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10/27/2026

2 things about the house you bought this year that nobody told you at closing.

The first is the air conditioning. If it was under 65 degrees the day your house got inspected, the inspector wasn’t required to test it, and a lot of them don’t. That’s the industry standard, not a shortcut. Running an AC in cold weather can send refrigerant into the compressor as liquid and wreck it, so the report says “not tested due to weather” and everybody moves on. The furnace in a summer inspection gets about the same treatment the other way. Turned on, watched, written up as “operational,” turned off. Sunday night the clocks go back and the real heating season starts, and that’s when the house tells you what the report didn’t.

For that we send people to Aire Serv of West Chester. They’ll go through what you inherited, oil furnace, boiler, heat pump or mini split, any brand, and tell you what shape it’s actually in. Priced by the job, number upfront, and a free second opinion before anybody tells you to replace it.

The second is the windows. On the standard Pennsylvania agreement of sale, blinds, shades and the window covering hardware stay with the house unless the seller specifically writes them out. Buyers don’t know that, so they don’t ask. Sellers take them down on the way out anyway, because they paid for them and nobody said otherwise. And the week it gets dark at 5:00 pm, every bare window in the house is a lit screen from the street. If you’re buying, it’s a line worth reading before you sign. If you already own, the blinds you’ve got are the ones you’re keeping.

For that we send people to Bumble Bee Blinds of Chesco and Delco. A design consultant comes to the house with the samples, so you’re choosing against your own walls and your own light instead of a website. Blinds, cellular shades, shutters and drapes, and they get back to you within 1 business day.

Both are part of our Preferred Vendor Program, the names our agents hand out when somebody asks “who do you know for this.”

Did your blinds come with the house, or did you walk into bare windows?

10/26/2026

Right on Route 100 in Upper Uwchlan there’s a white farmhouse, a big barn and 56 acres of open ground.

It’s Upland Farm Park. Paved and natural trails from dawn to dusk, a historic farmhouse, and a bank barn that burned down, got rebuilt, and now has an event space upstairs with classrooms underneath. People rent it through the township for birthday parties and the like. Parking is off Darrell Drive, not Route 100.

What makes it worth a post isn’t the trails. It’s how the township ended up owning it.

Upper Uwchlan didn’t buy this land. When the Windsor Ridge subdivision came through for approval, the township used something called a transfer of development rights. The builder got to put the homes in at Windsor Ridge, and in exchange the development rights on this farm went away for good. The farm became a park. That’s the trade.

So every time you see new homes going in around here and wonder what the township got out of it, this is one of the answers. 56 acres that stay open because a neighborhood got built somewhere else.

If you’ve been to the barn for a party or walk the trails, tell us what it’s like down there.

10/23/2026

11 trunk or treats in and around Downingtown this weekend, so here's the full lineup.

Friday night kicks things off at Hibernia County Park.

Saturday is the big day, with the Farmers Market at Kerr Park in the morning, trunk or treats from 10:00 am all the way to 9:00 pm, and the D-Town Brew-Down at Minquas Fire Company from 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm for the 21+ crowd. Every dollar from the Brew-Down goes to the Downingtown Library.

Sunday has the Doggie Trunk Or Treat, Trick Or Treat On Main Street, Brandywine Grace Church, and Texas Roadhouse.

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10/21/2026

29 acres on Lincoln Highway in Thorndale, and for as long as anybody can remember it’s been trucks. Repair bays, a parts yard, the kind of property you drive past without thinking about what it could be.

In June 2024 somebody did think about it. A plan went to Caln Township to redevelop the whole tract. The Planning Commission recommended the conditional use that October, the Board of Commissioners granted it, and the Zoning Hearing Board signed off on the relief it needed. The final plan came back in April, the Planning Commission voted 6-0 for it on June 16th, and the commissioners gave it final approval in July.

The conditions are the usual: follow the engineer’s review letters, post financial security, and set up a homeowners association.

What got approved is roughly 100 townhouses. The township page says 103, the Planning Commission minutes say 97, and the final number will come with the recorded plan. Approved is not built. Nothing says a shovel is in the ground yet, so this is approved townhouses, not coming townhouses.

