Linda's Southeastern CT Real Estate Blog

The inside will surprise you. 3 full levels of living space includes 4/5 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, newer master bedroom addition, plus upper level laundry. Extras include hardwood floors, central air conditioning, loads of closet space, family room with wet bar and updated country kitchen/dining room with fireplace. Detached garage makes excellent workshop!

Presidential Estates traditional 2400 square foot colonial! Custom built by John Majcher, this home delivers a wonderful floor plan with huge family room with fireplace, kitchen with breakfast bay area, formal living room and separate dining room. Offers french doors, custom moldings plus hardwood floors and solid doors throughout. Walk out basement plus attached 2 car garage with convenient stairs to basement.

Don't be fooled by the outside of this fabulous raised ranch offering over 2600 square feet of living space including 3/4 bedrooms, 3 baths, huge family room with walkout to enclosed sunroom just waiting for finishing. Updated custom kitchen features tile floors, corian counters, stainless appliances and garden window. The lower level kitchenette makes this home perfect for in-laws or guests! Located on 1.74 acres in Torrey Park neighborhood just off Route 12.

A Canadian Study suggests that a poorly named street creates a negative view in the minds of buyers.

The Eastern Connecticut area has a number of street names that fall into the "What were they thinking?" catagory.

I've written in the past about Hell Hollow Road in Voluntown. But how about, Number Two Pond Road in Colchester? Do you need to get permission from your teacher to go there? BMW Drive in Griswold always sounded a bit elitist to me compared to Pigeon Swamp Road in Lebanon. Then there are the names that are impossible to spell, let alone pronounce, like Susquetonscut Brook Road in Bozrah. I do like Lovers Lane in East Lyme though, and don't think that one would drive buyers away!

Last year, Mitsubishi Motors held a contest of funny street names. Entries had to include the actual photo of the street sign.. The first place winner was Pyscho Path. Second place went to Divorce Court.

Ok, so now I'll fess up. My office, RE/MAX Realty Group, is on Hurlbutt Road in Gales Ferry, CT. Yes, I hear the snickers when I have to give out my company address to anyone. You can visit my office HERE

Do you have funny street names in your area?

When Carnac first came on the scene on January 1st of this year, he poked fun at the regular Rainers.  It seems for the first two months of the year, everyone here knew Angus, Kristal, ARDELL, Broker Bryant, Lenn's maps, Maureen's Carnivals and Carole's trains.  Most of the people that Carnac picked on were good sports about it.  (OK.....so one or two people didn't appreciate his sense of humor.)  But it's much harder now.   With 25,000 Active Rainers, it isn't quite so easy to be funny enough for everyone to "get it".  Fortunately Edna McMahon from Michigan had a few predictions to help get Carnac started and the rest finally clicked!

And so without further B.S.. here are Carnac's upcoming predictions:

1.  8000 Active Rain members will write their 100th blog post about....you betcha... their 100th blog post.  All 800 become featured posts - It's a blogging miracle!!! 

2.  Caleb admits that most of the consumer questions posted on the new Q and A are being written by his mother and the women from her knitting circle. Mrs. Mardini thought it was a nice way to support her son and make him feel like his site was a big success with consumers.

3.  After the success of the Active Rain Fruit Challenge, the Active Rain Vegetable Challenge makes its debut, quickly followed by the Active Rain Luncheon Meat challenge.

4.  The number of groups expands to 3,450 with such timely topics as sonogram results, comic books, potty training and candy bars. 

5.  After deciding that judging Project Blogger is nearly impossible, the participants secretly enter a pact that decides the winners by using Rock, Paper, and Scissors.  This is much more exciting than the actual contest. 

6.  Competition heats up in Maureen Francis's Carnival of Crap as contestants try to out-do each other in order to win. (emphasis on do-do)

7.  After each attendee at the Active Rain Get Together in Celebration, FL has their post about the event featured; the bus boy from the restaurant joins Active Rain and posts the menu... And....you betcha, it's another featured post!!!  

8.  Kristal "I'm not really tech support" Kraft, is given a nice little paper certificate commending her for the helpful posts to both newbies and oldies of Active Rain.  As she accepts the award, she is heard mumbling under her breath "What's with this certificate crap?  Where is my company car?"

