Haunted Homes can Hassle Home OwnersPosted: October 30, 2012 at 3:41 PM by Brian BeezleyYou remember that scary house on the corner? The one that all your friends always said was haunted? I guess not everyone had one of those in their neighborhood, but my street had a doozy! It was the first house on the street, but just past it was a fairly large drainage ditch that was at least equal to two or three home lots before you got to the next house on the block. The street sloped down past the home, so it really was the scary house on the hill. It loomed above us – an architectural oddity com read more |
Staging Your Home Step 1Does your home have Curb Appeal?Posted: May 09, 2011 at 4:30 PM by Brian BeezleyOne of the most effective and inexpensive tools in today’s Real Estate market is "staging" your house. It doesn’t matter how hard your sales agent works to bring buyers to your home, if your house does not look like the dream home they imagined, they simply won’t buy it. “Staging” means furnishing, decorating, outdoor clean-ups and ultimately arranging homes in such a way to attract increased buyer interest A recent national survey indicated that staged read more |
Wandering BlindPosted: March 04, 2011 at 4:49 PM by Brian BeezleyGrab a friend and get a blindfold. Now, go find yourself a large empty field. Blindfold your friend and have them walk in a straight line to the far side of the field. What you’ll find is that they will start to drift to one side or the other until they are literally walking in circles.www.npr.orgScientists have done these types of experiments over and over and it turns out that people aren’t able to walk in a straight line while blindfolded. Now, I’m guessing that eventually read more |
Don't Let it Go to the Dogs!Posted: February 11, 2011 at 2:55 PM by Brian BeezleyI have two dogs- two very well behaved large dogs. One is an eleven year-old border collie and the second is a 15 month old Catahoula leopard & lab mix. The city of Medicine Hat is a dog owner’s heaven. With the parks and the off-leash areas, any dog owner would be thrilled to live here. Since moving to town, we have walked at almost every park in and around the city. Sometimes it’s just the pups and me and sometimes my 12 year-old daughter tags along. read more |
Don't let your 'blinkers' distract your buyersPosted: February 10, 2011 at 10:22 AM by Brian BeezleyWhen I was a kid, I used to call it ‘taking a left around the world.’ You’ve seen them – Those people who can’t seem to remember to switch off their turn signal.As I’m headed to work this morning I found myself behind a car whose left turn signal was happily blinking and winking away at everyone around it.There wasn’t a left hand turn ahead of us for quite a few miles, and they probably were not giving me REALY early notice on their driving decisions, but in read more |
