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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Read More about the The Trulia Debate. There has been a considerable amount of debate around here about the need for Trulia and its real estate website. Many of the participants in the debate tend to be web savvy REALTORs who grow tired of current and new third party companies who seem to have the goal of dominating real estate related search terms in the most heavily used search engines. The hottest point of the debate concerning Trulia in my good friend Ryan Ward’s REW blog (Atlanta Real Estate) post was the fact that Trulia places No-Follow tags on the property listing links back to REALTORs websites. This is of concern partly because the reason for doing so is to tell the search engines that you do not trust this website and so do not give any credit… Read Full Post

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Stunning Colonial with breathtaking views of NYC Manhattan. Magnificent entrance foyer with turned staircase, custom kitchen, spacious rooms, gleaming wood floors.   All on New Jersey's Midtown Direct Train Line taking you to NYC…

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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It is really winter as I write this but when it comes to the Summit NJ Real Estate market it sure does feel like spring to me.  Call after call from buyers looking for this, or buyers looking for that, not your normal January & February market.

Not sure how all the other REALTORs out there are doing, but I have heard from a few that they feel the same thing I am feeling, so something is up.

Here are the current Summit stats for 02/17/2008

$     267,500     Lowest priced Summit NJ Home Currently For Sale
$10,500,000    Highest Priced Summit NJ Home Currently For Sale
$   1,089,165   Average Summit NJ Home Currently For Sale
$      789,000    Median Summit NJ Home Currently For Sale

If you would like to see the homes which sold in 2007 visit Summit NJ…

Chatham New Jersey has 106 homes currently for sale. That seems like a lot of homes for sale but it really is not that many. During this state wide real estate downturn Chatham and the surrounding communities have been holding up much better than New Jersey as a whole. This is due in large part to the excellent school system offered in Chatham, as well as comparatively low property taxes, and easy access to New York City by the Midtown Direct train line running though Chatham.

Currently the average days on the market for a Chatham NJ home to sell is about 73.  That is not bad considering the stories we hear about other markets with average days on market hovering around 150 and in some cases 200 days on market.

If you would like to take a look at the…

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…