November 15, 2008 – 8:55 pm
Hi HIB readers. I’m back to posting about Babylon real estate, at least for this one post. Frankly, there’s not much to interest me in the current market, but I’ll keep plugging away as much as I can.
I was able to get the Sold Properties feature working on my PC by disabling the firewall. Sadly, [...]
November 12, 2008 – 11:14 am
Tonight starts the new season of Top Chef. This season one of the contestants is going to be Danny Gagnon, Chef de Cuisine at The Carriage House, my favorite Village restaurant. Skillet Doux has this to day about Danny’s chances:
This season’s entry in the Beefy New Yorker division is Danny Gagnon (hey, not an [...]
October 27, 2008 – 5:41 pm
We’re entering the scary and spooky season. No, it’s not Halloween or ghosts that trouble us, but the looming recession and the specter unsold homes. If you’re sitting on a house that you’d like to sell right now, you’ve got to be pretty spooked.
Things have been a little quiet here at HIB. A new [...]
October 18, 2008 – 7:31 pm
So here we are in October looking back to last month. As I mentioned in my previous post, I was able to get the Sold Properties tool working on my wife’s laptop and nowhere else (so far). I can’t claim any particular computer mojo for this feat, simply blind luck. We’ll see how that holds [...]
October 14, 2008 – 10:59 pm
Hello HIB readers. Wow, a whole two weeks without an update. Did you guys miss me?
For those of you who are interested, little Aurora Jane is officially the light of my life. Mom and baby are doing well as we all adjust to our new circumstances. I’m back to blogging, so let’s get caught up.
After [...]
September 29, 2008 – 5:26 pm
The Summer is now officially over. Mostly it’s still hot and muggy, but there have been a few cold, wet, rainy days and a slight chill of Autumn is in the air. With the Summer goes the Summer selling season and consequently the number of homes on MLS is slowly dropping. A couple of homes [...]
September 28, 2008 – 12:29 pm
39 Totten Pl
MLS# 2104849 - Zillow Page
Ask $429,900
3 bedrooms - 1.5 bath
$7,069 - Village Taxes: $474.60
This is my very first post on the blog and possibly my last for a while, I’m due to have our little girl any day now. Anyway, this is my report on 39 Totten Place. [...]
September 16, 2008 – 7:33 am
We saw these open houses three weeks ago. These may be our last open houses for a while. I’m working this weekend coming up and the Tuesday after that is my wife’s official due date. Time flies when you’re having fun.
There were 13 open houses Sunday, 8/24/2008 in Babylon Village. I often work on Sunday, [...]
September 13, 2008 – 11:33 pm
Here are the rest of the houses sold in Babylon in August 2008. This a followup to this post on home sales in the first half of August. There’s not a lot here that we’d have been particularly interested in. This makes a total of 11 homes sold in August. With 95 homes in MLS [...]
September 11, 2008 – 12:15 pm
Who is freaking out here? Well, first of all, there’s me. The baby is due any day now and we’re still in out two bedroom apartment.
On top of that, with foreclosures on the upswing, Fannie and Freddie in the dumper and a major recession looming, the thought that I might actually buy a house [...]