It's that time of the year again: The Maryland Renaissance Festival
Since opening in 1977, the Maryland Renaissance Festival has grown into a large show with more than 1,300 participants and more than 280,000 visitors per season.
This year, the story is "Line is His Rose without a Thorn Revel Grove, Oxfordshire, England."
In addition to its great performers and shows, visitors enjoy the food. Giant turkey legs are a favorite of many.
There are plenty of shopping to be done. Visitors can purchase pottery, sandcasting, wood furniture, leather goods, jewelry, period costumes, blown glass, sculptures, quilts, masks, armor, musical instruments and much more!
Gate prices are $18.00 for adults, $8.00 for children ages 7 to 15 and $15.00 for seniors.
The 2008 Maryland Renaissance Festival Schedule is:
Gates are open from 10 AM to 7 PM, rain or shine.
If you have never been to the Maryland Renaissance Festival, here are some pics from previous festivals.
It the festival is located at Renaissance Festival Field, 1821 Crownsville Road, Crownsville, MD 21032
More information is available at the Maryland Renaissance Festival Web site or by calling 1-800-296-7304.
These days, it seems like the media is bombarding us all with real estate stories. Depending on what you read or watch, the news is usually based on regional or national statistics.
Do you know the stats for the homes surrounding your Annapolis home?
If not, now you can!
Our free Market Snapshot allows you to enter your address and receive reports by email that show a wealth of information about Annapolis homes, including:
Here is an example of the free Barron Team Market Snapshot.
It is a truly interactive report. This Annapolis real estate agent won't even make you call or meet me to obtain this info -- it will be delivered to your in box at the intervals you choose when signing up. While you do have to provide your email address to receive the reports, providing your phone number is optional.
Other than the occasional email, I promise not to be a pest.
Don't live in Annapolis? The free Barron Team Market Snapshot covers most of Maryland, Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and West Virginia. If you are in any of these areas, feel free to sign up!
Go ahead and sign up so you can be the first to know what is going on in your neighborhood!
Imagine waking up every summer morning to the sun filling your bedroom and just the perfect breeze flowing through the room. You look out to see your boat, waiting for you, your family or friends later in the day. The water is glistening. You are in paradise.
For the lucky few, that is a reality when living on the Annapolis waterfront. Backyard cookout’s are made more fun with swimming, jet skis and other water activities. Many of those cookout’s may end with the perfect evening of sailing or power boating out on the calm waters of the Chesapeake Bay or one of its connecting rivers.
The Annapolis waterfront offers homeowners endless activities, many involving water. Bonding with a child seems that much easier when sitting out on the pier on a lazy day, crabbing or fishing. Even your dog loves it – being thrown a stick and getting to dive into the water to retrieve it.
Laughter is usually found in abundance, bouncing off the water. Your house is where everyone wants to gather to create lifelong memories. Day quickly becomes night as the good time continues. Later, your guests go home with a giant smile on their face, all asking when everyone will be getting together again.
The Annapolis waterfront is an amazing escape. It makes life seem that much more perfect. You may never want to leave home!
Are you thinking of buying or selling on the Annapolis waterfront? Give me a call at (443) 875-8224 or send me an email. Be sure to visit my web site to search for Annapolis waterfront homes for sale or learn about the different Annapolis waterfront neighborhoods.
If you are planning a move to the Annapolis waterfront, I will help you find your own private paradise.
If you are selling, I understand how difficult it will be to leave your own slice of heaven behind and will help make the process as stress free as possible.
I look forward to helping you lay the foundation of your dream!
PS Please be sure to check out my Annapolis Homes and Happenings blog!
AmericanStyle magazine (sidenote: the publisher used to be one of my clients in a previous profession) ranked Annapolis, Maryland as a top destination for art.
Currently ranked 13th, Annapolis has moved up one place from last year (14th in 2007) and way up from 21st place in 2006. The ranking is determined by readers.
The annual poll asks readers of AmericanStyle to rank the best small cities for art collectors and gallery patrons.
Santa Fe, NM ranked first and Asheville, NC ranked second. Cumberland, Maryland was the only other Maryland small city/town to make the national list.
This is just further proof that Annapolis is a great place to live or visit!
No, I did not make a typo in the title. More and more Baltimore City, Maryland residents are finding themselves out on the street with no advance notice because their landlord has not paid the mortgage on their rental unit. In fact, unless the landlord divulges to the tenant that they are in foreclosure, or the future listing agent comes by to do an occupancy check, few renters know they are facing homelessness until the day of the scheduled eviction. Talk about a shock!
A new bill has advanced in the Baltimore City Council, at the request of Mayor Sheila Dixon to help these renters. The bill is expected to be passed this year.
Under the new law, tenants would have to be notified by first class and certified mail at least two weeks prior to the actual eviction. A notice will also have to be posted on the property at least a week before the foreclosure related eviction. Finally, rather than moving the tenants possessions to the curb, the lender will now have to pay for them to be sent to a landfill, donate it to charity or arrange for the tenant to collect it.
If the lenders crews curb the tenants possessions, they will face fines of up to $1,000 per day for the illegal dumping of foreclosure chattels. This law would follow one passed last year that made it illegal for landlords to curb possessions. Since passage, the Department of Public Works has gone from collecting the items from an average of 600 rental evictions per month to just 12 since passage.
