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U.S. Navy Blue Angels visit Portsmouth New Hampshire

The United States Navy Blue Angels will appear on August 28th and 29th at the 2010 Boston – New England Air Show at the Pease International Tradeport in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Blue Angels in Portsmouth NH

I decided to take a half day today and pickup my 9 year old son Michael and head to Portsmouth.  While out with a client yesterday, 8/26/10, the sky rumbled above me, when I looked up. it was the U.S. Navy Blue Angels on a practice run.  I figured it would be a nice day for my son and I to spend a few extra hours, just the two of us and take in today's practice.

 

When we arrived at Pease Air Force base, there was about 50 to 75 people in a grassy area near the end of the runways.  We were able to grab a great viewing spot at the top of a small hill and meet a few other on-lookers.  Around 3 p.m. more people showed up, the crowd now totaled around 200 to 250 people.  The anticipation grew, my son was getting bored, and the next thing we heard was a loud rumble, and saw 4 jets take off from a distant runway.  Soon after 2 more took off, only a few hundred yards away.

All of the photos were taken today in Portsmouth NH at Pease Air Force Base while watching the U.S. Navy Blue Angels practice.

Blue Angels in Portsmouth NH  Blue Angels in Portsmouth NH

Blue Angels in Portsmouth NH  Blue Angels in Portsmouth NH

The Boston – New England Air Show was reformed from the former Pease Air Show, which was historically a mid-tier air show held at Pease International Tradeport and the New Hampshire ANG Base every other year. Beginning in 2010 the Boston – New England Air Show has been designed to be a large scale event. The event will be marketed regionally to a marketing area including up to 4.5 million people. In addition to being a first-class aviation event, The Boston – New England Air Show supports two of New England’s finest community organizations. The Daniel Webster Council, Boy Scouts of America serves more than 18,000 youths annually. The Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire is a private, non-profit, family and consumer run organization representing over 5,000 New Hampshire residents with acquired brain disorders and stroke. . For more information visit www.newenglandairshow.com.

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Information provided by Bill Somerset, Century21 Central Falls Realty

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Back-to-school clothing giveaway this weekend in Rochester New Hampshire

ROCHESTER — The Rochester Rotary's "Back-to-School Clothing Give-Away" is taking place this Saturday, Aug. 28 at the Rochester Community Center.

The event is open to all Rochester area families with school-aged children and is being held in Community Room from 10 am to 2 pm.. Due to long waiting lines at last year’s event, this year attendees will be able to register ,starting at 8 am, and will then be assigned a specific time to return between 10 am and 2 pm to “shop.”

Identification will be required only for verification that the registrant and the family returning later are the same individuals. Attendees should also be aware that entrance to the event will be only through the interior of the building, no entry will be allowed through the back doors from the parking lot.

Thanks to the generosity of Rochester Rotary Charities and Bootlegger's Footwear, 200 footwear vouchers will be given away on a first come, first served basis. There will be a maximum of only one voucher per family.

back to school shopping in Rochester NH

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New Listing, 92 Emerald Drive, Barrington New Hampshire

Are you ready to move, these sellers are! Everything has been done from top to bottom! Freshly painted rooms, new flooring, doors, ceiling fans, key-less pad entry, and gas fireplace. Very well taken care of, and inviting. Home will convey with all appliances including washer and dryer.

92 Emerald Drive Barrington NH  92 Emerald Drive Barrington NH

92 Emerald Drive Barrington NH

Price:  $38,500

Features

 

  • 2 Bedrooms
  • Updated kitchen and Bathroom
  • Keyless pad entry
  • Gas fireplace
  • Well landscaped
  • Wooded back yard

For more information, Contact Bill Somerset, Century 21 Central Falls Realty at 603-512-5971 or by email at bill@century21central.com 

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Dover New Hampshire Realtor®  Dover New Hampshire real estate and homes for sale

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Garden Club Hosts 'HayDown HoeDown' Festival on Saturday, August 28

The Rollinsford New Hampshire Garden and Local Sustainability club would like to invite everyone to the first annual Haydown Hoedown!

