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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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2009 

Last Thursday in the state of Georgia Department of Labor announced the Georgia unemployment levels have quickly risen to a state wide unemployment figure of 8.6%.  What is really bad is that this recent trend has occurred rather quickly.  In December of 2008 Georgia's unemployment was at 8.1%.  ...
02/28/2009
This year's real estate market may be very different than previous years. Yest Interest rates are very low for 30 year fixed rate mortgages, but it still seems to be a difficult time to sell.  Fewer buyers these days are qualifying for mortgages.  Those that are employed are nervous about the eco...
02/28/2009
I think many in real estate Blog and do not know the purpose of what they are blogging for.  Some act in their Blogs like they are way Kool and running a popularity contest.  Let's forget the 'Buzz' in real estate, and think through the basics of real estate Blogging.  First of all the 'social' i...
02/28/2009
The new budget proposal has a lot of interesting items included in this Trojan horse budget proposal.  The administration is proposing trimming the amount of interest that could be written off depending on income.  While at first it sounds fair the reality is that those top income earners that ma...
02/27/2009
You think things are bad now?  Wait.  The massive budget that was proposed by the administration this evening.  For those that thought there would be a boost to education guess again.  Higher education will be placed into the dark ages with the governments proposal to shift all education funding ...
02/26/2009
  Rick Santelli is a trader spokesperson on CNBC that hit a  raw nerve with he administration this week, so much so that the Press Secretary had words with Rick.  The one thing this nation should never do is silence Free Speech!  We have a right to hear all opinions.  Speech is where we get a cha...
02/26/2009
Our FMLS in Atlanta has a story posted as a warning for personal safety which is very chilling.  We all need to remind one another of the dangers of showing homes to unqualified buyers.  It is disturbing because this is a very common scenario when showing condos especially.  Because condo and tow...
02/25/2009
A news story that just broke this evening less than a few hours ago in the New York Times Online that the Administration is going to seek to have taxes on those earning over 250K a year increased to pay for Health Care.  It will be introduced this Thursday as part of the new budget proposal.  Thi...
02/25/2009
During the boom times all the 'real estate 101' rules went out the window along with common sense.  Buyers were caught up in a sea of presumed intense competition. They purchased anything and everything without giving any thought to future value.  No questions asked!  They were consumed by the mo...
02/25/2009
This is a real estate Blog I feel compelled to write.  I am always struck by the comments I read on Active Rain and have to ask myself "Does the agent have any sense of reality?  Have they ever sold anything?" I feel many in the real estate industry today do not have a clue what is taking place. ...
02/23/2009
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