Columbus Ohio real estate

Central Ohio home sales August 2010

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:47:51 -0400

Central Ohio home sales August 2010 brought to you by Maureen McCabe

This graph shows homes for sale and homes sold for the entire Columbus Board of REALTOR® MLS for the past 15 months. It's only single family residences.

August Central Ohio home sales down 23.1% from August 2009 (dark green bar)

August Central Ohio homes for sale up 17.9% from August 2009 (light green bar)

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Central Ohio home sales market report for August 2010

13726 homes for sale
1338 homes sold
10.3 months of inventory based on current sales (that's a buyers market)

Average active price $218,000
Average sale price $177,00
Median sale price $145,000

Central Ohio home sales August 2010

Stay tuned to DiscoverColumbusOH.com Columbus real estate and WorthingtonOldandNews.com - Worthington real estate for real estate market news about communities such as Clintonville, Dublin, the Olentangy Local School District, Westerville, Worthington and others.

Published September 2010 based on data available from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® at the end of August 2010. Trendgraphix reports presented are based on data supplied by the Columbus Board of Realtors. According to Trendgraphix neither CBR nor their MLS (multiple listing service ) guarantee or are in anyway responsible for it's accuracy. "Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed." There is no guarantee from me either!

If you use the Central Ohio homes for sale link you will search the online inventory of Central Ohio homes on the Real Living HER site. You will be offered the opportunity to receive listings directly from the Columbus Board of Realtors MLS (multiple listing service) in real time. You can know the true status of those properties you are interested in.

Central Ohio home sales

Is Columbus a buyers market? July 2010

The Columbus Board of REALTORS® announces... July home sales the official results

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This post was written by Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER

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All information is deemed to be accurate but should be verified to your satisfaction. The information provided herein is supplied by several sources and is subject to change without notice. Opinions expressed are solely those of Maureen McCabe.

Homes for sale in the Bluffsview Elementary School area - Open Sunday

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:56:19 -0400

Worthington's Bluffsview Elementary School area - Open Houses this Sunday 2 to 4 include:

1344 Snowmass Rd. Columbus OH 43235 The Worthingview neighborhood

810 Bluffview Dr. Columbus OH 43235 The Bluffs neighborhood

The address links above have photos and so much more for the homes for sale in the Worthington's Bluffsview Elementary School's attendance area*.

Open Sunday September 12, 2010 for Real Living HER's third Second Sunday. Doesn't third Second make you think about Fifth Third Bank. Remember when they hit our market? How odd that sounded?

Bluffsview Elementary School area neighborhoods

*When considering a home or neighborhood always check the school districts current attendence area for high school, middle or elementary school, in this case Worthingtons site has maps and a street guide. The attendence area can change from year to year, within the schoo district. Worthingview and The Bluffs are very close to Bluffsview Elementary School.

Bluffsview Elementary School area neighborhood - Columbus Ohio 43235

Worthington's Bluffsview Elementary School is "Excellent With Distinction"

Columbus Ohio 43235 homes for sale

Central Ohio open houses are not for lazy agents

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Columbus Ohio 43235 homes for sale

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:27:50 -0400

Columbus Ohio 43235 homes for sale are in one of three Central Ohio school districts, Columbus, Dublin or Worthington. A ZIP code is just a mail route, not an area. The Columbus Ohio 43235 mail route includes area in the City of Columbus and unincorporated area (neighborhoods in townships) Ohio school district boundaries pre-existed the development of much of this northwest part of Franklin County. The orange in the postage stamp kinda shows how the West Worthington 43235 ZIP code wraps around the Worthington area, or the area that includes the city of Worthington. The Worthington Ohio, 43085 ZIP code includes neighborhoods in the city of Columbus and unincorporated areas as well.

Homes for sale in Columbus Ohio 43235 are search-able by school district using the Real Living HER home search. Search Columbus Ohio 43235 homes for sale

Columbus Ohio 43235 homes for sale in Columbus schools, are harder to map than the other two school districts. Indian Hills, Linworth Village, Sycamore Hills and The Gables are some of the neighborhoods in Columbus Ohio 43235 in the Columbus City School District.

Columbus Ohio 43235 homes for sale in Dublin school neighborhoods include Brookside Colony, Brookside Woods (some of the neighborhood is Worthington schools), Misty Meadows, Oakridge Meadows, Summerwood (some in Worthington schools too), Whispering Pines and others. Some of the little houses presently showing on this map are in Worthington schools rather than Dublin.... the boundary meanders across a few neighborhoods between Sawmill Road and Smokey Row Rd., sometimes through neighborhoods.

