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While searching Active Rain for a group that fit my geographic region I found there was not one available.  So, now there is.  I invite anyone that works or lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina to join this group and share your thoughts, ideas, funny stories and/or daily struggles.Tho...
01/22/2008
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I was helping my two son's summer/fall tournament and wood bat baseball team in a fund raising effort this evening.  We were working for Aramark running one of the concession stands at the Davidson/Western Carolina University Men's Basketball game.  During our halftime rush we heard a roar from t...
01/21/2008
I guess I will step out here and be the Devil's Advocate.  I have read through a number of posts on this subject and the vast majority feel that this plan of putting approximately $1600.00 into a household is ludicrous and will have no effect on housing or real estate.  Well, they are very correc...
01/20/2008
Working predominantly in land sales I have found myself on numerous occassions working with multiple sellers of real estate.  These situations typically occur when the siblings have been left the "old homeplace", by Mom and Dad.  There are some important things to remember when entering into thes...
01/19/2008
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If you schedule a trip to Western North Carolina, it is worthwhile to spend some time in Cullowhee.  Cullowhee is a Census designated area of Jackson County that is unincorporated.  It is the home of the Catamounts of Western Carolina University.  They compete in the Southern Conference at the NC...
01/19/2008
I have a broker that came to work with me in early 2007.  He is a great guy, good to his family, hard working, honest, funny, intelligent, great with meeting new people and has been quite successful in various other businesses over his years.  He is doing everything that he needs to do in this bu...
01/17/2008
I just recently had a closing on a listing of an agricultural/commercial property and I encouraged the buyer agent to have the buyer obtain a new survey, since the most current survey work was done in the late 70's.But, they did not take heed to the advice and when the buyer sat down with the clo...
01/17/2008
The traffic of potential buyers is definitely picking up quite a bit since the first of the year.  A definite increase over November and December 2007 traffic, but the indecision of some of these buyers is just killing me.  Two years ago I would have let a few of these folks fall to the wayside a...
01/16/2008
Will it stay or will it go?  Almost sounds like lyrics to a song.  The Dillsboro Dam is quite a heated debate in Jackson County.  County Commissioners voted 4-1 to look further into the possiblity of condemning the dam, pay Duke Energy the fair value and then lease it to an entity to produce hydr...
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