Oct. 31, 2007 - Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit - Novermber 1, 2007

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit.

I am tiring of this tradition.

Or this superstition.

It is good luck to say "Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit" the first thing every month and so this blog has tried to say "Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit" first thing each month.

The photo is a sculpture in Dublin's Ballantrae subdivision of three hares. It is a huge sculpture. Look at the bike at the bottom, that's some kids bike... those are big hares.

Have a great November...

Copyright 2007 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe

Oct. 31, 2007 - Happy Halloween from Discover Columbus

Happy Halloween.

What more can I say?

This is an ecard from Real LIving. Posting it to a blog seems like such a more humane way of delivering it... than gumming up email.

Copyright 2007 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe

Oct. 30, 2007 - Powell Property Participates in the National Open House Sunday

And you thought Sunday November 4, 2007 was just the day to fall back...

Nationwide:

"4 days, 12 hours, 11 minutes, and 27 seconds. left"

"This Home".... which home? Edit 1-14-2008.  Link removed.  I am no longer marketing the home, so have removed the link.  There are a lot of great homes on the market in Powell, an over abundance of inventory... I'd love to help you find a home in Powell...   

National Open House Sunday... so far my Powell Open House is the only one in Central Ohio... but David Childress of Real Living Realty One in Akron has an Open House on the first National Open house list too...

An Open House opportunity? If you went to my Open House at 2:00 and then drove like "a bat out of hell" could you get to David's Open House... nah and our open houses are two very different price ranges...

...could you make it to any open houses in neighboring states? PA, MI, IN, KY? Why?

Statewide:

In an email from the Ohio Association of Realtors:

"OAR Web site to promote open houses...

An exciting new marketing tool, designed to increase exposure of "open houses," will soon be made available for statewide use by Ohio's REALTOR community. Read more..." <---- not linked

Although red and linked the "read more..." in the email from the Ohio Association of Realtors did not WORK for me...

Local:

Real Living HER's Open House list on our site(s) has 177 listings as of Tuesday morning... that number should grow throughout the week as sellers and agents commit to an open house on Sunday. Not all 177 are Sunday open houses, some are each day of the weeks as this list has Open Houses for new construction and there are homes that are held open other than the typical Sunday Open House too...

Copyright 2007 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe

Oct. 28, 2007 - Dublin - Hot, Smart, Connected

Not just smart, Dublin must be intelligent!

The ICF which is the Intelligent Community Forum named Dublin to "Smart21 Communities of 2008." Dublin is a semi finalist... I think in January 2008 the list will be whittled down to the community of the year.

ICF seems to be a think tank for use of broadband and technology.

The ICF site says of Dublin, a suburb of Columbus:

"Dublin, Ohio, USA - The city of 40,000, named one of the "hottest places to live" has expanded on the network it created (DubLink) and has formed partnerships with a range of research entities, including the Ohio Supercomputer Center. It also boasts a successful new WiFi network. "

The ICF press release - Smart 21 Communities of 2008

Wonder who did the "hottest places to live"?? list and when... found it Money Magazine in 2005 before I was blogging and paid much attention to this stuff. Dublin has the honor of being named one of the "hottest places to live" on their website of course...

Copyright 2007 Discover Columbus and Maureen McCabe