MIddleton, Wisconsin is #1 - Bill and Cathy Helped!

17 July 2007 - Middleton, Wisconsin

It's people like Bill and Cathy that make Middleton, Wisconsin the Best Place to Live in America.

CNNMoney.com came out with their annual list of the best places this week and this modest suburb of Madison took first prize. Middleton is attracting the kind of people that want to live in a place with access. reasonable real estate prices, low crime, and a positive outlook. In the published interview, residents cited the tightknit community as to why this community rose to the top of an impressive heap.

A tightknit community? How do you get one of those? Well, let's get back to Bill and Cathy. These are the kind of people you want in your neighborhood. Bill coaches or assists in three community youth league sports. He's on committees and supports their games. He does business - their business, not his - locally with as many people as he can. He knows his neighbors, their kids, and can talk to them about jobs, family, and nothing at all very comfortably.

Bill and Cathy both volunteer at their son's school, providing support ranging from lunchroom work to field trip chaperones. Cathy is active in local committee and church groups. They vote, ride bikes, and help their neighbors shovel snow during the long Wisconsin winter. They are the good citizens of Middleton - They didn't move to the #1 community in America - they helped create it.

So why is this relevant to my blog and you? Bill is Bill Quigley, my business partner and friend. We maintain a small office in Middleton and Bill is the brains behind the problem-solving we do for our Robbins & Lloyd Mortgage clients. He's one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet and is the neighbor you've always wanted. And behind every great man...well that means Cathy is his equal in every way.


Congratulations to Bill and Cathy Quigley for living in America's best place - and congratulations to Middleton for finding them. They are a small part of a big deal, like the tiny jewels in a Rolex watch that make it so precise - and so very precious.

Art Blanchet

Your Home-Your Money

STAGING For DOLLARS - with SHELL BRODNAX

Live on 16 June 2007 from Madison, Wisconsin

STAGING INTERVIEW - Listening Info...

You have been invited by Bill Quigley and Art Blanchet to join in a live TalkShoe simulcast with TalkShoe from Madison 1670-the Pulse. Recorded audio is also available for listening.

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• Next episode: #72 - STAGING for DOLLARS - with Shell Brodnax, Sat, June 16, 2007 10:00 AM EDT

Tis the season to be Selling...and there's lots of competition in home sales this year. One underused weapon in your Home Selling Arsenal is staging - which is the art of presenting your home in its best light. To help us out we've invited Staging Marketing and Business Coach Shell Brodnax of the Staging Career Center to share ideas and tips about how to stage your home for maximum selling impact.

Shell also founded RESA - the Real Estate Staging Association - and knows her stuff. Join us in this live feed from WTDY, Madison 1670 - The Pulse.

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  • #73 - The Evil Empire - Those Nasty Online Lenders, Sat, June 23, 2007 10:00 AM EDT

Shop Your Lender BEFORE You SIgn - 12 Easy Steps to Saving Your Credit and Identity

6 June 2007 - Madison, Wisconsin

Got a mortgage loan? Not sure it's the best deal? Think there's smoke and mirrors? You are not alone. But how do you scan the mortgage landscape without having your credit dinged to oblivion - or get lenders calling you the next two years (which is NOT an exaggeration!)?

Listen here as we relate a realife adventure of a client and friend as we explain how to compare-shop lenders and keep the credit unscathed. "Peter" followed these instructions (12 Steps) exactly and only gained, gained, gained.

Reality Radio at its useful best! We help when we can.

Art Blanchet

Bill Quigley

Your Home-Your Money.com

RADON, ASBESTOS and LEAD - OH MY!

4 May 2007 - Madison, Wisconsin

The Mortgage Guys rip one from the podcasting archives in this favorite about Home Inspections.

#22 - RADON, ASBESTOS and LEAD, OH MY!

Nope. We're not in Kansas any more Toto - we're in Real Estate! Now it's time to find out what's more dangerous - the Wicked Witch of the West or Your House. To do that, you need a home inspection...

"I'm ALREADY paying for an appraisal - now you say I should pay for a Home Inspection?!?!" Welllll...after you listen to this this recorded interview with Kimberly St. Louis, a Certified Home Inspector with A-Pro Home Inspections (a-pro.net/madison), you may want to spring for it! Kimberly talks to The Mortgage Guys about just what an inspection is, who benefits from it, and discusses the powerful information contained in the report.

Whether you are buying a brand new yellow brick home or live in a century-old castle (flying monkeys and all), Kimberly says a home inspection might save you thousands of dollars and even uncover health and safety hazards (a little fire, Scarecrow?).

Don't worry, Bill Quigley and Art Blanchet will get you all the info you need, and it won't cost you a tin', man.

http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/audioPop.jsp?episodeId=1071

(FREE "Podcasting & Real Estate" webinar coming your way - email us at info@yourhome-yourmoney.com (Subject: Podcasting) to queue up. Details will be forthcoming.)

Ben Benanke's Rival Makes His Bid - or Why I'll Never Look at the Federal Reserve the Same Way Again

A little treat for those who keep track of the Federal Reserve. Remember Sting, The Police, and"Every Breath You Take" - you will, very soon...

Personally, I think Ben Bernanke is doing well, but it's difficult to measure a man's performance as Fed Chief after only a year. Give Mr. Bernanke a presidential administration of two to show his stuff, then evaluate.

The singer in this video is Glenn Hubbard, Dean of the Columbia School of Business - and you thought these guys were GEEKS! Ha!! You can't judge all college deans by National Lampoon's Animal House standards.

In the mean time, enjoy this little ditty courtesy of YouTube, with a special thanks to Shailesh Ghimire of Arizona for pointing this at me.