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The Internet as a tool to find your special home...
 Increasingly,
the internet is the method of choice for buyers looking for homes.
Homes.com states that 77% of all home buyers use the Internet as part of
their home search and 25% or more actually find their next home online. As
buyers flock to the internet, there has developed a dizzying array of
internet portals that offer housing information. Many of these sites are
free so we’ve carefully selected those that provide the broadest exposure
to homebuyers looking for truly unique homes.
You can find the Maxcy Fisher homestead listed
on
Realtor.com,
NNEREN.com, (the northern New
England listing service)
Move.com (which powers the Homes and Real Estate
channel for
AOL,
Yahoo! Real Estate,
MSN
Real Estate),
HistoricProperties.com and the Boston Globe's on-line news site,
boston.com. Of course, you can use Google or Yahoo to search our
company name, the names of our homes for sale, or key words having to do
with re-assembling and restoring old homes.
Should you visit our site, please let us know what you think by sending us
an email at
info@therestoredhomestead.com. Check out our
video
– these show us building Maxcy Fisher – the best way we know of
explaining our unique approach to saving and rebuilding old homes. We would
also like to thank Fred Light of
NashuaWebDesign for his patience and expertise in helping us build our
website. He’s also an expert in developing online video home tours!
We have discovered another website that might be of interest to our realtor
readers. It is called
ActiveRain.com
and offers realtors, builders and others in the home trades to
share/exchange information online. Neat site – check it out – we’re there!
 We’ve
talked about the Ebenezer Pierce homestead in
prior newsletters. It’s a saltbox built sometime in the 1740’s in what
was then Groton, Massachusetts. It’s typical of colonial
Georgian style architecture (CLICK
to check out Georgian Colonial on
wikipedia.com) –
that is,
homes built during
the reigns of George II and George III.
The Ebenezer Pierce homestead is quintessentially New England and,
like the Maxcy Fisher homestead, our plan is to dismantle and re-assemble
it. Like all our homes, we will expand the original footprint to add living
spaces needed by today’s active families. Full details including floor plans
and elevations of the reconstructed Ebenezer Pierce homestead are on our
website. If you have an interest in this home, please contact us at
info@therestoredhomestead.com
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The Builder's Corner |
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Whither historic homes?
The Bernard Capen House |
This past
week’s Sunday Globe featured the Bernard Capen house that was
disassembled in Walpole, Mass. in an effort to save it from
demolition. Click
here to see the complete article.
The Capen house had been saved once before from demolition but the
second time around, while the article quoted the general feeling
that it would "be a shame to lose the old house, nobody rallied.”
The Maxcy Fisher Homestead |
Well, we do!
Our company can take a disassembled home and
re-assemble it, staying true to the original but adding the modern
elements that today’s families require.
Our re-assembled homes, re-built with care and
attention to detail, are true gems and, as the article states:
“present a once-in-a lifetime opportunity…” |
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Country Living Magazine |
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 Speaking
of the internet last Fall we received a phone call from Country Living
magazine. An enterprising Associate Editor had found our website,
read about what we were doing to save old homes, and wanted to know more
about our current and upcoming projects. After exchanging emails and then
flying in for a visit, we’re pleased to report Country Living
magazine’s interest in
featuring the Ebenezer Pierce homestead
in a future issue. They believe their readers will be intrigued to
see how an old historic home can be re-born and will follow us as we
dismantle and rebuild the homestead.
Country Living
magazine is the number one shelter publication
on newsstands today, reaching 11+ million readers every month. The magazine
is a true reflection of the country lifestyle with its editorial mix of
decorating and home building, antiques and collectibles, crafting,
gardening, food and entertaining. To find out more visit
countryliving.com
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Of
Interest to home owners and buyers |
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Each month we'll provide links to publications and/or web sites
we believe will be of interest to home owners and buyers. In this issue we're
providing you with a link to a recent Business Week article
and to the monthly free
publication of the
NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®,
Real Estate Insights. We'll provide this link in our future newsletters as well as adding
links that will be of interest to you. Click the logo below to download
the latest issue.
We would appreciate your feedback on this link and thoughts about future
topics and links. Please
click to email us your comments.
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