TOUR!!!!

Posted on March 31, 2011 by admin

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LOOKING FORWARD!

APRIL 12th!

Spring Tour of Halifax!

While the rates are low!

The Loop and Train drive lead us in proximity

The Lakes will blossom with boats, swimming, fishing and sunsetS!

Lets introduce the world to Halifax!

Nesserellas will open soon! Fresh Veggies!! Hooray!

JOIN THE TOUR WITH YOUR LISTING!

Tour Schedule is in your hands…to distribute throughout the weekend (9th and 10th and 11th)!

Lets really expose Halifax! bring a colleague!

GREAT DEALS on a certain parcel of land with buildings thereon in Halifax MA!

Don’t miss out!!

497 Monponsett Street with Patricia Doyle
13 12^th Ave with Mr. Chris Bruce
A rental to see on 76 Elm Street with Amy Troup
Franklin Retreat Estate…#170 shown by Amy Troup
8 Marjorie Drive with Mary Ambria
225 Twin Lakes Drive with Chris Gibson!!
8 Ash Road with Debbie Ulich!!!

And

Lunch will be Served by Trip Miller of Wells Fargo! at 19 Plymouth Street in Halifax!

Lunch will be served at 19 Plymouth Street in Halifax!

Plymouth Street offers an Estate!

This home is influenced by Great Architecture, set on a lot that offers a Grand Framework of Pines, Evergreens, Stacked Granite Garden borders, and much more.. If you have not seen a Frank Lloyd Wright Home..this is a must! definitely will appreciate the layout!, features, and meaningful characteristics of this home!

Shows Pride of Ownership and offers a grand lifestyle, simply because the home has wings!

Come see it fly! and Catch it! before its flown into another buyers arm!

MAKING YOUR DREAMS COME TROUP

Amy

781-775-5229

Molisse Realty Group/PASS REALTORS/REALTOR

Working for you for over 7 years

www.dreamscometroup.com

dreamscometroup@ymail.com

NAMASTE

Marching into April

Posted on March 23, 2011 by admin

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All Aboard!!! Spring Caravan!
Middleboro Broker Caravan

MARCH 29th, 2011
We will meet at our first house on tour… at 9:15
9:15
FIRST HOUSE is hosted by Den Forbeighs of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
229 Plymouth Street

We will leave about 9:45 a.m. for the next house!!
To tour all the properties!
64 Willow Street with Samantha Nichols of ERA Belsito & Assoc.

South to 8 Lovell Street shown by Karen Hover of EXP Realty

Onto 15 Courtland Street shown by Jack Conway-Lakeville’s Hugh Harp

Over to 17 Webster Street with Jeannie Carr of Success RE

Up to 94 Fuller Street Thanks Kim Sweeney of Seagate Properties

East to 6 Brook Street with Zip Realty’s Paula Welch

LUNCH at:
842 Plymouth St
Middleboro, MA 02346
with Michelle Burt of Success RE

Please bring colleagues..tour the area we sell!

Thanks to everyone for your participation!
Looking forward to Tuesday!!
See you soon
Sincerely,
Amy L. Troup
Molisse Realty Group
www.dreamscometroup.com
dreamscometroup@yahoo.com
781-775-5229

Marching into April

My thoughts of consideration for your contemplation!

We have had our lucky day of the year…that Lucky day represents more than just the luck of the Irish! The luck of the winter nearing its melting point; the clocks spring ahead, lighting our world, hearts and minds!; crocuses have snuck out of the ground and held the snow off!; April will bring water and blooming and excitement in us all! Welcome out of your caves! Welcome to the New World again!!!

Doesn’t this time of year bring an excitement to most of our life? unless you are an avid snow sportsman or woman!! we are all vying for the sun, vitamin d, dreaming of the beach and our endless summer nights! But…I am talking about the Spring Housing Market! when we come out of the cave…we may want, need, desire to find another home!!, another cave for the winter! One of my clients has a goal to have a driveway by next winter! that is their goal! Others may want to purchase their first home!! others move to end long commutes, move to prevent private school tuition and still some others move for the feeling we are enjoying now…all year!!

My Advice!! If you are just out of the winter hibernation and feel a sudden need to move!! Do a pros and cons list! Do you want to move? or do you want to change your life from hibernation to motivation? Is it that you wish your bathroom was brighter, more up to date? or that you had a deck on the back of your house?

