Month: November 2010

Many of you know that I like to run marathons.  If you don’t, well now you do.  I’m running my second (and final) marathon of the Fall season in Philadelphia on Sunday.  Yippee!  Lots and lots of miles, running through neighborhoods from …

My feelings on the market mid-November 2010.  Lots of paranoid schizophrenics, and people standing in the middle of the street yelling.  A colleague of mine put it very well- Schizophrenic.   One week it’s up, another week it’s quiet.  It feels that like …

Rates are low now. Unless you have been under a rock, I don’t need to tell you that. With QE2, of course there’s the expectation that they would be going down again. I do not have a crystal ball, but clearly the …

This Do-It-Yourself is very easy. As you get your house ready for the holidays, or consider prepping an apartment for sale, might I suggest the Mighty Magic Eraser? Ben Franklin once wrote wrote that all of life is about trifles- but I’m …

I sat down with Home organizing expert Maeve Richmond, of Get Your House In Order.  We talked about getting your house ready for the holidays: Get Organized at Home: Holiday Edition SH: Maeve.  Thanks for sitting down with The Practical Home.  What …

BHS Monthly Market Report November, 2010  A Decline That’s Good For Real Estate?  New York City’s unemployment rate and buliding permit filings are both on a downward slope. What does this mean?  Get a better idea of the current economic climate by taking a …