Take a video tour of homes for sale in Mentor this week:
5669 Hopkins Road: This 3-bedroom and 1-bathroom ranch house is a Freddie Mac/Homesteps foreclosure property being sold as is.
It has a new roof, a freshly painted interior, a wood-burning fireplace and a 2-car attached garage.
The seller is asking for $114,900 for the 1,232-square-foot house.
7468 Ohio Street: The asking price was recently reduced to $134,900 for this 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom home.
This split level is 1,756 square feet and has a .55-acre lot.
The house also features a 3-season patio room and 2-car attached garage.
7482 Center Street, Unit 5: This condo (two bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths) is in the historic Center Street School building.
It has a large master suite with glamour bath, granite counters, hardwood floors, stainless steel appliances and a rooftop terrace with wet bar.
The seller is asking for $295,000. It is also available for rent.
6243 Dunbar Drive: This single family home is available for only $90,000.
It has three bedrooms, two baths, a front porch and an updated kitchen.
This one probably qualifies as a fixer upper. The seller is advertising it as "some work needed."
Perhaps the next time, we can just click a link that takes us to the places you talk about, and not this gambit of repetition on Patch Patch Patch Patch.... you're not the only site on the internet, gladly. I'd fear Jason Lea of the Mentor Patch thought police would turn us into hipster cliches, full of insincerity and double speak legalese, overspent and angst ridden over copy pasting their news into my news. Long story short... black and white text isn't that hard to decipher. Cut the crap and drop a link to the websites of things you post online. No one has clairvoyance and we don't need to extract one line of information to attain information on another website. I'm tired of this cognitive dissonance poop.
And, if your concern is how I use the Patch Facebook page, then you should note how other news agencies use their Facebook pages. They almost exclusively post links to stories on their site.
Facebook has a direct link to Patch. We come to Patch. Patch takes you to a page with general news. So, if you were talking about Cold Stone Creamery or Buffalo Wild Wings, Patch only links to Patch, not the other sites. Patch has erroneous links, never having any direct website linkage when stories are being written about places with a website. No real cites, only assumed uniqueness. It's just another trip I make to detect information here, crop the wild card text, and then go to a website I need to to get the actual information. That doesn't make my life hard. The idiocy of it as a whole does. Simply put, you're a third party, much like training wheels to a bicycle. We could get rid of unnecessary banter by adding links that go from Patch to the actual website, usually done in the header with store or web info, for stories written on Patch and Patch only. I don't know how that undermines the intelligence of the editor, the journalists, Patch itself, or the site users, and, if you're the editor, and you don't understand that, it saddens me to see how, collectively, the educational system has failed us, at even the college level, and perhaps you should coordinate with journalism as a journalist again until you perfect it, and then return as editor. I can't see how they'd give someone inexperienced such an important job as this one without understanding people.
If I were a business owner, and Patch was interested in doing an article on me, how would I get word of mouth associated with the article link? It seems counter-intuitive to the practice not to have a way for a consumer to have access to information being propagated by the site detailing news. ABC, NBC, Getty, Reuters, AP, and several others, for instance, have direct links to the parties named if such pages exist. You're showing your column experience as amateur, at best. Kyle - I'm not certain you're helping this at all. I don't imagine they'd hand an editorial job to someone without a college education, so, you're grasping straws on your reflexive remark. "It is actually a really bad business practice to have a site direct you away like you are suggesting Patch should do." FALSE. Only if it's not the party named directly to their direct website. (i.e. - century21.com, etc.) Jason - it's "your," meaning belonging to or associated with any person in general, not "you're," meaning you are. Again, I'm just asking for a direct link. None such exists. My apologies for making such robust remarks when all I want is information. I'll go back to my code writing job now.