Hoarders Nation PART 3: Where to Begin?

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So you are a hoarder!? You have come to this point and accepted it! Where do you go from here?
What is your starting point? How do you eliminate the habit of hoarding?
Treat it like another bad habit, smoking. Cold Turkey is hard, so try and gently get out of it.
Have a junk party. Invite over your 4 closest friends and sort through stuff while eating a pizza.
Every day clean for 15 minutes, this will help divide up the work and lessen the load!
Hire a company that specializes in clean up to work with you! Go through the clutter together and try and get rid of all uneeded waste.
You can do it, it will be hard, but you can do it!!!!
Think of all the benefits!
…To Be Continued

Hoarders Nation PART 2: Hoarding and Real Estate

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One could ask with validity how is this phenomenon known simply as “hoarding” have any relevance in the world of real estate ?

SIMPLE!!!!

Do you plan on ever selling your place? Do you plan on living in a potentially accident, infest, fire free home? Do you want your property value to increase? These are all reasons that (A) You Should not Hoard (B) hoarding ties into real estate.
Hoarding can also hinder landlord tenant issues.
There is no simple way to put it, but hoarding is a big problem, one that people have to eliminate….
TO BE CONTINUED

Hoarders Nation PART 1: It Is A Hoarder’s World

It is not 1981, 1987, 1992, 1998, or 2005 and it never will be again so throw out those old “Simpson’s” calenders. That old broken jump rope with the HELLO KITTY bandages keeping it together can go in the rubbish pile as well! Really, you are keeping your worn down gym shoes from 2003?
Does this sound like you or someone else you know?
If so you might be a hoarder.
“Civil unrest or natural disaster may lead people to hoard foodstuffs, water, gasoline, and other essentials which they believe, rightly or wrongly, will soon be in short supply.”
The above is a basic definition of hoarding from wikipedia. In more recent affairs though hoarding can be linked with words like “Compulsive”, “Obsessive” and “Habitual”. In recent news people have lots domocile to infestation, fire and eviction due to this mass obsession.
How can we help individuals who feel the need to collect and hoard???
… To Be Continued

It's Now Or Never AKA - Yes Vs. No

I have a true interest in real estate, I really do! I enjoy looking at what is on the market, researching what is on the market and really culling a large knowledge of inventory. Many a happy weekend are spent looking at open houses trying to see what will be the house or condo I eventually purchase.
Living in a society where we are so privy to MLS, internet, teleivision and other vices that help us learn of product on the market it is becoming increasingly harder to buy. Why? In my truthful opinion, we are all looking for the “PERFECT” property. Some people have the mentality of the “Green Lawn and White Picket Fence” some for the “Deluxe Condo in the Sky”. Whatever it is we always as humans assume that the “Next” house or condo we are shown could be the “TRUE ONE” and that the grass is “Greener” on the other side!
STOP IN YOUR TRACKS NOW!!!
“Good” is “Perfect” and “No” or “Maybe” should be a “Yes”? We have to be better at self realization and the realization of our dreams. Not everything can be “Storybook Perfect” you know.
So next time you are in the market is “YES” always a “YES”?

ALL I WANT FOR "BLACK FRIDAY" WAS... A NEWLY BUILD CONDO :)

Don’t you wish Black Friday deals applied to housing? Would it not be amazing to hear the words “Your Getting Your Property For $100,000 Less?”
Ahhh…We can dream can we not? It seems everything else has been touched by this glorious American savings day (or week now). Everywhere you look cars are going for nothing, computer systems too. Even essential services are getting in on the action.
Now some might call me a dreamer, but wow a “Black Friday” condominium price how sheik, how innovative, how…it is never going to happen!
Is it really so hard to believe, to far to fetch even? Minto, Tridel, Fernbrook—Can you hear my wishes?
All I want for the holidays is a condo or house at a “Black Friday” price!

Musings of a Cold November's Afternoon

Oh November you creeped in so quietly and took over so swiftly. You kicked October down like the dressed up Halloween fool it was and you painted the world a pre holiday glow! You changed our clocks and made our five o’clocks as dark as the coffee we sip in the morning to wake up!
Where has the year gone? Was it not yesterday we sipped champagne, sangs songs for the new year ahead and made resolutions we would break just days later?
Now on only November 21st, the holidays are already in full swing. People celebrate their distinct festivals of lights, schools gear down and people eat.
November is also a time where housing does not move swiftly, like the animalistic traits of a June or July. Where are the listings? Are people moving?
Oh November will you ever and end, and bring in December our holiday friend?

Back Again!!!

Yes it has been several months, but THE SHAPIRO and CHO LEGAL BUZZ blog is back.

Musings will be more frequent and will reflect on the industry and on the company of course.

So lean back and enjoy!!!