bill and cyndi daves: Baby It's Cold Outside - Avoiding Freeze Damage - Part 2
- 01/21/18 10:18 AM
Like I said in Baby It's Cold Outside - Avoiding Freeze Damage - Part 1, unless you've been on an extended tropical vacation, you've experienced the cold temperatures across the nation. You'll remember we talked about heat tape in that article. Here are some additional tips to help keep you, and your house, warm and safe this winter.
Use heat strip tape on crucial pipes, wellheads, etc. to avoid freezing and loss of use. Leave water trickling in faucets. If you're going be gone for an extended period turn OFF the water supply coming into your house. Depending on the temperatures, this … (5 comments)
Unless you've been on an extended vacation in the tropics, no doubt you have encountered some sub-freezing temperatures over the last few weeks. While a white Christmas is the subject of many songs and the dream of school kids everywhere, if the bone-chilling, frostbite-inducing cold hangs around too long it can wreak havoc on your home.
This past week we encountered one of our listings that had an issue with a frozen condensate drain. "What's that?" you say? The condenser unit of your HVAC system has a large pan that collects the excess moisture that the system pulls out of the air in your … (6 comments)
bill and cyndi daves: WANTED: Podcast Launch Team
- 05/04/16 06:29 AM
On April 16th we fulfilled a long-time dream launching our new real estate radio talk show REAL ESTATE FOR REAL LIFE. The show airs every Saturday and Sunday at 6:30 am, Noon and 8:30 pm on WJRB 95.1 The Talk of the Mountains here in North Georgia. The focus is on "all things real estate" and we try to make it both fun and informative. Fortunately, listeners won't have to hear just the two of us as we'll be interviewing industry related professionals on a variety of topics including mortgage brokers, attorneys, appraisers, inspectors, home staging professionals, you name it.
Nothing like a snow day or two to get caught up on marketing and reports!
The first report completed today is the 2015 Annual Market Report which shows the data for sales for 2015 in all four (4) categories - Residential, Land, Multi-Family/Apartment and Commercial. As you will see, the RESIDENTIAL category is broken down into $100,000 price ranges. This is in an effort to give a more in-depth understanding of what is, and isn't, selling! It is obvious from this report that homes priced from $101,000 to $300,000 were the big sellers for 2015. Running a close third, surprisingly, were homes … (1 comments)
bill and cyndi daves: Can You Get SUNK By Social Media?
- 11/19/15 04:24 AM
Nearly everyone these days is on social media. Whether it's Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest or the newest - Periscope. And, when we have a new client, we find it a very common practice to search for them on the various social media sites. It gives us a little picture into who we are dealing with and if they are being upfront about themselves. Imagine you're an agent and you get a call from someone who wants to look at multi-million dollar beachfront homes on the PCH, yet when you find them on Facebook, you discover they just got laid-off from the … (4 comments)
Anyone who has known me for longer than five minutes KNOWS what my favorite color is! PINK!! Well actually it’s more like Fuchsia and, for you tech-smart readers - hexidecimally it’s #FF00FF
Thanks to the generosity of a client on whose home we just closed, we had the pleasure of taking a “working-vacation” at a beautiful resort on Panama City Beach last week. As I’m sure you can imagine, I couldn’t resist the temptation to add this to my collection of Pink Pix!
It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. One human hair can support 6.6 pounds. The average man's penis is two times the length of his thumb. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete. A woman's heart beats faster than a man's. There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. Women blink twice as often as men. The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain. Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still. If saliva … (2 comments)
February 2nd is Groundhog Day - the day when Punxsutawney Phil will determine if Spring is on it’s way or if we’ll have another six weeks of winter. This is one of those crazy traditions that got me to wondering how in the world we let a large rodent-looking animal determine our fate.
Well it seems the Germans brought this tradition with them from “the old country” where it was actually a Hedgehog who did the deed. Finding no Hedgehogs in the good old US of A, they turned to his cousin the Groundhog. Legend … (6 comments)
bill and cyndi daves: My Creative Side is Showing!
- 01/30/12 12:12 AM
I am totally loving the new Nikon D5100 that Santa brought me for Christmas. It has all kinds of really cool features. Of course, on Christmas Eve I was taking lots of pictures, trying different things and basically driving my family crazy. I was fascinated to find all the cool effects that were able to be done IN the camera without any special program. Here’s a normal, untouched picture of our Christmas Tree - Here’s the same picture after applying an outline effect -
Now as a watercolor -And finally as a black and white! As you can … (11 comments)
Just a bit ago I was reading a post that got me thinking.To give credit where credit is due the post, Positive Self-Talk, was originally written by Lou Ludwig and reblogged by Praful Thakkar. When something “gets me thinking” it usually means there are lots of random thoughts zinging around in my head like a bunch 5-year old kids in a bouncy house.
Here’s my attempt to organize those thoughts -
Is there an agent in your office who is just such a “Negative Ned” that no matter what you suggest to them the … (3 comments)
We were assigned two new listings today by one of our Asset Managers. Off I went to handle the occupancy checks, post the Know Your Options flyers and install lockboxes & signs. The first property is in a nice neighborhood. It’s a nice 3 BR/2 BA, sits on a couple of acres and, although they removed all the appliances and left us with a bunch of garbage to trash out, they didn’t do any damage. Believe it or not, for our area this is normal. Keep an eye out for this … (6 comments)
About a week ago we received a call from a potential buyer who was in the driveway of one of our foreclosures. He claimed to be an investor who bought and flipped distressed properties. We chatted for a few minutes and agreed that he’d think about this place and decide if he wanted to get inside to see it.
The next day he called back and wanted to see the foreclosure. I’m no sissy and can certainly take care of myself (translates to my aim is pretty good), but I’m not … (10 comments)
Like I said in Baby It's Cold Outside - Avoiding Freeze Damage - Part 1, unless you've been on an extended tropical vacation, you've experienced the cold temperatures across the nation. You'll remember we talked about heat tape in that article. Here are some additional tips to help keep you, and your house, warm and safe this winter.
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