Real Life in Real Estate

I read yesterday USA Today that Citigroup will suspend foreclosures and evictions for 30 days in a temporary break for about 4,000 borrowers during the holiday season. The New York-based bank said Thursday the suspension will run from Friday through Jan. 17. It applies only to borrowers whose loa...

This awesome home is located in the Legends section of Chateau Elan and sits on over an acre lot. This home has been approved for a short sale and can close in 30 days. This is a great value and worth every penny if not more. Call me to set up your private showing of this one of a kind home in Ch...

I took the time to read a very interesting article that was written by Christopher Elliott  who is a travel contributor for MSNBC.com this morning. What struck me was how similar his views were on customer service in the travel industry and the real estate industry. Granted, Customer Service is o...

This morning while waiting for a colleague at my local bagel shop, Big Apple Bagels, in Dacula I picked up the most recent Real Estate print advertising book. This is not something I have done in forever, but I figured I would take a look at it and see who was doing the advertising. What amazed m...

As recently as yesterday my Partner, Matt Fagioli and I were meeting with a prospective client and the discussion headed in a very familiar direction. This client wanted to tell us how to market the property, what price was reasonable and what we should be able to sell the home for. While I appre...

What are we to do now?  Another month of relatively good news in the housing market is welcome news to those of us in the real estate industry and should be welcome news to everyone who owns a home. Funny, again this information was buried on page two of an online internet news site. Why give us ...

This story was forwarded to me by a good friend and after I read it I was getting ready to call him and see if he wanted to come with me to Vegas. Interesting this article was written in 1999 and predicts what will happen if the country went into an economic downturn. Mortgage Crisis Prediction S...

I have been thinking a lot lately about the current state of the real estate market and the number of good people that have lost their homes, incomes, marriages and even lives with the "collapse" of our local real estate market. In Georgia we have been somewhat fortunate that we have not seen th...

  Anyone that lives in Gwinnett County has seen, heard or has had to deal with the recent gas shortage we have experienced over the past four weeks and I am tired of it. Since this all started I have reassured my wife that there will be gas and that there is no need to fill up our gas tank whenev...

Here is a fantastic new home that is dramatically reduced and the Builder needs an offer. Please take a minute to view this video and give me your thoughts.  The video is pretty raw, and taken with my new Flip Video camera, so excuse the sloppiness. Any help is welcome on how to best use the Flip...