Columbus Ohio 43235 homes for sale in Worthington school neighborhoods include Brooskide Village, Brookside Woods (part is in Dublin schools), Christopher Woods, Village at Worthington. Stilson Highlands, Summerwood (some of Summerwood is Dublin schools too! Summerwood feels more like two separate neighborhoods with the same name than others) Worthington Hills, Worthingview and more.

If you search using the Columbus Ohio 43235 link above using the Real Living HER search, you will be offered the opportunity to receive new and updated listings directly from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® in real time.

More about Columbus Ohio 43235

Columbus Ohio 43235

Columbus Ohio 43235 is #14

Columbus Win-Win Agreement

Worthington schools are not included

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Graceland Shopping Center

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:35:46 -0400

Graceland Shopping Center today...

Today at Graceland Shopping Center there is a

Kroger Marketplace
Target
Two fitness centers
Qdoba
Applebees
Sears Appliance & Hardware
OfficeMax

and way, way more...

A home owner near Graceland Shopping Center said of the shopping area earlier this decade:

"Graceland Shopping Center had an 80% vacancy rate and was in disrepair. There was no Target, or Kroger, or other shopping facilities, but only empty eyesore buildings."

I believe that the home owner was referring to 2001 or 2002.

In the 70s or 80's HER Realtors (now Real Living HER... brokerage I am affiliated with) had a Graceland office! In the shopping center? Or just nearby? I suppose I could ask, at least one of the agents in my office started out in the HER Realtors, Graceland office .

There was a movie theater at Graceland!

I remember discovering Graceland in the early 1990s. I worked in Worthington... lived west of the Olentangy River but I loved the J.C. Penny furniture store that was at Graceland. There was a large sporting goods store? Jack's Pets and Aquarium??

In the beginning Graceland Shopping Center

I love Don O'Brien's pictures from the year before was built. George Campbell's site has some great photos of Graceland over the years!

Nearby residential neighborhoods include Beechwold, Chaseland, Delawanda Park, Old Beechwold, Sharon Heights, Tremont Gardens, Zooland and more... I have friends in Worthington who shop at the Graceland Kroger rather than the Worthington Mall Kroger (the Worthington Mall store is a very nice store, recently remodeled.)

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Real Living HER Open House List - Labor Day weekend 2010

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:45:58 -0400

Real Living HER Open House List for Labor Day weekend 2010

There are not a lot of open houses this weekend. It is a holiday weekend! Happy Labor Day. There are some open houses in town this weekend... My coworker and friend Loretta Strang is holding her great Worthington ranch listing open... need your Worthington, Sunday, open house fix? Or need a one story in Worthignton, Kilbourne Village has a good walk score... Visit Loretta. Tell her "Maureen sent me"*

I held an open house 4th of July weekend this year... I had traffic.

In Central Ohio Open Houses are not for lazy agents I wrote:

"Central Ohio has something that other parts of the country do not actually have. A brokerage that has elevated the Open House via their website. The Real Living HER Open House List is the best there is in Central Ohio... but maybe I am biased. "

The Real Living HER Open House List

You have an opportunity to see what will be open in the future on the Real Living HER (formerly HER Realtors) site. You can do more than just see a list of homes or an Open House banner on the homes that are open on the Real Living HER Open House list. You can see the list by area, only looking in Worthington? Only look at the homes in Worthington..

You can tour most homes on the Real Living HER Open House list with a number of photos, a home tour, a community video in some cases, mortgage information, a map.

Some Real Living HER listings on the open house list have more information for consumers including:

Floor plans

Videos

Next weekends Real Living HER Open Houses!

Quoting myself again...

"There will NOT be a lot of Real Living HER Open Houses this weekend. Have a great Labor Day weekend. Next weekend is the Real Living's third Second Sunday Open House... there will be lots of Open Houses in Central Ohio open house country.

Is your Central Ohio neighborhood in open house country?"

Columbus home SALE prices are up

The Columbus Board of REALTORS® announces...

What does "Maureen sent me" mean?

Nothing, nada, zilch....

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Delawanda Park homes for sale Columbus OH 43214

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:55:43 -0400

Delawanda Park homes for sale Columbus OH 43214

Delawanda Park is a neighborhood in north Columbus, it is south of the Worthington city line and north of Morse Road. It is nestled in between Old Beechwold and Graceland Shopping Center.

