When we think of Newport, there is Fort Adams with the folk and jazz festivals, the mansions for touring, the Tennis Hall of Fame, Bowen's Wharf, Tall Ships and the U.S. Naval War College.  I know, you don't think of the Naval War College.  I had heard of it, but didn't know why it existed in Newport in the first place.

That was until Rear [...]

  June is National Homeownership Month and HUD and the FHA have been sponsoring activities across the country. The theme this year, "Promoting and Protecting Homeownership," emphasizes [...]

Everyone is asking the questions  "How is the housing market fairing these days, and what are the trends for the future?"  Those are always good questions to which one would like to know the answer, especially the latter. So, with that in mind, I searched for some interesting tidbits on the National Association of Realtors' site. NAR has a [...]

Created by architect Richard T. Foster in Wilton Connecticut this spinning house is certainly something you don’t see every day. Yahoo! Shine showcased the eight-room house with panoramic views this week. The rotation is activated by a push of a button. The base of the house contains a powerful motor allowing the house to spin. It takes 48 [...]

When I first got into this business, my mother was my mentor, she was a very successful agent and I learned a lot from her.   One thing she told me was to always dress like I was going to meet a client. That advice has done me well through the years, as people saw me out and about, they assumed I was successful and that helped to generate [...]

Work and social events sometimes do cross paths.  That is, you’ll never know when a casual conversation will lead you to something you have just encountered in your professional life. It happened recently over the last weekend. In the Kingstown and Narragansett area there is the Pettaquamscutt River, or more commonly known as the [...]

Community involvement is important to us and when given a chance to participate in a project to brighten and enliven an area, we are inclined to give our support. So we did when the Parent Teacher Organization of the [...]

    While home sale numbers have been pretty encouraging since the first of the year, most economists agree that these numbers may have been distorted upwards because of the federal tax credits.   While I agree that many buyers rushed to complete their contracts in time for the deadline, what about the long term outlook? Won't the [...]

Many of us thought we were in August yesterday, with the thermometer reaching 96 degrees at the national weather station in Warwick. Thankfully, we are back to normal temperatures today. The point of that is [...]

        This week, Rich and Steve gave me the day off to celebrate my 5^th wedding anniversary.   While I was away, they had Helene Gerstle in studio to talk about strategies for people facing foreclosure.  Helene is an attorney licensed in Rhode Island and Massachusetts and has been working with people at risk of foreclosure for some [...]