Author Archives: Christine Fraioli

Walkable Vermont: Is This an Oxymoron?

Vermont is known for stunning vistas, great landscapes, and rural charm. Vermont is not known for public transportation or easy-to-reach destinations. The phrase “You can’t get there from here” is notorious in this part of New England for its accuracy, …Read More

Walkable Vermont: Is This an Oxymoron?

Vermont is known for stunning vistas, great landscapes, and rural charm. Vermont is not known for public transportation or easy-to-reach destinations. The phrase “You can’t get there from here” is notorious in this part of New England for its accuracy, …Read More

Studs or Four-Wheel Drive, Do You have what it takes to get home to your Vermont Property?

Here in Addison County we are getting slammed by a wonderful snow storm: Snow until midnight…then snow showers likely after midnight. Total snow accumulation of 8 to 12 inches. Winds gusting to 35 mph. The snow plow came here earlier, …Read More

Vermont Real Estate New Year’s Resolutions

Vermont Realtors are not immune to the challenges of keeping our New Year’s Resolutions. Like you, we resolve year after year to lose weight, get more exercise, spend more time with family, spend less time on the computer, get more …Read More

Merry Christmas from Middlebury: Christine’s Holiday Fruitcake

Fruitcake is the butt of many seasonal jokes, but my favorite fruitcake is no laughing matter – until you’ve enjoyed too much of it, that is. I offer my recipe here as a holiday treat to my past and future …Read More

Vermont Club 251: Christmas in Vergennes with Currier and Ives

Founded in 1788, Vergennes is Vermont’s first city. It is also our state’s smallest city: two square miles of cuter than Currier and Ives. Decked out for the holidays, the town green features a snow-covered nativity scene that has a …Read More

Vermont Club 251: Christmas in Vergennes with Currier and Ives

Founded in 1788, Vergennes is Vermont’s first city. It is also our state’s smallest city: two square miles of cuter than Currier and Ives. Decked out for the holidays, the town green features a snow-covered nativity scene that has a …Read More

Staging your Vermont Property for the holidays

Just because Vermont skies are threatening snow, dreidels are spinning and Santa is lurking around the bend does not mean that you should forsake plans to sell your Vermont property during the holidays. Most Realtors agree that taking your home …Read More

Thanksgiving in Vermont and the Evolution of the American Dining Room

It’s mid-November and hosts across Vermont and the rest of the country are polishing their silverware for the onslaught of family and friends at Thanksgiving. And where will we gather to give thanks? The dining room, of course. Football games …Read More

Do you have what it takes to be a great Vermont Innkeeper?

Stick season in Vermont is a good time to take stock and determine if you have what it takes to be an innkeeper or run a B&B in the Green Mountain state. Traditionally this time of year marked a time …Read More

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