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The The Bryant Hills Group LLC has a number of websites under active management and several under development. You are invited to inspect these sites and offer comments.

One of our newest websites is for one of our first clients, Thomas Kuehhas, who has moved to Virginia and started a new business, Time Traveler 1776. Time Traveler's unique hands-on Revolutionary War program makes early American history come alive for school and community audiences. The program is powered by Tom's infectious enthusiasm for history coupled with probing questions in the Socratic method. Spice is added by the opportunity to touch, feel, smell and try on museum-quality replicas of the uniforms and equipment worn by George Washington's soldiers. Need an upbeat, educational and entertaining presentation for your school or group? Check out Time Traveler 1776.

Now for a big thanks to our favorite Renaissance man, Ronald M. Gold, who has not only commissioned websites for himself, but has recommended many of our other clients. Thanks, Ron!

Ronald M. Gold: Commercial Real Estate Appraiser, NY: A past president of ASA's New York City Chapter, Ron appraises commercial and residential real estate in the New York metro area. Ron, who is a Vice President of the Greater Harlem Real Estate Board, teaches at the Learning Annex, and at the Real Estate Board of New York.
Music by Pianist Ron Gold: When he's not busy appraising, Ron can often be found tickling the ivories. The King of the Keyboard provides live music for business events, dinners, parties and weddings.
Now Hear This! The Quiz Show.: Another of Ron's passions is the game show he devised for music and the spoken word. It's called Now Hear This!

Ron introduced me to the American Society of Appraisers (ASA) for whom The Bryant Hills Group LLC now produces the award-winning sites for three local chapters. ASA is a professional society which accredits appraisers in Business Valuation, Gems & Jewelry, Machinery & Technical Specialties, Personal Property, and Real Property (Real Estate).

American Society of Appraisers: New York City Chapter: ASA's NY Chapter includes Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island appraisers.
American Society of Appraisers: New Jersey Chapter: Covering Northern New Jersey (metro NJ), this chapter has recently produced two Regional Governors and an International President for ASA.
American Society of Appraisers: Philadelphia Chapter: Covering the Philadelphia metro region in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, this is another incubator, having generated at least three Regional Governors, including the current one, and an ASA International President.

Many of our websites are for ASA appraisers. Three are from Long Island.

Gem Evaluation Laboratory: Theresa Beltrani is a past president of both the Long Island Chapters of both ASA and the Gemological Institute of America. She appraises gems, jewelry, diamonds and watches in her Unionondale, NY gemological laboratory.
Tonkinson Appraisals: Like Bernie, Jim Tonkinson is a two-term past president of the ASA Long Island Chapter, and a machinery and equipment appraiser with worldwide experience.
Arleen Goscinski, ASA: Rounding out our past president's club is Arleen Goscinski of Northport, a former real estate broker, now appraising residential real estate on Long Island. Arleen, one of our earliest website clients, is also active in the Columbia Society for real estate appraisers.

The Bryant Hills Group LLC produces many real estate-related websites, including some for appraisers covering New Jersey, New York, Pennyslvania and Connecticut.

Griffith Appraisals: Tim Griffith is a past president of the NJ ASA Chapter and serves now as New York Area Regional Governor. Concentrating on commercial and industrial real estate appraisals, he appraises properties in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Tim is a certified instructor for USPAP, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, the code of ethics written by the Appraisal Foundation and authorized by Congress.
NY Real Estate Appraisals: Jim O'Keefe focuses on commercial, industrial, office and retail real estate appraisals in Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam Counties in downstate New York. A real estate broker and past president of the New York State Society of Real Estate Appraisers, Jim offers over 40 years of real estate experience. He's taught at Fordham's Institute of Real Estate, and served on the Boards of Assessment Review in both Yonkers and Somers.

Not all of our real estate-related websites are for appraisers. Others are for brokers, property management and maintenance services, for two property tax grievance consultants, and for a home painting and power washing contractor.

