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Sunset Beach, NC Real Estate News

By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
    Did You know about the wine tasting at Mavericks Java in Sunset Beach? The Sunset Beach Team would like to remind you to visit, try the wine or try one of their delicious coffee selections!! October Wine Tasting OCTOBER 13 AT 6:00PM Host: Jen, Vicki, Sonni & Jodi 910-575-5282 When: Thursday, October 13 at 6:00 PM Where: Mavericks Java 303 Sunset Blvd. North, Sunset Beach, NC 28468           Message from Host Hi friends,Please join us for our next wine tasting at Mavericks Java where we will be enjoying four different wines including a Malbec from Argentina. Our featured wines will also be available for sale by the glass or the bottle. By the way, we are also trying out extended off-season hours (open until 8pm) Thursdays through Saturdays so you can grab coffee, espresso or wine in ...
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
Thursday Thinks Is it too hard to be mindful, thoughtful, gentle, happy?  How often do you think before you speak? Do you take that deep breath or do you react? Everyone here works with the public in one way or another. Take the time to Think... This Could be your Best Business Practice We can go on our merry way and not stop to think..... Will You??       Out of the Mouth of Babes.... If you are feeling BLUE ---- Try painting yourself a different color...  Hannah Cheatem  Age 8
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
Ha Ha our Offer Beat Your Offer!! A Sunset Beach Home has been on the market for quite a while. We watched as it went into short sale status. No offers. We watched as it went into foreclosure status. What really gets my goat, this really irks me, sorry,  is waiting to see who will get the listing....you see the listing is sent to the world of "we never know who will get the listing" We watch and wait....to see who will list the home in Sunset Beach The real estate company who obtains the listing is based in the South Carolina Multiple Listing Service but the home is in North Carolina?? The listing is never going to show up in the North Carolina Multiple Listing Service..... If you can't quite figure this out, let me explain. First of all, what is the  advantage of listing a home in the ...
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
 Homes For Sale, Homes Sold in Sea Trail Plantation, Sunset Beach, North Carolina. Sea Trail Plantation is located in the beautiful coastal village of Sunset Beach, North Carolina. The town of Sunset Beach encompasses the barrier island of Sunset Beach which has remained a wholesome, family oriented beach with very little commercial development.    Quick Average Stats for time period 1/1/11 to 9/20/11 Sea Trail Plantation, Sunset Beach, North CarolinaHomes listed on the average for $397,506Homes sold on the average for   $335,583 Homes sold for 84% of the average listed value The average selling price dropped 16% from average listing price to average selling price.   Listing $ SqFt Listing Pr/SqFt DOM/CDOM Sale $ Selling Pr/SqFt Single Family (34) $397,506 2398 $166 167/283 $335,583 $15...
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
    “Did You Know” about Sunset at Sunset? Another community event update from the Sunset Beach Team.Mark your calendar ..for the Sunset Beach 5th Annual Block Party!! Saturday, Oct. 1, 201110 a.m. - 5 p.m.5th Annual Sunset at SunsetDon’t miss ... 5K Fun Run on the beach Car Show Photo Contest results at the Planetarium.   More than 100 vendors, crafters, food services, and non-profit organizations participate in the day’s activities.   Mark your Calendars for a Family Fun Day         Location for event is the area between Ingram Planetarium, 7625 High Market St. (off Sunset Boulevard) and Food Lion (at the Village at Sunset), Sunset Beach, N.C.    
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
    So You Think you Can (Dance) Buy in Sunset Beach??So You Think You Can Buy in Sunset Beach?  When the market continues to have homes available where do you go to look?  Many people go to the internet to look for HOMES FOR SALE IN SUNSET BEACH, of course!  How current is it?  Depends where you are researching, BUT NOT VERY CURRENT!!   Are you looking on Realtor.com or Zillow.com or Trulia.com?  It doesn’t matter where you are looking. You need to contact a realtor in the SUNSET BEACH area because they have access to the most up to date Multiple Listing Services in their area. Take for example the phone call I received this evening. A person looking at my blog from yesterday called asking about the Condo Liquidation Sale in Sunset Beach. Multiple Questions and answers later she decide...
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
    Wordless Wednesday ~ The Standoff ~ I know it is Wordless Wednesday but you have to realize I saw this cool crab from quite a distance while walking on Sunset Beach during low tide. He never moved the entire time I was walking towards him. Naturally, I thought he was a either sleeping or you know (a goner)...   So as I advanced on him/her, I expected him/her to take off, but he/she didn’t!! I decided to have a conversation with him or is it a her?  It was amazing!! The cool crab never moved and allowed me to take it’s picture while telling him/her what a cool crab he/she was!!  Decided to get a little closer and it took off for the dunes.... 
