15 Deerfield Rd, Holmdel. Price: $379,900.  What a price ...for Holmdel. This cedar shake siding home is a split level, and described by Century 21's Silvana Persie as in "immaculate" condition.  There are seven rooms and 1  1/2 baths, a wood burning fireplace and new Anderson windows throughout the house. It shares  .35 acres with an above-ground swimming pool. Open House noon - 2 p.m.   ---------------- 5 Deer Path Holmdel. Price: $569,900  Lots of opportunities to bathe, in this house.  This 9-room ranch has 4 bedrooms with 4 baths, plus two more half baths.  Whirlpools abound. And there's…

Foreclosure was looming. My client, a Holmdel mother in her mid-forties whose young husband had suffered a stroke and was now in a nursing home, was in my office for help with a "short sale" contract. She said she felt forced to sell her four-bedroom Colonial for less than what she owed on the mortgage to avoid being kicked out. She'd still owe the different on the loan.  And she admitted she and her children had nowhere else to live. She asked about her options.  My advice startled her.  I told her, "Stay put."  "You can either sell your home in the next thirty days and begin paying rent for…