Monthly Archives: August 2008

Sold Homes of Note in Babylon Village

August 11, 2008 – 12:54 pm

Thanks to MLSLI’s new sold home feature, I can examine recent sales much more easily that I could before. Zillow, Trulia, Property Shark and other services do show sold prices, but they’re at least a month or more behind the curve. MLS is now showing me updated info with home sales less than three [...]

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Reality Comes To Totten Place

August 10, 2008 – 11:33 am

One of the underlying themes of this blog (and of my life in general these days) is annoyance at home sellers who remain stubbornly in denial about the state of the real estate market. Just about every house I look at, either online or in person, gets a mental tag from me as “overpriced”.  I [...]

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Don’t Upgrade to WordPress 2.6

August 10, 2008 – 1:18 am

For those of you who are not tech savvy, you may not be aware that this blog runs on WordPress, a very popular bit of blogging software. I’ve installed literally dozens of WP blogs, both for myself and for my clients. I’ve never had a problem with it…until tonight.
I attempted to upgrade from version 2.5.1 [...]

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Open House Sunday

August 4, 2008 – 3:18 pm

There were a lot of open houses this Sunday. We visited the one that we were mildly interested in and afterward we drove around a bit running some errands. It seemed like every street we drove past had a sign or two pointing us to an open house. It was the first Sunday in August [...]

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