Leave the city behind, get to the mountains and get healthy. Click here for full story of how five agents lost a total of 65 lbs (of the stuff below) from their waist lines. Get outside and be vital today!
Contributing author — Ryan the Realtor: svelte, lean and mean, all around good guy.
Ryan@JtRealty.com
Happy New Year! With 2012 right around the corner (just a few hours away)! I thought it time to think about some of the best ways to engage with the real estate market this coming year. I came up with 8 great ideas to inspire you to action!
If you are ready to buy your first home now is the time. I would even go so far as to say that if you are ready stop reading this article right now and start searching or contact us. Great prices and record low interest rates combine to make this the very best time to get started on home ownership. The Buyers section of our website has some great resources. And searching on JtRealty.com is simple and easy. Don’t forget to register so you can save your searches and receive the notifications you choose with no obligation.
For the go-getter, there is always money to be made in real estate! Start now building your contacts and be in position to capitalize on any market changes. For more information on how to start your real estate career head over to the Careers section of JtRealty.com.
If you have been maintaining your rental property for some time now you may be losing margin. Put the tax advantages of a 1031 exchange to work for you to acquire a more valuable rental property. Interested? Check out these NH multifamily units for sale right now. If you want to learn more about the advantages of a 1031 exchange you can connect with one of our preferred 1031 exchange vendors.
So the 1031 exchange doesn’t apply to you because you don’t own a rental property? Make 2012 the year to change that. With great prices and a selection of available income properties you can get started letting someone else pay for your investment!
Living in a lakefront home is a goal for many. Start early and you could be enjoying the lake by summer, just dive in! Or if you prefer rivers you might try a riverfront property. With much to choose from you are sure to satisfy that dream.
We just added four Attitash Mountain condos to our best buy page! There are so many good deals on ski condos right now you have an amazing selection. Make this the year you can simply ski home at the end of the day! On top of the great real estate available at the local ski areas Trip Advisor just ranked the North Conway as the most affordable ski destination in the Northeast and second in the US overall! Search for Attitash Condos or Mount Cranmore condos right here.
With so many properties on the market right now, many people feel it is the wrong time to sell their home. This may not be true at all. While many properties are available, the right property at the right price will always move quickly. If you have been in your home for a few years you may be able to take advantage of all that is available on the market right now. At the very least it can’t hurt to look! Start your search today.
This is the approach I often take. Renovations add not only financial value to your home, they also add enjoyment value. No matter how long you have been in your home, there is always something on the wish list. In my house right now the wish is new countertops. Whatever your wish, if you put a plan together now, you can start sooner. Winter is a great time for many renovations as contractors can be less busy, giving you more attention and possibly a better price. If you are the handy sort then break out the tools while the weather is cold. You can check our preferred contractors for a start on your project or look into other JtRealty preferred vendors under the About Us section above.
Ryan the Realtor readily admits I could not adapt myself to city life: the incessant motion, the artificial lights and sounds, yet mostly the lack of space and true quiet would turn me tighter than your industrial screw soon to explode and sprint madly through the streets pulling my hair and screaming savagely. Perhaps this a touch of dramatic but mostly true. I consider myself closer to the cave than my other primate cousins.
Did you float down a mild-winter-river this December? Did you step into your wooded lawn, lay down and peer at familiar constellations and still wonder like a curious kid? Did you start a cooking fire from last year’s brush and prepare a meal in tin-foil because you didn’t feel like going indoors for supper and no one on the bloody planet could stop you? I did.
Moments like these are simply soul maintenance — a moment when a man (or woman) can relax and breathe without considering the day’s tedious responsibilities or tomorrow’s tasks growing like a dessert storm.
Purchasing a second home is not a necessity, but finding internal peace and external solitude is. We can tend to our lives and become better people as a result. 49 Little Shore Drive on the shores of Pea Porridge Pond may just be the space for you.
Call Ryan the Realtor to schedule a visit today — (207) 462-3874.
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– A Mahan Minute
I deceived myself in the shower this morning (purely metaphysical, trust me) but my mind refuted the fact that I was preparing to spend the better part of a day inside an office building.
Instead, I was cleansing tired feet and calf muscles in a remote mountain pond after an arduous climb fraught with liberty and danger. Cowboy coffee waited at the ready to take the chill off my morning dip and I sat and stoked the ringed ashes from the night before simply listening, simply breathing.
You know what, I felt the accomplishments of my daydream exceeded the few text messages and phone calls I made this morning. I felt rather industrious on the drive in to work. I felt close to nature.
