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10 Year Top Producer; 2008 & 2014 President West Metro Board of Realtors; market conditions in Carrollton, Georgia; Carroll County Georgia Real Estate, Student of market trends and conditions; Broker in Carrollton, GA; Worship Pastor (part-time) at Southern Hills Christian Church; Realtor of the Year 2005 & 2010 West Metro Board of Realtors; Student Minister for 20 years prior to Real Estate Career; Christ Follower, Husband, Dad, REALTOR (in that order!)
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I am about to do some major cleaning and put stuff in closets and store it away for possible reference, but not daily use.   I'm talking about cleaning up my computer. These machines are much like our home or office. File folders need to be purged and cleaned up. I keep everything until the file ...
08/03/2011
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Our company built a parade float for the Peoples Parade for the 4th of July in our town of Carrollton, Georgia.  We went with the theme of "Backyard Bar-B-Q. We had a playhouse on the back of a 24’ trailer. We had agents to build a picket fence, agents who painted. We then put down green indoor/o...
07/04/2011
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I recently went on a great vacation with my family and had a blast hanging out and getting some much needed time away.  My assistant did an outstanding job keeping work moving right along. Right before I left I was working on two listings that looked to be very good prospective sales. In fact bot...
06/21/2011
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AnticipationMy 13 year old son Matthew, recently sold an item on e-bay for much more than I thought it was worth and he turned right around and purchased a used Macbook computer from e-bay after putting some birthday money with it.  The order was placed and the money changed hands, we began waiti...
05/18/2011
I can't believe it - I got a lead from Walt Disney recently on my website. He wanted to know the value of his home here in Carroll County.  Unfortunately I couldn't help him, because he didn't give his street address on the input form. I know that people want anomonity, but good grief - could the...
05/17/2011
I had an unusual Saturday recently – I was home working around the house! (Saturday’s are usually a working day for a REALTOR.) I was working on a project and needed a quick “Home Depot run” to pick up parts and supplies. Since I only live about 5 minutes away, I jumped in the car and headed that...
05/08/2011
I’ve heard that buyers buy with emotion. I have found that to be true many, many times. I’ve been showing a property to buyers that I’ve been working with for a while and I know upon entrance to the property that they want to buy this property. As a buyer’s agent, I try to educate them to look ca...
05/04/2011
My wife and I recently adopted a 11 year old son from Nicaragua and he’s quite a little character. He is learning English very quickly and my Spanglish is still pretty bad. We communicate very well. He has a quick response when you ask him if he likes something. His response to this question is: ...
05/02/2011
This past week on Wednesday, a day of storms ripped through the south that changes thousands of lives forever.  I can’t get my head wrapped around the amount of damage done by this monster Tornado in Alabama and Georgia.  I’ve heard that statement in reference many things over the years. Most rec...
05/02/2011
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Some days I feel like I worked hard on lots of stuff, but it doesn’t always generate income. However, there are times to invest in the big picture. This was one of those weeks. Marketing for our company is a big deal. We are the largest independent Real Estate firm in West Georgia. It’s important...
04/15/2011
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