I don't usually spread a lot of this stuff around, but I noticed a few people were reading the blogs here, so I thought I should post this information. I am an active Coach in St. Mary's Youth Soccer and one of the members has been diagnosed with Acute Leukemia. If anyone can make it to this, I think it would truly be a testament to how giving the Real Estate Community Truly is. Thank You All.
Bone Marrow Drive Scheduled Saturday
One of our own was diagnosed with acute leukemia recently and needs the help of the southern Maryland community to find a bone marrow match. The patient is a father of three soccer players and is ready to resume his normal life after fighting the disease for months. The next step is a bone marrow transplant. For more info, please visit www.marrow.org.
Friends of the patient, in conjunction with Johns Hopkins and the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDC) will hold a bone marrow/blood cell drive this Saturday, October 25, locally. The information is below:
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Saturday, October 25, 2008 |
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1:00 to 4:00 pm |
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Avenmar Community Center |
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From Rt. 243 turn left onto Bull Road and follow to Knight Road-turn left. Go a few blocks and turn into AVENMAR on Bretmar Road. At the bottom of the hill turn right onto Heron's Way. Clubhouse is located at the end of Heron's Way. |
The bone marrow donation is a three-step process:
Since I was just sending out my monthly homeowner reminders, I thought I would post a little something about maintenance for your home. I think one of the most overlooked items that we forget to do to maintain our home is also one of the most dangerous. Every November 1rst in my market I recommend that homeowners "winterize" their outdoor hosebibs. Other markets need to do this sometimes much earlier, or even not at all. Here in the Washington D.C. area the freeze usually starts to occur around November one. Failing to properly winterize your hosebibs can easily result in frozen pipes. Basically what happens is when the temperature outside drops below freezing the residual water in the line starts to freeze from the farthest point out and leach its way back into the house. When the pressure on that line becomes too much the pipes actually split causing sometimes serious water damage, but it isnt the serious leaks that are the problem, what can also occur is a small "pinhole" leak causing slow drips inside the walls of your home or in areas that are not checked regularly. And when you apply a water supply to something like this, the end result is Mold... The sad part is that this simple item can be corrected with a little bit of maintenance. Remember "frost-free" hosebibs are not completely resistant to bursting. The most important thing to remember is to ALWAYS remove your garden hose from your hosebibs during the winter. The residual water inside the hose make it much easier to cause this problem. Here is a typical procedure for winterizing your Hosebibs.
Step 1-Remove garden hoses
Step 2- Go into the home and shut off the indoor hosebib
Step 3 -Go back outside and open the outdoor hosebib.
Step 4- After ALL of the water inside the line has drained you may close it back up. At this point many older homes may require a frost protective cover, which can be purchased at any home improvement center.
Remember that all homes have different procedures for winterizing hosebibs, this is only intended as a guide as well as a reminder to do it!
Hope this helps.
You know there is a ton of negativity in this market. I find myself writing this blog in frustration. I am a very happy positive person, but it seems of late there isn't a lot of positive out there. I was speaking with a friend a few months ago that said, "this bad market will simply thin out the bad seeds." I actually took that to heart. His discussion was that the bad Realtors and bad builders would all pack up and leave. Well we must not have reached that point just yet.
Earlier this week I took a moment to tour some of the homes on the market. I visited a couple model homes, and was simply disgusted at the overall quality. The funny thing is that being in the homebuilding business in this market for 20 years has only jaded my opinions. It is hard to imagine that builders in todays world dont make their model homes "perfect". The attention to detail, the simple things. I actually went into a builders model and noticed they had "scratch and dent" appliances???? It was the most absurd thing I had ever seen. Paint colors that were running over onto the base moulding, Squeaking stairs?
I find myself on a daily basis trying to make it better. Perhaps many real estate professionals on Active rain feel the same way? I'm not sure what causes this lack of attention. I personally believe it to be laziness. I would love to hear some positive feedback from some of you, that I'm not in this battle alone. I know that there is no such thing as a "perfect" house, but the simple things should never be obvious.
Chris Hill
Zabella Homes
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My Name is Chris Hill, I am the owner of Zabella Homes. Zabella Homes is dedicated to making the homebuilding process simple and efficient. We can build custom or production homes on our lots or yours
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