Frederick, MD

<GREEN HOMES = SMART HOMES = SMART INCOME!

Are you helping your clients live safer and healthier in their new home? You could be. Chances are, you probably bought, sold or staged a vacant house-maybe a foreclosure, or a short sale. It was probably a mess—and needed help.

These are changing times, especially in the real estate market. Whether we like it or not isn’t important. People who are buying are focusing on green living. Homeowners now want to feel safe and healthy. Just because they needed to buy a fixer, doesn’t mean that’s how they want to live. They are remodeling, redesigning, cleaning up, and they need help!

How do we earn smart income with green homes? Today, people are looking for all aspects of green living. From a short sale, a foreclosure, to staging or remodeling, the Meredith Design Group, and JDRock , are redesigning rooms, installing eco-friendly building products, providing an energy efficient way of living—and, offering a cost-effective alternative to expensive design firms. But, it doesn’t stop at remodeling. There are many directions of going green from soup to nuts—like Emeril Green Recipes and Living With Ed . Homeowners are cooking with healthy whole foods, driving smaller cars, and redesigning their living space. And most homeowners are just sick and tired of being around chemicals that create allergies, headaches, itching, and other health problems.

As a stager, I hear about these problems often, so I personally refer these safe eco-friendly cleaning products to clients, using them myself, as well as the health and wellness products. I love all of the items, so I offer many of the products as thank you gifts, holiday gifts, prizes at open houses, meetings, and presentations, including fundraising. It’s very rewarding.

So, in this unhealthy economy, I have the ability to enhance my real estate business with a healthy income. We hold a niche. Refer environmentally safe products to clients for their home or office. It’s that simple.

More product information and details can be obtained by emailing, or by calling.

mailto:ljr@greenstagersunite.com or mailto:ljr@MeredithDesignGroup.com

877.465.4975

Frederick County Maryland Public Schools

Are you considering a move to Maryland, but are concerned about the educational opportunities available for your children? Do not worry, the schools of the Maryland public educational system are rated among the best in the entire country.

Maryland tracks key performance indicators to determine how it compares to the nation as well as to compare the school districts within its own boundaries. Maryland continually strives to improve its performance in all of these areas.

In all categories, Maryland is at or near the top. Maryland has information regarding important factors such as:

• graduation rates;
• college acceptance rates;
• SAT and PSAT scores; and
• assessment scores for math, reading, and writing.

Also provided are demographics for the various schools and school districts.

For detailed information about the schools in Maryland you can start at the following web site:

http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE

For detailed information about the schools in Frederick County Maryland you can start at the following web site:

http://fcps.schoolwires.com/fcps/site/default.asp

To determine the specific school attendance area for a particular address in Frederick County Maryland, you can use the following link:

http://fcps.schoolwires.com/152910103114101710/blank/browse.asp?a=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&c=54061&152910103114101710Nav=|&NodeID=386

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Every year around this time Mackintosh Realtors visits a near by school that teaches students with special needs. The Muren Team decided this year more that most would be a time to give back , show some kindness to a community that has shown us the same. For a brief while I forgot about foreclosures and short sales. My thoughts were not with appraisals and home inspections or how the DOW and the treasury bonds would affect interest rates or even what the gold market was doing or what I would pay at the pump.
Instead I was totally blown away by the teachers and staff at this school. How much care and devotion they extended to their students. The absolute joy they received from the smiles on the children's faces from something as simple as a pumpkin given to them from someone like me in a funny costume. We are in hard times and these are the times that will define who we really are. So today -open the door for someone, smile at a stranger, call an old friend that may need to hear a caring voice...count your blessings. As for me I am going to call my son and tell him I love him and thank him for being who he is.
What are you going to do?

Allie Ballew, Realtor

The Muren Team

Mackintosh Inc. REALTORS

Cell (301)676-2844 Office (800)727-7653

www.TheMurenTeam.com

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This is very important when comparing foreclosed properties on the market to those that are non-foreclosed. I am hoping that the appraiser does go inside an account for the condition and is given ample time to do the job correctly in this market so that home owners can sell at the correct price.

Allie Ballew, REALTOR

The Mike Muren Team

Mackintosh Inc. REALTORS

Cell (301)676-2844 Office (800)727-7653

www.TheMurenTeam.com

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Development in Downtown Frederick, MD

East Street Extended: The project is being completed by the State Highway Administration using Federal and State Funds (80/20) and is set to open in total this fall. The opening will include the new interchange of East Street and I-70, the section of Monocacy Boulevard from South Market to South Streets, the upgrading of South Market Street from MD85/355 to Loats Alley, and a new park-n-ride lot at the northwest corner of I-70 and MD355. Click here for more information on development on the East side of Frederick, MD.

Click here for sale and lease infomation in this area.

The Galleria (along Carroll Creek between Carroll and East Streets): Carroll Creek Galleria LLC, a Wormald Company, plans to develop 34,000 square feet of commercial space in Downtown Frederick, MD, 127 housing units and 550 parking spaces on the site which is between the Delaplaine Visual Arts Education Center, Carroll Creek Park and the MARC Train Station. The project has received HPC, STET and Planning Commission approvals. Construction by the City of Frederick of 400 parking spaces has begun.

Click here to recive more infomation on Galleria Place.

Hope VI: The site at 7th and North Bentz streets will have 42 apartment units and a combined 55 home ownership townhomes and single family homes. The 10,800 square foot Bernard W. Brown Community Building will be located at the corner of North Market and 7th Streets. The Community Building will be open and operational by mid-May 2009 and home to Cakes for a Cause (a program designed to teach the restaurant business to at-risk youth through a vocational program that combines bakery production and restaurant management), Head Start, CALM (Frederick Community Mediation and Conflict Resolution Center), CASS (Community Agency School Services), UNESCO Center for Peace (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), the HOPE VI office and the Neighborhood Networks Computer Lab. This City of Frederick Hope VI project will consist of 36 units of affordable housing. The project has received site plan approval from the Planning Commission. Construction is underway.

Click here to recive more infomation on The New North End.

Mike Muren, REALTOR

The Mike Muren Team

Mackintosh Inc. REALTORS

Cell (301)676-2844 Office (800)727-7653

www.TheMurenTeam.com