Class Registration
February 17, 2009 by Monika McGillicuddy
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Blogging Workshop… Create your own blog!
Pre-registration and payment required $ 55.00
9-12:30 Wednesday February 25, 2008
This class is limited and will be held at the Granite State South Board office in Windham.
*You will need a laptop with wireless capability.
This is pre-registration only due to the fact that the class size is limited.
Contact Monika@monikamcgillicuddy.com for complete details or call 603-548-7685
This is a hands on workshop taught by Jay and Monika McGillicuddy and you will leave with your own Blog on line!
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Granite State South Board of REALTORS
87 Indian Rock Road, Windham, NH 03087 l Phone: (603) 893-5313
Please feel free to share this course information with other licensees.
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Real Estate Social Networking and managing your web presence
$30.00
Thursday February 26, 2009 9:00-12:00 PM
Class time 9-12:00
Registration 8:45 to 9:00
The course is designed to give real estate professionals an overview of what they will need to know to participate responsibly in a Web 2.0 Connected environment. Technology has transformed many essential elements of the real estate process. Today, new and experienced agents find that they need to understand the dynamics of the online community or becoming irrelevant to the home buying or selling process.
We cover Social Networking sites and how to make them work for you.
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Why should Kingston NH be my next home…
December 26, 2008 by Monika McGillicuddy
Filed under About Kingston NH, General R.E. Information, State and Local Information
Last year I asked a long time Kingston resident Kathy Radford what it was that made the town of Kingston New Hampshire so special to her.
I’m often asked by potential home buyers about towns and why they should consider a certain town as their new home. That’s hard for me to answer because our market area covers several southern NH towns
As a New Hampshire REALTOR and a New Hampshire Real Estate Blogger, I find it fascinating to talk to the local folks and get their take on their town.
So when potential buyers ask questions about what it is like living in a town and what better than having someone who lives and knows the town intimately answer that question.
The following is a reprint from the article I wrote last year….
I have written about Kathy Radford and her art in the past. If you missed it you can read it here… Kingston NH Hidden talent (opens in a separate window)
Aside from being a busy artist and photographer Kathy and her husband also own Radford Courier Services, which specializes in rush/same day deliveries.
Kathy has been a Kingston resident since 1970 when she and her husband moved north from Belmont, MA. Her
husband she says, being brought up in Sudbury, MA didn’t like city living and they would always go to the White Mountains, one of their favorite places, for vacations each year. Kingston was always was a stop off point along the way.
Kathy explained that back then they would stop at the old Mill Stream Restaurant, which is currently The Pond View Restaurant.
Back in the 70′s, she said it was just a small hamburger stand with old fashioned barrels as tables and chairs.
The Pond View is still owned by the same family, but it has evolved over the years and it is now a wonderful upscale restaurant but still maintained by the original family.
The senior owners were also the towns EMTs and drove the only ambulance in town.
Kathy says that they always enjoyed talking with the locals at the hamburger stand and one day they met Gordon Brown there, who had his real estate office across the street in the A-Frame.
Gordon Brown is a real estate icon…his daughter Barbara also a REALTOR is a good friend of ours.
Eventually, Kathy goes on to say they bought their Kingston NH home through Gordon Brown Real Estate.
When I asked her why she bought in Kingston she told me more than I expected to hear and I quote her.
“We absolutely fell in love with the warm country charm of the town with the town plains dotted with all the historic homes and the wonderful old Church on the Plains, the Town Hall, the bandstand and the majestic old Sanborn Seminary.
Kingston’s proximity between Boston and the White Mountains with the added bonus of the Seacoast area thrown in made for the perfect spot to raise three children in a relaxed friendly community where everyone was your friend.
We were limited to southern NH because my husband had to commute to Norwood, MA every day to work in the family run trucking and warehouse business.
The Town Clerk and Chief of Police knew everyone in town on a first name basis. I might add we are fortunate enough to still have the same wonderful and accommodating town clerk, Betti Ouelette, who is a walking book of knowledge.
Whenever you have a question about something in Kingston, Betti always has the answers. She is the only town clerk, that I know of, that calls local residents near the end of the month to remind them that their auto registration is about to run out at the end of the month.
She is the most caring and giving town clerk I have ever heard of. A pearl comes one in a million and that is exactly what she is to the town, a true pearl. She has given so much to the town over the years; no one will ever be able to fill her shoes.
For many years we have attended the Kingston Carnival Days with its huge bomb fire every year where they would place a car on top and set it on fire to see how long it would take for the car to fall.
This was al
ways the highlight of the year and drew huge crowds from both NH and MA.
Kingston has grown over the years, but I think we have always tried to maintain our quaint little country town quality of life.
We’ve come a long way through the years, from having a high school that had split session classes where half the students went to school in the morning and the other half went in the afternoon, to the sprawling new high school complex it is today.
I hope we never lose our wonderful small town country charm and close community ties that have made Kingston what it has always been and continues today. “
I was so impressed with Kathy’s willingness to share her thoughts and feelings about Kingston that I knew I had to publish her words as she said them. Thank you Kathy for an excellent description of Kingston!
Check out some of Kathy’s art work www.betterphoto.com?kathyinnh or catch her displaying her art at many local craft fairs or holiday bazaars. All photos used in this post are copyrighted by Kathy Radford and used with her permission.
NAR…Will they be looking at your digital pictures?
November 25, 2007 by Monika McGillicuddy
Filed under General R.E. Information
Sometimes the best thing about the house is the picture…Is that not true?
At the National Association of REALTORS convention in Vegas I attended the professional standards forum and committee meeting where among other things we talked about digital enhancements to listing photos.
I am on my second 3 year term as a State Representative serving on the committee and as a blogger I’ve been particularly interested in all the proposed changes to Article 12.
In DC this past May we talked about Blogs and including them in the scope of Article 12. I wasn’t too excited about the potential of NAR touching my blog.
All spring and summer members participated via e-mail…comments for and against making changes were carefully considered by the working group.
We didn’t know what the recommendations would be and eagerly awaited the working group’s findings. Read more
Kingston New Hampshire…A peek inside
November 18, 2007 by Monika McGillicuddy
Filed under About Kingston NH, State and Local Information
I recently asked a Kingston local what it was that made the town of Kingston New Hampshire so special to her.
As a New Hampshire REALTOR and a New Hampshire Real Estate Blogger, I find it fascinating to talk to the local folks and get their take on their town.
Many times potential buyers ask questions about what it is like living in a town and what better than having someone who lives and knows the town intimately answer that question.
I have written about Kathy Radford and her art in the past. If you missed it you can read it here… Kingston NH Hidden talent (opens in a separate window)
Aside from being a busy artist and photographer Kathy and her husband also own Radford Courier Services, which specializes in rush/same day deliveries.