9.  Disgruntled because their posts are never featured, a few bloggers create dart boards to sell on e-bay with the photos of the moderators.   All 3000 dart boards are sold out in 47 minutes.

10. The Active Rain gods create a new rule:   Signatures can not take up more lines than the actual blog post.  The penalty: the offenders must type out their signature 100 times on a blog post.  Several bloggers retire with carpal tunnel. 

11.  The Active Rain "Sugar" award is created with the first awards going to sweet Maggie Dokic  and sweet Sarah Cooper.  Can someone please dig up some dirt on these two?

12.  Rich "Singin in the Rain" Jacobson must take a 14 day sabbatical from work to finish commenting on his commenting post about commenting on comments. C'mon let's all go and comment HERE so he has to comment on your comments!  

13.  Karen Georgeis secretly hired by Google to help them counter SEO Linking Experiments. Everyone on Active Rain is sent to the google sandbox.  Some people think playing in the sand sounds fun!

14. Three top AR bloggers tearfully announce in YouTube videos that blogging has been the downfall of their business, as they no longer have time to return client phone calls, prospect or show houses.

15.  Buoyed by the success of the Flat Stanley Project, the Flat Codgers Project begins and a fight ensues over who gets Flat Daisy first.  Play nice people. 

And finally...

Dr. Phil stops by once again and observes Active Rain behavior.  He believes many of us are ill and/or can't read.  Otherwise, why would people keep placing advertising in the wrong categories, and posting to all 800 groups they are a member of.  <sigh>

In case you missed them.....

January 1st Carnac Predictions

February Carnac Predictions

March Carnac Predictions

April Carnac Predictions

 

See you in June!   Feel free to comment with any predictions of your own.

 

 

A mother was out walking with her 4 year old daughter. The daughter picked up something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth.

The mother took the item away from her and asked her not to do that.

"Why" the daughter asked. "Because it's been laying outside, you don't know where it's been, it's dirty and probably has germs", the mother replied.

At this point, the daughter looked at her mother with total admiration and asked, "WOW! How do you know all this stuff?"

The mother had to think quickly...."uh....All moms know this stuff. It's on the Mommy Test. You have to know it, or they don't let you be a Mommy."

They walked along in silence for 2 or 3 minutes, but the daughter was evidently pondering this new information.

"OH...I get it" she beamed. "So if you don't pass the test you have to be the daddy". "Exactly" the mother replied with a big smile on her face and joy in her heart.

 

Happy Mother's Day to the moms of Active Rain! You passed the Mommy Test.

On networking.... I've talked about the Cyberprofessionals here before.

The Cyberprofessionals are a networking group with a history of over 11 years. They Cyberprofessionals got their start in the summer of 1995. They met chatting on the old RE/MAX Compuserve forum and had an idea, meet in person and share ideas. Only 9 agents attended that first meeting in Stamford, CT and they arrived by car, plane and train. Each of the attendees presented a topic and the idea of presenting "15 minutes of fame" was born. In Stamford, and the meetings that followed, the group continued to share ideas, some very high tech and others high touch. The group, numbering over 50, no longer just RE/MAX agents, meets twice a year in locations across the country.

 We had our 23rd meeting this week in Albuquerque. You'll find the rest of their history and membership information on the Cyberprofessionals Website. Several Rainers are members of the group.

On flat Jonathan.... Since Kristal was sitting across from me at the meeting, I had a direct view of the boy. He was rather well behaved during the meeting but I understand showed his wild side afterwards. Kristal has the details in her own blog posts. We did give Flat Jonathan an honorary membership into the Cyberprofessionals. Our next meeting is in Las Vegas in November but I'm not sure we can trust Flat Jonathan with all those show girls, tigers and casinos. 

On signs....I've never been to Albuquerque before but it had some great photo opportunities. And it also appears that the people of Albuquerque show their sense of humor in the form of signs. The first photo is from The Range Cafe in Bernalillo, New Mexico. The second is at our hotel. Needless to say, I didn't play the piano. And the last is the photo of a sweet lady leaving the casino. She seemed quite pleased and giggly about her sign and was more than accommodating when I asked her to pose for me.