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Colleen Kilfoil

Top 10 cities to bargain for a home, according to GMA

On Monday, 2/15, Good Morning America talked about what they, with the help of zillow.com, believe are the 10 best cities and towns in America to negotiate the biggest discount off the asking price of a house for sale. Here is their 10 ten: 1. Naples, FL 2. Cape Cod, MA 3. Charleston, SC 4. Merced, CA 5. Chicago, IL 6. Atlantic City, NJ 7. Cleveland, OH 8. NY, NY 9. Flagstaff, AZ 10. Pittsburgh, PA The full story is on abcnews.com website.

Everyone is different

It never ceases to amaze me how every single transaction is different. I know, we are dealing with different people and different homes and different days and so on but something new seems to appear with almost every transaction. It certainly is what makes this profession the most interesting and the most fun and sometimes the most frustrating too. My husband will tell me to get out of the office, shut down the computer, but I'd rather be working on real estate than watching tv ... can't wait to see what the next adventure in a home sale will be!

Cape Cod snowstorm

A couple of weeks ago we got 2 feet of snow in one storm. It was really beautiful. I took a couple of pictures walking around my neighborhood. 2 are houses I sold and one is a current summer rental. Think it would help to promote my summer rental if I put this shot up?Cape snowstormSnowstorm on the CapeCape Cod snowstorm

Livin the Dream

I am such a lucky person! I have 3 awesome kids, a great husband, and a career I love. I am thankful every day to live on Cape Cod in a beautiful home filled with laughter and love. It is so nice to help all these people buy and sell their homes here...to move on to their next dream. Sure, there are deals that fall apart and problems that are difficult to solve, but, all in all, life is good and I am blessed. And I just wanted to share that.

Sales price vs Assessed Values

This data comes from the assessed town values from The Town of Bourne website and the selling prices of homes comes from our local MLS (multiple listing service). In 6 months in Bourne, MA, from 12/29/08 to 5/29/09, there were 54 properties sold. Just 10 sold over the town assessment. The rest sold under the towns assessment - and, in some cases, significantly under. I know this is not an exact science but we had new town assessments that came out last Fall and they were lowered for most properties (except for waterfront properties it appeared). I thought that current sales prices might be pretty close to the latest town assessments. They weren't. I know it doesn't really 'mean' anything, but since the Buyers are looking at assessed values, and in the interest of keeping my Sellers informed, I thought I would look at the data and I certainly did find it an eye opener.