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
    SUNSET BEACH, NC  BANK FORECLOSED CONDO SALEBRAND NEW, NEVER LIVED IN, BANK FORECLOSED CONDO SALESATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH ONLY   $129,900        VILLAGE PARKHIGH MARKET STREET$129,900TWO BEDROOM/TWO BATH/DEN/FIREPLACEPALMETTO FLOOR PLAN  1,494 SQ. FT. INDIVIDUAL GARAGE  STAINLESS STEEL APPLIANCESGRANITE COUNTERTOPSCOVERED PORCHVAULTED CEILINGELEVATORSONE MILE TO THE BEACHONLY 14 AVAILABLE ~ VILLAGE PARK IN SUNSET BEACH, NCCALL US TO PREVIEW THURSDAY AFTERNOON SEPTEMBER 15 FROM 2-4PM ONLYOTHER FLOOR PLANS ALSO AVAILABLE THE PARK  1,652 SQ FTTHREE BEDROOM/TWO BATH/DINING ROOM/FIREPLACETHE CARRIAGE HOUSE  1,995 SQ FTTHREE BEDROOM/THREE BATHVILLAGE PARK IN SUNSET BEACH, NCHIGH MARKET STREETCONDO LIQUIDATIONBRAND NEW, NEVER LIVED INGARAGE INCLUDEDONLY ONE MILE TO BEACHKITCHEN APPLIANCES ...
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
                        Bottle of  WineA  woman and a man are involved in a car accident  on a snowy, cold Monday morning during an extremely RARE snowstorm in Sunset Beach, North Carolina; it's a  bad one.Both of their cars are totally  demolished, butamazingly neither of  them is hurt. God works in mysterious  ways. After they crawl out of their cars, the  Sunset Beach man is yelling about women drivers.The  Sunset Beach woman says, 'So, you're a man. That's  interesting. I'm a woman. Wow, just look  at ourcars! There's nothing left, but  we're unhurt.This must be a sign from  God that we should befriends and live  in peace for the rest of our days.'Flattered,  the man replies, 'Oh yes, I agree completely,  this must be a sign from God! But you're  stillat fault...women shouldn't be  ...
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
    As the wife of a retired Lt. FDNY,  who was part of the 9/11 tragedy, I know this is a difficult subject to talk about, but THE SUN NEWS, the local newspaper in the Grand Strand Area, as part of the 10th Anniversary coverage of September 11, 2001, is inviting all to share their memories  of that day and their tributes to those who lost their loves.All submissions will be part of a special website honoring the heroes and victims of September 11’s tragic events. THE SUN NEWS would also like to hear from readers who played a pivotal role that day or had a unique view on the events that unraveled ~ emergency responders who immediately went to New York to help, pilots forced to land their planes, teachers, security guards and members of the military who felt their duties change on that ...
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
THE TOP 30 THINGS THAT YOU WILL NEVER HEAR A SOUTHERN BOY SAY:   30. When I retire, I'm movin' north.   29. I'll take Shakespeare for 1000, Alex.   28. Duct tape won't fix that. 27. Come to think of it, I'll have a Heineken 26. We don't keep firearms in this house. 25. You can't feed that to the dog. 24. No kids in the back of the pickup, it's just not safe. 23. Wrestling is fake. 22. We're vegetarians. 21. Do you think my gut is too big? 20. I'll have grapefruit and grapes instead of biscuits  and gravy. 19. Honey, we don't need another dog. 18. Who gives a damn who won the Civil War? 17. Give me the small bag of pork rinds.   16. Too many deer heads detract from the decor. 15. I just couldn't find a thing at Wal-Mart today. 14. Trim the fat off that steak.   13. Cappuccino tastes bett...
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
    Saturday Silly From the Sunset Beach Team BAGPIPER AT THE FUNERAL...As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral directorto play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family orfriends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the Kentuckyback country.As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost and, being atypical man, I didn't stop for directions.I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guy had evidentlygone and the hearse was nowhere in sight. There were only the diggersand crew left and they were eating lunch.I felt badly and apologized to the men for being late. I went to theside of the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already inplace. I didn't know what else to do, so I started to play.The workers put d...
