• Provide opportunities for children with disabilities to play Miracle League baseball, regardless of their abilities.
• Promote community support and sponsorship of Miracle Leagues.
• Promote the construction of special facilities that meet the unique needs of Miracle League players and their families.
• Provide opportunities for children with disabilities to play.

You might also wonder why I’ve referred to this cookout as “The Last Supper.”  We will be relocating our offices on August 31.  Pete will be moving back to Travelers Boulevard and will be in Unit K (formerly occupied by Taylor & Miles, Accountants).  I will be sharing space with the Steinberg Law Firm at an undisclosed address in Summerville.  (I’ll disclose it as soon as I know it!)

Pete’s new firm will be known as the Wyckoff Law Firm, P.A. and my firm will be known as the DeMott Law Firm, P.A.  (Not very imaginative, but it works.)  So this will be the last supper at our current location.  We have enjoyed doing these luncheons and getting to know you all better while helping those in need. I sincerely hope we have a great turnout for this luncheon to benefit this very special cause.

Pete and our wonderful closing staff will continue to provide you with outstanding real estate closing services.  I will be concentrating on my bankruptcy practice, as well as developing my other practice areas.

Pete and I would like to thank you for all your support over the years.  We realize that without your kind referrals, would not have been successful.

–Russ DeMott

This time Cheryl Mathis will be cooking.  Cheryl is a tenant in the building and does nurse consulting for the Steinberg Law Firm.  And, it turns out, she’s a barbecue aficionado.  In fact, she apparently lives a double life: nurse consultant by day and Queen of the Red Hot Pig Barbecue by night over in Orangeburg.  She owns the Red Hot  Pig with Roger Heaton.  She’s even bringing her own cooker and tools.

Pete has been relieved of duty for good behavior, but given his love of cooking, I’m sure he’s participating in some BIG way.  (I just don’t know what, yet….)

For our sponsored charity in February, we raised $1300 which went to a young woman with cancer.  It’s great to be part of helping someone out when they’re going through something so difficult. You all deserve a pat on the back for being so generous in tough times!

This month we’re doing something similar.  Our beneficiary will be Laura Mills of the Steinberg Law Firm.  Laura has had some very significant health problems lately.  She’s been diagnosed with super-ventricular tachycardia (SVT) and mitral valve prolapse (MVP).

Laura’s problems appeared last summer. At first, the doctor thought it was lack of sleep or stress.  However, after eventually getting her health insurance company to pay for a heart monitor–no small task as you might imagine–the monitor showed the arrhythmia.  At times, her heart would beat more than 250 beats per minute.

Eventually, Laura had a catheter ablation, which has helped, but has also led to a blood clot.  More significantly, the cardiologist found a hole in her heart.  She’s waiting for news from her cardiologist as to treatment options.

Throughout this ordeal, Laura has continued to work.  She’s a strong young woman and, being from Indiana, has gone through this without family in the area.  However, as you might expect, all these issues have resulted in unexpected medical bills.  To date, those total over $75,000.  Our goal is to assist Laura by making a financial contribution to her to help her through this difficult time.

Anything you can contribute would be greatly appreciated.  I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

–Russ DeMott

It’s time to start our monthly charity luncheons again.  We begin with our first one of the new year tomorrow, February 3 at noon.

You may have noticed that I put “HELP!!” in the title.  That’s because while we believe all our charity events are important, this one’s much more important.

Last week, I learned of a 17-year-old girl who was recently diagnosed with cancer.  Prior to this horrible news, she attended a local high school and had a typical teenage life.  Now, she has been diagnosed with stage 3 lymphoma.  The doctors could not do surgery to remove the mass from her chest because it is attached to one of her lungs and her heart.  The mass is the size of a baseball.  She began chemotherapy on January 25 and has six months of it to go. During treatment she will be staying at MUSC several days per week.

The reason we are sponsoring this young woman and her family is that, as is all too often the case, her insurance will not cover all of the expenses.  In fact, she must go on a very expensive medication and her insurance company has refused to pay for it.  She has secured a discount from the pharmaceutical company, but that just means she’ll pay, in essence, what the Canadians pay.  There will still be substantial costs for treatment.   Our firm and the Steinberg Law Firm will do our best to help with the insurance issue to make sure her insurance company is held accountable for paying all costs they agreed to pay in the policy.

