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My Sunday paper had an interesting article in the Real Estate section this past weekend. An art sale dubbed the "Lost Art Sale." About 60 artists are displaying their work in two newly constructed homes for sale. Artists get to keep 60% of any sales they make, the coordinator putting it together gets 40%. If it's a consignment piece, the owner gets 50%, the coordinator 50%. What a great opportunity for artists and others to try to sell their art. 
I have an addiction I would like to confess knowing I am in good company. I am addicted to tearing pages out of magazines no matter where I am...the doctors office, the dentist, any waiting room will do. I just have to have "it" and feel so lucky I stumbled upon the best plaster wall color, or the clever trick of the trade I rely on so much, or the to die for recipe that I will use for my next dinner party.
"Some think the world was made for fun and frolic, and so do I..."
If you read my blog regularly, you will remember a recent entry about Austin making several impressive lists. Well, we just made several more.
This is the conclusion of a post I started on A Nightmare to Remember. If you haven’t read Part I or Part II, you might want read those first.
There is an art to writing attention grabbing headlines and stimulating ad copy, but I suspect some agents are so busy taking listings these days that few stop to give more than a few moment's thought to their advertising copy. In older neighborhoods, for example, often the type of home is misidentified. Sometimes I see high-water bungalows identified as Victorians or a Four-Square called a bungalow. That shows the agent is clueless. On top of that, I see lots of ad copy that is vanilla and boring.
In multiple areas nationwide the residential real estate market remains soft and offers home buyers splendid opportunities. Prices are coming down and many sellers are at last realizing that the marketplace determines the listing price and not them. They are now more willing to negotiate rather than just turn down unappealing offers. And mortgage interest rates in recent weeks have reached new lows, hovering right around 5.5%. These developments should be boosting transaction activity, but are they making as big a difference as expected?
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