by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 15, 2004 | Commentary
The final chapter… The event that gave rebuilding our house the inertia to move forward was really an act of serendipity. A chance plane ride up the Hudson River that led to the discovery of a vacant Nabisco box factory that lead to a decision to bring a world...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 30, 2004 | Commentary
The times they are a changin’ Right around the time that Nobody’s Fool completed filming, a subtle change began to take place in Beacon. It was nothing major; the real estate agents didn’t have a sudden epiphany and start selling the living daylights...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 12, 2004 | Commentary
Where the end is a beginning I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t scared, if I tried to imply that there isn’t a pit in my stomach the size of a canteloupe. It’s there. I feel it. It’s real. I know it. In one sense it’s like the night...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 21, 2004 | Commentary
Location, Location, Location… There are few real estate axioms truerâ€â€besides, perhaps, those relating to the industry’s use of hyperboleâ€â€than the one which states that location is everything. Place the finest house you can imagine, trimmed...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 16, 2004 | Commentary
It’s a small, small (smaller than I thought!) world Size can be a relative thing; what’s small to one person can be large to another. The owner of a 10,000 square foot house would probably refer to a 3000 square foot house as a cottage while the owner of...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 27, 2003 | Commentary, HousePosts
Why find a new house when you can knock the old one down? We never intended to renovate our house. Certainly nothing beyond the scope of what’s considered standard home renovations. Ours was a “starter” home. A place we’d grow out of as soon as...
