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Jim Crawford real estate broker associate and REALTOR® with Fredericksburg Long and Foster. Successfully buying and selling homes and real estate properties since 1993 for home buyers and home sellers. Find real estate services for Fredericksburg VA, Spotsylvania County, City of Fredericksburg, Stafford County VA, and King George County.

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2008 

Many buyers think that the reason an Atlanta For Sale By Owners (FSBOs) is a great deal because you can save the commission from the listing agent...most times they are not!  Most Atlanta for sale by owners tend to price their home over market - at a higher price than those that are listed with a...
03/31/2008
We are getting more and more calls in the Atlanta real estate market to assist home sellers that do not have equity.  Sometimes the terms the use are "pre-foreclosure" "foreclosure" "Short sales" but the reality is those terms are very specific!  There could be many reasons for being in this post...
03/31/2008
Pay attention!!  Big changes are going to be proposed tomorrow in Washington DC that deal with the financial well being of the nation.  Already the plan has opened a very sharp debate an no one is talking but my fear is that it may send out the wrong message that things are so bad they cannot be ...
03/30/2008
In the years I've sold Atlanta real estate I've always told my home buyers be prepared to pay the most for the home in the spring market.  The reason is simple.  In Spring everything is blooming, the flowers, the trees are budding, the grass and trees are filling out in a myriad of colors!  Home ...
03/30/2008
When we think of our business and how real estate agents are viewed, there is obviously some reason for the reputation our industry has earned.  Sub-prime, over priced homes, falling home values, upside down sellers, bad advice makes you really stop and think about ethics, morals and real empathy...
03/29/2008
I was watching a financial home on CNN Money tonight where they brought up an interesting concept.   Years ago in real estate there was a term called "redlining" which meant that some minority areas were marked off as a bad area to make loans, and that made it difficult if next to impossible to o...
03/29/2008
Even though I moved away from Brooklyn New York years ago in 1980... it is still my home!  I guess it is like the saying that "You can take the boy out of Brooklyn, but you can't take the Brooklyn out of the boy!"  Most of my life I've lived south of the Mason Dixon line!  I had many years in LaP...
03/28/2008
I came across this Blog this morning for the first time that brought up the subject of ActiveRain introducing outside Blogs!  I would refer to them as branded sites with my own domain name!  I love the idea!  I was surprised that I've not heard about it before on ActiveRain.Com!  Has anyone read ...
03/28/2008
Atlanta homes for sale Active listings.  Home in ventory is rising rapidly in Atlanta, and at this pace we will exceed last years numbers which stopped at just below 89000 active Atlanta MLS listings!  It is a great time to look for Atlanta homes for sale!  As of today there are now Active - 8640...
03/28/2008
For all of us that are veterans in real estate we've heard every possible line a potential home seller can say while they try to negotiate in a position of strength!  The problem is that most of them really don't know what they are saying and how it will most likely kill any chances of selling!  ...
03/25/2008
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