When I walk to Watchung Plaza from my Montclair home, I take a short route  through an interconnected grid of streets and through a small park.  I wave to my neighbor on the way.  I stop for a brief minute in the park to chat with a friend who's on her way home from work (she's just gotten off the 5:31 [...]

As you may or may not know, rental transactions are a marginal business for real estate agents.  They require many hours, uncertain payoff and a very small commission.  However, many agents handle rentals with the knowledge that renters often become buyers at a later date and therefore view it as an investment in a relationship rather than a [...]

 For those of us who opted for the staycation this year, ArtsMaplewood and SOPAC offer a welcome distraction:  Free Outdoor Performances for Kids & Families  Kids: bring your parents to this event, grab your red-checkered picnic blanket, but leave the basket at home. Whole Foods will be on site selling delicious meals for the [...]

For years, New Jersey was sprawling westward, northward, and southward with real estate development in formerly rural areas. Now the recession has hit and so many of those big new shiny houses a couple of hours outside the city are losing value rapidly--despite their newness, their immense pasture-like lawns, and quiet isolation. What seemed [...]