Marjorie and Doug's Blog: January 2008

Just move in! This home is only 5 years old and completely finished. This modern lakefront home offers a resort lifestyle 365 days a year. You will love the huge park-like back yard with boathouse, the 3 car heated garage (+boat bay)with attached 500 sf guest house. Experience the magic of the lake from the covered decks on all three levels. The master suite has a lounge area with a 3 sided fireplace, a wet bar, 5 piece ensuite with jetted tub & oversized shower. Enjoy the enviable media room with 7.1 surround sound and serve your guests at the hotel-sized bar with keg cooler & bar fridge in the well-finished walk-out. The high-performance kitchen has raised panel maple cabinets, granite counters, 2 sinks, 2 ovens, built-in microwave,beverage cooler, side/side fridge, gas cooktop. Two power boat lifts included. 3,225 sq. ft. developed. Offered at $1,525,000. This home is custom built for lake living & entertaining and it shows!

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The future is here! What a great future it will be in this 2668 sq. ft. Summerhill by Jager. From the covered veranda to the high performance kitchen this is one stunning home. The kitchen features a gas stove/2 ovens, full sized side by side freezer and fridge custom built into the cabinets, granite counters with undermount sinks,all in a generous 15 x 12 room. The nook which is the heart of the home has coffered ceilings and patio doors out. There are 9 floot ceilings throughout and natural birch hardwood floors on the main floor. There is also a formal dining room and a private den The great room has a gas fireplace and 5.1 speakers wired in. This home has separate central air for the main floor and the second floor. The second floor has a bonus room. a master suite that runs the full depth of the house, a laundry room and two 11x11 bedrooms. There is roughed in wiring for the smart home system and RI speakers in bonus room, bedrooms and deck. So when the future calls you will be wired for it!

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Whether you are looking for your first home or downsizing to be a snowbird this 2 bedroom condo has a lot to offer. It's located on the only full recreation lake within a 20 minute driving distance to downtown Calgary. It has two bedrooms that both have walk through closets that connect to bathrooms. Enjoy the spacious living room that has a built in desk for your computer. Full sized kitchen with lots of counter and storage space. Raised counter top to eat breakfast at. Close to the lake with a view of the park and some view of the lake from the bedroom. Nice balcony. 2 parking spaces, on underground and one surface outside. Offered at $299,900.00.

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Lake living in the Cove. Built in 2004 this 1800 sq. ft. bungalow with walk out has an open plan with 10 foot ceilings and lots of windows to enjoy the lake and mountain view. The main floor has a spacious master bedroom, a great room, a spacious maple and stainless steel kitchen, a den and a two piece bath. The fully developed walk out has a large media room and games room with a bar and wine room, gas fireplace, 2 bedrooms a full bath and a hobby room. This home has central air-conditioning, under ground sprinklers and is on a 60 x 180 foot deep lot. Low maintenance finishes means more time on the lake and less on up keep. After all living on the lake should be all about waterskiing, fishing, wakeboarding or sailing.

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Hike, bike, walk or run.  What ever your pleasure you can do it from here.  Just across from Fish Creek park it will be so easy to get out and go.  And what a great home to come back to!  Oversized corner lot big enough for a three cars and room to tinker in.  The two storey home has 9' ceilings and 8' doors. Need room to entertain, this home has a large dining room complete with a gas fireplace. The kitchen is beautiful and functional with upgraded stainless steel appliances and is completed with a video monitor for the front door. The master is generous in size and provides your own oasis retreat with a jetted tub and a marble shower.  There is a spacious bonus room complete with built in cabinetry and a gas fireplace. The bathroom in the basement is completed with a steam shower and in floor heat. This home also features central air, a central vacuum, a high efficiency furnace, underground sprinkler system and gas BBQ hook-ups. Dollars buy more at this address call to view today. 