Delawanda Park is also a City of Columbus Park along the Olentangy River... Delawanda Park is also known as Kenney Park.

Zillow and Trulia call the area north of Morse Road and south of the Worthington city limits, Sharon Heights. In Sharon Heights are smaller neighborhoods like Delawanda Park, Tremont Gardens (in Sharon Township NOT the city of Columbus), the real Sharon Heights... and more.

A map for Delawanda Park homes for sale in RealBird (Google Base) TODAY shows the one house in the Columbus Board of REALTOR® MLS currently listed with Delawanda Park as the subdivision... my listing. The search is for homes priced $80,000 to $130,000, homes priced above would not show on the map. There are homes priced above $130,000 in the Sharon Heights area. The map shows listings in Tremont Gardens, Beechwold... RealBird is my new toy, I have had the free version for awhile. I just upgraded.

Delawanda Park homes for sale Columbus Ohio 43214

More about Delawanda Park, the neighborhood

Delawanda Park the neighbors....

Clintonville conspiracy theory... Realtors changing borders

Clintonville area ... Zillow calls it Sharon Heights

Indian Springs Elementary School earns "Excellent with Distinction" - Indian Springs School is the elementary school for the streets in the Delawanda Park subdivision. It is not the elementary school for all homes on the map.

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It's Furnace Filter Friday...

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:56:07 -0400

Change your furnace filter... it is the first Friday of the month.

Last month I declared the first Friday of every month Furnace Filter Friday when I Re-Blogged Jay Markanich a Virginia home inspector's post:

Replace Your Air Filter Regularly! OR The Mystery Of the Rotting Door Trim

Furnace Filters

We primarily have gas forced air furnaces in Central Ohio. Very little oil... no coal? I seldom see radiators, hot water heat is uncommon. It surprises me reading posts about furnaces across the US, how common oil heat is in some areas.

We do have electric furnaces in a few Central Ohio neighborhoods, rural areas, homes built in the 1970's. Even in neighborhoods built in the 1970s there are usually homes where the furnace has been replaced with a gas furnace. Most people find gas heat warmer than electric heat... I believe.

Winter will be here before we know it... brrr I hate to think about it. The high yesterday was 94°... tomorrow's forecast?

Five posts about furnaces this Furnace Filter Friday:

#1 From Omaha Nebraska, home inspector, Greg Wayman, shared Home Inspection - Furnace Red Flags Yea, yea, yea his title was Omaha Home Inspection - Furnace Red Flags... most of it probably applies to Ohio furnaces. Written for home buyers? Home owners might see something there that could help them too. Red flags...

#2 and #3 From Minnesota where "all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average" and the winters are darn cold, Reuben Saltzman wrote two posts I want to share with you:

Are High Efficiency Furnaces worth it?

Gravity Furnace? get a new one

I have not seen a gravity furnace in awhile in Central Ohio. The big octopus in the basement? I had a listing with one early this decade. They are there lurking in basements in older neighborhoods in Central Ohio. Perhaps with tax incentives home owners have recently replace them.

#4 is a furnace post from a real esate agent!?! Lyn Sims Chicago's Northwest Suburbs shared this with her readers: Winter and Summer Furnace Settings

#5 And finally, If the furnace can’t vent----I will from Charles Buell, Seattle, a Washington home inspector. Those stickers on the furnace showing it's been serviced?

The furnace image is from Reuben Saltzman's post on high efficiency furnaces. I believe that is Reuben's old furnace. It looked pretty good if you ask me... but that's why you need a home inspector when buying a home. *'the women are strong, men are good looking' is Lake Wobegon MN not Minneapolis MN... but the winters are still darn cold.

Remember change your furnace filter regularly!

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Central Ohio open houses are not for lazy agents

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:54:27 -0400

Central Ohio open houses are not for lazy agents. Real estate agents... open houses are a lot of work if done right. I doubt anyone "lazy" would do an open house, they are a lot of work.

Parts of Central Ohio are great for open houses, other parts? Not so much.

ActiveRain a national real estate network has been a hot bed of debate lately about whether open houses are good or bad. Whether open houses work or do not work. Whether agents who tell their sellers to have an open house as part of their marketing are lying to them. The lie? That the agent holding the open house will meet people at the open house and show them other homes, once they've determined the Open House is NOT what the buyer wants.

