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Archive for October, 2008


New Winter Office Hours

Friday, October 31st, 2008

In an effort to conserve energy and contain the cost of doing business in a tough financial climate, we have decided to shorten our business hours to 10-4, Monday – Friday beginning Nov 3. By instating these cost saving measures, we can avoid raising our rates and keep our services affordable to you our valued customer.

While other companies are opting for a 4 day work week, a 5 day week allows us to best serve our customers. We can be contacted all week should you need to make changes to your ad, update your Open House information, or if you have any questions or concerns that need to be addressed.

If you are calling after hours please leave a message and we will return your call as soon as possible. Customer service is always our top priority. If these winter hours do not work with your schedule, please contact us and we will do our best to accommodate you.


Welcome to our new website!

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

As you may have noticed, we recently completed an entire site re-design. Just to give you a little background, this is the fourth generation of our site which was first launched back in 1998. While the previous version of the website served it’s purpose for nearly 3 years, the design was somewhat limiting. We were looking for a design that would give us the flexibility to expand our offerings to both our home-selling and commercial clients as well as a more enjoyable browsing experience for home buyers.

This new design has many new features that are, in our minds, functionally superior to it’s predecessor. Just to name a few…

  • The featured listing on the home page
  • The ability to do property search from almost every page on the site
  • Learning Center for buyers and sellers
  • Paginated listing results with expanded preliminary property information
  • Ability to sort listing results by town, BR’s, Baths, or price
  • Much larger property photos – more than twice the size of the previous site
  • Links to local experts on each home detail page
  • Expanded open house directory
  • Secure email contact to the sellers.
  • Recommend a listing with ‘Email to a Friend’
  • And, of course, our Blog where we’ll keep you informed on the latest news, company updates and client success stories.

As this should in no way be considered a finished product, we will strive to add new features and updates to this new platform.

As with any major update, there are many small glitches that we are working through as we find them. We appreciate all of the feedback we have received to date and welcome any comments or suggestions that may help us improve our site. Feel free to comment to this post below or use our contact form to email us privately.