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)
remax town country: 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)
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)