Mahwah, NJ

External curb appeal and your entry way are the two items that create a buyer's all important first impression of your home. A potential home buyer will make up their mind about your home in under one minute.

What first impression would your home leave a buyer?

The goal of using Feng Shui to stage your home is to balance all five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, water) in and around your property. (We are only going to look at external curb appeal and your entry way in this post.)

For a Feng Shui Cheat Sheet on the Five Elements, please take a look here: http://activerain.com/blogsview/1314589/using-feng-shui-to-correctly-prepare-your-home-for-sale

The external curb appeal of your property is very important when selling your home. The way your home looks from the street is representative of your home's chi or energy. Abundant green landscapes, that are well manicured, are chi reservours. To keep positive chi flowing on your property, please remove any dead trees or plantings from your front yard. Please keep your front yard free from debris and well maintained. The importance of a first impression can not be underestimated.

Please keep your driveway well lit and free from debris also; please fix any broken or cracked driveways immediately. If your driveway descends sharply towards the street, please install bright lights on both sides of the driveway.

Feng Shui considers the front door and entry to be the most important places in your home. The front door (or Mouth of Chi), determines the amount and quality of chi or energy that will flow through your home. A grand, open entry way will support the flow of chi.

By clearing out items that are behind your front door (such as bikes, old magazines, shoes, toys), chi will be better able to enter you home. The goal here is to let chi flow unobstructed right into your home.

Your home's front door should be upright and well-hinged; it should be very easy to open and close. If your front door creaks when it is opened, it is disturbing the harmony of your home and needs to be fixed.

The front door of your home needs to be the correct size and in correct proportion to the size of your home. A door that is too large can cause financial problems, whereas a door that is to small can lead to family disagreements. Minor flaws at your front door can affect you negatively. The reverse is also true, by making minor improvements at your front door entry you can significantly impact your life in a positive way.

Good chi can be further attracted into your home by proper lighting attached to the outside wall of your home.

Your front door should open into a bright space that has room for chi to breathe.

To maximize the movement of chi and to prevent stagnant chi, please open your windows and let the fresh air filter in.

By paying close attention to the placement of Feng Shui objects on and around your property, the amount of positive chi will be increased which will result in more potential home buyer activity.

-Kate

Kate's Home Staging and Redesign serves the Rockland County and Orange County area of New York, Bergen County and Passaic County of New Jersey. Kate is an affiliate member of the Passaic County of Realtors. Kate's Home Staging and Redesign is now offering Full Digital Services to sell your home quickly. In other words, we will bring in the accessories, we will stage your home, we will re-take all the digital pictures, and then we will load these pictures into a virtual show to help sell your home. The virtual show is being offered to all our clients FREE of CHARGE to help SELL your home. We also sell a full line of semi-custom window coverings.

LA ROE VAN HORN HOUSE ARCHAEOLOGY

November 19, 2009

A site formerly the home of the President of Ramapo College, originally excavated in 1980, was the 1750 Laroe-Van Horn House and the 1700 Indian Trading Post established by Blandina Bayard.

Seven excavation units were opened around the house and over 13,000 artifacts were recovered. The artifacts recovered are now part of the Mahwah Museum Collection and were analyzed in 2009 by noted Archaeologist Edward J. Lenik, author of many books on historic and pre-historic Indian topics, who will discuss his findings.

Place: Ramapo Reformed Church

Time: 7:30 p.m.

For Reservations call 201.529.0099

For more information or to join the museum see www.MahwahMuseum.org

The Mahwah Museum is a treasure !

For more information about buying or selling your largest asset contact me at 201.675.1618 or via email CupaT@aol.com. Afterall, location is the key to your real estate purchase.

copyright Pamela Stetson 2009 www.PamelaStetson.com

My son loves Les Paul.

Although my teenager plays the trumpet and he reads & can appreciate music, he does not play the guitar. He is by no means a musician though he listens to music 24/7. My Erik is a well-rounded kid who loves sports, his family & friends, basketball sneakers, sushi and video games. He has never met Mr. Paul nor does he know how he influenced artists, celebrities and musicians from around the globe.

Erik loves that Les Paul was a craftsman and inventor. Although Mr. Paul did not invent the guitar, he created the solid body electric guitar that became the signature for many a rock-and-roll muscian. (My first introduction to Les Paul's influence was through one of my favorite guitarists, Eric Clapton. He played soulfully on a Gibson version of the Les Paul guitar in the 70's.) Erik knows how I love Clapton and how I favor both acoustic & electric guitar music.

