South Orange
WHY LIVE IN SOUTH ORANGE?
If you watch old movies on television on AMC or TCM, movies from the 30’s or 40’s, films starring Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy or classics like It Happened One Night or The Best Years of Our Lives, there is always a constant feature in the background: the perfect town. It is a clean and sunny village that has a river running through it, a tranquil place that is both prosperous and tidy, with a tree-lined main street filled with friendly merchants, a courthouse square dotted with gaslights, and wooded neighborhoods with fine houses on ample lawns, all within a couple of minutes of the post office, the library, and the stores. You might think that this ideal town is an American fiction, a dream or a memory from days gone by, something that exists only in Leave it to Beaver or Mister Smith goes to Washington, but how surprised you would be if you entered the Township of South Orange.
Okay, maybe Jimmy Stewart isn’t the mayor and you don’t see Mickey Rooney riding his bike, slinging newspapers on to front lawns or delivering groceries, or Fred Mac Murray the high school principal, but it is certainly a village devoted to small-town ideals, without commercial squalor from one end to the other. And yes, South Orange has a river running through it and more operating gaslights than any other community in the United States. It also has a Division 1 university, Seton Hall, sixty-two acres of parkland, five baseball diamonds, 15 lighted tennis courts, a soccer field, duck pond, playgrounds, Baird Community Center and a fine outdoor pool complex and a favorite sledding hill. Plus a local school system that is considered one of the best in the state. Homes currently for sale in South Orange, New Jersey.
This Month In Real Estate
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Don’t leave this post just because it appears to be dated. This is actually the latest version of This Month In Real Estate. Rest assured, each month it automatically updates to the newest version. So have a look.
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This Month In Real Estate.
Whoops. I forgot to post the latest edition of This Month In Real Estate. Here it is. Better late than never.
Leave a comment | Keep Reading»Pre-Forclosure Reality Check.
This is not a topic that gets me excited. It’s very sad. I’m doing this because I want to keep it real with my readers.
This is reality in 2009.
Every month, I will breakdown the number of properties in each of our towns for which a lis pendens has been filed in the past 30 [...]
Billionaire Advice
For the past week or so I have been boycotting all Network and Cable news. It’s gotten to the point where every time I turn on CNN or NBC it’s so painful, I dream of placing my hand in a blender just so I can go to the emergency room and enjoy large quantities of [...]
Leave a comment | Keep Reading»Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan.
The Obama Administration has finally unveiled the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan.
Wrap your mind around it NOW
Five Simple Ways to Avoid Paying Too Much For a Home.
There are a lot of great values in the current real estate market, but it’s still possible to pay too much for a home. Here are a few simple things you can do to avoid making bad decisions.
1. Focus on the numbers. When making an offer, ask your agent to show you every like kind [...]
January Version of This Month in Real Estate.
Here’s the latest version of This Month in Real Estate. It covers interest rates and affordability. The numbers are very interesting.
The one thing that bothered me about this segment, however, was that it felt a little bit like a sales pitch. I would hope that the next edition focuses strictly on the numbers.
Enjoy.
Nets Crush the Bucks.
When I’m not rockin’ the Pink Izod with a huge ice cream stain in Taylor Park, you can find me at the Izod Center in East Rutherford watching the Nets crush the Bucks. There’s nothing like a night out of basketball.
That’s exactly what I did on Tuesday evening. Gotta give a special shout out to [...]
Leave a comment | Keep Reading»This Month in Real Estate. Recap on December 2008.
Here’s another excellent edition of This Month in Real Estate. Once again, the numbers illustrate why buyers are being handed such an amazing opportunity.
Enjoy.
Real Estate Report
Here’s This Month in Real Estate. It’s a monthly report that Keller Williams Realty puts together on current real estate market conditions. Keller Williams Realty International in known for delivering highly researched compelling market stats. There’s some good stuff here.
Please note that the report is general in nature. Real Estate doesn’t work that way — [...]
