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I recently attended a seminar on how to "Sell" homes and not just "Market" homes.  One particularly interesting item I walked away with was to suggest that Sellers offer buying down a Buyers interest rate rather than simply reducing the price.  This is such a win-win for both parties.  The Buyers...
06/13/2008
In this period of a somewhat flat real estate market, people are deliberating on what should I do to set myself apart and get new business?  What advertising medium is most effective?  What area should I choose to farm?  Should I blog?  Should I re-vamp my website?  On and on we go incessantly in...
06/09/2008
If any one writer brought attention and interest in St. Simons Island, it was Eugenia Price.  Ms. Price was born in West Virginia, as was I, and after graduating from Northwestern University she began writing and producing for radio and television.  With the publication of her first book, Discove...
05/26/2008
I recently read an article of a common and lawful practice in England that allows the seller to cancel a contract at the last minute right before closing.  Should the seller receive a higher price from another buyer he can cancel the deal in a practice known as gazumping.   Likewise, if a buyer d...
05/22/2008
A local realtor is advertising the opportunity for investors to pick up foreclosures on local properties.  I spoke with her Saturday after seeing her signage on her Honda sedan advertising "Buy Foreclosures".  She indicated she had taken out 7 individuals that day to view 9 different properties t...
05/13/2008
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I am interested in how you folks feel about the possibility of the Foreclosure Relief Bill and the FHA getting involved in the business of high risk refinance.  I'm a bit unconvinced that the FHA can really handle that increased market share and also that the government needs to jump in at all.  ...
04/23/2008
Two of the agents in my office are feeling energized today!  Clients they have been working with for an extended time and have put in numerous offers in on properties that did not work out are hopefully both getting something worked out and accepted.  One is definitely accepted and the other is l...
03/31/2008
Isn't it a paradox when working with buyers and you are going forth with the criteria they said they wanted and then they go in completely different directions?  They indicate that they want a large lot, and then fall in love with a postage stamp sized property.  They say a given area is where th...
03/20/2008
Since the dreadful 2004 hurricane season of Florida and then Katrina of 2005, the insurance industry has drawn in the reins for coverage in coastal areas.  Sadly, the insurance companies draw a line down the coast from Maine to Mexico.  Unfortunately, that puts people in coastal Georgia in the sa...
03/11/2008
We track the local sales and new listings in our local MLS system on a weekly basis.  I would speculate that we are not alone with the plethora of inventory available for buyers to consider.  Last week in the residential category alone (not lots or commercial properties) we had 1776 properties on...
03/04/2008
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