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Real Estate Agent - United Country Dowd & Forbes Realty, Edenton, NC
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2009 

I received a phone yesterday (if just happened to be my "duty day"!!) from a young lady who wanted to look at a couple of local listings.  As I spoke with her over the phone she confessed that she is a first time home buyer and somewhat nervous about the potential purchase. I discussed the advant...
01/31/2009
I've got to be honest it is often a love-hate relationship and sometimes I don't do all that well on the loving end.  I keep thinking of the biblical admonition that says, "Do unto others as you would have them do to you" and how often I fail at that.  And when I first started in the "business" s...
01/20/2009
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In my market where listings are stagnating and property takes 8-12 months to sell the challenge for real estate agents is not so much to get a listing, rather, it is to keep the listing through one or more renewal periods.  Often sellers will change agents and firms when their listing expires the...
01/06/2009
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Recently I read the article Matthew Ferrara posted on AR which compared the real estate market to the big 3 auto makers, Chrysler in particular.  His bottom line was basically this, when listed property becomes a "value" again then people will begin buying. Now I like Matthew and I see his point....
01/04/2009
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