The festival will be held on Saturday, August 28th from 12pm-7pm at the community gardens in Rollinsford, NH.

The community gardens are located on Foundry Street near the American Legion. There will be live music all day from a bunch of different local bands, some carnival games, a plethora of vendors and a great lunch/dinner menu consisting of as much local and organic food as possible.

Rollinsford garden

This is what the garden looked like in the beginning, come see what it is like now!

Please come down and join them and help support the small, but growing, community garden! There is no charge to get in, just a $2 suggested donation. For more information go to www.rollygardenclub.com or email us at rollygardenclub@aol.com.

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Explore Compost! Free children's activity in Dover New Hampshire

Dover Cassily Community Garden’s Children’s Summer Activity Series

Exploring the Compost Pile!

This Children’s Activity will be on Saturday, August 21st at 10:00am.

This week we will be exploring (read: digging in and climbing about) our two compost piles; one finished and one working. We will also be harvesting and caring for existing plantings. Come ready to dig! Tractors, trucks and diggers welcome! Children of all ages are welcome to participate in DCCG’s free children’s program. No preregistration is necessary. We will meet at the DCCG shed at 10:00am and walk out to the garden together. It is a good idea to wear sunscreen and a hat and bring bug spray, water and a snack.

children gardening in Dover NH

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A Short Sale Takes How Long?

 

Via Drew Sygit (The Lending Edge) Real Estate Financing Expert (Purchases, First Time Buyers, Pre-Approvals, Refinance):

Finally! Statistics on how long it takes various mortgage servicers to approve and close short sales.

Everyone involved in the short sale process, sellers, buyers, agents, title companies, etc, want to know how long it takes to do a short sale.

Up to now, it was pretty hard to really answer someone when they asked, "how long does "lender" usualy take to approve a short sale?"

Now, thanks to a Deutsche Bank Short Sale Report, we all have something to reference to.

Here's a breakdown by loan type:

Prime (FNMA/FHLMC):
1. GMAC – 6 months, 53% of distressed sales were Short Sales. 2. Citigroup’s servicing arm CitiMortgage – about 7.5 months, 56% of distressed sales were Short Sales.
3. Wells Fargo – roughly 8 months, only 34% of distressed sales were Short Sales.

(Countrywide – now owned by Bank of America (BOA) – had the slowest short sales, averaging more than 13 months, 59% of distressed sales were Short Sales.)

Subprime:
1. Wells Fargo – more than 15 months, 14% of distressed sales were Short Sales.
2. HomEq Servicing – 16 months, 22% of distressed sales were Short Sales.
3. Morgan Stanley’s servicing arm Saxon Mortgage Services – at a little more than 17 months, 18% of distressed sales were Short Sales.

(Equicredit and Ocwen both came in last with an average of more than 29 months on their short sales)

Option-ARM:
1. JPMorgan Chase’s EMC Mortgage – just over 8 months, 43% of distressed sales were Short Sales.
2. Aurora Loan Services – 10 months, 30% of distressed sales were Short Sales.
3. GMAC – just more than 10 months, 33% of distressed sales were Short Sales.

(Again, Countrywide/BOA brought up the rear with a short sale timeline at almost 14 months, 22% of distressed sales were Short Sales.)

Alt-A:
1. First Horizon – just over 9 months, 35% of distressed sales were Short Sales.
2. Both Wells Fargo and Aurora – roughly 11 months, Wells 17% & Aurora 16% of distressed sales were Short Sales.

(That wonderful company Countrywide/BOA again brought up the rear with a short sale timeline at almost 13 months, 24% of distressed sales were Short Sales.)


What Does the Data Mean?

Aren't those great statistics?

Everyone now has all the answers.

Not so fast. Why are mortgage servicers taking so long on short sales?

