Roger Johnson's (rogerajohnson) Blog

Home Inspector Charles Buell gives us a great list of twelve thirteen essentials for smooth home inspection.  Home inspections are a part of the selling process and we all want them to work out to the best of all parties involved.      For some time now I have wanted to put together a long list o...

  You learn something new everyday, or at least you should.  If you haven't got yours in yet, here's a great post by Michael DeGel on things you cell phone can do that you may not have known.  You won't even need a smartphone for these, any cell phone will work.       5 Things You Never Knew Your...

A photo from my recent day-trip vacaton to Chimney Rock, NC.  Just a short 2 hour drive from Hickory, NC While there, I was surprised to hear not only several different accents from around the U.S. but how many different languages were being spoken as well.  Truly shows how big of a 'melting pot...

I really think this needs to get out to the ActiveRain community in a big way.  I've seen a few posts on the "cell phones are going public next month" on and off.  A recent one was even reblogged several times.  Apparently, those that reblogged didn't bother to read several of the comments pointi...

The Green Room Community Theatre's The King and I, will be the first show at the company's new location in the Old Post Office Playhouse, in downtown Newton, NC. The first showing of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I  is on October 8th 2010 (this is a week later than originally planned, du...

Active Rain has a great feature in place to help you keep those posts that you really, really like in an easy to find place.  Just bookmark a post (the little link at the bottom) and it'll show up under Blog Bookmarks on the right side of your My Home AR page.If you're like me, though, you bookma...

Okay, so a bad pun on an old (showing my age, old) commercial, I know.  I was recently contracted by a major lender to photograph their area foreclosures so they might know "what they have."  The pics below just show why lenders should be more proactive in their attempts to do short sales and to ...

In Daniel Francis's post, The Lender is STUPID for Not Accepting My Offer! Aren't They? he gives a few cases where short sale offers were rejected by the lenders.  In the first case, the lender was presented an offer of $85,000 which was rejected.  The lender ultimately foreclosed and then listed...

Reading Midori Miller's post, Listing Agents - Low Ball Offers Where Exactly Would You Like Negotiations to Begin? a comment on there posed the question, What offer is a Low Ball Offer?  At what price offered is it considered low ball? The first comment on Midori's post says that he received a lo...

Have you seen this in an email lately?  If you're a real estate agent with any listings at all, I'm sure you have.  It means someone has found your listing and is inquiring about. I have a good love/hate relationship going with that phrase right now.  Love it because it means that some buyer was ...