Sherri Mercurio Blog

During this time, we have remained committed to helping home buyers and sellers. We continue to list properties, show property and help sellers and buyers get to the closing process. We achieve these goals with an eye always on the health and safety of our clients and team members.  We are still actively showing property, and below are some details on our showing protocols.    

We continue to monitor the situation, day by day, hour by hour, to ensure our policies are effectively ensuring the well-being of you, our agents and our staff. We hope you are staying safe & healthy.   

I've enjoyed the roomy space of a 5,000 square foot home and honestly loved my 300 square foot cabin in Lincoln. It goes without saying, the larger homes I have occupied provided far more space (obviously) to "live". You have room and a spot for all of your stuff. The Christmas decorations have a home and don't have to live under the bed. Of course everything related to a larger home is more expensive. Heating, cooling and every repair or remodeling job is exponentially more costly.

In this time of sheltering in place, as a society we have become more keenly aware of our living conditions and our level of satisfaction therein. So will we see a shift? Are the days of the "tiny home" numbered? During this odd time in our lives the folks at realtor.com® and Toluna Insights surveyed 1,300 homeowners to get their thoughts on their l...

Click Here to Read More...

There are two crises in this country right now: a health crisis that has forced everyone into their homes and a financial crisis caused by our inability to move around as we normally would. Over 20 million people in the U.S. became instantly unemployed when it was determined that the only way to defeat this horrific virus was to shut down businesses across the nation. One second a person was gainfully employed, a switch was turned, and then the room went dark on their livelihood.

The financial pain so many families are facing right now is deep.

How deep will the pain cut?

Major institutions are forecasting unemployment rates last seen during the Great Depression. Here are a few projections:

• Goldman Sachs – 15%
• Merrill Lynch – 10.6%
• Wells Fargo â...

Click Here to Read More...

 

We're Open...But Working From Home Offices, Our Vehicles, Practicing Social Distancing & More!

We are committed to helping home buyers and sellers by continuing to add new listings and move sellers through the closing process. We want to achieve these goals with an eye always on the health and safety of our clients and team members. To that end, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu has deemed real estate an essential business, and we are working within the guidelines laid out by the State of New Hampshire along with our own guidelines - we are still actively showing property, just in a diffe...

Click Here to Read More...

Day 37 of At-Home Quarantine and Still the Very Busy Office

I try not to look at the calendar as it brings everything to reality. For this blog, I will say that I have been on home quarantine now for 37 days and I will continue until COVID is under control. I understand that compared to the rest of the world and in many places in the country this is not very long. But, for an administrator/Broker for an office of 7 agents, an Executive Assistant and a satellite office of 5 agents I am lonely. The typical day would be blistering fast with agents that fly into the office and stop and tell me that they just met with a great person that wants to list their house or that they just showed 4 great properties and will be writing up an offer soon. Then there will be that agent that fill me in and catches me up with what is hap...

Click Here to Read More...