By: Carolyn Roland
After 20 years in the Real Estate business, I can almost predict what potential buyers (or just “tire kickers”) will ask when they see a nice fireplace in an historic home. Years ago, the sales trainers would instruct us to say, “If the fireplace works, will you buy the house?”

By: Carolyn Roland

Many people wonder what it means to specialize in listing and selling historic homes. If you stop to think about it, the clock of history is always ticking and today’s news becomes tomorrow’s history.

We can all remember back to the Twentieth Century, which isn’t all that long ago. Well, homes built from 1900 to 1950 fit one criterion for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.