Portsmouth NH Real Estate Agent - Rebecca Skane, Realtor®, e-PRO®

Want to have your property listed with some added OOMPH? Well, that is EXACTLY what I am doing for my clients. I am now creating virtual tours which will be shown to thousands of people who search for properties listed on NNEREN and Realtor.Com.

Come see my first virtual tour I created for my Ocean Front Home in Hampton!

901 Ocean Blvd Virtual Tour

Enjoy! And call me if you are thinking about marketing your home.

I was a buyer's agent for my client and a tad out of my area in New Hampshire but when he saw this particular home, we both knew he had to have it. The price was almost as beautiful as the property. You can not see from the outside how incredible the inside is (about 3,500 sf), the layout of the land and that pristine salt water pool in the back! I can't wait for the first pool party.

Tonight we had our June meeting for the Portsmouth Book Club where we discussed, The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink. Our book club now has over 150 members! We have been growing like crazy. Who knew that we had that many fierce book lovers in Seacoast New Hampshire? I finally took a picture of one of our meetings with a few of our members who came this evening. It is a bit fuzzy. I am kneeling in the front row in blue.

I have not seen the movie yet (which stars Kate Winslet), and I hear that the movie does justice to the book, but for me I was not really compelled to endorse this book as a "Becca Fav". I was too hung up on the inappropriate relationship between a young boy and a fully grown dominant woman. I understand the hormone level of young adults, all too well, yet I couldn't get over how aggravated I was, and angry. So it did not do it for me. And even though WWII and Nazism is a huge focal point for me, and something I love to study, I was not at all drawn into the post-war Nazi trial of Hanna. It failed to move me as most of those trials did and some of the books written about them (Eichmann in Jerusalem, ie?). Maybe I just need to see the movie.

Still, we had a very powerful discussion, great feedback and varying opinions. I may not personally have enjoyed the book too much, but it proved to be a perfect book club discussion book.

Our July pick is, Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.Here is a brief synopsis of the book from the publisher:

One day in 1993, high up in the world's most inhospitable mountains, Greg Mortenson wandered lost and alone, broken in body and spirit, after a failed attempt to climb K2, the world's deadliest peak. When the people of an impoverished village in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya took him in and nursed him back to health, Mortenson made an impulsive promise: He would return one day and build them a school. Although he was a homeless "climbing bum" living out of his aging Buick in Berkeley, California, Mortenson sold what few possessions he had to launch one of the most remarkable humanitarian campaigns of our time." "Three Cups of Tea traces Mortenson's decade-long odyssey to build schools, especially for girls, throughout the region that gave birth to the Taliban and sanctuary to Al Qaeda. While he wages war with the root causes of terrorism - poverty and ignorance - by providing both girls and boys with a balanced, nonextremist education. Mortenson must survive a kidnapping, fatwas issued by enraged mullahs, death threats from Americans who consider him a traitor, and wrenching separations from his family." Today, as the director of the Central Asia Institute, Mortenson has built fifty-five schools serving Pakistan and Afghanistan's poorest communities. And as this real-life Indiana Jones from Montana crisscrosses the Himalaya and the Hindu Kush fighting to keep these schools functioning, he provides not only hope to tens of thousands of children, but living proof that one passionately dedicated person truly can change the world.

I hope you can make it!

The Portsmouth Book Club

July 14, 2009

7:00pm

McMenemy's Restaurant & Pub

177 State St Portsmouth, NH 03801

603-436-4747

I recently listed a residential home for sale in Seabrook, New Hampshire. This home had previously been listed on the market for six months but never sold. I listed the same home and had two offers in two days and it was under contract in less than a week. I am still getting calls to see it and to ask if there is any chance of submitting an offer.

**So how did I get a home under contract so quickly in this market?**

I priced it correctly for the market. In a buyer's market, the price is the bottom line. To get your home sold, it has to be priced competitively and appropriately. It doesn't matter if your home has all of the features, bells and whistles which you think will add an extra $100,000 to the price. In this type of market, it doesn't. When you overprice your home, all you do is help to sell a similar property nearby which is comparable to yours but priced much less.

Want to get your home sold quickly? Give a call, I can show you how.

Seabrook NH Real Estate

Many home owners are already struggling as it is to keep their homes while we are in this economic slump. So does it make any kind of sense when a few lawmakers have decided to propose a mortgage tax? This tax would be an expansion of the transfer tax in NH. So when you buy a piece of real estate, you must pay the transfer tax (already in effect) and an additional mortgage tax.

But it doesn't stop there.....

This mortgage tax would apply to refinance situations! So the very people who are getting "refi's" to help save their homes will get an extra tax, a tax they can NOT afford! Does it make sense to think of new ways to tax the people when the people are already burdened with debt, rising costs, unemployment, unaffordable health care and a poor economy?

TAKES TWO SECONDS - VISIT THIS WEBSITE AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

http://takeaction.realtoractioncenter.com/campaign/stopmortgagetax/

Fill out your information and click send to send the email to lawmakers, tell them NO MORTGAGE TAX! The email was designed for real estate agents, so you will want to change the body to say that you are a NH Resident and taxpayer (not a Realtor).

After you have done that, email it to EVERY SINGLE PERSON YOU KNOW. Let's make sure this does not get passed.

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Rye NH Real Estate