Juanita's Blog on Life and Real Estate in Sumter, SC

Lots of numbers, I hope I don’t make your eyes glaze over. In the past two weeks (January 4 – 18, 2009): Sixty three new sales listings hit the market.  Of those that were homes (rather than land or commercial), the lowest list price was $22,000 (bank-owned, and according to the listing agent the...

  I found this foreclosure heat map at a blog I like to go to, that's mostly politics with a heavy emphasis on the war on terror.  If this isn't your cup of tea, don't click, but I feel compelled to give credit where credit is due.  I found this map via a link at http://www.littlegreenfootballs.c...

December is historically a slow month.  People aren't thinking about buying houses.  They're thinking about Christmas presents, and what sort of toys the kids want, and how on earth they're going to pay for all that stuff....  So I was wondering, even with all the bad news floating around, how di...

I keep my real estate earnings on Excel spreadsheets, so I can keep track of how much I bring in. It helps me estimate how much in taxes I'll owe, as nothing is withheld. In 2005, my first year as a Realtor® (I started working in July), I sold bupkes. So no math problems there. In 2006, my produc...