The bill was introduced because of shocking foreclosure numbers (for Baltimore City being so small, that is). Last year, there were more than 4,000 foreclosure filings in Baltimore City. This year, that number is expected to increase to 6,000. In those numbers, there are many tenants who have paid their rent to their landlord.
I support this bill. Evictions are typically scheduled for the morning, when many may be at work. Once the eviction is served, everything goes out onto the curb, to be picked through by passerby. With no advance notice under current law, one may very well come home to find their remaining possessions on the curb, with anything that was worth anything already picked through and removed.
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Full service REALTOR® helping home buyers and sellers in Annapolis and Anne Arundel County. Multi-million dollar producer who knows my clients wants and needs should always will come first!
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When buying or selling a home, you want a full-time REALTOR® who is knowledgeable, experienced, trustworthy, and who provides stellar service. Just like our other clients, you too will enjoy all of these qualities and more when choosing to work with the Barron Team!
Jesse Barron is an Anne Arundel County resident and home buying and selling expert. Additionally, Jesse is one of the few REALTORS® chosen by leading national banks to sell their foreclosure properties. For these clients, Jesse lists and sells homes throughout Central Maryland.
His love of real estate, dedication and hard work has earned Jesse Barron the distinguished reputation as a top producing, multi-million dollar REALTOR®. He is assisted by Michael Bryant, also an Anne Arundel County resident. Michael serves our clients as the Barron Team’s listing and transaction coordinator.
The Barron Team is thriving in the current market, while other real estate practitioners are struggling to make ends meet. In fact, many agents who were once top producers have chosen to exit the business altogether. Our survival showcases our expert skill, knowledge, best practices and ability to adapt during changing and correcting markets.
We welcome you to explore our Web site so that you may learn about us, our listings, and much more. Our Web site also provides you with many free and valuable tools to research real estate trends, communities, mortgages and much more. You are also provided free and unlimited access to the Maryland MLS to learn more about homes for sale throughout Anne Arundel County and the rest of Maryland.
You may also be interested in Jesse's Annapolis Maryland Homes Blog, Annapolis Homes and Happenings at www.sweethomeannapolis.com.
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Our slogan sums up what the Barron Team does in four simple words. Whether you call upon us to help you purchase a new home or sell your current home, we promise to make the home buying or selling process easy.
We appreciate the fact that you do not buy and sell real estate every day. We help buyers and sellers like you every day, so real estate is second nature to us. When choosing to work with us, you benefit from our knowledge and experience. 
We work for you, our valued client, and provide you with the experience required for a smooth transaction. All that we ask of you is to communicate your needs and wants and then sit back and let us handle everything else.
If you are buying a home, we will apply our knowledge of the market to find you the best home. If you are a seller, we will supply you with the information needed to decide the appropriate list price and then we will develop a result driven marketing plan that ensures your home receives maximum exposure to buyers.
Whether buying or selling, we make the contract stage of the transaction as stress free as possible. We will provide you with the information you require to determine if the sale price is in your best interest. After the contract has been ratified (signed by both buyer and seller), we will make sure that all parties, whether it be your lender, title company or home inspector are all on the same page. If there are contingencies, which are certain conditions that must be met in order for the transaction to close, we will make sure that they are cleared in accordance with the terms of the contract.
If you are looking to buy your dream home, or sell your current home and purchase another one, please contact us to learn more about how the Barron Team makes real estate easy. Not only do we want to guide you through your next real estate transaction, we will work hard and want to earn your respect so that you choose us to guide you through all of your future real estate transactions as well.
I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a PC. Sure, the operating system was floppy disks, and the only useful function was the word processor, but I wanted one so bad that my parents shelled out more than $2,000 need to purchase one back then.
I was on the Internet before it became an everyday word. My monthly Prodigy subscription only allowed for so many hours of access each month. Every email over the first twenty five I sent each month cost an additional quarter each. If someone emailed me a photo, I would have to use a separate program to decode and view it. Later, in 1995 or 1996, I was the first person in my neighborhood to have a broadband cable connection.
I was an early adopter of what is now called the Internet Age and I have never looked back. I am constantly on the search for newer and better technology to grow the Barron Team, and most importantly, better serve clients.
The Barron Team Web site is a great example of how I have adopted technology. By implementing real estate tools provided by Top Producer®, our Web site is both engaging and dynamic.
I do not think that a real estate Web site should start and stop at an “about me” section, listing information and a contact page. The Barron Team’s Web site has the same features as the typical agent Web site, but goes further in that it has a blog that I author, which is continually updated, free and unlimited Anne Arundel County and Maryland MLS searches available to all users, information about both buying and selling a home, home value reports, mortgage and community information, and by far my favorite feature, the free and personalized Market Snapshot, that is delivered in less than 30 minutes.
Just as I am a resource to my clients, I wanted the Barron Team Web site to be a resource to clients and prospective clients alike. I do not like bullying visitors for their personal information just so that they can access the cool features. It is not my practice to force my services on anyone and you do not have to worry about an awkward cold call from me.
In addition to the many features on Barron Team Web site, I have adopted these technologies to best service clients:
There is even more technology that I use day-to-day, but I am sure you have gotten the point by now. Few agents are as connected and tech friendly as myself.
Would you rather have an agent that has a difficult time getting an email to you, or an agent that has the latest and greatest tools always available? Be sure to choose the Barron Team if you want an agent in front of the technology curve!
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