The property manager met us in the visitor lot with a site map and one question. “Can you price it per building and tell us what you need from residents?”

very spring, I notice Hartford County home sales on our own calendar before I read about them anywhere. In late winter the calls are mostly about green siding or a

Last spring we pulled up to a cape on a quiet side street near Mill Pond Park. I had guessed the decade before I was out of the truck. Steep

One spring we were called to a 1960s ranch in Newington. The homeowners were thinking about selling in a year or so, and a deck board had gone soft under

Last spring I pulled into a driveway in Newington for a return visit. Before I was out of the truck, I could see what had come back first. A light

Most years I can tell you the week the yellow shows up without checking a calendar. I walk out to the truck in the morning, and the hood has a

North-facing siding under a big tree is the wall we get asked about most in Newington. A while back I walked one with the homeowner before a wash. The front

Last spring a homeowner in Newington called us about the driveway. The snow was gone, the slab looked gray and stained, and they wanted “just a wash.” When I walked

One spring we washed a cape a couple of streets off the Berlin Turnpike in Newington. The homeowner called because the house “looked dingy” and the front windows stayed smeared

We pulled into a driveway in Newington early one morning in late summer, and the roof was wet. It had not rained overnight. The homeowner came out and pointed at