I have just turned 40, and not it's the first day of summer.  What a weekend!

We are still keeping steady with our inventory flow (helping others with buying and selling) for the Eagan Team.

Stay tuned for our new listing announcements-

In the meantime, here is what our clients have to say:

http://eagans.com/gold_testimonials.asp

:) Allison Scott-Eagan

http://www.youtube.com/embed/yGfrAG-769w

Learning how to embed in this particular blog :)

It has been a few years since we have lived in a Victorian home.  Now we live in a 1915 Arts and Crafts Bungalow....very close to Old Louisville. 

For a combined total of 25 years we have been living in, selling or helping others buy these incredible pieces of architecture.  Louisville has so many of them, preserved with all their historic charm.

- Old Louisville is full of these gems-and some are for sale at the moment.  We love these homes, and specialize in the knowledge of where to point to when you have specific needs in taking care of them. Contact us for renovation contractor recommendations, or a home market analysis to sell your home, or a list of homes about to be listed for sale, or ones that are already available to buy, in the Old Louisville area.

The Highlands, and Cherokee Triangle have a lot to offer in the way of victorians, as well as more arts and crafts, as well as tudors, etc.

Contact us to find which of these beautiful homes is coming up for sale, which ones are available on the market now.  If you are needing a home market analysis of your Cherokee/Highlands Home, we can help

Then there is Clifton and Crescent Hill....the list is plentiful!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recession_shapes

Recession shapes

Recession shapes are used by economists to describe different types of recessions. There is no specific academic theory or classification system for recession shapes; rather the terminology is used as an informal shorthand to characterize recessions and their recoveries.^[1]

The most commonly used terms are V-shaped, U-shaped, W-shaped, and L-shaped recessions. The shapes take their names from the approximate shape economic data make in graphs during recessions. The letters can also be applied referring to the recoveries (ie "V-shaped recovery").

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A W-shaped recession or "double dip" recession, occurs when the economy has a recession, emerges from the recession with a short period of growth, but quickly falls back into recession.

The early 1980s recession in the United States is cited as an example of a W-shaped recession. The National Bureau of Economic Research considers two recessions to have occurred in the early 1980s.^[4] The economy fell into recession from January 1980 to July 1980, shrinking at an 8 percent annual rate from April to June of 1980. The economy then entered a quick period of growth, and in the first three months of 1981 grew at an 8.4 percent annual rate. As the Federal Reserve under Paul Volcker raised interest rates to fight inflation, the economy dipped back into recession (hence, the "double dip") from July 1981 to November 1982. The economy then entered a period of mostly robust growth for the rest of the decade.

Now you know....

What Homeownership Truly Means

by Steve Harney on March 15, 2011 · 1 comment

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Last week, my son and I were flying home after spending a week at The LeadingRE Conference in Las Vegas. He said he couldn’t wait to sleep ‘in my own house’ again. That made me think of this blog post I wrote last year. – Steve

My son, Bill and his fiance, Charlotte

My Son, His New Home, and What It Means

Every week we try to help you put an accurate value on housing in today’s real estate market. We give you all the charts, report on all the surveys, and quote every housing expert willing to talk on the subject. And we are still not 100% sure what prices should be. At best, we can only tell you what we think.

This week was different. I was able to personally FEEL the true value of a home. My older son closed on his first home yesterday. I have the great fortune to work with him at our company. I get to see him a lot when I am not traveling. This week I was home and got to spend every day with him.

I saw how nervous he was as he got all the last minute paperwork together. I heard the relief in his voice when he found out that he had overestimated his costs and would need to bring a little less money to the closing. I could feel how proud he was when he hugged me as he left the office the night before the closing.

He should be proud. He just purchased his own home. He just took a major step toward accomplishing the American Dream. He now owns a piece of this country. He now has a community he can call his own. He has a place to go ‘home’ to every night, a place where he can work in the yard, a place he can invite friends and showoff his ‘castle’, a place where he will someday raise his family.

Owning a home makes things different. You can’t necessarily explain it logically. But you can feel it. That feeling is the real value of a home AND IT IS PRICELESS.

My son slept in his own home last night. I am happy for him