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Willow Bend Farms, a new homes community thats raising the bar in new construction/homes in West Lampeter twp. Lancaster, Pa

Monday, December 29th, 2008

One of The Shreiner Group’s listings is a new homes community in West Lampeter Twp, Lancaster, Pa. This new homes development is great! It’s intelligent, aesthetically pleasing, responsible, up-scale, and built by a trusted, one-of-a-kind, professional custom home builder, none other than Metzler Home Builders who has been providing top notch homes for Lancaster County for several generations.

Willow Bend Farms boasts two-miles of paved walking trails, maintenance free homes, minimal home-owner association costs, a club house, pavilion, cobblestone lined streets, options galore, and most of all prices starting just under $200,000. Come see what Alex Reedy, Kris Lundquist, The Shreiner Group, and most of all Metzler Builders can build for you today. See our latest article in the Lancaster Sunday newspaper. Let me know if would like to share your thoughts or have our entire development’s detailed selection emailed to you today. Thanks for reading!

Alex Reedy


Lancaster Restaurant Review… John J. Jeffries

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Lancaster Arts Hotel, is not only a top notch place to spend an evening in Lancaster City, Pa., it’s a traditional transformed tobacco warehouse from 1881. This place is great! I’m not writing about the hotel though, I’m writing about the food.

John J Jeffries is the hotel’s restaurant. This place is great! This fine restaurant boasts exceptional food and wonderful service. They support local farms which is great, and provide an organic cuisine. John J Jeffries got it’s name from an 1890 tobacco inspector’s ticket found within the building. If you get a free evening, and want to experience one of Lancaster City’s finest dining spots, check out Lancaster Arts Hotel’s restaurant, John J Jeffries.

Click here to go to Lancaster Arts Hotel’s site

 

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How’s Lancaster County’s Real Estate market? Well…

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

It’s not the best time to sell but it sure is a great time to buy!! Here in Lancaster County we’ve seen the pinch a little, not so much in values, but more so in sales. Values aren’t far off their mark, but overall buyer confidence is a little weak.

Lancaster County currently has a huge inventory of great homes, at great prices. With rates being below in the mid 5% range, it would be a good choice to buy that first investment property, or invest in a new home, or downsize. So if you would like to see what Lancaster County could do for your portfolio, what is currently on the market or if you’d like to look for a new home, give me a call 717-286-9607

Alex


A market turn around in sight… I’m not sure but it’s a great time to invest in Lancaster County Real Estate!

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

I’m not really sure if a market turn around is in sight. What I do know is interest rates are the lowest they’ve been in 50 some years. I’m learning the news does a good job of delivering the bad news. What would happen if they made some empty threat of an attempt to deliver the positive news about what our economy is experiencing? What these “hard times” have given birth to? New ideas, new room for businesses that are willing to do what it takes and compete. Who will be the ones that come out on top and why will they come out on top? What is the best plan of action to come out on top for people that don’t already own companies that are in line to be bailed out? Take Milton Hershey for example, he faced YEARS of hardship and failure until he built the company we know today, read about that here Click here

In the TV news defense I’ve heard some of the things I’ve just mentioned. Why not more, why not devoting time nightly as a time for encouragement, just a little positive reinforcement? What people are doing to help others.

Lancaster, Pa has a diverse job market, and a slow but stable real estate market and sustains better than most, yet we all experience this economic belt tightening in our daily travels, meetings, phone calls, bank statements, news and so on. Either way here we are, why not soak it up and learn what we can. No matter how big or bad, or how undeserving,everything has something positive to take home. This is a free education, this will make us all leaner and meaner if we let it. I feel like this is one of those years where we just got dropped in the deep end of the pool, and its the first time we’ve experienced water. Some of us will THINK its too overwhelming and drown, some will get cramps and TRY, and some WILL act and swim. Think of the values and lessons it’s going to instill in us, our family and our generations to come. Think of the opportunities this will give us or expose us to. I realize that things are not concrete or cookie cutter and everyone will experience this differently, the 75 year old ready to retire, will react much differently than the 24 year old aspiring to take on the world entreprenuer. I’m just trying to make light of what we’re all watching unfold around us.