I think home owners are a lot smarter than that. At least in Central Ohio.

Are agents that don't hold open houses lazy? No. Open houses don't work everywhere. Rural areas? Not all parts of Central Ohio are good for open houses, so I would have to assume that agents in other markets know their market...

What I don't understand is why Revolting REALTORS®* want all agents to NOT hold open houses because open houses do not work in their market. Or in their marketing plan. Or their calendar.

Lowes via Rismedia and RealTown weigh in on the debate talking directly to consumers from sea to shining sea. The debate rages on... In Tips for a Successfule Real Estate Open House author Paige Tepping and Lowes say to home sellers:

"The Sunday real estate open house is a longstanding ritual in the real estate marketplace, and many homes have been sold on a lazy Sunday afternoon. When used properly, open houses can be a great marketing strategy. "

Central Ohio open houses are not for all neighborhoods

Clintonville is usually a great area for open houses. A coworker said she had 45 people at her open house last Sunday. She had an appointment to write an offer on the house with a couple who'd attended the open house Sunday.

Worthington is usually a great area for open houses... the older the better if you get my drift. OK I am saying an open house in Old Worthington is usually good. City of Worthington open houses are better than open house in homes in Worthington schools, in the City of Columbus or an unincorporated area.

Lewis Center... not so much... well I am writing this post about Franklin County so let's just ignore that county to the north for now. Not as good an area for an open house in my humble opinion. Given my druthers I will stay in Franklin County most Sunday afternoons. There are areas in Franklin County that are not as good for open houses than others. I would have said Minerva Park would not be a good area for open houses before 2006. I would have been wrong.

Sometimes the open houses in Clintonville or Old Worthington can be too busy. How can you talk to everyone? There are people who just want to look at decorating.

Central Ohio has something that other parts of the country do not actually have. A brokerage that has elevated the Open House via their website. The Real Living HER Open House List is the best there is in Central Ohio... but maybe I am biased.

The Real Living HER Open House List (the link is to the open house list on my site, MaureenMcCabe.com)

There will NOT be a lot of Real Living HER Open Houses this weekend. Have a great Labor Day weekend. Next weekend is the Real Living's third Second Sunday Open House... there will be lots of Open Houses in Central Ohio open house country.

Is your Central Ohio neighborhood in open house country?

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Columbus home SALE prices are up

The Columbus Board of REALTORS® announces...

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Central Ohio home sellers do the bed bugs convey?

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:15:10 -0400

Central Ohio home sellers do the bed bugs convey?

"Convey" means stay with the real estate. Fixtures are part of the property. Personal property sometimes conveys with the sale of real estate.

Bed Bugs are an issue in Central Ohio. Did you know there is a Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force? Made up of people from the bug industry.

This is the last of a four part series about bed bugs (or is it bedbugs?)

Central Ohio bed bugs... recommendations to REALTORS®

bed bug contingency....

Central Ohio WHO inspects for bed bugs

Bed Bugs are not a sign of poor housekeeping or being poor...look at the ZIP code map on the Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force site. Bed Bugs have been treated in some of Central Oho's finest ZIP codes.

Central Ohio home sellers do the bed bugs stay?

In writing a contract to purchase a home, the buyer tells the seller what stays and what goes. Or what they want. The fridge? The range? Window coverings? The bed bugs? Not so much.... Seller and buyer agree about what stays with the property, "conveys."

Would the sellers bed bugs remain with the real estate or would the seller take his bed bugs with him? I am certainly not talking a particular seller... this is "make believe seller"... with "make believe bed bugs" for illustration purpose only.

Central Ohio home sellers do the bed bugs convey?

The seller in most cases would be removing personal property from the home when it is sold. The book cases, TV's, couches, chairs, mattresses, headboards, etc. are moving with the seller to their new home. Anything living in the couches, chairs mattresses etc. would move with the sellers... in most cases what is living in the couches, chairs, mattresses would be dust mites. As unatttractive as those dust mites might be... dust mites are pretty routine... I believe. I am not an entymologist and don't play one on TV or on this blog.... not playing attorney here either... just an itchy blogger... from my understanding dust mites are an organism... much smaller than a cat or a dog... smaller even than a bed bug or a flea... but there is not yet Central Ohio Dust Mite Task Force... the seller is taking his dust mites with anyway... they are in the furniture.

