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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 

The latest Case Shiller Index index was just released today and everyone has out a magnifying glass trying to read the 'real estate tea leaves' and predicting it isn't all bad.  The truth of the matter is that home prices in the Atlanta area fell almost 15% from last April.  If I was a seller tha...
06/30/2009
There is an old saying that says "Ice Cream has No Bones!"   It does not mean anything but in real estate we are inundated with nonsense everyday in negotiations.  Slight of hand works great in a magic show, but not in contact negotiations where it paves the way for fraud and deception.  Despite ...
06/30/2009
In real estate these days more of our life has become digital.  We send contracts in .pdf file formats, use digital camera, email digital photos,  write contracts on line, network by Blogging and drive business to ourselves via the world wide web.  Time is truly of the essence these days where we...
06/27/2009
I read an interesting article recently that talked about real estate agents that really just do not get it. Many of their actions are self defeating to say the least.  They spend a lot of unproductive time needlessly pursuing businesses that is totally counterproductive.  They will list overprice...
06/27/2009
 In our Georgia MLS systems the west side of north Fulton County is referred to as "Area 13!"  To the south side it is bounded by the Chattahoochee River, to the East it is bounded by the GA 400 and to the north... Forsyth County and to the west Cherokee and Cobb Counties.  Sales in Area 13 have ...
06/27/2009
Anyone that lives in Alpharetta GA knows that the talk of the town for several years was the redevelopment of downtown Alpharetta and the new City Center was just around the corner. The plans was to have included would have included a new City Hall, retail and office space, underground parking, a...
06/27/2009
Even in good times, real estate is an industry where over 80% of the agents will not make it.  Most agents never survive in real estate because they did not enter the business with their eyes open.  They became real estate agents because they assumed you can make quick easy money and a lot of it....
06/27/2009
Along with 2 other banks in the US Regulators closed the Community Bank of West Georgia (located in Villa Rica) and had another branch in Kennesaw GA...and Neighborhood Community Bank, located in Newnan, GA. Community Bank of West Georgia had total assets of $199.4 million and deposits of $182.5 ...
06/26/2009
Recently, my son expressed an interest to go to real estate school and join us in the business. I advised him that there are several options to qualify to take the real estate test including: on-line, and classes at several real estate schools.  I also mentioned to him that many real estate compa...
06/26/2009
In many real estate markets some listing agents think they are clever advertising ‘pre-listings', or the latest one I've seen on some yard signs as a rider that says "coming soon!"  Upon further investigation, you'll find these listings are not entered into the MLS system.  Under most state real ...
06/25/2009
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