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On Second Thought Don't Relocate to New Jersey! We Got a Good Thing Going Over Here. - Apr 28 11:23 PM
New Jersey gets a bad rap. That's why I wanted to write a "pro" New Jersey relocation blog, especially if you're interested in Monmouth County real estate. We have many hidden talents in the Garden State.
In fact,  New Jersey is "the state to live" for the next 100 years (with 25 years off for good behavior).
New Jersey is where great musicians are born, where Presidents vacation and where Governors ... well, two out of ...

Is Your MLS Listing "HOT" Like Hot Cross Buns or "HOT" Like Radioactive Uranium? - Mar 12 11:27 PM
Oh, Easter. A time of peeps and Palms and bunnies. Hot cross buns, so soft and gooey fresh out of the oven. That's how your Monmouth County real estate or new MLS listing should greet all the neighborhood buyers. So warm and sweet-smelling that taste buds swell, lips turn moist and the tummy rumbles.
Damn, that house smells good. I just got to have it!
Your new listing should make hungry mouths water. Warm bread analogy ... good!
Or you could ...

How Small a Space We Occupy in Nature: Howell Township's Allaire State Park. - Dec 21 08:56 AM
Do you like  reading survival stories? Stories of how people under tremendous odds escape nature with their lives?
Me too.  It is exhilirating to ponder how vast our world is and how small a space a single human occupies.
Good news -- you don't have to be a Navy SEAL to enjoy our Monmouth County Park system. Everywhere you turn another park pops up!
There's no better place to live in New Jersey than Monmouth County if you're ...

Moving and Learning Latin with Graffiti: The Dead Watch While No One Mans the Wheel - May 04 02:26 PM
Every real estate agent should subject themselves to one move during their sales career.
 
Moving is not about the physical relocation of stuff. Moving is more than culling your ocean floor of the broken seashells and dead coral twigs that swirl in underwater tide pools. Moving is more than trapping the loose ends of your life that scurry beneath the furniture and coil up inside the springs, hibernating.
 
Then humanely releasing those same emotional loose ends back ...

Hey REALTOR, Educate or Execute: The Manifesto of Marketing Mortality - Apr 03 08:30 AM
Paul Slaybaugh wrote a gritty thought-provoking post about 180 day listing terms. This is not a rebuttal of Paul's thesis. Rather his blog afforded me the opportunity to present My Manifesto of Marketing Mortality.
I'll start with the major consumer perceptions of the role of a REALTOR:
When it's time to sell the agent shows up looking for a piece of equity to sell the home. Said agent never mowed the grass or snaked the trap. Never lifted ...

"Dad, Can You Pick Us Up?" -- Drinking from the Font of Fatherhood - Apr 22 05:04 PM
"Dad, can you pick us up?"
Over the last 20 years I've probably read at least 100 "self-help" books. From Carnegie to Covey from Dobson to Ziglar I've read pages upon pages about acquiring new skills, new wisdom, new insights.
The more I read the more inadequate and older I feel. There's nothing "new" about the malicious effect of gravity. Middle-aged folks have been seeping back into the Earth since the days of Stonehenge.
"Hey, where Derry? Eh? Just ...

My Rendezous with the Digital Domainatrix at the Phone Company! - Jan 03 10:40 AM
I called Directory Assistance for the phone number to Farmingdale High School. I pressed "1" for English.
A digitized female voice asked me for the name or business. (Who makes these recordings? I have a mental image of a frightened robot strapped to a chair while other menacing "black bag" robots torture her, forcing her to read off the card "DID YOU SAY MARMALTHRUMPLADUC? IS THAT IT?")
Then the metallic staccato: Pur-lease hawld while I kernect yow call. (Please hold while ...

An Early Spring Poem Inspired by an Evening Walk Through Bucks Mill Park, Colts Neck NJ 07722 - Mar 15 05:29 PM
I stole away a few minutes for myself this evening. Easier said than done for a husband and father of three.
Took some photos of our northeast earth emerging from Winter. I guess I'm as seasonally affected by the Old Man as the next REALTOR/frustrated writer.
Bucks Mill Park is more than a park to me.
It represents a "state" of Colts Neck before the township was discovered. The Colts Neck Polo Club competes at Bucks Mill. ...

What Cycle Is Your Local Real Estate On the Kondratieff Wave? - Feb 05 08:48 PM
Our popular press is consumed with Greenspan and Bernarke. But how about the economist Kondratieff, Professor Nikolai Kondratieff to be percise?
Kondratieff is the founder of the economic long wave theory. Born in 1892 in Russia, Kondratieff rose to prominence through his analysis of historic prices and consumer behavior. He contributed to the Soviet Union's Five Year Plan. Eventually Kondratieff spoke out against Stalinist practices and paid for his criticism with his life in 1938.
Today when we refer to economic ...

