Environmentally Sensitive homes are becoming more Mainstream. There were about 50,000 environmentally friendly homes built in the US between 1990 and 2000. Mounting energy costs and concerns about the environment, as well as more and more municipal building code requirements-are transforming what was once a curiosity into a mainstream [...]

This year I decided to mix it up a little on the radio show, in addition to the trivia question, I have decided to ask a thought provoking question as well, this week Rich posed the following question: "What will it take for you to have your confidence restored?" A caller said that he is looking for "coffee house chatter" to turn positive, [...]

We've done some fine-tuning to improve our mapping experience. For example, we've added "Reset Polygons" and "Reset Search" as menu items. We've made these options available on "Right Clicking" as well. Also, we have created a helpful video that demonstrates the Polygon Tool and gives a nice overview of Google Maps. [...]

If you remember the wonderfully inspiring 1989 film, Field of Dreams, Ray Kinsella, an Iowa farmer played by Kevin Costner hears a voice in his corn field tell him, "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm upon which appears the ghosts of Chicago White Sox Players [...]

As consumers, nothing is less welcomed than a phone call right in the middle of dinner asking: Do you want a lower mortgage? Are you happy with your satellite provider? Would you like to consolidate all of your debt into one low monthly payment? The cold call is the exact opposite of what most successful sales people know to be effective: [...]

The Rhode Island Association of Realtors released November sales this week, despite September and Octobers gains, single family homes were down 16.05 % from November, 2007. The bright spot is in the muti-family sector, which saw sales increase by nearly 50%, this is a sign that investors and first-time buyers are definitley returning to [...]

While January is typically a quiet month in the real estate world, it is actually a perfect time for buyers and sellers to do their homework. This is the time of year for would-be sellers, those expecting to put their houses onto the market in the spring, to [...]

Rhode Island Food Culture: Dining, Drinking & Food Stuff Our friend and former sales associate Seth Price has started a wonderful community site entitled - Providence Palate. It's a space for anything related to a passion for food culture in and around Rhode Island. The site has some great modules including: Chat, Forums, Blogs and more. It [...]

If you are a regular listener to Real Estate Insight, you already know that one of my favorite lines when people ask me to predict the state of the market in the near future is "if I only had a crystal ball...." While the immediate outlook looks pretty bleak, I think that the bulk of uncertainty is behind us. We have a new administration [...]