James Boyer's Blog: Morristown Real Estate

In these times of homes for sale sitting on the market for 90 to 180 days, many times not selling at all, it is such a pleasure when as a REALTOR you get the chance to work with a home seller who is willing to listen to everything you advise them of and actually follow your advice.

I got to experence this once again recently.  I went to the potential clients home, and gave them my honest opinion on the condition of their home and how likely I thought it was that it would even attract a offer at all.  The home owners and I made up a list of improvements which they could complete in 3 weeks time and then we put the list into a priority order.  The home owners worked the list diligently and at the end of the 3 weeks almost everything on the list was…

Morristown NJ Mayor Donald Cresitello plans to introduce the same $37.8 million budget which the city council has rejected.  The Morristown City council rejected this budget just a few weeks ago because as they said, Mayor Cresitello's budget included big tax increases.

Morristown Mayor Cresitello believes he has already cut the budget enough and that the taxpayers of Morristown should just deal with another 4.5% tax increase.  Any further cuts beyond the current cuts the Mayor has offered would be draconian.

To be fair, I don't know the details of the Morristown NJ city budget, but Morristown just like most New Jersey towns has a big budget problem and that problem is only getting worse each year.  A big part of that problem is the retirement and…

According to a recent article in the Daily Record News Paper Morristown NJ Mayor Donald Cresitello will fire 12 police officers, since he is not getting his way with the Morristown Council who refused to pass the Mayor's $37.8 million city budget on a 4 to 3 vote.

Come on Mr. Cresitello, can't you put some effort into figuring out a smaller budget what works?  It has been reported that Morristown will be increasing real estate taxes over 3% this year.  Why can't our local governments learn to do more with less just like the residents of our towns have had to do with their personal budgets.

It is time to put city government on a Diet!!

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According to a article in today's Daily Record Morristown New Jersey's Mayor Donald Cresitello is at it again.  

Cresitello wants to deputize local police officers to enforce federal immigration laws under a program known as 287G. The plan would give approximately 10 local police officers the same enforcement powers as agents of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"I don't think it's dead yet," Cresitello said to the Daily Record. "Maybe I can embarrass the president, the attorney general and the freeholders."

I don't intend to get wound up in immigration issue as it really is not my area of interest.  I wonder though, why is it that the Morristown NJ Mayor has so much time to devote to this issue, but seemingly no time to…

In the continuing story, Morristown Memorial Hospital owners Atlantic Health deny having parts of their operation here in Morristown as for profit entities. 

Still Morristown pushes forward trying to collect real estate taxes. 

It has been my opinion for a while not that Morristown NJ government officials should be spending the vast majority of their time trying to find ways to cut spending, rather then finding ways to ring more money out of places like Morristown Memorial Hospital.  I think that cost cutting efforts would be much more appreciated by the voters of Morristown.

To read more on this story visit Morristown NJ seeking more tax money. 

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Many people who live in one of the Midtown Direct towns already may know this, but that train line really helps property values.  It looks like in the future the Midtown Direct train line will enhance property values even more than it does today.

With fuel prices looking like they will be $3 or higher for the foreseeable future and more and more people trying to be eco friendly there are going to be more and more people wanting the ability to walk or bike to a train station so that they can commute into New York City or some of the Eastern New Jersey cities. 

When looking for a home in Northern New Jersey, you would be very wise to keep this trend in mind and give the train line towns extra consideration.

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Morris Township Officials report that there is a small parking ticket boom happening at the Convent Station Train Station.  Morris Township police are writing 15 to 30 more parking ticket a day at the train station ever since the closure of the 128 parking space lot accross the street from the Morristown train station.

The lot accross the street from the Morristown Train Station closed in January of 2008 so that construction of Transit Village could begin.  Transit Village will be 218 home rentals, and over 700 parking spaces and is slated to be completed in July of 2009.

As a remedy for parking issues which were created by the closure of the parking lot in Morristown, New Jersey Transit offered a free shuttle bus service from Headquarters Plaza to the…

With 122 homes on the market in Morristown NJ, you might think that there were lots of great homes currently available in Morristown, and you would be right.

Here are the latest statistics for Morristown NJ as of 02/15/2009

$   209,900     Is the lowest priced home for sale in town
$1,795,000     is the highest priced home for sale in town
$   504,910     The average price home for sale in town
$   449,900      the median price home for sale in Morristown 

90.1 is the average day on market     50.0 is the median days on market

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