I was phoning past clients yesterday, as I often do during the holidays, and Nancy was one of the those with whom I was able to connect.  I listed her home twice.  The first time she and her husband Bob took it off the market, deciding not to sell.  The second time it was listed, we procured an in-house buyer. Adversity… Read More

The Thanksgiving Holiday is a great reminder of why, as people and realtors, we do the things that we do. The Three Questions: In the children’s book, “The Three Questions,”  based on a story by the great Russian writer Leonid Tolstoy, young Nikolai seeks answers to three questions that he has been agonizing over for some time:… Read More

My friend Gary and I had dinner last week.  Since he had yet to see my house, he met me there before we left for the restaurant.  As the owner of a Fairfield County, Ct. landscaping business, property is of particular importance to Gary.  While he perused the back yard from my kitchen window, he emphatically questioned, “Al, have you ever mowed your lawn yourself?  I… Read More