Investing in Monmouth County Real Estate? Don't Forget the Septic System! Here's an Inspection Questionnaire. - Mar 07 01:46 PM
As a native and transplanted New Yorker (Staten Island), I enjoy selling Monmouth County real estate. I derive great satisfaction from educating buyers (and sellers) of the myriad of issues involving a purchase (or sale).
Let's learn about Septic Tank systems and companies. Colts Neck, New Jersey is pre-dominantly a septic tank system town.
The only development in Colts Neck that handles its waste through an off site sewer or treatment facility is The Grande off ...

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Overpricing your Colts Neck Real Estate: Continuous Days on Market (CDOM) - Jan 25 11:03 AM
Overpricing your Colts Neck real estate? Expect a slow train of buyers a-coming. Today I'm going to present the concept of Continuous Days on Market (CDOM). First, there are some fairly recognized truths in real estate and home buying:
Lower priced homes sell first, typically. The lowest priced home in a neighborhood will appreciate faster than the highest priced home under the Principle of Progression. The longer the home stays on the market, the farther the seller ...

Western Monmouth County Real Estate Market: "Affordable" [for New Jersey] Residential Rentals and Rates - Apr 24 04:50 PM
Western Monmouth County is predominantly a detached Single-Family home market. We have few multi-family dwellings bigger than two families and fewer apartment complexes.
Let's shift focus from buying and selling Monmouth County real estate to renting in Monmouth County. Now there are over 50 towns in Monmouth County. I'll spotlight the following towns:
Colts NeckFreehold BoroughFreehold TownshipHolmdelHowell ManalapanMarlboroWhy these seven? They comprise the Freehold Regional High School District. (Well, actually Holmdel is NOT in the Freehold Regional High ...

Colts Neck Real Estate: Mom and Dad, I Want My Own Bedroom! - Dec 09 09:53 PM
December 9, 2007
Hey, Mom and Dad! If we're moving to Colts Neck, New Jersey then I want my own bedroom!
I ran into my Colts Neck neighbor Kevin this morning at the bagel store. We got to talking about Colts Neck real estate. The conversation turned to average sale prices. Lo and behold, Kevin had seen the light! Rapture. Here was a man that got it. Verbatim, here is Kevin's epiphany,
"Ya' know Andrew I hear a lot about average prices ...

Colts Neck Real Estate Market Report, 1st Quarter 2008 - Apr 02 09:27 AM
Book it, Dano.
The first quarter of 2008 is now over. Colts Neck real estate continues to mirror much of the luxury/executive market in Monmouth County (i.e. Holmdel, Rumson).
Warning: REALTOR cliche approaching...
Price the property right and buyers will make an offer.
The following chart depicts the actual Colts Neck closings from January 1st up until today. Last year for the same period fourteen (14) homes sold. MLS data and MLS listings deemed reliable.
But now the ...

Hazlet Real Estate Market Report: How Many Homes Sold in January? - Jan 29 06:37 PM
Here's my monthly Hazlet real estate market report, albeit two days early. Hazlet Townhip, New Jersey that is.
In Hazlet there were only nine single family home MLS listings updated from "Active" to "Under Contract." The definition of Under Contract (also referred to as U/C) is that both buyer and seller have agreed on all major terms (contract price, financing, contingencies and closing date) and now they're working towards the closing table.
What's to be done to ensure the Under Contract sale is ...

Monmouth County, NJ: Aberdeen Township Market Report - Nov 15 02:34 PM
November 15, 2007
Hold that turkey leg! There's still folks buying and selling real estate in Monmouth County!
Today I'd like to update loyal readers about market changes in Aberdeen Township, NJ.
First, single family homes sales in Aberdeen are holding steady.Compared to the overall County, Aberdeen represents a bargain.Interest rates are still very low. Very few people look in November and December. That's prime hunting season for buyers!Okay, here are the market stats for the last few ...

Monmouth County, NJ: Is Monmouth County Still Affordable For the Working Family? My Government Rant! - May 31 11:04 AM
Sometimes I start my MLS research with a socially responsive question. Is the American dream still intact? Could we describe our pursuit of affordable, safe and fair housing as an inalienable right? Or a perceived right that is quickly fading to a privilege?
Free market economists point out that market forces determine winners and losers, that capitalism is the ultimate filtering device between the have's and have not's. That's a pretty cold, clinical view of the working family ...