The sellers bed bugs? You might assume any seller would be packing up any bed bugs onto the moving truck too. The bed bugs do NOT convey with the real estate. The buyer does not want the bed bugs to stay.

The bed in bed bugs?

"Though bedbugs are frequently found in mattress seams, they’ll also hide behind draperies, headboards, hanging pictures and dressers as well as in living-room chairs and cracks and crevices in any room, Jones said. “It’s really a misnomer to call them bedbugs.” the quote is from a Columbus Dispatch article by Kathy Lynn Gray titled:

Could some bed bugs stay? Yes.

Central Ohio home sellers disclosure?

It is important that couches, chairs and mattresses be removed from a property when it is sold. Not that the couches, chairs and mattresses have bed bugs... but the purchase contract does have a clause that the sellers personal property has been removed.

Removing all window coverings could become more common in the future. Not that they have bed bugs if the house does not but just to be sure... Window covering are personal property... the rods and attached hardware stay...

If a seller had bed bugs and knew they had bed bugs I would think they would have to disclose that to a buyer. Wouldn't you? There is a residential property disclosure in Ohio.

Personally I think the single family home is the perfect offense (offense as in football... offensive rather than defensive) move against bed bugs. I am no bed bug expert but I believe bedbugs are more common in apartment living...

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Columbus home sale prices are up....

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:30:15 -0400

Columbus home sale prices are up...

OK I really am only looking at a micro area... in July 2010 Columbus Ohio 43214 average home sale price was up 16.4% from July 2009. That graph is for a slice of Columbus north of North Broadway up to the Worthington city line. The Colmbus Ohio 43214 ZIP code includes neighborhoods like Beechwold, Old Beechwold, Sharon Heights, Tremont Gardens, Chaseland, Delawanda Park, parts of Clintonville and more. Yet a pretty small area when you come right down to it.

Columbus Ohio 43214 home sale prices are up

Real estate is really, really local.

The graph shows list and sale prices for single family homes in the Columbus Ohio 43214 ZIP code for the past 15 months, home prices were up 16.4% from July 2009.

Columbus Ohio home sale prices are...

Macro? Homes in the City of Columbus School District? ooooh ick prices down 19.5%.

Macro er... a bigger area the entire area served by the Columbus Board of REALTORS® MLS sale prices of single family homes were up .6%

"All counties 0.6%" remember this is single family homes only, not all residential.

I believe all homes in the Columbus Ohio 43214 ZIP code are in the Columbus City School District. Best to check for each address what school district the home is in.

Closings in July 2010 were homes sold during the tax credits? Since the tax credits? A mixed bag? August will be interesting. September even more so.

Columbus homes for sale - SEARCH

Columbus home sale prices are up or down.... it kinda depends

By ZIP code change from July 2009:

Columbus Ohio 43054 average home sales price was down 1.9%
Columbus Ohio 43085 average home sales price was up 4.8%
Columbus Ohio 43202 average home sales price was up 1.2%
Columbus Ohio 43214 average home sales pirce was up 16.4%
Columbus Ohio 43220 average home sales price was up 1.2%
Columbus Ohio 43221 average home sales price was up 18.5%
Columbus Ohio 43229 average home sales price was down 2%
Columbus Ohio 43230 average home sales price was down 12.3%
Columbus Ohio 43235 average home sales price was up 4.6%

ZIP codes are just mailing routes.

By school district change from July 2009:

Columbus schools average home sales price down 19.5%
Dublin schools average home sales price up 11.1%
Gahanna Jefferson schools average home sales price up .5%
Grandview Heights schools average home sales price up 52.6%
Hilliard schools up 14.1%
Plain Local schools up 10.4%
Upper Arlington schools up 26.5%
Westerville schools down 10.9%
Worthington schools up 4.3%

Above are all single family home prices.

The moral of this story? If there is a moral to this story... I supppose it is that it's tough to buy a house if you don't know the market.

Back to Columbus Ohio 43214 home sale prices ...in July 2010

Average active price $221,000
Average sale price $220,000
Median sale price $195,000

This post brought to you by a home in the Delawanda Park neighborhood in the Columbus Ohio 43214 ZIP code priced at $114,987, 301 Girard Rd. Columbus Ohio 43214

Columbus Ohio 43214 homes for sale

Columbus Ohio 43214 demographics

Published based on data available from the Columbus Board of REALTORS® at the end of July 2010. Trendgraphix reports presented are based on data supplied by the Columbus Board of Realtors. According to Trendgraphix neither CBR nor their MLS (multiple listing service ) guarantee or are in anyway responsible for it's accuracy. "Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed." Therefor there is no guarantee from me either.

