Charlotte House Hunter Blog

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Real Estate Broker/Owner - Jonathan and Associates, Inc
A look on what's happening in and around Charlotte North Carolina, the hottest city in the South East. Reading and commenting on my blog has been known to cause hair to grow back, relationships to get mended, to increase your pay, and make you more attractive to the opposite sex.

ARCHIVED BLOG POSTS

2008 

Since the beginning of this year, we have been working on a system to communicate with our clients what's happening in the market around their home.  In addition to the normal things like showing feedback, we compile website traffic for that listing, number of calls, number of showing requests, n...
08/26/2008
Real Estate Market Update for Single Family Homes in Mecklenburg County North Carolina Area 4 including: Charlotte, Matthews. Neighborhoods West of Hwy 74, Indepdendence Blvd. and East of Providence Road including, Grier Heights, Chantilly, Cotswold, Elizabeth, Eastover, Beverly Crest, Sardis Woo...
08/26/2008
The real estate industry has a pretty good way of coming up with solutions posed by market problems.  When conventional financing was unstable, lenders and agents utilized 3rd party non-profits sell homes to buyers will little for a downpayment.  Now with many of the rules changing once again, le...
08/25/2008
Today, I received an email that one of my listings in north Charlotte had been further vandalized.  This property has seen better days for sure.  Before I took over, it had been a section 8 rental property and unfortunately, not cared for in the least bit.  When I initially took on the listing, I...
08/15/2008
Charlotte North Carolina Market Update for: Single Family Homes in Mecklenburg County North Carolina Area 2 including: Charlotte Neighborhoods East of N. Tryon Street and North of Albermarle Road (24/27) including the neighborhoods of Plaza Midwood, NoDa (The Arts District), Belmont, McCarron, Ol...
08/13/2008
I have to admit that paying for my son's college is a bit scary.  Sure, I may have some time before he's ready to start the college tours but thinking that the day will never come is a sure fire way to strattle him with student loans.  Being on that road ourselves with a Corvette's worth of loans...
08/12/2008
Charlotte North Carolina Market Update for: Single Family Homes in Mecklenburg County North Carolina Area 1 including: Charlotte, Cornelius, Davidson, and Huntersville Neighborhoods East of  I-77, North of N. Tryon Street, West of Cabarrus County, and South of Iredell County including the neighbo...
08/11/2008
The idea of having a listing pre-inspected had been completely lost on me.  Often times, after a home inspection, buyers and sellers would compromise on a list of needed repair items that would be addressed by closing.  There were no reason to think that anyone would walk away after closing howev...
08/11/2008
In the last few months, I have received a bunch of phone calls, emails, and letters from folks I would describe as fake real estate agents.  They are unlicensed and unregulated people who are in the business of helping others buy, sell, and rent real estate.  Many builders sales reps are unlicens...
08/04/2008
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