Charlotte's Back To School Season Here: Tax-Free Shopping This Weekend Charlotte's (and for that matter North Carolina's) Back-to-School season has arrived... the annual ritual of the tax free shopping weekend is almost upon us this coming weekend, August 2-4. Sadly, after 11 years this will be t
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07/30/2013
Home buyers DON'T want a flooring allowance. Home sellers can justify their rationale for offering a flooring allowance versus fixing the flooring for the listing process all they want. But it still comes back to this: home buyers DON'T want a flooring allowance! A top Louisiana agent provides al
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07/29/2013
Have you thought about doing a rent to own or lease/purchase agreement? These are not the easiest of contracts to do and are not necessarily a great option for lots of reasons (including the fact that most of them never come to fruition at the end of the term). Read a top mortgage officer's blog
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07/26/2013
What do home buyers want (in Charlotte and every where else)? The universal question! The National Association of Realtors (NAR) recently did a survey of home buyers who purchase a home in the past two years to see if there were home features that were consistently in demand and the degree to whi
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07/24/2013
Things to look for in a final walk-through for your new Charlotte home... see this great list below supplied by a top agent in New York. You should always do a final walk-through of your home within 24 hours of closing and preferably once the seller has moved out so you can see everything. Don't
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07/23/2013
Have you ever wondered why when you call an agent you don't know out of the clear blue that they don't jump up and immediately run to meet you to show you a home? Top agents (which is whom you want to work with, in any event) will never just jump in their car and run out to meet you. Read on to f
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07/23/2013
Homeowner Associations... love them or hate them, but Charlotte is a town full of HOA communities. Here's a list of 21 great questions to ask an HOA if you are considering a move into one of these neighborhoods, provided by a top NY agent. Obviously, not everyone needs answers to all 21 of these
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07/22/2013
Why You Need To Use An Agent When Building A New Home In Charlotte When you buy a new construction home or a spec/inventory home from a builder, you have NO REPRESENTATION OF YOUR INTERESTS if you buy without the assistance of an agent. New construction buyers often assume that a builder's on-sit
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07/21/2013
6 Tips For Buying New Construction Homes In Charlotte Shortage of resale home inventory in the Charlotte metro market has "forced" a lot of home buyers who had not considered new construction as an option, to rethink their home buying strategies and today many are in the process of buying a new c
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07/21/2013
10 Tips To Be Sure You Get That Charlotte-area Home When It's A Fast-Moving Market! I'm re-posting a blog from a Virginia agent about what it takes to secure a home these days if you are writing contracts and never winning the bid. This is an issue in Charlotte these days as well with many homes
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07/20/2013