If you use the Columbus Ohio 43214 homes for sale link you will search the online inventory of Central Ohio homes on the Real Living HER site. You will be offered the opportunity to receive listings directly from the Columbus Board of Realtors MLS (multiple listing service) in real time. You are able to know the true status of those properties you are interested in.

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Past Is Prologue

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:44:29 -0400

A six year old home... Past is Prologue

Before you jump to any conclusions about who the Central Ohio builder is .... who did a bad job in installing the trim on this 6 year old home realize these home inspector photos are from out of state.

This is not a Central Ohio home. It could be.

Past is Prologue is a Re-Blog of a post from Jay Markanich in Virginia.

Jay inspected this home when the present owners bought it four years ago. Jay writes: "This was something my client was told four years ago that he needed to handle immediately."

If you bought a house in Central Ohio in the last year or four or five and the inspector told you to take care of some things... did you? Dig out the report now... Past is Prologue...

Via Jay Markanich (Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC):

An interesting email came the other day. It was from a former client, for whom I had done an inspection four years ago. His house at that time was only two years old. All the window trim on the house was beginning to rot.

My comment at that time was that this was a lot of rot developing in only two years, and that it would get worse. I also suggested that since it was on nearly window that the problem was likely due to improper installation. At that time I was unable to see what could have caused it, but thought it to be the usual suspects. On my way home the next day this house was along the way, so I stopped by to have a peek.

I could have posted many more photos. So, what are the common characteristics?

1. Caulking is not meant to be wider than about 1/4". This is much wider than that!

2. Interior nails (or brads) were used. As they rust, they rot the wood with them!

3. The wood was not primed. Even if it was primed on the outside facing the weather, and I could see on some peeling windows that it was not, wood has 6 sides! All 6 sides need to be primed PRIOR to installation or it will not last.

4. The trim was just jammed into place, with large gaps. The miters and joints are not tight and merely filled with caulking.

ANYTHING NEW HERE? No, not at all. I see this every day. It is 7-11 construction at its worst (or best, depending on your angle...). It is a slap-up job by inexperienced people, working with little oversight.

Here's the big issue! ALL of the houses nearby are experiencing the exact same problem. I had noticed that 4 years ago, but the other houses weren't my focus then. Now we have a demonstrable pattern throughout the neighborhood.

The pattern, in my opinion? Improper product, improper installation. Of course, if contacted, the builder would claim lax homeowner maintenance.

But everyone has let this go and now the rot is migrating into the framing structure around the windows. This was something my client was told four years ago that he needed to handle immediately. It has been let go. By everyone. Now it has gotten dramatically worse.

I don't know where it will go from here. But I would recommend replacing the wood!

My recommendation: Sometimes home inspectors will point out conditions and suggest repairs that prevent future, more difficult, repairs. It is best to pay attention...

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Indian Springs Elementary School earns "Excellent with Distinction"

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:10:24 -0400

Indian Springs Elementary School received a designation of "Excellent with Distinction" from the State of Ohio Department of Education for the 2009- 2010 school year.

Is "Excellent with Distinction" an A+ ? It is the highest designation. The six designations for schools in Ohio:

• Excellent with Distinction
• Excellent
• Effective
• Continuous Improvement
• Academic Watch
• Academic Emergency

The elementary school in the Columbus City School District is located at 50 E. Henderson Rd. Columbus Ohio 43214. Map

Neighborhoods that attend Indian Springs Elementary School include: *Beechwold, Delawanda Park, Indian Springs, Old Beechwold and Tremont Gardens. Indian Springs Elementary School attendance area

This post brought to you by 301 Girard Rd, Columbus OH 43214, a listing in the Delawanda Park neighborhood and the Indian Springs Elementary School attendance area. The link above provide current information on that listing.

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The skinny on Columbus Ohio 43202

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:23:38 -0400

The skinny on Columbus Ohio 43202... the Zip Skinny...

43202 is the ZIP code for Clintonville... kinda.

North Broadway is in 43214? I had a faux pas a few weeks ago...I thought surely North Broadway had to be in 43202. It seems the next road south is 43202.

