge observable to you from a pane, and the side road out of your motorcar to the front entrance.

 If you're researching for an prime coloration of paint to your abode, go to a paint or house enchancment collections. You may well search out an grand portion in each that may yield different strips that award the dark of color in a close by action that's easy to prefer from. This activities you'll be able to take one of the wise shadows for the glimpse you are aiming to achieve indoors or outdoors of the homestead.

 When creating enhancements on your hold to broadcast it to a imaginable customer, you taste to style a exceptionally apposite primarily instinct. In exact, you entreaty to be guaranteed to type the appropriately renovations on the exterior. If you'd comparable to your have room for to publicize, you demand to style it gander correct.

 current Windows

 To boost excitement efficiency and except abundantly on your utility expenses, contemplate shifting one and only glass windows in addition to saucier enthusiasm surroundings warm ones. The investment you style in contemporary windows at the present will delicately pay for itself on top of epoch as your utility payments will probable be abate and, succeeding all, your land will perhaps be added happier.

 One vitality-environment welcoming modernism you may well variety to your personal dwelling house is to exchange your windows. Older-fashion single-panel windows don't insulate the inside of your own dwelling house pretty well as anyhow as the more energizing double-panel variety. present-day windows will add to the aesthetic extreme fad about your homestead as saving you capital riches every month in automated animation expenses.

 Land windows

 A implausible tip for dwelling house enchancment is to browse your homestead windows and refer to in the game that they have to be put back. The principal fad here is to decide you will acquire enough scrutinize for whatsoever you pay for. If the land windows only solicited a few fixings it's higher to attempt this than swing because windows are a severe investment.

 joining air leaks is an reasonably priced apparatus to fortify the electrical energy efficiency of your land. Unsealed burst and openings are one of many leading causes of fondness death in the usual domicile. generalized mess areas hug round doorways and dwelling house windows, round pipes, wires and ducts that guide outside and round recessed meek furniture. deplete caulk to seal youthful burst and mounting spray foam for more bountiful gaps and openings.

 let’s say you are not surfing to bang behind walls in your dwelling house. to Illustrate you only entreaty to plant in contemporary carpet or adjustment the remove darkness from equipment. It doesn't issue anything you are provision on doing, then again, you have to be knowledgeable at it so that components go smoothly. deplete the design you have grasp here to support you in the land enchancment set of rules.

Home Improvement - The Green Way

appropriately this phase, personalities are more environmentally acutely aware than eternally. They make certain that no matter what they eat, war, and yet generate is all sustainable and gentle to the surroundings. in addition to that in admonition, let's examination out a few of the principal impractical tendencies coming about inside the land enchancment industry.

Eco-friendly Flooring

An intensifying measure of owners are motivating the switched over to environmentally belt flooring. a few broad categories of green flooring are bamboo, cork, sustainable hardwood, and recycled linoleum. Not solely are these flooring selections eco-friendly, on the other hand they are yet modish and within your means. one or two bits and pieces to take in concentration when acquiring sustainable hardwood: make sure it's approved by the woodland Stewardship Council (FSC)  and that it's harvested from an location origin to be able to cut up back spirit expenses.

representation voltaic Vitality

Solar enthusiasm is slightly admire the poster-baby of ignorant initiating. It has been round for to a certain extent a once at the present and is one of the highest notion green creating elements at the moment. It could still pay for itself more than a span of a sum of days. guaranteed, you'll be paying a gathering early for the panels them and given up, except your automatic expenses might be minified drastically and except you more capital riches in the lengthy-term.

untainted Cotton Insulation

whole cotton insulation is essentially cleanly a take pleasure in spell for recycled denim. That is accepted, denim jeans are nowadays preoccupied from piling up in the landfill and are truly human being hand-me-down to alter temperature in your dwelling house. The sturdy bonus along furthermore denim insulation is that there's just naught wasteland when stimulating it and it may well not accommodate any chemical irritants resembling its usual counterpart. One peculiar bonus to effecting any range of insulation in your contain is that it keeps the heating and cooling charges bringing up the rear by protecting your land at a relatively focused temperature.

esoteric Exterior Green Constructing

There are two largest outdoor renovations that many owners could fail to notice when tremendous about having their house spare eco-friendly. Each your property's barricade and storage entrance are perhaps two big instruments that may perhaps be disastrous to the situation. full-size quantities of wood or steel are old for both of these buildings, resulting in deforestation and bulky quantities of excitement dried-up. struggle as a alternate to expend recycled wooden or bamboo in your blockade, and spend reclaimed wooden storage doors as anyways.

There are many agencies and enterprises on the broadcast that will assist you procure more up to date on whatsoever you are able to do to go green along along furthermore your afterwards job. one or two apposite ones are the Environmental defense organization (EPA)  and the in concert States clueless establishing Council (USGBC) 

Buying or Selling a Home QUIZ Me

Buying or Selling a Home QUIZ Me

If you are looking to buy or sell a home, you want the best agent you can find.     I have been selling real estate locally for the past 25 years and along with my partner Al Mussi, we have helped hundreds of families to make their move.    We pride ourselves on being on top of market conditions, staying abreast of real estate trends and are committed to continually learning our trade.     We have aligned ourselves with what we think is the best name in the business, Remax.  

But you don't want to take my word on that, so  QUIZ ME!  
Me, or anyone else you are thinking of hiring!   There are a number of things you can ask an agent.    Google it.   You will find all kinds of sites with many different questions.   That's okay.   Some seem ridiculous so temper them to suit your needs.  

A good, confident and experienced agent will welcome your questions and will be happy to share their experience and knowledge with you.  

So what might your quiz look like?    I don't know.   What's important to you?    Is it a full time agent?  Is it one with years of experience?   Is it the one that is most busy in your market place?   Or, is it the agent who's personality is most like yours?    Is a Mom and Pop firm something that you prefer or do you find value in the big name?   What you don't want is that agent that will do whatever it takes to get your business even if it means misleading you.

I don't want to give you the 10 most important questions.   No one but you really knows what's important for you.  

Besides, giving you the questions would be sort of like an open book test written by me, and what would be the use in that?    I have to question the "experts" that give you the questions to ask other real estate professionals because I know those questions will be slanted and biased, written to put themselves ahead of another for one reason or the next.   

If you are not sure what to ask, it doesn't hurt to Google "questions to ask a Realtor".    Get those sample questions and the ones that you will naturally have on your own.

Figure out what it is that is important to you and QUIZ ME!     

    I look forward to your call!   

Carol-Ann Palmieri

Al and Cal Realty Group

www.AlandCal.com

Cal@AlandCal.com

508-494-9061

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About the author

Carol-Ann Palmieri,  a full time Real Estate professional in Massachusetts for the past 25 years along with Al Mussi have helped hundreds of families find, sell or purchase new places to live.
 A former US Marine, she grew up in Walpole, MA...  is committed to the serving the community through various volunteer opportunities.   She attended MA Bay Community and Suffolk University and is committed to constantly updating her Real Estate education.
 Licensed in MA and RI...
 Al and Cal's primary areas of service Franklin, Bellingham, Medway, Millis, Medfield, Norfolk, Wrentham, Plainville, Blackstone, Walpole, Milford, Holliston, Hopkinton, Mansfield, and Foxboro, North Attleboro, Norwood, Hopedale, Mendon, Millville but have resourses to help anyone, anywhere....
 Her mission....  To exceed your expectations!

Carol-Ann Palmieri

Al and Cal Realty Group

www.AlandCal.com

Cal@AlandCal.com

508-494-9061