Today is National Compliment Day! How to celebrate? Why not pay a compliment to at least five people today? You'll make them feel good and you'll feel good yourself! The key is to be genuine when you do pay those compliments. Compliments are apparently great motivators. One study showed that peo
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01/23/2015
Today, January 22nd, is National Answer Your Cat's Question Day! Really, it is! I've forewarned cat-loving friends about this all week and most of them have looked at me like I'm totally round the bend! Historians believe that cats and humans have been co-habiting for some 12,000 years, and yet
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01/21/2015
We Realtors® talk a lot about what to do to increase the value of your home. But there are also things you can do to devalue your home and make it much harder to sell at top dollar. The article below does a great job of identifying the top five things that could devalue your home. And in the Char
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01/20/2015
Thinking about selling your Charlotte, North Carolina or Fort Mill, South Carolina area home? You've probably heard that staging your home to sell is a critical component of getting top dollar for your home. But did you know that every one dollar you invest in preparing and staging your home for
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01/20/2015
December 2014 showed a solid improvement in home sales in the Fort Mill, South Carolina area (which also includes Tega Cay) of the Charlotte metro region. The average sale price of Fort Mill/Tega Cay area homes increased by 6.8% to just over $282,000 versus December 2013, while days on market fo
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01/19/2015
December 2014 showed a solid performance for home sales in the Waxhaw area of the Charlotte metro area (28173 zip code--encompassing Waxhaw, Weddington, Marvin). The average sale price of Waxhaw area homes increased by 2.8% to just under $384,000, while days on market for property listings droppe
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01/18/2015
The Humane Society of York County, a no-kill shelter in Fort Mill, South Carolina, offers $30 spay/neutering clinic. Spaying/neutering cats and dogs is a proven method to controlling pet over-population and homeless animals. And at $20, there's no excuse to not do it because it's too expensive!
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01/18/2015
December 2014 showed a solid performance for home sales in the Ballantyne area of Charlotte (28277 zip code). The average sale price of Ballantyne area homes increased by 1.7% to just under $313,000, while days on market for property listings dropped to 50 days, a 21.9% improvement over the same
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01/18/2015
If you love a great bargain or just love wandering around a flea market, you should check out Charlotte, North Carolina area's flea markets. The Charlotte area has three well-known, popular flea markets that are open on weekends all year long. SWEET UNION FLEA MARKET Often referred to as the la
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01/16/2015
Is it time to buy that home in Charlotte? Our friends at Keeping Current Matters have provided this wonderful infographic "Talking Real Estate," which condenses the question of whether it's time to buy into a very simple and easy to understand format. Forget all the charts, the graphs, the detail
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01/16/2015