Clintonville, Crestview, Glenola Heights, Indianola Highlands, Indianola Terrrace, Old North Columbus, University City, University District, Wallhalla Park Place and Walhalla Ravine are some of the North Columbus neighborhoods in the Columbus OHio 43202 ZIP code.

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Without further ado there is some info about the demographics in the Columbus Ohio 43202 ZIP code from Zip Skinny:

Market Research and Demographic Information (education, marital status, median income, occupation, age) for ZIP Code 43202 in COLUMBUS, OH

All will be updated soon of course, this is 2000 census data. And remember a ZIP code is just a mail route, not an area.... really. Click on the widget to go to the Zip Skinny site.

Columbus Ohio 43214 - The skinny on the ZIP code north of the 43202 ZIP code, the Clintonville ZIP code... part of Clintonville is in the 43214 ZIP code too.

Columbus Ohio 43202 home prices

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How to make your home look larger - from the ground up

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 07:59:27 -0400

More flooring information from Debbie Gartner who works in New York I have Re-Blogged Debbie's flooring posts for Central Ohio consumers before, look for posts about bamboo, laminate and wood floors.

Thanks to Debbie for allowing her flooring information to be Re-Blogged.

Via Debbie Gartner - Floor Coverings International (Floor Coverings International):

Here are some tips to make your home look larger - from the perspective of your floor.

1. Use same flooring material and color across rooms. Whenever possible, continue that same surface across rooms. Here in the northeast and mid-Atlantic, hardwood is the preferred surface, and this by the way is one of the reasons we are seeing the trend to add hardwood to the kitchen - by continuing the same surface, you connect the space and it just looks larger. But, whatever the surface, try to be consistent wherever possible.

2. Use lighter colors. Lighter makes the space look larger. Same goes for walls.

3. Use wider planks. Wider makes the space look larger. Same goes for tile - larger tiles make the space look larger. (BTW, parquet hardwood makes the space look smaller, so stay away from this and stay away from small tiles)

4. Lay your floor on a diagonal. Regardless of whether you have tile or hardwood, this will make your space look larger as it carries your eye along the longest length (remember trigonometry - the hypotenuse is the longest side of the triangle). It will also make your space look more visually intriguing. Note: if your room or space is very rectangular, sometimes a straight lay across the longest length is a better option, but usually diagonal is a much better choice.

5. Declutter. The more you can see the floor and walls and space, the cleaner, neater and larger you space will look. Consider throwing away some of the knickknacks and maybe even getting rid of a piece of furniture. Won't cost you anything. Maybe give to your kids if they are in college or donate or sell on ebay.

Those are my thoughts for the day.

Oh, and below is example of some Brazilian Walnut on a diagonal. Not my first choice for area rug and in fact area rug is a bit too large for the space.

Debbie Gartner, Floor Coverings International in Westchester/Western Fairfield

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Real Living HER Open House List Aug. 29, 2010

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:35:41 -0400

There are 166 Real Living HER Open Houses on the list this week.* The list is the Real Living HER Open House List.

A little less than the last few Sundays... Central Ohio kids are back to school. Or most... seems like one Delaware County School went back late...

Last Sunday "there are 208 homes on the list NOW"

August 15, 2010 "The Real Living HER Open House list says there are 203 properties on the list this week."

Next weekend is Labor Day so there will probably be less open houses on the Real Living HER Open House List than usual.

Is Columbus a buyers market? It is a good time as a buyer to look at homes. It's a buyers market in most Central Ohio communities... not all.

The Real Living HER Open House List

The one and only Worthington home on the Real Living HER Open House List at this point is my listing at 1344 Snowmass Rd. Columbus OH 43235. That could change though... the Real Living HER Open House List is in real time. Someone could list something new and that could change. An agents Sunday plans could change and the number could go up. A house could sell before the scheduled Open House and the seller and agent could say "Hallelujah" and cancel the open house.

September 12, 2010 will be Real Living HER's third Second Sunday Open House... for some reason that reminds me of our Fifth Third Bank.

*The number of Real Living HER Open Houses is subject to change. The Real Living HER Open House List is not an archive. If you look at it always has the current open houses, rather than history. The list is in "real time."

The link to the Real Living HER Open House List (above) is to my website, MaureenMcCabe.com I am not hosting all the Real Living open houses, but it will say presented by Maureen McCabe on my website. The list provides you contact info for each Open House, if you need to contact the listing agent or host for that properties open house.

Just about every Real Living HER agent in Central Ohio should have the Real Living HER Open House List displayed on their website.

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