There’s a really good reason we, as experienced professionals, are integral to a smooth real estate transaction. We are bi-lingual…we speak the languages of both buyers AND sellers; languages which are quite different when you think about it. Fortunately the respective languages are not fraught w
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06/16/2009
They are BORED with us! Can you imagine! The US housing market is the acknowledged solution to the ENTIRE world’s economic crisis and they are BORED with us! How do I know this, you ask? They bought GM today. Or, more correctly WE bought GM today. Now, I am not here to talk about whether this is
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06/01/2009
Sometimes a TANGIBLE example can bring home the point! YES, folks really are able to ammend this years taxes (or in this case file after an extension) and get THE CHECK IN THE MAIL! If you are still considering buying and you have never owned or not owned in the last three years, this could be
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05/30/2009
Another survey is out and not surprisingly the Triangle AGAIN ranks in the Top Ten! This time it is the Kiplinger Best Cities: It's All About Jobs rankings. As I have noted before regarding these rankings, the Census Bureau, for some strange reason decided to separate the Raleigh / Cary market (c
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05/28/2009
I’m the kind of person who loves timelines…I am always intrigued and well, comforted, to see how things got to where they are and a really cool timeline is a great way to show it to me. So I was not surprisingly drawn to it when I ran across this beautiful timeline. Thomas Baekdal is way ahead of
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05/22/2009
Barbara Corcoran, a real estate expert and motivational speaker from New York, has the ear of plenty of listeners as a regular contributor on the Today Show on NBC and yesterday she was interviewed there about which U.S. housing markets she feels are most likely to rebound. She cites the four mos
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05/21/2009
If you live in North Carolina and you are facing difficulty making your mortgage payment or you anticipate a problem paying it in the near future, the fear of the loss of your home and all the horror stories you have heard about the struggle to save your biggest asset from foreclosure weigh heavi
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05/21/2009
I wrote a post recently called “It’s Only A Buyers Market If You Actually Buy” and while scrolling the great comments, I ran across one from an agent who expressed his sellers frustration (and his own) by asking the question “when does a sellers market become a buyers market?” This is, in effect,
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05/20/2009
Ever have one of those sellers who just doesn’t seem to ‘get it’ when you’ve just told them that once they list, their home will appear on OVER 5000 websites thanks to your sophisticated, high tech and completely awesome marketing plan? You know the one; the guy who absolutely insists that you ta
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05/14/2009
My little sister called me the other day and in an excited voice declared, “I think I might need to look at houses…It’s a GREAT time to buy a house right now, you know!” After the pregnant pause ensued (the one where my condescending big sister brain struggled with my professional Realtor brain)
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05/12/2009