Monmouth County 2007 Sales MCAR - Mar 16 11:33 PM
Information supplies from The Monmouth County Association of realtors. Please note that Finite numbers can be obtained through the national association of realtors and the state of New Jersey.
According to MCAR List-it system there were 5037 residential sales in Monmouth County in 2007 with an average sale price of $561,833.
Dawn Marie White
Broker-Sales Manager
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Upper Freehold New Jersey Market Report - July 2008 - Jul 04 08:40 AM

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Monmouth County, NJ: Market Report for Fair Haven - Jun 05 01:11 PM
I am a Residential specialist for Monmouth County. As the Broker and Owner of my own agency, I pride myself on two simple principles of doing business: (1) my clients needs always come first and (2) the buck starts and stops with me. You can hire me, the Broker and Owner, and go straight to the top. My name is on the door. It's a good name and I aim to keep it that way for my ...

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Dear Seller, That Recliner Has Got to Go! But Why? - Feb 11 03:33 PM
Hey I went into my marriage with eyes wide open. My better half -- actually I call her Mrs. Three-Quarters since my relative worth to the partnerhip rarely exceeds 25% -- is a trained Interior Designer with years of Architectural drafting experience.
I concede decisions about decorating to Mrs. Lenza. A husband has got to know his limitations.
Ah, but I have one sweet success on my domestic resume. My green leather recliner that I nicknamed ...

Introducing Our Special Place, 62 Broad Street, Matawan N.J. - Apr 04 12:16 PM
My youngest son (we'll call him E) was diagnosed with autism on April 19, 2004.
Autism is an epidemic in New Jersey. Since E's diagnosis the incidence has jumped from one child in 150 to one in 94 in the Garden State.
We've opted to challenge E.  
No one gets a nearly-free ride around here. My older children (18 and 15) constantly complain: You're spoiling him!
One of the missions of our family is to lead E to independence. ...

Martha Stewartini Presents a Colts Neck, New Jersey Thanksgiving Table! - Nov 23 02:07 PM
November 23, 2007
The Missus is always asking, "When are you going to write about me on that blog?"
You spend so much time on that damn computer. Real estate is so boring!
Nag, nag, nag. ;)
My contribution? A tapped Heinekin min-keg and the boys and I talked about football while frying a 12 pound turkey outside.
And we didn't even burn the house down! So there!
We entertained twenty seven folks yesterday for Thanksgiving.
Liz really went all out; ...

Dog's Best Friend: The Monmouth County SPCA - Jan 13 10:31 PM
Who doesn't love dogs? I know some people are afraid of dogs but I've yet to meet someone who did not like our canine counterparts.
The Monmouth County SPCA is located at 260 Wall Street in Eatontown, NJ 07724. The shelter's main number is (732) 542-0040 and you can visit them at www.monmouthcountyspca.org. If you click through you'll be greeted by a smiling Bruce Springsteen.
The SPCA is not just for dogs! If you're a cat ...

NAR Responds to 60 Minutes' May 13, 2007 Segment - May 18 07:46 AM
 
  
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Conover Road Primary School and Colts Neck Township Real Estate, New Jersey 07722 - May 01 05:36 PM
The values of a school system magnify the values of real estate. Conover Primary School has significantly benefitted Colts Neck Township real estate in so many ways.
Now some townspeople may argue my rah-rah opening. Did our town really need a $17 million brand new, state-of-the-art facility for grades Pre-Kindergarten through the Second grade?
I do know, as a Realtor specializing in Colts Neck real estate, an oft-heard query is: What can you tell me about the ...

New Italian Grocery Opens in Colts Neck - Nov 16 06:32 AM
Rosalia's from Brooklyn opens in Colts Neck.  There is a new place in town to get Italian groceries.  Carmine Gambacorta opened on Monday in the former Tutta Italia marketplace.   Their Grand Opening is on Saturday November 17They will be open from 8:30 am to 6:00 pm and will have 94.3 The Point radio station from noon till 3:pm.  Cinderella and Spiderman will be there from noon till 2pm, and food tastings will be available all day.    ...

Falling Over Tinton Falls: Local Monmouth County NJ Information - Dec 18 12:59 PM

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Tinton Falls borders Colts Neck, Eatontown, Shrewsbury and Ocean. You can access the official site of Tinton Falls . But please do read on!
The township has a brief yet rich history. Tinton Falls was organized in 1950 as "New Shrewsbury." After so much confusion with Shrewsbury -- which has never been referred to as old -- and postal errors Tinton Falls received its own identity in 1975.
The signature mark of Tinton Falls is its waterfall below ...

April is OPEN HOUSE month - Mar 31 09:14 PM
CENTURY 21 Showcase Joins Forces With CENTURY 21® Offices Around the Country to Declare April as CENTURY 21 National Open House Month CENTURY 21® System Declares Official Start of Spring Home Buying Season Colts Neck, NJ  March 31 2008 -- Understanding the strength in numbers, CENTURY 21 Showcase and other CENTURY 21 offices across the nation have declared April as CENTURY 21 National Open House Month, officially kicking off the Spring home buying season.  As part ...

