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Need a home by the end of the year? This beautiful DR Horton community in the booming southwest area of Las Vegas has immediate move-ins on brand new homes! The neighborhood includes its own private park and a community pool, and homes come standard with granite countertops and low E windows.  ... Posted less than a minute ago

What Problem?     Yesterday, Debbie Gartner wrote a post about a problem that she experienced with a customer that was not her fault. It seems as if issues similar to Debbie's constantly raise their ugly heads in the real estate industry. There seems to be a certain percentage of folks who ju... Posted 9 minutes ago

Los Angeles is the Car Capital of the World!! Often you hear that the Car Capital of the world is New York or Detroit.  Let’s be honest: Los Angeles has more cars than any other city and the variety is unparalleled. Most people think of Los Angeles as the Entertainment Capital of the World. Le... Posted about 1 hour ago

Light in general helps to enhance and liven up any room that it occupies.  The same effect can happen with lighter colored furniture used within a home.  They too, can make the space feel more radiant and jovial if it has more of an uninteresting and closed in build to it.  The lighter furnit... Posted about 1 hour ago

Inventories of homes for sale have been slow to bounce back since the 2007–09 recession, despite steady price appreciation since January 2012.Normally, higher prices reflect robust sales. But lately, prices have been rising even though sales remain stuck at relatively low levels. The National ... Posted about 1 hour ago

The housing market witnessed more new home purchases and stronger home prices in November, but even with the solid improvements, officials remain weary of the stability of the recovery, the Obama Administration said in the November housing scorecard.   "The November housing scorecard shows that ... Posted about 2 hours ago

30 Things to STOP doing to gain empowerment, progression and productivity - #10 #10 - Stop exclusively looking to others for happiness. – If you’re not happy with who you are on the inside, you won’t be happy in a long-term relationship with anyone else either. You have to create stability... Posted about 2 hours ago

Calif. median home price: October 2013:  California: $427,290 Calif. highest median home price by region/county October 2013: Marin, $959,740 Calif. lowest median home price by region/county October 2013: Glenn, $125,000 Calif. Pending Home Sales Index: October 2013: Increased 2.5 percent from ... Posted about 2 hours ago

Mesquite, Nevada is a great golf destination. Many residents are snowbirds and, as such, many properties in town are sold as second homes. I want to be able to provide all buyers with the best service possible. To make sure that I will be able to answer questions that are specific to second-home ... Posted about 2 hours ago

Ramping Up Into The New Year As the new year approaches we are always working on building relationships, nurturing leads, providing service to current clients and looking ahead to the harvest from the great deals we made  through the year - let us not forget to put OURSELVES on that list of peop... Posted about 2 hours ago

Christmas in the Park 2013 San Jose’s Free Event Celebrates 33 Years By REALTOR® Michelle Carr Crowe Christmas in the Park 2013, a Silicon Valley, Calif. tradition in downtown San Jose, celebrates its thirty-third year of "Joy and Magic" in 2013. Prior funding shortfalls looked to be the Gr... Posted about 2 hours ago

It seems to me that in this part of Florida (NorthEast) large production builders rarely build homes with gutters installed. Up north, gutters are a norm. It's not like we have Sunny Florida 365 days of the year! We have rain, we have a rainy season, we have torrential rain, sometimes we have nor... Posted about 3 hours ago

The California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) is offering thousands of dollars in down payment assistance for teachers and staff who work in California’s high priority schools.  Through the Agency’s Extra Credit Teacher Program, educators may be eligible if they work in a public or charter ... Posted about 3 hours ago

Wordless Wednesdays: what is a Charlie Card??     If you are considering buying or selling a luxury home, an ultra luxury home, luxury investment real estate, luxury vacation homes, or luxury beach properties in Southern California, Los Angeles, Century City, Westwood, West Hollywood, Beverly ... Posted about 3 hours ago

Insulted?  Me?   It’s Not My House - Just Tell Me What You Think   After I show a property to a potential buyer -- I ask --   What do you think?   Would you consider making an offer on this property?   Or other similar questions...   Sometimes, the look I get the look -- is blank….may... Posted about 3 hours ago

  Have Water Damage at the Belly-Band? It’s Very Common in Sacramento   One of the most common areas of exterior water damage to wood trim occurs when a horizontal piece of wood is nailed to a wood surface. On many two-story buildings in Sacramento there is a horizontal board that divides the... Posted about 3 hours ago

1031 E. Gladwick St. Carson, CA -Carson Home Fore Sale SPANISH BEAUTY! Spacious and sunny 3 bed/3 bath home located in one of the most desirable areas of Carson, CA! This gorgeous home boasts an open floor plan ~ large kitchen with plenty of counter space and storage ~ family room with fireplace ... Posted about 3 hours ago

Top 3 Reasons To Have a Home Inspection   Even if you do know a lot about the structure, plumbing and wiring of houses, don’t let your ego get the better of you. It’s important to shell out the additional money to hire an inspector and cover your assets. You’d hate to end up with a home th... Posted about 3 hours ago

  Thank you for visiting our College Park GA real estate website including Short Sale Listings In College Park Georgia. Here you will be able to search all homes for sale in the College Park real estate MLS. This includes all College Park properties for sale such as homes, condominiums and hous... Posted about 3 hours ago

I love what Loreena said here in this post.  We really do need to take time to go up 10,000 feet and look at our business from a totally different perspective.  As I start my fifth year of real estate brokerage, I have been doing some of this thinking.  I have been re-visiting goals I set out ... Posted about 3 hours ago