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Jonathan Fink Interview for Blog

I was featured in a blog written by Amy Miller about Musicians who do other jobs.  Below is the result! Recovering Oboist: Jonathan Fink, cellist and Realtor®.

Open houses begin drawing buyers who seem serious

Like I have been saying – the Market is changing.  Don’t wait…this is it. “Queen Village real estate agent Patrick Conway struggled to strike a balance between talking about the state of the housing market and keeping track of prospective buyers at an hour-long open house in the 700 block of South Philip Street.” Open…

Selling Your Home? Don’t Forget About Liability Protection

When you put your home on the market, you are inviting complete strangers to come to it and inspect it from top to bottom. This, in turn, sets you up for greater liability risk should someone get hurt. All it would take is one injury from one of those strangers to set a lawsuit in…

Mortgage rates drop to historic lows | HousingWire

What does this mean for you the home buyer?  If you are buying a $300,000 with FHA you can buy that home with about $10,000 cash and your monthly payment would be around $1500 a month!  Depending on your taxes and insurance.  You can be well below $1800 a month on your new home.  For…

I Want Your Business!

I want to earn your Real Estate Business! If you are reading this please understand I want your business!  I don’t care if you are my close friend or my facebook friend or someone I saw once at a job.  Someone once told me I shouldn’t work with my friends.  I have completely ignored that…

Would you Uber?!

Would you use an on demand car service that costs twice as much as a cap if it meant NOT standing in the middle of the road and dealing with cabbies?  Uber (German for over and above) thinks you will.  This service is available by pressing a button on your smart phone.  A Lincoln Town…

Jonathan Fink – Featured Homes for Sale

  Keller Williams – Featured Homes for Sale.

CHOP expansion could bring jobs, traffic

  As CHOP expands and creates jobs it will create more traffic but on the up side think what this will do for the already booming Grad Hospital neighborhood.  Not to mention maybe even Grays Ferry!  As an investor I bought 2 small houses in Grays Ferry several years ago and I wonder if now…

Buying a House – Step 1

The first step to buying a house is to choose an agent who will represent you in the transaction.  You want someone you can trust – someone who knows the process well – and someone who understands the market and someone who has access to the right vendors to help you thru the process. Ideally…

A Fresh approach to food…. featuring the Warnick ladies!

Congrats to my client Renee Warnick and her daughter Olivia for their appearance in the paper yesterday.  Really neat article about the Lancaster Farm Fresh Co-op.  Renee and her husband Derek sold their home with me in West Philly and bought a new home in Chestnut Hill.  Their two children go to the Jenks School…