For all you homebuyers and sellers out there I thought you'd get a kick out of Sheriff Andy Taylor's homes selling experience...Barney Fife Realtor is probably not your best bet. Kidding aside there a couple of things you can do to make the home inspection process a lot less stressful AND a good inspection will always pay for itself - sometime many times over! Homesellers [...]
"It is an up at dawn, pride swallowing siege, that I will never fully tell you about." Being a Realtor that is.....Whoa a bit hyperbolic aren't we? Well...up at dawn (and all night and weekends) - check; pride-swallowing - check; OK maybe it's not a siege....although come to think about it.... siege: the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such [...]
*OK so it's not forchildren...haha no cageless daycare is for our best friends of the four legged persuasion... but one of the great services provided by the Barker Lounge...and with our Explore the Hood coupons you'll get your first day free ~ Hot Dog (we couldn't resist)! There are als0 coupons for bicycles @ Queen City Bicycles, $150 off invisible fencing, discounts off good eats [...]
Now we're usually pretty neighborly and all here in Charlotte...we even like (some) Yankees...you know Bless their hearts and all that! We like Nordstrom, Apple, Trader Joes, Whole Foods, Lily Pulitzer and yes even Walmart! BUT when you start messing with the hometown peeps well... Wikipedia says Arkansas is a a land of lakes and rivers, thick forests and fertile soil. Tell you what you [...]
Nuclear fission reactions are chain reactions, in which the splitting of an atomic nucleus releases neutrons that penetrate other nuclei, causing them to split. OK South Charlotte / Ballantyne hasn't gone 'nuclear' yet ...but it's getting closer. Nuclear as in a chain reaction causing South Charlotte to split into a city of it's own. Providence, NC (at least they get rid of the CH problem...although [...]
In a classic (aren't they all) Modern Family episode real estate agent Phil Dunphy is petrified of clowns....a pretty common fear. But the inside joke is that the clown Phil is most terrified of is named FSBO....that's right the Realtor nightmare...For Sale By Owner! I think we can all chuckle about that...but it struck me the other day when I came upon three gorgeous homes [...]
I stumbled upon this wonderfully poignant (and short) video about the housing market. It reminded me of a blog post I did awhile back Looking for a 1974 Buick Century? Im Your Realtor. I think I'll repurpose that post here later but suffice to say the post was about how in all the mess and gnashing of buying or selling a home we [...]
No longer that confused "CH" city or Atlanta's read haired stepchild, Charlotte has arrived! The US census (yeah the big one) reports that Charlotte was the fastest growing metropolitan area by far up 64.6% since 2000...the wonderfully weird (we love) Austin TX came in a distant second at 51% - take that TEXAS! The Charlotte Observer reports ... No urban area with 1 [...]