Did you get this urge when the sun stayed up late? If so…are you feeling an urge? or is it really what you want!! Buying a home is very serious purchase. One decision in life that needs to be done with the right questions, the right reasons, the right education on home loans, location, home maintenance and much, much more!!

Has it been a topic for the winter? Did you research dream and think of the “Why?”…if so..still get that pros and cons list together. Think of your life and what you want it to be like! Make sure you can afford that home through thick and thin! Make sure that you are not planning on a move in two years…make no mistake..real estate can be a wonderful addition to your retirement portfolio..but it is by no means a way to make money in two years…(nor was it).

Think of the whole picture. where would you want the center of your world to be? where would it make most sense to live in the situations of work, play, obligations, friends and family? what size home would you need? what kind of work can you do to a home? paint, wall paper, tile? landscape, flowers, love? clean? this should be taken into consideration…what condition home can you handle? Im sure you don’t want a headache you can’t cure! BUT if that home has some things wrong or need of update!! maybe its way below your monthly range and you can afford to fix a bathroom, a floor, a roof? but…sometimes the mortgage, interest, principle and taxes and insurance add up to make this home feel like a money pit!! if so…it may not be the place for you

HOME IS A PLACE TO FEEL COMFORT, PEACE, LOVE, AND ESCAPE FROM THE WORLD WITH THE ONES YOU LOVE..even if its just you! Make it that way with the proper guidance in all arenas of the process! A buyers realtor that educates, makes you think of the why?, does NOT make you buy quickly or remind you the rates are going to go up! A mortgage company or bank that really cares; one that will put you in a loan meant for you! Fixed rate, no prepayment penalties, balloon payment, good rate! MY ADVICE on rates: the rates are at an all time low..fix it. We don’t know what the rate will be in two years why ARM? (arm: Adjustable Rate Mortgage), I also recommend someone that you can walk in and see!

Home Inspector: someone that is very knowledgeable about homes and the care they need, want and the way to fix and maintain things! Why? every home..(almost) has something…the question is…what is the something…and how can you fix it, have it maintained…and YES, keeping up on maintenance and cleaning is the ONLY way to keep your house in good condition! just like..shower, shit and shave! Clean, rid it of dust, dirt, repair and shave..Umm..scrape and paint!! anyway you get it!!

GOOD TEAM, GOOD THINKING PROCESS, EDUCATED DECISIONs, pros and cons on a home you would feel at HOME at and with! and security! Its a dream that happens everyday! Buy a home..not a problem..buy a home, not an investment! (unless your an investor!!, but even then think of what the buyers want!!, need “what would you buy?”)

Making your dreams come troup for over 7 years!! and counting!

Halifax is the subject of this Boston.Com Article

Posted on March 15, 2011 by admin

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along with our favorite Barbers! John The Barber and Son!

The town of tenacious roots

John Shea (right), barbering with son Darren, says Halifax “very seldom” gets newcomers. (Debee Tlumacki for The Boston Globe)

HALIFAX — Susan Basile, 66, has lived her whole life in this small South Shore town, like her father before her, and his before that. And so on.

“We go back a long way,’’ she said. “All right here.’’

In this close-knit commuter town, where most everyone knows everyone else, here is where most everyone is from.

Being “from here’’ was once a well-worn truism in New England, where people and families famously stayed in one place. But in an age of surging mobility, where bouncing from job to job and place to place is the new norm, this town and its neighbors stand out as an island of the old way, with outsiders few and far between.

Some 88 percent of Halifax’s 8,000 residents, or 22 out of every 25, were born in Massachu setts, according to new census estimates, the highest of any Massachusetts community larger than 1,500 people. And most of those in Halifax, people here say, have lived much of their lives in this town or right nearby.

“Everyone I know who was born here stayed here,’’ said Paul Blette, 68. “There was no need to move.’’

At the diner, old-timers reminisce about their high school days, about growing up and settling down, about the hulking Walmart across the street, and how everyone used to get along fine without it. A pair of wiry young men, Patriots hoodies spackled with paint and plaster, grab coffee for the road. They’ve known each other for 20 years, ever since first grade.