24 Hours Away To A New Home - May 24 07:16 AM
Vince Lombardi was quoted as saying "Winning Isn't Everything but...Wanting to Win is".
As a realtor, I work hard to ensure a smooth transaction for all my clients. I Want to score a home run and close every deal, however, some things are out of my control.
Take for example the case of my first time home buyers who were extremely excited to purchase their new home but unfortunately could not get a mortgage commitment from their first mortgage company as promised. 
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Price Reduced on this Beautiful Home in Manalapan,NJ - Jul 02 02:36 PM
This Upton Model is one of the finest in the community. Great upgrades such as a conservatory w/ a fireplace,extra storage in walkin closets,den or baby's room in Master br,finished garage(w/ 220v outlet). The beautiful kitchen w/ it's marble countertops give you plenty of room to cook using the stnls.steal applns.The basement has high ceilings,and is plumbed for an another bthrm.The price of the home has been reduced and terms are flexible.
4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths
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West Long Branch Beautifully Renovated - Jun 30 11:53 PM
DAWN MARIE WHITE 732-528-6800 EXT. 204 CELL 732-581-9414

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Serious Upgrades and Golf in Manalapan NJ - Jun 19 05:20 PM
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WOW! LARGEST END UNIT W/$50,000 IN UPGRADES!! 9' CEILILNGS ON 1ST FL.,HARDWOOD FLRS. IN FOYER,DR & KIT. W/CENTER ISLE, 42" CAB., TOP OF THE LINE SS APPLIANCES, CORIAN COUNTERS, FR W/BERBER CARPET, GAS FP W/CUSTOM MANTLE & 42" LCD SONY PLASMA TV(INCLUDED), CROWN MOLDINGS, NUMEROUS RECESSED LITES, NEUTRAL CARPET THRU-OUT, CUSTOM WINDOW TREATMENTS, UPGRADED ELECTRIC, ALL BATHS W/UPGRADED TILE, FRESHLY PAINTED, PAVER DRIVEWAY & FULL BASE , RT 9 TPK & GSP THIS ...

50 Woodland Ave, Brielle, $829,900 - Jun 08 10:55 PM
MLS#: 20802596 ListPrice: $829,900 Price: $829,900 Rooms: 11 Bedrooms: 4 / 5 Baths: 3/1 LotSz/Acr: 50X150/ Bsmt: Y Directions: Union ave to 71 to Woodland
Cabinets are in, home moving quickly. Award winning builder offering class, style and distinction. Bright & Open gourmet kitchen with granite counter-tops, Aristokraft Cabinetry. Wine Cooler, Stainless Steel Appliances & Island. Hardwood are in on the entire open first floor & all hallways. Fireplace, French doors, decorative moldings A beautiful ...

8 Tall Oaks Court, Howell, $649,900 - Jun 08 10:44 PM
Magnificent Colonial On Private Cul-De-Sac Lot. Built to the Hilt extreme efficiency With 2x6 Exterior Wall Construction. In Floor Raident Heating Throughout including Garage, Poured Basement Foundation 100 Gallon Hot Water Heater 200Amp Service... And Thats Just The Beginning 9' Ceilings, baths Have Been Updated in the last 2 years, Huge Kitchen With loads of Oak Cabinets, Center Island,Desk Area & Full Pantry, Bridal Staircase With balcony and much more. Call Dawn Marie White Broker-Sales ...

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OPEN HOUSE in Manalapan, NJ 6/8,15,29/2008 1pm -4 pm - Jun 02 11:16 AM
This Upton Model is one of the finest in the commuinty. Great upgrades such as a conservatory(14x15) w/ a fireplace,extra storage in walkin closets,den(12x15) or baby's room in Master bedroom,finished garage(with additional 220v outlet). The beatiful kitchen w/ it's marble countertops give you plenty of room to cook using the stainless steal appliances.The basement has high ceilings,and is plumbed for an another bathroom.The Brickfaced front & nieghbor make this a must. The homes faces the South.
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Imagine Living on an Island with Beautiful Waterfront Views All in New Jersey!!! - May 16 09:15 PM
What if you could wake up every morning and the first thing you see is this view? Imagine what it would feel like when you are having your favorite morning beverage out on your patio in your new home. Watching the boats sail by and the extremely rare 2 ducks and Canadian geese that come to nest in your backyard at the waters edge every year. They are federally protected so this beautiful place will ...

Ramtown Gourmet Italian Deli - May 14 08:11 PM
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