Miami Township Posts New Website

If you are like me and you live in Miami Township, Ohio - you generally enjoy the services that they provide. You do get the feeling that they truly work hard to provide the services that residents want and can make use of. They offer some great summer programs for youth and adults...My sanity and my kids thank them for it!

Recently Miami Township has posted it's newly completed and updated website www.miamitwp.org and if you have never visited their site before...you certainly should now! The township's website has always offered easy access to programs, and township news. With the new layout - availability for online video and search-able minutes from township meetings - It's a grand step up. You can for instance, reserve park shelters, civic center rooms, get information regarding upcoming Trustee meetings, and so much more. So if you haven't seen it yet - check it out and tell your neighbor.

Chris Wood
REALTOR
Office: 513-791-2255
Star One Realtors

Home for Sale in Miami Township

I absolutely LOVE this house! I try and get out here as often as I can, it's just so peaceful and beautiful! Sitting on about 5 acres, the landscaping on this home is stunning - as is the interior of the home. Sitting on the private patio listening to the birds chirp and watching the hawks move around the trees. Deer are everywhere...but not to worry, a 7 foot tall deer fence with automatic gated entry protects your landscaping.

You find as much sanctuary inside the home as you do outside the home. A set back covered entry provides access to a beautiful blend of spanish and traditional architecture. With Italian marble, Brazilian Cherry Hardwood, and Chinese yellow slate, with each room flowing into the next. Whether you cook or not, the kitchen is always where people gather and here you have the room to do just that. Flawless granite counters and professional grade appliances like a Wolf stove, and a Subzero built in refrigerator can make even the worst cook, seem brilliant! It's all in the tools you use!

A back deck, partially covered offers a great place to relax and grill, no matter what the weather! Accessable from the eat in kitchen, or from the Master Bedroom, you overlook your private oasis. If you would like to see more photos, or a virtual tour of the home, just click on 5276 Deer Path, Milford, OH 45140 or call, text or email me to arrange for your own private tour. You owe it to yourself to come home and relax in your own private sanctuary. It's just what you've been looking for!

Chris Wood
REALTOR

Star One Realtors
Office: 513-791-2255

Cell: 513-382-2474
Email: chris@chrisjwood.com

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Great Time to Buy a Home!

This Sunday, April 26 The Cincinnati Area Board of Realtors will be hosting about 2,000 open houses! So why would THIS be a good time to buy? Well, First of all, Money Magazine
published a study that shows Cincinnati is one of six cities where property values are most likely to rise and least likely to decline over the next 12 months. Here are three more things to move your hiney off that fence:

1. There are nearly 16,000 properties listed in the Cincinnati MLS…We've got plenty to choose from!
   
2. Low Interest Rates = more buying power! Ok, duh! Rates won't stay here forever; in fact no one can guarantee they'll be this low come Sunday.
   
3. Homeownership will always be a good investment. Owning a home does not go out of style…although what you put in it might. To be fair with this, buying a home means you plan to live in it and around here, you should plan to live in for at least 5 years or more.
   

Cincinnati has not seen huge declines in property value, although the impression of that certainly exists. True, property values have declined but it's nothing like what you'll find in Las Vegas, or California or New Jersey. These locations have seen DRASTIC upticks in property value and therefore will see an equal and opposite reaction in a recession. Locally our property values appreciate about 3% a year and do so pretty steadily. We'll see this decline now, but it will turn around. The question is, are you ready to take advantage of the market? Contact your local Realtor® to find out more.

And hey, come visit me at 9730 State Route 28 for my open house this Sunday April 26,2009 from 2-4pm. It's a great Cape Cod on an acre of property…You just may qualify for an $8000 tax credit when you purchase it!

Social Media Vs. Industry

Well, the first "Twillionaire" is #aplusk, referencing the twitter handle that is used by Ashton Kutcher; yes that Ashton Kutcher. He recently beat out CNN to be the first on Twitter to have over a million followers. Not bad, I suppose for someone sitting in their living room, streaming live video over the web, even if you are a celebrity. What compels me most about this recent struggle is the difference between how each uses Twitter. Ashton, challenging people like Oprah to help send mosquito nets to Africa and pulling it off, while CNN uses their Twitter account for news feed headlines. Upon digging you quickly learn that CNN only recently purchased the account from someone who had already built up a 900,000+ following and use it like that ticker tape that scrolls across your TV screen, telling you the news while you listen to other news. I've never met anyone who likes that by the way but rather than get rid of it they seem to be adding more…?

Real Estate is attempting to embrace Social Feeds like Twitter with some modicum of success, myself included. You can follow me as cjwood on twitter and find out what I'm tweeting about, it might surprise you and sometimes confuse you!

It's anyone's guess where social media will bring us…is YouTube doomed to fail as another web experiment? Is Web 2.0 going to end up as dorky as its title implies? (Hopefully, they won't call the next thing Web 3.0…I prefer something a little more exciting, and with a cape)! Am I doomed to continue to blog in obscurity…wait, don't answer that, but I do think I'll check my followers…maybe I even picked up a new stalker!

Local Sales Climb 22%

Recently, our local board produced some pretty impressive numbers in a press release. It's great news after some pretty dodgey times! Click below to view the press release for yourself and keep in mind that these numbers were posted when interest rates were at 5%! Most recent interest rates were sitting around 4.8%!

Perhaps April will be coming in like a lion afterall!

http://www2.cabr.org/files/FebruaryHomeSales.pdf

Are We There Yet?

I can remember saying that for days as my family, all 7 of us treked in the chevy from Kentucky to California and back. Now as a nation we ask, "Are We There Yet?" Wondering where the bottom is. The "experts" say midway through this year! I have to wonder if these are the same experts who said that eggs were good for us...wait bad for us...wait really good for us but you can't eat all of it.

We should take all the pontificating with the same level of moderation. In the end I think we can all agree that it's a new world, one that even the experts have not lived in. So trust your instincts, plan accordingly and follow that tried and true boy scout motto: Be Prepared. I think in the end we can all agree that the experts are best at explaining what happened, rather than what might happen.


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