Lakefront home has boat, trailer and people space. Have you ran out of room? Need more space, can't find a home on the lake that will take all of your toys? Then look no more! Yhis home has an oversized triple that is heated and insulated, a large driveway and room for more toys down the ramp on the side of the house. This home has 6 bedrooms and a guest suite or office over the garage. Custome designed for this lot, this home takes advantag3e of the view from every angle. Nascor construction make this home warmer, quieter and cleaner than a home with conventional fiberglass insulation. This home also has radiant heat throughout that is generated from two full size boilers. There is so much more to say about this home but you really just have to come and see it for yourself!

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Longing for a place to enjoy life uninterrupted? Timeless beauty on 5 acres is just South of the city and 1/2 mile from world class trout fishing on the Bow River. This full two storey with walkout is a gardener's dream with fruit trees, berries, a large garden area and a pond. Exceptional mountain views to the west and not another house to the south give this home an exceptional setting. This timeless beauty has a great floor plan with a large living room, main floor family room, formal dining room and spacious breakfast nook. The kitchen has a garden window overlooking the pond and the back yard. Upstairs the master suite is 12' x 16' and has a generous en suite with an oval jetted tub, a stand up shower and private toilet. All three bedrooms up have walk-in closets. 2.263 sq. ft. on the upper 2 levels with the walk out ready for development. There is a temperature controlled wine room completed downstairs. Triple garage. Located just off of 22x and Burnco Road this home is so close to the city.

With tall ceilings, wide halls, large kitchen, 5 oversized bedrooms and so much more. With 4,284 sq ft. this new two story has plenty of rooms for you to entertain, and enjoy your family in. On the main floor there is a den, master bedroom with en-suite, a dining room, family room, living room, kitchen with eating area and the laundry/utility room. On the residence level you have 4 bedrooms, 2 full baths, a family room and a games area.This home has been tastefully decorated with maple hardwood floors and porcelain tiles on the main floor. The bedrooms and residence level have luxurious carpet with porcelain tile in the bathrooms.You will love the 1/3 acre lot and the 47x24 foot triple garage.Mountain & lake view.

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I just read that a new service is being offered for realtors.  You can pay a company to do your blogging for you. They will do a years worth of blogging for $399/year. I have heard of assitants blogging for realtors, so it only makes sense that someone would find a way to capture a new opportunity to appeal to realtors who feel they are too busy to do their own. 

If a blog is a way for people to get to know you, then the question is who are you?  Sometimes it isn't the arrival at the destination but what you learned on the trip.  Garbage in, garbage out.  If they are writing for many realtors, (and they would have to for $399/year.)  How original can the content be?  How specific to your real estate practice, or to your target market can it be.  Just like a canned website is not as effective, how can a blog by a service replace your comments that refect your personality.  I think you are cheating yourself.  It is not something I would do even though it would make me score better.  Do you not think that Active Rain will evolve so that they will be able to tell what is canned and what is original.  I think they will, if they won't the readers will.  There are a lot of very talented and I am sure very successful bloggers on this site.  You can learn a lot if you take the time to read other blogs, and you can share what you have learned with others that are not in direct competition to you.  You will get out of it what you put into it.

Just as all of the content on our website is original, all of the content on our blog will be original and hopefully relevant to our real estate practice. 

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As a resident of Chestermere for the past 16 years I know that it is not just a great place to live in the Summer, but all year around.  This year the ice on the lake froze on a quiet day making for great ice.  The town has plowed a path around the lake and residents are enjoying skating around the lake.  To get around the entire lake is quite a feat as the lake is 3.5 miles long by ½ mile wide.  I have not made it all the way around this year yet, but I am working on it.  It is a great way to get some exercise and to say hello to your neighbors on the path as they enjoy Chestermere living as well. 

On Christmas eve the town put on askating party with hot chocolate, a fire and music and light for skating.  Many families attended.  Some enjoyed the Christmas service at the community centre put on by the Chestermere Christian Fellowship.

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