How effective has the $8,000 1st time home buyer’s tax credit been? According to the National Association of Realtors, (NAR), in Illinois, the home buyer tax credit has brought in an additional 9,100 buyers into the market and 73,200 1st time buyers by year’s end. That is a huge impact! I recently wrote to the folks in Washington trying to get their stance on possibly extending the credit.
Posts under ‘Giving Back’
Reuse and Recycle Extravaganza in Naperville
Naperville is hosting its third annual Reuse and Recycle Extravaganza this Saturday (6/6/09) from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Alcatel -Lucent, 1960 Lucent Lane, Naperville. This is a great opportunity to “greenly” dispose of those items that are just filling up space in the basement or garage. And, it’s free!
Loaves and Fishes Easter Food Drive Update
Kelley Schwartz of Ryan Hill Realty and her team dropped off the final food donations for the Loaves & Fishes Easter Food Drive on Friday, April 10, 2009. All in all, the collection (done in conjunction with the Naperville Park District collected 1427 pounds of food over the past four weeks. A heartfelt thanks goes out to [...]
Bike MS: Tour de Farms Update
I have registered for the MS Bike Tour-de-Farms June 12-14, 2009. I plan on riding 175 miles over 2 days to raise funds for MS. I am riding in support of my good friend Dolores Bopp Potterton.
Easter Food Drive to benefit Loaves & Fishes
Kelley Schwartz of Ryan Hill Realty announced today that from now thru April 6, 2009, they will be collecting food items to help resupply Loaves & Fishes, the local food pantry in Naperville. The following is excerpted from Loaves & Fishes home page to give you an idea of what they do and how many lives [...]
Ryan Hill Realty in Pass Christian Ms Day 2 and Then Mardi Gras
It has been a whirlwind for
the past 72 hours. Our group had been split into two workcrews, each assigned to a different home site. Our project was to build and anchor the floor framing for each home. The design calls for the homes to be built with the floor deck around 10′ above ground level. [...]
Pass Christian Home building Trip Day1
Day 1 It’s about 5:30 am and we are some where between Jackson and Hattiesburg, Ms. We left Naperville at 4:00 pm Tuesday and have driven straight thru.
Pass Christian, Ms Here Comes Naperville, Again…
A team of people from Naperville and Ryan Hill Realty are making their 2nd trip to Pass Christian, Ms to help build homes destroyed by Hurrican Katrina.
Musing while Riding
Blog about what you know, what you are good at, what may be of interest to others. There in may lie the rub. So anyway, here goes. On Saturday afternoon I was out riding my bike – 1st ride of the year (Yeah!) and thinking about the above. What do I like?