The short sale process is very similar to getting approved for a mortgage to buy a home. Income, asset and applications must be turned in. One of several methods to validate the property value must be done. But, again, that's all stuff that's done in 30-45 days on a regular mortgage application.

The heads of these servicers are pretty mum on answering questions like this. That's usually a sign they don't have good answers.

Bank of America, which owns Countrywide, was against short sales until just last spring. Any surprise they rank near the bottom?

Ocwen has been slapped with several million dollar fines in the past for abusive practices in dealing with borrowers. No surprise they're at the bottom either with that track record.

Many hope that the federal government's new HAFA program will spur more short sales. If the results of HAMP are used to gauge the effectiveness of the government's attempts to mitigate the housing crisis, don't count on it.

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Do you have children that are afraid of going to the doctors? Take them to the Teddy Bear Clinic and Tea Party in Dover NH

Teddy Bear Clinic and Tea Party

Where?

The Childrens Museum of New Hampshire

When?

Wednesday, August 11 - 10:00am to 12:00pm

Children are invited to bring their favorite stuffed friend to the Children's Museum's annual Teddy Bear Clinic, followed by a Teddy Tea Party. This event is designed to not only be fun, but also help children who may be anxious about visiting the doctor. Volunteer health professionals will be on hand to issue each animal an ID bracelet, perform health check-ups, and conduct minor surgery on furry friends in need of repair.

Teddy Bear clinic Dover NH

This is just one of the many great programs offerd by the Childrens Museum of New Hampshire.   The Childrens Museum is located at 6 Washington Street, Dover New Hampshire.

Information provided by Bill Somerset, Dover New Hampshire Realtor®, Century 21 Central Falls Realty, Dover New Hampshire.  Contact me anytime at 603-512-5971, or by email at bill@century21central.com

 

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Take the kids to Dover NH on Tuesday Aug. 10th for a free concert

Liberty Mutual Children's Series:

When: Tuesday, August 10 - 10:30 to 11:30am

Suze Susie Burke is an exceptional children's performer, as her many fans both young and older will testify. Drawing on her unique background as both a professional musician and an early childhood teacher, she presents a program that is entertaining, educational, involving, inspiring, and of high musical caliber. Free and open to the public at the Burns, Byrant, Cox, Rockefeller & DurkinStage at the Rotary Arts Pavilion at Henry Law Park.

Artist Suze Burke in Dover NH

The Liberty Mutual Children's Seriies is part of the Cochecho Arts Festival.  The Festival began in the summer of 1987, after the Chamber had accepted the challenge of matching an anonymous donation to produce a summer concert series. With the Cochecho Arts Festival now thriving, the Chamber has indeed met the challenge. The variety of performances have always attracted huge crowds to Dover — not only from the Seacoast, but as far away as the Mid-Atlantic states.

 

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Carolyn Capalbo Is A REALTOR In Northern Virginia That Needs Your Help

I saw this post on another agents page and figured I would do my part to help out.

Via Lisa Udy Realtor Utah Real Estate Specialist (Logan Utah Real Estate The Platinum Real Estate Group):

Carolyn Capalbo Is A REALTOR In Northern Virginia That Needs Your Help

 

Carolyn CapalboCarolyn Capalbo is a real estate agent in Northern Virgina that is being punished for having the wrong name. In 2008 a women with the same name as Carolyn Capalbo broke into the news, and it wasn't pretty. The "other" Carolyn had a daughter that was involved with a New York governor in a promiscuous way. Long story short, it was ugly, and now when you google Carolyn Capalbo, you get the results of the other women. 

You can read the full story here.

Here's the deal. Because of this other women, Carolyn's business has suffered, and I thought we could help her get her name back. Clients of her's have Googled her name and found this other women intruding on her brand with scandolous news blogs and have mistaken her for Carolyn Capalbo the REALTOR. 