Balch Buyer's Realty: Peter Bell and Frank Lessa run one of America's most successful exclusive buyer's agencies. Serving Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess Counties in New York, and Fairfield County, Connecticut, they're real estate brokers who take no listings and work exclusively in the interest of buyers. Unique! They offer special attention to upscale buyers, and also buy real estate for cash.
Property Watchers: Property Watchers serves buyers, sellers and homeowners offering a variety of real estate services, including appraisals, inspections, pest checks, title checks, marketing strategies, staging for sale, buyer checkout, and property tax grievances. Property Watchers offers an a la carte menu, including &lite& versions of some items.
Alert Home Guardians: Protect Your Home While You're Away! Alert Home Guardian offers property management, premises protection and inspection services for Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, and Bronx Counties in New York and Fairfield County, Connecticut.
Hudson Valley Energy Consultants: Serving the lower Hudson Valley, Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland counties in New York and Fairfield county in Connecticut, Hudson Valley Energy Consultants (HVEC) is at the forefront of green businesses. HVEC, participating in the Home Performance with Energy Star, provides energy audits for homeowners and small businesses, including thermal imagining reports.
Lemor Realty Corporation: Lemor Realty in Harlem is a family-owned and run business, actively managed by founder Leroy Morrison and son Kenneth. Both are real estate brokers, but their main focus is property management and real estate development. Most of their listings are in buildings that Lemor Realty has rehabbed and renovated. Their business is built on revitalizing New York City. A nice way to flourish!
NY Property Tax Reduction: We've had a long-term relationship with Sylvia Levins, a real estate broker and property tax consultant. Through NY Property Tax Reduction, one of her dba's, Sylvia helps Nassau County, Long Island homeowners file property tax grievances. Sylvia files, handles hearings, and goes to go court, as necessary. She's successful in over 90% of her cases!
Suffolk Property Tax Consultant Elizabeth B. Roche: Elizabeth (Betsy) Roche has been a long-time client and friend, using our services to select, configure and maintain her office equipment, provide tax certiorari software, and produce mail marketing materials. And now Betsy has her own property tax grievance website for Suffolk County, NY homeowners. It's got lots of resources explaining real estate assessments and taxes, grievance petitions, and judicial challenges, including a video and a custom Market Value Calculator. Like Betsy on Facebook and keep up with Suffolk Property Tax Grievance news.
Power Home Painting and Washing: Micheal Lessa hasover fifteen years experience providing professional painting and power or pressure washing services to residential and commercial property owners in Westcheste County, NY. Mike Lessa offers free estimates and dollar-saving coupons for Internet shoppers.
Vet2Vet Realty: Brian Dwyer, Realtor®: Brian Dwyer has been in real estate almost since he got out of the Marines. He's always been innovative, exploring flat fee, discount brokerage and exclusive buyer's brokerage approaches. Now, looking to give back, the veteran broker and USMC Vet is offering other Vets an extra measure of help buying and selling real estate. You can Like Vet2Vet on Facebook, too!

Of course, not all of our websites are for appraisers or folks with a real-estate relationship. One of our earliest websites was for an historical society, while a recent one is for another non-profit organization, The White Plains Council of Neighborhood Associations. Another recent one is for DAIM Logistics, an interstate trucking company offering distribution, warehousing, brokerage, and logistics.

