We are very excited to report that our new Real Estate adventure – The Chris and Caleb Real Estate Team – is off to a fantastic start!  Our team, that consists of two agents – Caleb Knecht, our Seller Specialist and Chris LaGarde, our Home Buyer Specialist have sold 21 homes in March and April. [...]

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Chris LaGarde on February 25th, 2010

This article is courtesy of Brandywine/Springfield Waterproofing, a local Chester County waterproofing company. WATERPROOFING PREVENTIVE MEASURES AFTER HEAVY SNOW FALLS  -  are most effective prior to any immediate following heavy rains.  Most are well in the scope of “Do it yourself” and you can save big bucks and a lot of headaches by doing the [...]

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Chris LaGarde on February 4th, 2010

Here are a few good restaurants that I would recommend in the Downingtown, PA area. Victory Brewery – 420 Acorn Lane, Downingtown, PA‎ – (610) 873-0881‎ I HIGHLY recommend this place. It has award winning  beer, and the food is good and getting better all the time. I LOVE the Trice fries, their burgers and [...]

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Chris LaGarde on January 20th, 2010

As you may, or may not know, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is in some trouble from a financial standpoint. I read the “Daily Forecast Update” from the National Association of Realtors today, and that update mentions that the loan underwriting standards for FHA loans will be changing, in the MORE STRICTER side of things. [...]

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Easttown Township to explore earned income tax as revenue option On Monday, Oct. 19, at 8:00 p.m., the Easttown Township Board of Supervisors will be presented with information on Earned Income Tax and other Act 511 taxes by the Pennsylvania Economy League. The meeting is to be held at the Beaumont Elementary School, 575 Beaumont [...]

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Chris LaGarde on September 22nd, 2009

So I saw this question asked on Trulia – Why do some agents cheat, lie, hide information? And I wanted to address this issue because, unfortunately, Real estate agents have been cast in a very bad light lately. It seems the public tends to think a real estate agents job is easy and that they [...]

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Chris LaGarde on August 30th, 2009

I can hear it now – “This is a blog about Chester County, PA, why are you reviewing a restaurant in Austin Texas??”  Well, this is also a blog written by me, and I recently visited Austin, Texas to attend Keller Williams “Mega Camp”, which is a real estate training convention they hold every year. [...]

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Chris LaGarde on June 27th, 2009

“I really need more room, our house is bursting at the seams, but the market is so bad, we just can’t afford to sell right now”. I hear this statement too often these days. So many people I talk to are scared to death of the current real estate market – like deer caught in [...]

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Chris LaGarde on May 29th, 2009

One of the current fads getting a lot of news these days is Twitter. I recently went to a small real estate conference that had more than a few sessions on social networking and specifically twitter. It gave me a ton of info. If you don’t know anything about Twitter and would like to, below [...]

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