Erik first encountered an actual Les Paul guitar at a friends home nearby. The friend was fortunate to get one for a present ( he combined several holidays gifts). He marveled at it's shape, weight and the feel of the guitar's body against his own. He immediately ran home running over with details of the experience and put electric guitar lessons on his own wish list. He does not own a guitar, by the way.

It was later that he realized that Les Paul's name was one in the same with the version of Guitar Hero and through that video game he then recognized that so many musicians made music on one of the many Les Paul guitars. When he ran up the stairs after he put two and two together --- I told him that Les Paul lives very close by in our town, Mahwah, New Jersey. He was stunned. Together we jumped in the car so I could drive him past Mr. Paul's modest home on Ramapo Valley road.

From then on, he was a fan.

Erik did not know Mr. Paul personally. He did come to know and love him for his many dreams, inspirations and for his love of music. He also knew that Mr. Paul loved many, many generations of people from every race and religion. He was not one to look down upon the ideals of youth. In fact, even at the age of 94, he embraced their love of life. their idealism and their creativity.

On August 13, 2009, Les Paul passed away. Erik came home from basketball camp and was saddened by the news. He wanted to drive by his home again just to say goodbye. As we drove past, we nodded, each of us saying an unspoken good bye to a music legend and a neighbor.

For more information about Les Paul follow the links below:

http://www.thirteen.org/pressroom/release.php?get=2539

http://www.vindy.com/news/2008/nov/12/rock-hall-to-honor-les-paul/

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2009/08/14/2009-08-14_electric_guitar_hero_les_paul_dead_at_94_career_spanned_from_hitmaker_to_musical.html

For more information about buying or selling your largest financial asset, contact me at CupaT@aol.com. Copyright Pamela Stetson 2009.

Yesterday I sold another unit at Franklin Heights in Mahwah NJ. This townhouse complex is one of my favorites in Bergen County, NJ. It offers a pool, tennis courts, and a clubhouse at an unbelievable low maintenance fee. Not to mention Mahwah's already low taxes. The maintenance on this unit is only $120 per month and the taxes are only $4,819. Low considering it is Bergen County.

This unit was located at 2102 Henry Court in Franklin Heights. It was a 2 bedroom and 2.5 Bath Townhouse. It also offers a small basement that can be comfortably used as an office or rec room.

Wilkin Management is the Management Company and they can be reached at 201-560-0900.

For more information on Franklin Heights in Mahwah or to find out the units available, call

Fortunato Campesi of Remax direct at 201-280-1280.

Here is a description of the unit:

BEAUTIFUL AND PRIVATE...ABSOLUTE BEST LOCATION IN FRANKLIN HEIGHTS. PARK-LIKE SETTING NOT OVERLOOKING PARKING LOT!! YOUR OWN FRONT YARD!! NEWER BERBER CARPETING, NEW GRANITE COUNTERS IN KITCHEN WITH WHITE UPGRADED CABINETS AND STAINLESS SINK, NEW TILE FLOORING IN KITCHEN, FOYER AND HALL BATH ON SECOND FLOOR, MASTER BEDROOM WITH LARGE BOX WINDOW AND FULL BATH, SECOND BEDROOM HAS GORGEOUS BAY WINDOW, NEW LAUNDRY ROOM FLOORING WITH NEWER W/D, BASEMENT IS 3/4 SHEETROCKED, WATER SOFTENER, PLENTY OF PARKING, WALK TO POOL, TENNIS, PLAY GROUND & CLUBHOUSE, PETS ARE WELCOME, LOW MAINTENANCE FEES AND TAXES, WALK TO NYC TRANSPORTATION & SHOPPING. THIS UNIT WILL NOT LAST DUE TO PRIME LOCATION OF THE UNIT. LOCATION... LOCATION...LOCATION. LOW LOW TAXES AND MAINTENANCE

Here are some pictures of the unit:

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And, as always, if you need real estate assistance in Bergen County, New Jersey, or anywhere else in Northern, NJ, please don't hesitate to contact me, Fortunato Campesi, at fort2978@gmail.com or direct at 201-280-1280. Please make sure to visit my personal website at www.bergencountyhomes.net and find all the real estate information you may need. I love my job and I am proud to be a full time real estate professional and Bergen County Realtor. I look forward to the opportunity to work with you in the purchase or sale of your next home! Contact me today!

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Remax Elite Associates

201-280-1280

Bergen County Short Sale Specialist