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07/01/2026

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10/11/2025

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01/09/2025

Hope you are enjoying your Labor Day, doing what you love!

30/08/2025

Forget open houses and showings–buyers are test-driving homes with sleepovers.
From the Wall Street Journal:
Eric Albert let prospective buyers stay at his Newport Coast, Calif., estate before making an offer.
Offering a try-before-you-buy stay is a strategic selling tactic, says Compass real-estate agent Rex McKown, who was the listing agent on Albert’s house.
The roughly 11,095-square-foot estate in Newport, Calif., was on the market when an overseas couple expressed their interest in making an offer, but with a request: Could they stay overnight at the house before committing? They wanted to ensure their comfort in the home and confirm it was the right size and layout.
Absolutely, the owner told them. “Houses are a huge expenditure,” Eric Albert says. “For $60 million, you should try it before you buy it.” Though they loved the property, their eventual offer was below Albert’s asking price, so he didn’t sell. Still, Albert, an executive in the aluminum industry, considered the experience a win-win: The buyers bought a nearby house from his agents, and, he says, “they paid me a nice price for their stay.”
Would you let a buyer stay in your house overnight? Would you offer this as a home seller?

14/08/2025

05/08/2025

Interest Only Payments

At a recent high school reunion back in Michigan, classmates told me a good story about my dad, their family realtor.

Their family’s needed a house. They had the down payment, but could not meet the interest only payments for the next 6 months.

On a handshake, my dad, their realtor, told them he would cover the payments for them. They could get the house. They could repay him later.

Why did my dad do this?

Dad believed in houses. He believed that people who owned their own houses felt secure, and secure people made good decisions. Secure people build wealth. Secure people are good for the community, the country, the world.

I shed a few tears with them at this remembrance, knowing I wasn’t just hearing about what a great realtor Dad was, but that his heart was remembered, every time the owners looked at their house.

A heart for this business is my inheritance from my dad. A client told me recently that I am “realtor with heart.” What an honor!

Every day, I promise to work to be worthy of this distinction.

15/07/2025

Dad and Muhammed Ali

Dad was a boxer, and a good one. He admired Casius Clay (Muhammed Ali) very much for the athlete he was and enjoyed watching his fights.

After Ali beat George Foreman and made $5 million in 1974, I spoke with Dad about his payday.

“Wow,” I said, “For one fight! $5 million!”

Dad said, “Well, it wasn’t $5 million just for that fight, Bets. It was $5 million for all the training, all the fights. He got $5 million because he’d been working on that knock-out punch since he was a kid.”

I thought: Ok. I get it, it’s experience that people pay for…

Experience is why they hire me. Experience is what I bring to ever transaction.

I get it.

06/07/2025

04/07/2025

Lovestruck has officially been named Best Bookstore in Boston Magazine ’s Best of 2025! ❤️📚

We’re beyond honored, overwhelmed, and grateful to our community of readers, romantics, and book lovers who make this place so special.

Thank you to every reader, every author, every friend who helped write this chapter with us. Here’s to many more happily ever afters! 🥂

04/07/2025

This year’s Best of Boston winner for guerrilla art goes to Silence Dogood, a shadowy collective projecting bold messages onto Boston’s landmarks—like “You can’t bring hell to Boston” on the Old State House. Blending 21st-century tech with revolutionary spirit, they remind the city that protest is still alive, one illuminated brick at a time. Learn more at the link. https://bit.ly/39OfxN2

Photo by Mike Ritter