Still searching for that perfect home? Inventory shortages have affected both first-time buyers and move-up buyers. You can't sell if there's nothing to buy! You can't buy if there's nothing for sale! HST Home Selling Team has 5 new listings Coming Soon in Willington, Eastford, Mansfield, Chaplin, & Lebanon and more coming on the market [...]
2022 was an exciting and prosperous year at HST. We worked, we collaborated, we learned, we worked some more. 2021 was a different year: we masked, we gloved, we cleaned, we zoomed, we learned, and worked a lot, sometimes with stressed clients and stressed agents. In 2022, as the COVID pandemic has slowly lessened its stranglehold on [...]
The 2022 Celebrate Mansfield Festival at Downtown Storrs will be held Saturday, September 24th 2-8 pm. Shrug off the pandemic blues and celebrate all that the Mansfield Storrs UConn community has to offer at this free family event. Don’t worry about the parking! You can park in the parking garage for free all day and additional parking [...]
New England has been experiencing more rainfall and more intense storms due to the increasing amounts of CO2 in our atmosphere —which is effectively an insulating blanket around our planet—pushing temperatures on land and sea to rise. In Rhode Island, known as the "ocean state", annual precipitation has risen by 5 inches since 1950 and the [...]
The insect population has dropped by 45% over the last 4 decades. 40% of all insects are at risk of extinction. It’s our fault. Habitat loss, rampant pesticide use, millions of acres of sterile grass and urbanization and the replacement of native plants with pest-resistant ornamentals, are responsible for the putting insects in imminent [...]
Freudenfreude: taking delight in someone else's achievement, the opposite of schadenfreude.
You may be familiar with Schadenfreude, a word of German orgin, that has gotten new attention after appearing in an episode of Ted Lasso. I ran across this word, freudenfreude, which aptly describes how I feel each and every day as the Broker [...]
Many milestones were met or exceeded this year in the efforts to aid homeowners with crumbling basements in Eastern and Central Connecticut. Amassing funds from state bond allotment, the Healthy Homes surcharge, interest, and donations, the [...]
18 years ago Willimantic’s reputation for rampant drug use was profiled by 60 Minute’s Dan Rather, who referred to Willi as a “drug infested small town." This nationally televised report came on the heels of a 5-part series by the Hartford Courant which garnered a spot on the Pulitzer Prize finalist list for the photographer. The town’s [...]
“I am really disappointed and quite frankly a little angry. My husband and I went to go look at 27 Snipsic Lake Road in Ellington, CT. We were going to make an offer, but thankfully my husband did some digging and found out the house has a foundation issue. I think it is sneaky and probably illegal not to disclose that information to
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