My name is Doug Huebner and I am a Realtor. I live and work in South Orange, New Jersey. While I love to help people buy and sell houses, I also love all the things associated with our habitats. Architecture amazes me. The variety of home styles and layouts, how room usage and flow has changed and evolved, is fascinating to me. The same can be said for home decor. While it's very difficult to sell an outdated home, my heart skips a gleeful beat whenever I walk into some 1970's "time capsule" ranch, replete with shag carpet and hanging egg chair. I dig furniture, wall coverings, paint colors and carpets. Light fixtures, farm house sinks, old stoves and fireplaces make me smile. I spend hours at night watching home renovation shows. And I'm very into making our dwellings as energy efficient and as "green" as possible. Which is why I studied and earned my "green" EcoBroker designation.
So when it came time to create this blog it didn't seem right to limit the topics discussed here to just the buying and selling of homes. It needed to incorporate "all things house & home" which is to say "all the things I love". That decision was easy enough. The trick was, "what do we call this blog?"
My wife Kim, who you'll hear a lot about here, and I mulled it over a couple of days, then brainstormed on a short road trip. She brought up how another Realtor in my office, Sam Joesph, had the great title Sam I am a Realtor. Which is fun and catchy. I came up with Doug is Not a Bug, He is a Realtor. But even 7 year-old Dr. Suess fans wouldn't find that sufficiently snarky or clever enough for a blog title.
A couple miles later it came to me. A word my son Rock made up many years ago, when in his 5 year-old way, he explained to a zoologist that when he grew up, he was going to study where animals lived. He was going to be a Habitatilist. And there it was. The perfect word that encompasses "all things house & home" and describes what I want this blog to be; and what I, as a Realtor, strive to be.
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