I attribute this day-dream to the soap I use in the shower or in the woods that is none other than Dr. Bronner’s.
Ignore the “hemp” ingredients as an attempt to fly the hippy flag but rather focus on the citrus and fragrant combination that puts you in a grove of Spruce trees and takes your mind to the woods. Thanks Doc Bronner, good medicine.
Get out, be vital, the rivers and mountains wait….
Ryan the Realtor
E-Mail Ryan with your mountain dreams Ryan@JTRealty.com
The Shiners that inhabited the murky water at the end of the dock kept my kids busy. Their fluorescent bobbers jerked in starts, the empty hooks baffled the kids, and I hurried to re-bait the hooks as quickly as possible.
Soon an old-timer stopped to watch the simple joys of kids fishing. He reminisced about his early fishing days in the 1950’s; we recounted our own fishing conquests (in generic terms), and shared a moment of silence when the time was right to just watch youthful enthusiasm.
Several wood ducks swam in vicinity and Maya soon lost interest in fishing. Supplied with an old loaf of bread, she fed the ducks and spoke kindly to them in earnest.
Water parks and arcades are okay, but then again, so is a can of worms, a fishing pole, and a loaf of bread.
– happy fishing from Ryan the Realtor
RYAN’S FREE REPORTS ON THE WEB
It just hit 96 degrees here in North Conway NH. We are officially in a heat-wave and it’s only May. It is taking all of my self-control not to sneak out of the office for half an hour and go jump in the Saco River. So I thought while swimming was fresh on my mind I would share with you a couple of very “cool” waterfront homes; perfect for resetting your thermostat on these warm summer days.
Check out this getaway on Ettowah Cove, tucked away on a long winding private road, and just a few minutes from Fryeburg Maine.
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250 feet of owned Saco River frontage and a deep water dock right of the deck are only a few of the highlights of this fantastic river front cape in Conway NH.
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Pictures really are worth a thousand words. Not only do you get to enjoy this view, but you can go ahead and jump right into Upper Kimball Lake whenever you need to be refreshed. Go ahead and stick your toes in.
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Best of both worlds, Conway Village location, monthly payments the same as renting a 1 bedroom apartment, and Saco River community access.
You know you have always dreamed of owning a waterfront property in the Mount Washington Valley. So go ahead and call us at 603-356-7200 or email Info@JTRealty.com for more information or to set up a showing appointment. Summer has arrived, what are you waiting for!
Mountain Living
Yellow Beech leaves and red Maples resemble a shade closer to brown in the last of October, yet as I travel back into the North Country by a still lake on my way home, I am compelled to stop.
At the southern outlet of the lake I cross a wooden bridge, lean on the log rail engineered with hand tools and resolve, and I pause. I breathe easy.
The western shore shows deep shadows as the sun descends, a blanket of protection for fish and insects, and the center of the lake holds naked granite peaks in its reflection. Wood ducks sun themselves on nearby rocks and I follow the lazy current under the bridge until the traces are swallowed by the deep.
Then, I spy a gray-haired fisherman casting a fly from the shadows, tree limbs seem to curl over his head in a natural rooftop.
Today is Monday.
I watch in envy as his existence has pushed away appointments, cell phones, and computers, and all that traded for the steady rhythm in his feet that brings blood to his toes and keeps his fly-pole working the water, ten, two, ten, two, float.
I could easily wish to be 55, gray-haired, and fishing.
This is the North Country.
Mountain Water
By Rick Biche
I am not sure that I fully understood how great the experience of growing up on a lake was until I had the opportunity to watch the experience again through the eyes of my own child. I was so fortunate that my parents made the decision to buy a place on the water when I was young. Now the property has passed hands and I understand what really motivated my parents. The times are irreplaceable. That first dive off the dock, discovering a loon nesting on an island (yes, we got out of there quick so as not to disturb), the first time sailing, watching children playing in the sun and water…
I came across this wonderful little video about summer on Conway Lake. I think in many ways is gives a nice picture of many ways that lakeside living is unique and special.
According to Richard Louv, in Last Child in the Woods, children need time to play, seek and discover in natural areas in order to grow and prosper emotionally and intellectually. He cites evidence linking experience in nature at a young age to creativity, success and happiness. And, he says, parents need nature too.
In our busy lives it is often difficult to find and structure time to be outside, somewhere special with family and friends. For my family spending summers, summer weeks and weekends on the lake makes it that much easier.
Joy Tarbell knows Conway Lake. If you are interested in buying or selling real estate on Conway Lake, let Joy put her experience to work for you.
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