It’s Caln Township, so these will be Coatesville Area School District with a Thorndale address. And it’s the same stretch of Lincoln Highway as the Sheetz site, so between the 2 of them this end of Thorndale is going to look different in a few years.

It is a large project and will change the landscape of this section of Route 30. What are your thoughts on this?

10/20/2026

This is what a basement flood looks like in Chester County. The water outside the door is already higher than the floor inside, and it’s coming in faster than it can go down.

When it’s over, the question is always the same: who do I even call for this?

It’s not a plumber, inspector, or the guy on Google with the biggest ad that is usually a franchise dispatcher 3 states away. What you do in the first day or 2 is what decides whether this is a wet basement or a mold problem.

When somebody we work with asks us that, we send them to My Water Damage Hero . Stephen and Tonya George own it, and it’s owner operated, not a franchise. They come out and do a free visual inspection first, so you find out what you’re dealing with before anybody sells you anything. If it turns out to be mold, they have an industrial hygienist on staff instead of subbing it out, the testing goes to independent accredited labs, and the remediation comes with a 3 year or 10 year warranty. They also do radon testing, which matters on the older homes around here. And when it’s an actual flood like this 1, they answer 24/7.

Once the water is out and the walls are dry, the basement still isn’t done. Everything the flood touched needs a real cleaning before anybody stores a thing down there again, and for that we send people to Sani-Cleanse, LLC in Downingtown. 20 plus years of residential cleaning, now doing commercial too, including electrostatic sanitation, which is the step that matters after floodwater has been through a space.

10/19/2026

The white house at 1103 Foundry Street in Caln Township sold back in 2022. 7.7 acres, mostly open lawn and trees, and for 4 years nothing visible has happened to it.

Behind the scenes it's been moving. In January the buyer's engineer sat in front of the Caln Planning Commission with a plan to split the property into 7 lots, 6 twins and 1 detached home, with a new street coming off Foundry near Eleventh Avenue.

The township had questions about the street, the stormwater basin and the trees, and the Environmental Advisory Council wants 68% of the land kept as open space.

So who buys 7.7 acres in Caln, sits on it for 4 years, and then asks to put 7 homes and a road on it?

Habitat for Humanity of Chester County.
These are affordable homes. The buyers are working people who qualify on income, can't get a conventional mortgage, and still carry a mortgage payment on the house. They put in hundreds of hours of their own labor on the build before they get the keys, and a restriction on the deed keeps the house from being flipped at market price.

Habitat's recent work has been in the city of Coatesville, so this is new ground for them.
The subdivision application is in, the preliminary plan is next, and the township's clock on it runs out this Wednesday, October 21st.

A few more affordable homes in this area is a good thing for the community.

Would you have guessed it was Habitat?

10/17/2026

Fantanarosa Insurance Agency worked out of 3532 Lincoln Highway for decades, and now it’s ready for whoever is next.

You walk into a bright foyer with laminate hardwood floors that run through the whole first floor, an open layout with private offices and a kitchenette, and 3 more private offices and a half bath upstairs. The lower level is unfinished and works for storage, and there’s a walk up attic you could finish into more office space down the road. Out back there are 10 plus parking spaces and a single garage, which makes life a lot easier when clients are coming and going.

It sits in Caln Township’s business district with 15,000 to 20,000 cars going by every day, close to the train station and the main routes. If you’ve been renting and wondering what it would look like to own the building your business is in, this is a great opportunity to do so. AND possible owner financing is available.

10/17/2026

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10/16/2026

Halloween is 2 weeks out and October is going fast, so this is a good weekend to get out and do something.

Saturday morning starts early with the Unite For HER Run/Walk in downtown West Chester at 7:00 am, and the Downingtown Farmers Market is at Kerr Park from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm.

The American Indian Cultural Festival at Historic Joanna Furnace runs Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 am - 6:00 pm, with the Grand Entry at noon. It's $5, and free for kids under 10 and seniors over 65.

Exton Park Fall Fest kicks off at 11:00 am and it's free.

Saturday night, Interstate Paranormal Research is running a full investigation at the Paoli Battlefield from 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm. It's $45 a person and all of it goes to the Paoli Battlefield Preservation Fund.

Sunday the festival is back for day 2, and the NSA bookfair at the Exton Barnes & Noble runs both days.

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