Columbus Ohio real estate

High Street in Old Worthington - Small Business Saturday 2011

Is there a more quaint shopping area in Central Ohio than Downtown Worthington? 

Shops in Old Worthington include

• Peacock Lane  NEW
• Blue Frost Cupcake NEW
• Toyville NEW
• Worthington Jewelers NEWLY REMODELED and EXPANDED
  
• Fritzy Jacobs
• The Wine House
• Pure Cottage
• The Wren House
• Jeune Marie
• Denig Jeweler
• Damsels in this Dress

What have I missed? 

Welcome to Real Living HER, 681 High Street,  Worthington Ohio on Small Business Saturday

Visit Real Living HER, your Worthington neighborhood real estate office at 681 High St. Worthington, Ohio 43085 on Saturday.  We will have a limited supply of HER Cookbooks available on Saturday from 12:00 to 3:00 at the Worthington HER office compliments of Maureen McCabe.  

Real Living HER has been the number one real estate company in Central Ohio for decades.  Locally owned the company formerly known as HER Realtors has been in Ohio since the 1950s, the first office was Upper Arlington. The  Worthington office opened in the 1970s.   The Worthington office recently moved to Downtown Worthington, Old Worthington, stop by to see us Saturday.  

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The Real Living HER Lewis Center office opened yesterday.

The new office is located at 8591 Owenfield Drive.  It faces Columbus Pike (Route 23.)  The signs just went up late last week.

Real Living HER -   Lewis Center office opening  May 9, 2011 has a map showing the location

Lewis Center office - Real Living HER

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The Real Living HER Open House List for April 3, 2011 on my website site... says there are 63 open houses today... or were.  The number can change... the Real Living HER Open House is in real time... no lag.  New listings can be added in seconds.

Search by city and state or by zip code. Search for the number of bedrooms or baths you want or don't.  If you are looking for open houses be sure and check "Open Houses" as I have on the sample.

Looking for something in the Worthington area?

Worthingview Open House $195,000

1344 Snowmass Rd. Columbus, Ohio 43235*

• 4 bedroom
• 2 1/2 baths
• Traditional floor plan
• Gas heat and backup heat pump
• Gas logs in the fireplace
• Fenced yard
• Screened porch
• Worthington schools

Real Living HER Open House List

Looking only for homes in Dublin, Powell, Lewis Center, Worthington or another Central Ohio community?  Looking for homes in a particular school district?  You can search by community, by school.  Search for single family homes or condominiums.  Search homes open Sunday by price, square footage or using other criteria.

You can see a map and a list of open houses online.  You can look at photos of the home, read about the home.  Find out about the neighborhood.

The Real Living HER Open House List

Open house is a great way for a buyer to see IRL (in real life)  the homes they admire online.  Real Living HER has always had the best open house list in Central Ohio.  Looking at an old post about the Real Living HER Open House List last August there were  243 open houses on one Sunday?  That's a lot of opportunities for home buyers to see homes, meet agents.  

Is an open house a good place for buyers?  It depends. 

Is an open house a good thing for a seller?  Many real estate agents will not do open houses.

Revolting Realtors 

Central Ohio Open Houses are not for Lazy Agents

It is the sellers choice whether their property is marketed using open houses.

If your house is open prepare it.  Lock up valuables and drugs.  Put out extra rugs and runners if the weather requires it.  Make the home shine.  Buyers (and some other people who are not really buyers) are going to see  the house up close and personal. 

Columbus Ohio real estate - The  Real Living HER Open House List is a good place for a home to be seen.

* Links to my website (listing on my site) were redirecting to a Real Living HER page which redirected to a Real Living search so I broke the link.  The listing is sold and closed.

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Curbside Info from Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER

Curbside Info -Columbus Ohio real estate information

Surf the Columbus Board of REALTORS MLS on your phone.  Your phone doesn't have to even be that smart... you do not have to worry about typing in URLs or using your phones camera to read QR codes.

A press release from Real Living HER describes Curbside Info:

" Curbside Info uses advanced technology to create audio listing tours that are available to consumers from any phone. Consumers dial the one phone number for their market, enter the house number, and Curbside Info will present the listing details to them right over the phone. Further, consumers have opportunities to learn about price, monthly payments through a mortgage calculator and even get connected to associates when the consumer is ready."

The HER Realtors / Real Living HER timeline

• The birth of the Harley E. Rouda Co. - 1956
• Home Photo Gallery established
• The printed 'Home Photo Gallery'
• The color  ' Home Photo Gallery'
• HER Education Institute established (foundation of today's Real Living University)
• Franchising introduced
• The Super House Auction
• Mortgage services introduced 
• Herley the Bear was born
• HER hotline introduced 
• Title services introduced
• The first company intranet (?) or Internet
  
• The birth of the Real Living brand and move to downtown Columbus  February 2002
• Curbside Info - March 1, 2011

Yes the old  HER Realtors Hotline is there!  The HER Realtors Home Page is from 1995 and I believe the time frame on the Hotline was the 80s or 90s but look at that phone.  Couldn't that phone be from the 1960s? Perhaps 1956 even?

Curbside Info was intoduced to Central Ohio earlier this month!

I retrieved the old HER Realtors Home Page from the Wayback Machine, an archive of old websites.