The White Plains Council of Neighborhood Associations: The White Plains Council of Neighborhood Associations (WPCNA) seeks to enhance neighborhood living in White Plains through its meetings, communications, and sponsored events. As an advisory council, the WPCNA fosters the open exchange of information and opinion among its member associations, the public, and public officials, and by encouraging local action. Its monthly meetings are open to the public and frequently feature topical guest speakers. The website includes separate pages for member associations, a blog, a portal page, email for members, a calendar, and online office suite.
Bryant Gardens Cooperative Apartments: Also in White Plains, NY is the progressive, proactive Bryant Gardens Apartment Cooperative, comprising 409 units in 15 garden apartment buildings spread over a 22-acre parklike campus just south of City Center. Tucked in amongst a golf course, a park, and two sprawling low-density New York Hospital campuses, Bryant Gardens is known for its award-winning flower gardens, holiday lighting and festivities, and exquisitely-maintained buildings and grounds. Engaged in a long-term energy conservation program, it also is going smoke-free by asking new coop buyers not to permit smoking in their apartments. Follow the action Inside Bryant Gardens and on the Bryant Gardens Social Network. Interested in organic vegetable gardening? Check out the Bryant Community Gardens website!
DAIM: Trucking, Warehousing, Logistics Nationwide: DAIM Logistics in upstate Fultonville, NY came to us from our friends at Mohawk Lifts (thanks, Mohawk!). Founded by two can-do brothers, Chris and Pat Oare in 2001, the company grew rapidly, and by 2009 needed to build a new facility consolidating their offices, warehouse, and trucking operations in a 25,000 sq ft plant set on an 8-acre campus. DAIM runs a fleet of 15 tractors and 40 assorted trailers transporting commodities for manufacturers and distributors -- think retail and grocery chains -- nationwide. They're an FTL (full truck or trailer load) shipper, specializing in dry van and flatbed loads.

And then there's an appraiser deserving of special mention, Robert Connelly in Binghamton, who's not your ordinary appraiser, but another Renaissance man.

Bob & Sallie Connelly: Auctions, Antiques, Appraisals: This energetic Binghamton, NY couple are a veritable whirlwind of activity. Bob is a licensed auctioneer, real estate broker, ASA personal property appraiser (another past Chapter president), and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. As an appraiser, Bob's specialties include antiques, decorative arts, general home and office contents, clocks, watches, collectibles, folk art, memorabilia, sports, coins, weapons, and historical items. Sallie "runs the show," which includes the Connelly Art Gallery, Holiday Flea Markets, and, as they say, more. Sallie also writes the Binghamton power couple's fascinating Connelly Corners blog. Nice clients, great people!

At The Bryant Hills Group LLC, we've found that forums are an excellent way to offer a service to the public, advertise our clients, and build traffic for the websites. The busy Mohawk ShopTalk Forum supports our clients in the automotive equipment field, all of whom are Mohawk Lifts dealers.

