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Before I became a realtor, I had no idea how real estate agency was structured, who represented whom, etc. When we were looking for our first home, all those years ago, sometimes there would be a second realtor at a showing in addition to our realtor, other times not. I never gave it much thought at the [...]
We are excited to be hosting a pre-holiday Pop-Up shop at the Maple and Main Realty office (28 North Maple Street in Florence) next Thursday, December 11th from 5:30-7:30 pm - featuring local artist Adele Mattern's new line of textiles for the home, Rectangle Textiles (Facebook and Instagram as "Rectangle Textiles", www.rectangletextiles.com website to be launched soon!). Special guest, Local Interior Designer [...]
It seems that the statistics are on target, and many of us has either chosen to part ways with our significant other, or knows a number of people who have chosen to do so. As a person who has tried to be a support to the people in my life who have decided to make this life shift, and as a [...]
In the context of most other countries, the United States is relatively young, of course. But living in New England, where Europeans settled here relatively early, we have access to a good deal of local history with regard to those settlers. Just up the road from [...]
We just got a new puppy. She has A LOT of energy - and she can jump! Having been taken down by a darting dog at the dog park in Northampton, MA just a couple of years ago myself - I can just see our girl Charlie inadvertently doing the same thing to some poor, unsuspecting dog park patron. Luckily, when this happened to me, I was sore [...]
One of the reasons I love living in Northampton is that although it is a relatively small city - there is so much culture to take advantage of here, and in neighboring cities and towns as well. Take, for instance, the exhibit of rare Matisse drawings currently on exhibit at Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. I think we will spend our [...]
Admittedly, I am an Ikea addict. Whenever we travel to visit my in-laws, I make sure to leave enough room in our mini-SUV to accommodate a trip to the nearby Ikea, to stock up on all sorts of items that I may or may not need - but which give me great pleasure to shop for. We recently sold our home in town, and moved to [...]