It is a striking phenomenon in the swath of suburbs between Route 24 and Route 3, where well over 80 percent of residents of East Bridgewater, Hanson, Abington, Pembroke, and Whitman were born in the state — compared with 64 percent of all Massachusetts residents.

“It’s true; you don’t run across too many people from Iowa or Ohio here,’’ quipped Michael Manoogian, the police chief in Halifax. Manoogian was quick to point out that he grew up in neighboring Plympton and only recently moved to Halifax. In 1978.

“If your great-great-grandfather wasn’t from here, you’re not really from here,’’ he said with a half-smile. “But everyone’s welcome.’’

John Shea, 66, who runs a barber shop with his son in Halifax, said the town and its neighbors were the last stop for many Irish and Italian immigrants who migrated, generation by generation, to towns south of Boston.

“Very seldom do you see someone move here from the North Shore,’’ he mused.

Shea’s three children all live nearby, with one son buying his grandfather’s house in town.

“They’ll all be happy here,’’ he said.

Some who moved away eventually came back, drawn by family and fond memories. It was a nice place to grow up, they said, and to raise a family.

Not too far from Boston, but not too close, either. Even those who move away for years still think of Halifax as home.

“We always wanted to move back,’’ said Patty Forsstrom, a 51-year-old who lived in North Carolina for 16 years before she and her husband moved back to care for his mother. “We loved it down there, but this is where we grew up.’’

The pull of family, locals say, accounts for much of the town’s high quotient of the Massachusetts-born. The older generations, raised in a time when people seldom strayed far from their hometown, stayed put, and their children often came back to be near them as they aged. Once back, many decided they were staying put, drawn by solid schools and affordable homes with big yards and broad driveways.

“And the small-town feel, I think,’’ Forsstrom added.

At the same time, a small, out-of-the-way town isn’t exactly a magnet for newcomers to the Boston area, and even the outsiders are from other South Shore towns.

“A lot of people from Whitman moved here over the years,’’ Blette offered by way of explanation.

On the opposite end of the Massachusetts-born spectrum is a mix of cities with sizable immigrant populations (Boston, Somerville, and Lawrence) and wealthy suburbs that draw successful professionals (Newton, Wellesley, Cambridge, and Brookline). Lowest of all is Seekonk, a town of 13,000 that hugs the Rhode Island border, where only 20 percent of residents are born in Massachusetts.

The figures are estimates from the US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, conducted from 2005 through 2009 and released in December. The data allow town-by-town comparisons for the first time in a decade.

Although not surprised that Halifax boasted such a heavy in-state contingent, locals were divided over whether that gave the town a distinctive character or disposition. Sure, the town has its Dunkin’ Donuts and Tedeschi’s, its sub shops and package stores. There are relatively few jobs in town, so most people commute. Bars always have the Red Sox on, and people love their Keno.

But that’s the same in plenty of towns, people said. What sets Halifax apart is a core of families who have called the South Shore home for generations, and a pervasive belief that there is little reason to leave.

“A lot of people have lived here a long time,’’ said Blette, a retired carpenter who raised his family here. “I never really put two and two together, but everyone I know is from here.’’

For newcomers, that insularity can be daunting. Christine Carrico, a mother of two who moved to town about a year ago from Plymouth and now works as a waitress at the diner, said she felt a bit like an in-law at a family reunion.

“It took awhile, getting used to things,’’ she said. “Everybody knows everybody.’’

No one in town is expecting an influx from other parts of the country anytime soon, and interviews with about two dozen residents turned up only Massachusetts natives, usually born and raised within a 25-mile radius. But locals say newcomers are more than welcome.

“I guess it would be OK,’’ said Jean MacDonald, a Halifax resident who could not recall meeting a single neighbor who was not from the area. “I’ll just have to check them out first.’’

Barbara Gaynor, who in 2009 became the town clerk after working at the elementary school for years, records births to parents who were students there in the early 1990s. They may have gone away for a while, she said, but they’re back now.

In her time as clerk, she has never come across anyone from out of state, and rarely from beyond the South Shore.

“We might get some people from Plymouth,’’ she said with a chuckle.

Matthew Carroll can be reached at mcarroll@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter at @globemattc. Peter Schworm can be reached at schworm@globe.com.