The Mohawk ShopTalk Forum: This active message board forum is used to buy, sell, and discuss automotive equipment lifts, balancers, wheel aligners, spray booths, air compressors and other service equipment for the automotive garage. Commercial advertisers are not permitted, but individuals use it to get advice, post classified and employment ads, find parts, manuals and friends.
AutoQuip Sales: Lou Coccaro and Mark Tulley are the owner-operators of AutoQuip Sales in Mineola, NY. Lou and Mark sell, install, service, repair and inspect Mohawk above ground automotive lifts in Nassau, Suffolk, Queens and Brooklyn on Long Island, and in Manhattan (New York City), the Bronx, Westchester and Staten Island, too. They also offer OSHA inspection and training.
Specialty Automotive Equipment: Ross Perlstein's Specialty Automotive Equipment, headquartered in Saddle Brook, NJ picks up in downstate New York, where Lou and Mark leave off, providing Mohawk lifts to Rockland, Orange, Sullivan and Ulster Counties in New York, and all of New Jersey from West Cape May to West Milford. Ross is the top U.S. distributor for Mohawk Lifts, having sold and installed over 5000. He offers service, repair and inspection, and focuses on OSHA certified inspections, training and reports.
JRH Equipment: Jack Hamer at JRH Equipment in Brooklyn Park, MN is another Mohawk Lifts dealer who believes in OSHA inspections, reports, and training. Jack's been selling Mohawk lifts in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Western Wisconsin for almost as long as Mohawk's been making them. JRH also sells, installs, and services reliable tire changers, wheel balancers and brake lathes from Rels Manufacturing, and American Forge & Foundry's sturdy transmission jacks, engine hoists, and under hoist stands
The Hardware Shop: Ramon Brown has been serving up quality automotive and shop equipment to Colorado enthusiasts since 1991. In the past, he catered primarily to motorcycle and RV owners. But his Indian Hills, CO business needed a lift -- literally. Now Ramon and the Hardware Shop serve Colorado and southeast Wyoming with Mohawk lifts. Ramon says Mohawk, which uses the slogan "Because quality lasts a lifetime," fits right in with his image. Ramon's slogan is "Quality has no fear of time."
Mohawk Automotive Lifts Southwest: Mike Green is a full-service Mohawk Lifts dealer handling Arizona, New Mexico and Las Vesgas, too. Of course, Mike sells and installs Mohawk Lifts, but he also provides lift safety training, inspections and reports.
Nichol Marketing Group (NMG): Bob Nichol at Nichol Marketing Group, Inc. (NMG) in St. Louis, MO serves the half of Missouri not served by QSE and southern Illinois. NMG's lineup of automotive service equipment manufacturers includes Hunter Engineering, Mohawk Lifts, Devair Compressors, Kaeser Compressors, Challenger Lifts, and EnviroQuip automatic part washers, among others. For help planning your shop, selecting the right equipment, obtaining financing, or learning to use the equipment, just ask Bob.
Rack'm Up Distributors, Inc.: Dave and Diane Beebe in McHenry, Il bring over fifteen years of major automotive franchise experience to the table whenever Illionois and Wisconsin folks look for automotive service equipment. In addition to the full line of Mohawk hydraulic lifts, Rack'm Up offers Hydra-Lift alignment, scissor and storage lifts, lathes and wheel service equipment from Accu-turn, RAV, Van Norman, and Hennessy, and air compressors from Champion, American IMC, and Castair. Also available from Rack'm Up are frame machines, alignment systems, a/c service and flush machines.
Weco, Inc.: Gary Wainwright, the principal of Weco, Inc. a full-range automotive equipment dealer and distributor, says he started out doing lift installations for the Mohawk factory. The quality and reliability of the product convinced him to become a Mohawk Lifts dealer himself. These days he sells, services, repairs, and, of course, installs Mohawk above and below ground lifts in Arkansas, Tennessee and northern Mississippi. Gary, with locations in Memphis, TN, Little Rock and Bradford, AR, stocks up to 40 of the most popular Mohawk lifts, performs safety training, inspections and reports, and, get this, is equipped to move whole shops from one location to another.
Western Pump, Inc.: Headquartered in San Diego, CA, Western Pump, Inc. is an award-winning large, family-owned small business specializing in the construction and servicing of fleet fueling facilities, aviation, retail service stations, convenience stores, marinas, and vehicle maintenance facilities in Southern California. Western Pump's extensive line card now includes Mohawk automotive lifts, providing sales, installation, inspection, service and repair. Western Pump has been rated one of the best places to work in California two years running!

Several of our websites aren't websites at all, in the traditional sense. Some are blogs and some wikis. Our oldest blogs, The Inwood Journal and the The PC News Digest, weren't called that when they began, although today they're maintained using Wordprss blogging software. The Inwood Journal is a personal blog of opinions, reviews, news and commentary. The PC News Digest is primarily news and comments about Windows computing and website development. The White Plains Press blog is a collection of press releases for our clients and for our charitable and non-profit activities.

An early wiki was for Barrow Appraisal Associates, a firm of machinery and equipment appraisers headed by Kal Barrow. Kal, who has over 40 years experience worldwide providing appraisals and cost surveys, is a recent past President of the New Jersey ASA Chapter, and a frequent guest speaker, instructor, and author on machinery and equipment topics. The wiki format lets Kal keep his website current as his career continues to unfold.

Another, using Google's software, is White Plains Smoke Free, which together with its White Plains Smoke Free blog, is an advocacy website that seeks to ban smoking in multiunit housing in White Plains, NY.