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Archive for the 'Real Estate News' Category
Important Charlotte-area Real Estate News and International Coffee Drinking Tips
December 27th, 2007 categories: Buyer Info, Charlotte Area News, Off-the-Wall, Real Estate News, Seller Info
Ok, that’s probably one of my more goofy topic titles, but hey, maybe it is good bait for the search engine machines. HA! Actually it would be fun to see how that title made a difference (if any) in a Google ranking.
This is one of my wacked-out posts that a person has to […]
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Radon Gas- In My Home?….Radioactive?? No way - Will I start to glow? (part 1)
November 17th, 2007 categories: Real Estate News
Those of us who live in North Carolina, don’t hear a whole lot about radon. Of course the limited things we do hear often relate to the scary stuff – little sound bites like radioactive, cancer, death. Enough to wonder if you are about to grow a third appendage when you hear your home has […]
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Welcome Back, me…
October 20th, 2007 categories: Charlotte Area News, Off-the-Wall, Real Estate News
Woo hoo…. I am finally back to my blog. After a loooooooong time away, and probably losing every half-loyal reader, I am finally able to return and I’ve got to say – I’m very happy to have me back. In a fairly brief time, I’ve been to Massachusetts, Oregon, Alaska, and Southern California. While my […]
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“your name here” The GREAT
September 8th, 2007 categories: Charlotte Area News, Off-the-Wall, Real Estate Investing, Real Estate News
Well last week I launched myself on a mainly personal quest to discover what could make a single real estate agent or real estate team great. Inspired by my own observations, circumstances, and re-reading the book Good to Great by Jim Collins, I listed three questions from his book and specifically chapter on the Hedgehog […]
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Hedgehogs and Real Estate Agents
September 1st, 2007 categories: Off-the-Wall, Real Estate News
I’ve been re-reading Jim Collin’s excellent book, Good to Great. In this book Mr. Collins and his associates document a very detailed study they conducted of what makes companies “great”. I made it most of the way through about a year ago, and for various reasons picked it up again because I feel it has […]
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Bargains Abound for Buyers???
August 25th, 2007 categories: Buyer Info, Charlotte Area News, Real Estate Investing, Real Estate News
You hear a lot right now about the real estate market. I pointed out last week that even in a solid market like the greater Charlotte area, there are plenty of reports about the market getting soft. Couple that with tons of information being broadcast from the news about the overall national market and if […]
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Icebergs Ahead…??? How Savvy Sellers are Making Ice Cubes…
August 18th, 2007 categories: Charlotte Area News, NC Mortgage News, Real Estate News, Seller Info
Here in the Charlotte area we have been blessed with a rock-solid market. While many areas of the country have experienced rapid price increases only to now be experience steep price declines, Charlotte has been cruising at a nearly perfect pace – prices increasing steadily, but not too fast.
This has helped keep sudden pricing drop-offs from from […]
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Legal Interpretation of Mortgage Documents
August 2nd, 2007 categories: Buyer Info, Charlotte Area News, NC Mortgage News, Off-the-Wall, Real Estate Investing, Real Estate News, Seller Info
One of the “fun” things you get to do when purchasing a home is go to an attorney’s office (or whoever is handling the transaction) and sign lots and lots of documents.
Possibly the most intimidating document in this huge stack of papers is the very thick mortgage paperwork. Banks have all sorts of […]
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Quality is Home One
July 30th, 2007 categories: Charlotte Area News, Real Estate News
Anyone remember the old Ford Motor Company commercials with the tag-line “Quality is Job One” ? This and the “faddish” quality movement of the late 1980s and 1990s were a movement toward improving quality in American business. Peter Drucker was equivalent to Yoda when it came to quality. What he said was […]
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Fun Mortgage Secrets of South Park Financing
July 11th, 2007 categories: Buyer Info, Charlotte Area News, NC Mortgage News, Real Estate News, Seller Info
I had coffee the other day with a friend who is a mortgage consultant with SunTrust Mortgage. They have a great product that might be of interest to some of you active buyers. If you are considering a home in one of our great, established neighborhoods you already are aware of some of the “issues” surrounding […]
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