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Groundhog Day 2011

Happy Groundhogs Day... Buckeye Chuck did not see his shadow.  He is forecasting an early Spring.*

Do you believe in Groundhogs ability to forecast weather?  Buckeye Chuck (link is to Discover Columbus Ohio on Facebook since the real Discover Columbus OHio site seems to be inaccessible now.)

The image is an eCard from Real Living, Inc.  The old Real Living, Inc. before the big merger in 2010.  This card is from 2007, the old  Real Living that loved to mix red and orange and would not be caught dead with a trite eCard with a house key.  Some agents embraced the traditional images... and trite symobolism like handshakes and house keys.  A Groundhog against Pepto Bismal Pink horizontal stripes for a company whose colors were red and white. That groundhog looks angry...  being woken up can do that. 

Groundhog Day 2011 the start of the selling season?

My old Company website was butt ugly. My new Real Living HER website  Maureen McCabe Real Living HER(formerly HER Realtors)  is a work in progress one step forward two steps back....

Today with a huge winter storm the official, Groundhog Day 2011, Buckeye Chuck festivities started inside but at 7:41 Buckeye Chuck predicted an early spring in 2011. 

* P. Phil in PA predicted an early spring too.   

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Try this link:

Real Living HER Open House List Sunday January 23, 2011

I see 49 Open Houses now... that could change before this afternoon, go up or down.

Earlier this week I had a link that worked, then it was not working.  Yesterday I tried again....it is working but just in case.

Directions if the link does not show you the open house list I created on my website

Real Living HER Open House List for Sunday January 23, 2011

There is a field to search for open houses by date.  It is shown here to the right with a star. 

Home search on my new website Maureen McCabe

You can search by school district, neighborhood, zip code. 

You can search just those homes which are open today.

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HomeGard FREE HVAC maintenance service

HomeGard is the Real Living HER home warranty. "Claim - No - Claim" is a relatively new feature of that home warranty program... HomeGard is available to buyers (and sellers) of real estate in Central Ohio.  Up to $100.00 of free home heating or air conditioning maintenance service if you have not made a claim in the first nine months.

Today is Friday... It is hard to believe it is Friday already, but with last Friday was Christmas Eve... and every Friday is Furnace Friday on this site.  The first Friday of the month is Furnace Filter Friday.  Are you with us?  Remember to pick up a filter for your furnace if you don't have one for Friday January 7, 2011.  I try to find something from a home inspector about furnaces most Fridays.

The "Claim - No - Claim"  benefit was introduced in the past year on the Real Living HomeGard Warranty

"There is a new feature in the  Real Living HomeGard Warranty for home buyers called  "Claim - No - Claim"  if the buyer  has not placed a claim in the first nine months of the first year coverage they are entitled to heating or air conditioning maintenance service.  Up to $100.00.

Not a bad feature...

"Even if nothing breaks, this warranty pays up to $100 toward an HVAC maintenance service."

Real Living HER formerly known as HER Realtors has offered the HomeGard warranty a home maintenance warranty since, 1974.  HomeGard of Ohio a new era

More about furnaces, heat, furnace filters on Discover Columbus Ohio - Columbus Ohio real estate

Furnace Filters and Reality

Furnace Friday... brrr it's cold out this morning 30°

Furnace Filter Friday - Changing Furnace Filters is Year Round

The image is a Real Living ecard, last generation, just because.

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For Auld Lang Syne...  today December 1, 2010 things change for Real Living on the Internet. My website MaureenMcCabe.com which is just a page on the Real Living HER website changes from 

to something else...

There may be a few rocky days on my site, the Real Living HER site and  the Real Living site as there always are with changes.  I am nolstalgic about the old logos and old web sites that the company as HER Realtors, HER Real Living and Real Living HER has had over the years.

Auld Lang Syne means "the old times"

Our individual agent websites are long overdue for an overhaul.  We could change the content and update the look and I have to say I did a lot of that before I discovered blogging in 2005.

The company site is more interesting than how my hair style has changed or not changed over the years. The company website, the site for HER Realtors has morphed a lot over the years.  Although it has gaps the Wayback Machine is a good place to see how things have changed from the first web presence of HER Realtors in 1995.

HER Realtors in 2001

HER Real Living in 2004

2006

HER Realtors in 1995

just a short time later... the entrance to the HER Realtors site:

the Enter is not linked now...

Real Living HER December 2010 and beyond?  Keep watching.  It will keep morphing ahead of much of the real estate industry, ahead of other Central Ohio real estate companies.

HER Realtors - The Way We Were

Real Living's "Expansion Unit Sold November 2009  Real Living HER is locally owned and operated, always has been. The Real Living brand has grown tremendously in the past 12 months!

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HER Realtors the way we were

The first web presence of HER Realtors was in 1995:

It looks like there were seven links on the site, the whole site.  Everyone has to start somewhere. 

Compare that to the November 30, 2010 look of Real Living HER

Here is a slideshow of screen shots of the HER Realtors / HER Real Living / Real Living HER website over the years. 

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Happy Thanksgiving from Maureen McCabe

Real Living HER

The image is a Real Living ecard.  Earlier this week I sent clients, prospects and friends the Thanksgiving ecard  I'd used in 2008.  I  sent it the old fashioned way via email.

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

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