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Maximizing Marketing!

Anyone trying to sell a home today knows that marketing advantages are essential. I am now able to offer all my sellers a very special advantage -- I will put together a short movie advertising your home's best features, and place that movie on YouTube, CBGreatLakes, TAAR (the local multiple listing service) and many other national sites. The movie is actually produced from a series of still photographs ...
Posted by Susan Cooper @ 1:06 PM on 06/26/2008
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A Celebration of Roses

  Just a few thoughts for summer.....    
Posted by Susan Cooper @ 12:43 PM on 06/26/2008
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FIVE WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR HOME'S "SALE-ABILITY"

FIVE TOP WAYS TO HELP YOUR HOUSE SELL IN A SLOW MARKET       1. Paint Cost: $60 for two gallons of Benjamin Moore interior paint -- enough to paint the walls and ceiling of a 12-by-15 room. A little paint or varnish can go a long way toward improving your home's value. One fresh coat (along with a little sanding and caulking) wipes out the scuffs, chips, cracks and other damage ...
Posted by Susan Cooper @ 12:28 PM on 05/14/2008
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BUYING TIPS!!!

    By Stacey L. Bradford,Associate Editor, SmartMoney.com LOOKING FOR A new home? Well, you're in luck -- sort of. First, the good news: Home prices are falling, giving buyers more negotiating power. Now, the not-so-good news: Lining up financing has become much more difficult as droves of homeowners default on their existing mortgages. This isn't to say you won't be able to secure the ...
Posted by Susan Cooper @ 10:45 AM on 05/02/2008
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CURB APPEAL3!

    IN PRAISE OF BLACKBERRY WINE   Intoxication can take many forms. I fully appreciate a good, full-bodied red with strong legs, a rich, fruity aroma and just a kiss of sugar to help it slip like fine silk over the palate. But on torpid summer afternoons, when the very air seems to shimmer beneath its weight of sunlight and I've just pushed my twentieth wheelbarrow of compost to ...
Posted by Susan Cooper @ 2:18 PM on 04/30/2008
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CURB APPEAL 2!

  DAPHNE, DOES SHE DESERVE HER DIFFICULT REPUTATION?     Daphne, for some inexplicable reason, has garnered quite a reputation. She's considered a difficult, truculent, and even somewhat sickly girl, hardly worthy of our attention here in Northern Michigan. After all, we're built of sturdy stock up here we expect our plants to be the same. We value lilacs, which can grow like weeds ...
Posted by Susan Cooper @ 11:23 AM on 04/24/2008
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CURB APPEAL!

    CLEMATIS A NEW LOOK AT A POLULAR, OLD GENUS. I have a thug in one of my borders. It's a course and woody thing, thick and gnarled already at the crown, though at a meager four years, it's barely out of infancy. I cut it almost to the heartwood every spring, but by midsummer, it has always scrambled fifteen feet in each direction. It explores the ground around it with an avid curiosity, ...
Posted by Susan Cooper @ 1:15 PM on 04/21/2008
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