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If you are purchasing a spanking brand new , the paint is fresh, love that smell type of home, be aware.If you don't have a licensed and qualified Home Inspector represent you in the evaluation of the home prior to closing, you may be making repairs for the next owner.No home is free from defects...
07/11/2007
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A note to the tourists coming to Myrtle Beach.I just read in the paper that police had apprehended a couple of suspects in a robbery that occured at one of our many Public beach access areas. I know that it is politically insensitive to write about problems in our town even as some are putting li...
07/10/2007
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I've got a couple of neighbors that bought the house diagonally across from me about 6 months ago. Very reclusive, the women wear towel things on their heads, occasionally I hear them talking, but not in any language I know. Other neighbors tell me they're from Albania. Probably some very nice up...
07/10/2007
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When a real estate agent makes first contact with a seller and the conversation finally turns to money, who determines the asking price of the property?     Does the seller have a predetermined figure in mind?     Is the seller hard and set on the figure?Or.... Does the seller ask for input?     ...
07/10/2007
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I just did a search on Realtor.com for single family detached homes in Myrtle Beach, SC. Here is what I foundHomes selling under $100k-------- 1between $100 and $150k ---------41between #150 and $200k --------352between $200 and $250k -------- 524between $250 and $300k -------- 347between $300 an...
07/09/2007
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     According to the National Association of Home Builders 1.4 Million New homes are sitting vacant and 3.75 million existing homes were for sale, supposedly a 7 month inventory at the current pace.     Job transfers, home buying prior to selling, and foreclosures have created a lot of vacant ho...
07/05/2007
I have received calls from homeowners requesting inspections on homes they have bought and are approaching the 1 year anniversary. Most of these potential clients have one particular issue that they would like corrected and a similar thread runs through their conversation: The builder is ignoring...
07/04/2007
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What it REALLY means.... While watching a Real Estate review on a local cable channel, various agents paraded their inventory while giving descriptions of the properties. Here is my take on those descriptions. Fresh paint:   The walls were beat up and they read somewhere that the biggest return f...
07/01/2007
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According to newspaper articles a housing glut and savy buyers has made it difficult to sell. Although March and April were very productive months, May and June have been really slow.Investment home sales are down, Leaving  an overstocked supply of homes for sale and driving down prices which sit...
06/30/2007
  It's not bad enough that due to natural causes, the "subPrime" borrower is having a hard time staying afloat in these days of "time to pay the Mortgage Piper"  Here we go.... Executive wrong doing... Gee... I'm shocked. Beazer Homes fires CAO amid federal fraud investigationThe Associated Press...
06/28/2007
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