New Septic System Rules for Developed Property Sales: What Buyers Need to Know

As of September 1, 2024, important changes took effect for the sale of developed properties with an individual sewage disposal system (ISDS). These updates shift some of the responsibility for septic system evaluation from the seller to the buyer  

TO FAKE OR NOT TO FAKE (tree)

Living in a state consisting of 86% trees I am blessed with fresh air all the time. So every year is the consideration of a live cut tree or the ever more realistic fake ones. Things have come a long way from when I lived in NYC 30 years ago, and was charged $3 for what didn’t even count as a “Charlie Brown” [...]

Every Home Has Story

I see a lot of homes in every style and every shape and size --just like the people behind their stories. 

In my NYC advertising days with Jerry Della Femina  I created perfect for a home equity loan ad for Chemical Bank in NYC and found the perfect house--one house in the shape of a [...]

Where does Larry the Loon go in Winter--you would be surprised perhaps. 

" In an effort to beat the Holiday Rush, Larry the Loon flew south early only to find his loon friends just fly to the ocean on the East Coast for winter."

Loons certainly are my favorite. I see them come early in spring even when the ice has not fully melted. A was [...]

SO we have always heard about the "fish that got away" . You know like the 58 pound small mouth bass or the 30 foot long pike. Well here is the official list of fish that did NOT get away--at least not until they were [...]

We all know Dracula. You know the guy that flies through the night as a bat and becomes a blood thirsty menace. Of course there is Halloween to help remind us of those flying rodents. And as we all have heard, these bats clearly fly into your hair and try to bite you in the neck right? So what is it with these winged mammals?  Well below [...]