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
    FRIDAY FUNNY ~ NEW TECHNOLOGY ~ A fifteen year old Amish boy and his father went to a mall in Myrtle Beach South Carolina for the first time. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny,  silver walls that could move apart and then slide back together again.The boy asked, 'What is this Father?'The father (never having seen an elevator) responded, 'Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don't know what it is.'    While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, a fat older woman in a wheel chair moved up to the moving walls and pressed a  button. The walls opened, and the lady rolled between them into a  small room. The walls closed and the boy and his father watched the small numbers above the walls light up sequentially. Th...
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
  Sunset Beach (Island)  Market Report Date Range 1/01/11 to 9/01/11 Homes For Sale  - 56Homes Sold         - 13Homes Pending    - 1The Sunset Beach Market (Island) Report currently shows 56 Active Homes for Sale.Minimum Price  $295,000Average Price    $605,703Median Price      $495,000Maximum Price  $2,500,000The Sunset Beach Market (Island) Report  currently shows 13 Homes Sold.Minimum Price      $211,000Average Price        $439,185Median Price          $425,000Maximum Price      $870,000          Listings per Status    Minimum, Average, Maximum    Days On Market Analysis       Unfortunately, for statistical purposes, all you need is one or two homes listed too high or sold to high to throw the numbers off. Minimum price of a Sold Home on Sunset Beach this year, 2011 is $211,000 comp...
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
Need a little help, give a little help first...It’s better to give than to receive.Often we think the worst of what is going on in our life.Sometimes we are stuck between a rock and a hard place. So are others...Lend a hand, you will be pleasantly rewarded.I had no idea what this video was about but immediately felt compelled to watch it....
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
Kindergarten and my first real spankingGrowing up in the 1950’s was full of music in my house. My mom always had the radio on or her Hi Fi  on playing records, you know the 45’s that were popular. We were always dancing to whatever music was playing. My first day of kindergarten was not something terrible. My Mom told me who my teacher was, told me to stand on her line, called me “Karen Ann”, snapped my picture and off I went into the classroom.   What I do recall was being all the way in the back of the classroom because my last name began with a “W”. There was no sitting next to your friend, it was all about sitting in alphabetical order. This was something I learned to despise over the years. I never was able to sit in the front of the room.Oh, how I wished my last name began with an...
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
    Reflections of Hurricane Irene in Sunset Beach, NC Last night we encountered the most beautiful sky as the evening approached. I stood outside staring and reflecting in wonderment, how only a few hours ago the appearance was so contrasting. Life, as we know it, moves so swiftly by us. Was Hurricane Irene an awakening for some, a reminder... Are we embracing life or just living it day by day?  
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
Hurricane Irene Update Sunset Beach, NCThe worst is over for the Sunset Beach, NC area. Miss Irene Hurricane left us a little soggy but without any major damage. The Bridge from the mainland of Sunset Beach to the Island is open to the public.Police Chief Massey reports little to no damage on the island or mainland. Shelters will remain open today for those without power. Sporadic power outages have been reported.Some portions of Highway 17 have some flooding issues but it is not closed. Take extra precaution if traveling Highway 17.
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
Hurricane Irene Update for Sunset Beach, NCHurricane Warning and Flash Flood Advisory is in effective for our area.A Voluntary Evacuation for the Sunset Beach Island has been ordered beginning immediately.  The Sunset Beach Bridge will be closing at 5:00 pm Friday, August 26, 2011.West Brunswick High School on Highway 130 in Shallotte will serve as a shelter and will open at 2:00 pm, Friday. This shelter will be pet-friendly.The next update from Brunswick County Emergency Services is expected by 4:00 pm on Friday, August 26th. Update for 4pm....The Sunset Beach Bridge will reopen when the winds subside. The next update is expected by 9am Saturday, August 27th.
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By Karen Baker, Professional Help with Rapid Responses...
(Sunset Beach and Beyond Realty)
Sunset Beach, NC  “Where is our BOAT RAMP”Four years have gone by and the town of Sunset Beach, NC is still without a boat ramp. An informal boat launch on the island causeway was closed in June 2008 to make way for the new $44 million high-rise bridge that opened in November, 2010. At a recent town meeting, Sunset Beach Town Administrator Gary Parker “guesstimates” the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission is “poised” to start construction of the planned waterway facility located across the street from Twin Lakes Restaurant later this year. Projected completion will be next summer, 2012.   During the August 1st Sunset Beach Town Council meeting an agreement was approved with the Wildlife Resources Commission to develop the 1.2 acre site as a public boat launching facility and pu...
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