Before you help Carolyn Capalbo You Should Know Her Story

 

Carolyn is a military spouse, she has family that has served this country, and I think we can serve her family with the help we can provide with this post. Carolyn has a degree in economics and is continuously a top agent in residential sales in Northern, Virginia. Carolyn is a respectable business women that goes above and beyond for her clients.

She continues to be a top producing agent in Northern, Virigina and, by no fault of her own, has had to deal with national news outlets calling her personal phone, business acquaintances, her daughters school and even her brokerage looking for the "juicy" story. 

Imagine, while at work with clients, ABC News, CBS News, The Washington Post, and The New York Times calling your workplace to get the scoop on a scandal that you were never apart of. Imagine these reporters asking promiscuous questions from your co-workers and people you do business with everyday. What would it be like for your little girl having to answer questions about some women in the news asked by your own teacher. 

This is the nightmare that Carolyn Capalbo is having to deal with and this is where you come in. Let's help Carolyn take her name back from a scandal that has nothing to do with her. 

How do we help Carolyn? Simple. Use your knowledge that you've learned from blogging here on Activerain to push her name above the fold in the search engine results pages.


Here's How We Can Help Carolyn Capalbo Take Her Name Back:


  1. RE-Blog this post and write a short story above the post about how you would feel if your name was tarnished by such a scandal. 
  2. Link to this post with "Carolyn Capalbo" as your anchor text within the blog and any other blog or website you have. 
  3. Push as many links and people to this post as you can. Get this post to the top and in turn we can push Carolyn Capalbo's reputation back to where it should be. 
  4. Write your own blog on how you feel about this situation and link back using "Carolyn Capalbo" as your anchor text. 

I want you all to know that there is more to this story. There is a reward for having your post at the top of the search engines by August 25th. If we can get Carolyn Capalbo's name within the top 2-4 spots for her name in Google, the poster gets a prize. I am shamelessly asking you Activerainers to help Carolyn Capalbo, while also helping my brokerage. Many people have asked for your help before and you have come to the rescue. 

I am asking you to help my brokerage get this post to the top of the search engines to get Carolyn's name back where it needs to be and to help my brokerage get a new website. What's in it for you? Two things. 

First:  Knowing you helped someone clear their name by no fault of their own is a great feeling. 

Second:  For your links to this post with the anchor text "Carolyn Capalbo" I will return the favor. I have many websites and blogs that I can give you a link with the anchor text of your choice. These links will be on their own page of either my blog or, if you give this post enough love, a link on the home page of my websites with page ranks of 2+. These links will remain until my websites die. :)

So, Activerainers, I ask you to help Carolyn Capalbo get her name back. All you have to do is RE-Blog this post or link to this post with her name as the anchor text. 

Lisa Udy

Platinum Real Estate Group

Please Help Carolyn Capalbo

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Dover New Hampshire Realtor®  Dover New Hampshire real estate and homes for sale

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Barrington NH waterfront homes for sale

Barrington NH waterfront homes for sale

As of today, Thursday, Aug. 5th, there are 28 homes in Barrington NH for sale with direct, water front access.  Many of them are on the local, ponds, and lakes, but a few of them are on the many rivers that flow through Barrington.

Barrington NH waterfront home  This 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom home is located on a .21 acre lot and offers 50 ft. of water frontage on Long Pond

 

Barrington NH waterfront home  This 1400 sq. ft. home offers 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and is located on a .14 acre lot with 80 ft. of water frontage on North River Lake.

 

Barrington NH water front home  This 2 bedroom, 3 bathroom, ranch style home is located on a .24 acre lot and offers 100 ft. of water frontage on Swains Lake.


These homes are just a small example of the Water front homes for sale in Barringtn New Hampshire.  The price range for the homes range from $99,900 up to $649,000

For more information, photos, or to schedule a showing, contact Bill Somerset, Century 21 Central Falls Realty at 603-512-5971, or by email at bill@century21central.com 

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Subject to errors, omissions, prior sale, change or withdrawal without notice. The agency referenced may or may not be the listing agency for this property.

 

 

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