Monthly Archives: October 2009

Pumpkins

October 30, 2009 – 8:43 pm
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Sold Homes in Babylon Village – July 2009 – Part 2

October 28, 2009 – 5:52 pm

For those of you who haven’t been following along, Part 1 of the July report is here. There are some nice homes in this post. The Wyndanch house wasn’t on my radar at all, so no comments there. As noted below, we really loved that Washington house. I hope the people who bought it are [...]

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Open House Report – October 17th/18th

October 25, 2009 – 11:41 pm

Here are three houses we saw last weekend. All three were either estate sales or homes in a similar state of disrepair. If you’re looking for that fixer upper, this is the post for you. I’m rushing to get this post in before midnight to make it a full week of daily posting. Woo hoo! [...]

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Sold Homes in Babylon Village – July 2009 – Part 1

October 24, 2009 – 2:42 pm

There are ten homes listed on MLSLI as being sold in July of 2009. That’s a mighty big number. So, I’m going to chop up my Sold Homes post for July into three parts. There are a lot of interesting houses that sold during that month and I don’t want them to get missed or [...]

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MLS Report and Open Discussion

October 23, 2009 – 11:27 am

Things have been hopping,as you might imagine. We saw a bunch of houses last weekend. We went out with our Realtor Tom on Saturday and he showed us a few houses. It was funny because there were a bunch of couples with their respective Realtors, all seeing most of the same houses as we were [...]

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Home In Babylon Now On Facebook

October 22, 2009 – 9:39 pm

FB.init(“7f444053460319d143134e872279c83d”); Home In Babylon on Facebook Hey, all the cool kids are doing it, so I figured I better not get left behind.

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Construction On N. Carll and Park Ave

October 21, 2009 – 6:36 pm

For those of you (like me) who have been wondering what the heck they’re building on the corner of Park Ave and N. Carll, Georgia Wescott spills the beans over on her Facebook Page. Friday is the Official Ground Breaking Ceremony for Village Park Condominium. The Westcott Group is proud to be the exclusive Realtor [...]

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Our First Offer

October 20, 2009 – 11:38 am

We made our first offer on a house after seeing it this past weekend.  I was nervous as hell sending out that e-mail with the words “We’d like to offer $XXX”.  Got my mortgage pre-approval. Ran the numbers. Heady stuff. Unfortunately, my Realtor Tom says that there are multiple offers on the property and they’re [...]

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Sold Homes In Babylon Village – June 2009

October 19, 2009 – 8:34 pm

I’m going to try to get caught up with these over the next couple weeks. I didn’t personally see any of the ones in this post so my comments will be brief. Feel free to chime in if you’ve got an opinion. 112 Peninsula Dr

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The Babylon Fountain

October 14, 2009 – 8:17 pm

From the Babylon Beacon: The replica of the Fountain, originally located at the corner of Main Street and Deer Park Avenue in Babylon Village some 100 years ago, will be replaced thanks to the very hard work of committee chairman Dr. Chris Proto, committee co-chairman Judy Skillen and Leg. Wayne Horsley and other committee members. [...]

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