What’s the number one tip to help sell your home in today’s real estate market? Stage your home! taging statistics tell the story: Staged homes sell 50% faster than those that are not staged. Houses, staged to sell, produce sales that average 3%-5% higher than those that are not staged. Staged homes require fewer price … Continue reading Selling in a Buyer’s Market

“In the places set between folds in the Earth, voices echo against mountains....” So begins the story of Concord, Virginia, one of those places set between folds in the Earth. It’s a place like almost any other Southern town filled with self-righteous preachers, descendants of slaves, upstanding town leaders and the ladies of the local … Continue reading Travel/Writing

James A. Levine, a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, is a world-renowned scientist, doctor, and researcher. He lives in Oronoco, Minnesota. But his novel The Blue Notebook is the story of Batuk, an Indian girl who is taken to Mumbai from the countryside and sold into prostitution by her father; the blue notebook … Continue reading A New World in a Book