We will be holding a raffle for a framed picture taken by Michael Mulligan.  In fact, it’s the same raffle we had about six months ago.  My wife bought several tickets and won it.  We’ve been planning to put it up for another raffle, and this one seems like it should be the one.

Please join us for this important luncheon and donate whatever you can!  And please keep this young woman in your thoughts and prayers.

–Russ DeMott

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Photo by Michael Mulligan

I wanted to remind you all that Wyckoff & DeMott and the Steinberg Law Firm are having our November charity luncheon this Wednesday, November 4, at noon.  This month our sponsored charity is the Charleston Trident Association of Realtor’s reading mentoring program.  Please bring age-appropriate books for elementary school children.  CTAR will get the books into the hands of children who would otherwise lack the financial means to buy books.  In the alternative, monetary donations would be greatly appreciated. 

Opa Cafe will be cooking for the event, so come get some delicious Greek Food!  You’ll be able to put together your own gyros, Greek salad, and potatoes.  Of course, we’ll also have  we’ll have some tasty desserts.  We hope you can all make it!

–Russ DeMott

Photo by Kim Held

I wanted to remind you all that Wyckoff & DeMott and the Steinberg Law Firm are having our October charity luncheon this Wednesday, October 7, at noon.  This month our sponsored charity is Simply Divine Garden, which was founded by Darcy Whalen.  Simply Divine Garden works with cancer patients by helping create gardens at cancer patients’ homes.  Darcy started the organization after losing her mother and brother to cancer.  Her mother was an avid gardener who took great pleasure in sitting in her garden after cancer treatments.  Please visit Simply Divine Garden’s website at www.simplydivinegarden.org.

Darcy will be selling raffle tickets for two wrought iron planters with fall flowers and will also have registration forms for her 1st Annual Run that will take place on Saturday, October 10.

Pete will be cooking barbecue, and we’ll provide a variety of side dishes and desserts as well.  We hope you can all make it!

–Russ DeMott

Photo by Michael Mulligan

Tonight I had an epiphany.  What could I give to my loyal subscribers in addition to useful information?  Then it came to me!  I can link back to their websites on the blog.  If you don’t understand the value of this, you need to know a little about SEO, which stands for Search Engine Optimization.  The point of SEO is to be found when someone searches for the product or service you sell.  Two main forces drive SEO: (1) back links from other sites (like this one) and (2) content.  I can’t help you with the content, but I can back link to your site.

If you’d like me to do this, let me know.  All you have to do is be a subscriber, and there’s no charge for that.  Also, if you want me to back link to you, please let me know what you want in the anchor text, which is the text associated with your back link.  (For example, “Charleston Area Realtor,” “Loan Originator,” or “Goat Farmer.”  The choice is yours.  You can email me at russ@wyckoffdemott.com.

One more thing: I am not requesting a reciprocal link because reciprocal links are not as valuable.  You’ll get a link from this site to yours.  No need to return the favor.

I look forward to hearing from  you and will be sending out an email to most of my real estate contacts in the area.  If you know someone who’s interested, please let them know.

–Russ DeMott

Photo by Michael Mulligan

We’ll have our September charity luncheon on Wednesday, September 2.  Our sponsored charity will be Hand Tools for Hope.  Hand Tools for Hope gets hand tools to those in need in Third World countries.  As always, there will be plenty of good food.  Please bring a hand tool or donation if you are able to do so.   We look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday!

–Russ DeMott

Photo by Michael Mulligan

Just a reminder that we’re having our August charity luncheon this Wednesday, August 5 at noon.  We took a month off in July and are looking forward to seeing you all again.  Our sponsored charity is Operation Home, which makes emergency home repairs for disadvantaged residents of Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties. 

We look forward to seeing you! 

–Russ DeMott

My good friend and photographer, Tammy Wolfe, will be taking pictures right here in my office on July 31 and August first.  My daughter, Marissa, is just completing an internship with Tammy up in Pennsylvania.  Tammy and her business partner, Tamar London, have some slots available for professional head shots.  So if your pics are a bit out-of-date, give them a call.  They also specialize in digital photo editing, so they’ll make you look your best (and then some)!   There are also slots available for senior pictures and family pictures in Azalea Park.  THERE IS NO SITTING FEE!  If you don’t like the pictures, you owe nothing.  Their website is: www.londonwolfe.com.   See below for more information.  

–Russ DeMott

Pete will be serving his famous barbeque, and we’ll have plenty of other good food as well.   We look forward to see you all on the 3rd!

–Russ DeMott