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Iredell Arts Council- Cool Things Happening

Posted in Entertainment, Iredell County, Quality of Life, tagged , , on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

My work with the Iredell Concert Association helps bring high quality live music to  Iredell County.  One of the groups that the ICA works closely with is the Iredell Arts Council.   Their mission- “Serving as the umbrella organization for the arts in Iredell County, North Carolina and the conduit for North Carolina Arts Council Grassroots [...]

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Troutman Library Article in Statesville Living Magazine

Posted in Entertainment, Iredell County, Quality of Life, Troutman, tagged on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

My good friend and  fellow Realtor and member of Citizens for the Troutman Library, Sara Ferrar, recently was published in Statesville Living Magazine.  Her article provides background on the group who’ve been raising funds for a library in Troutman and on the recent groundbreaking for the library.  See the article HERE. The J. Hoyt Hayes Memorial Troutman [...]

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Selling Your Home? Get an Inpection- Avoid Nasty Surprises

Posted in Real Estate, tagged , , on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Our Lake Norman/Charlotte market is one of the best in the nation, but we still find sellers competing with more sellers than usual for a smaller than usual supply of buyers.  So, sellers need to be mindful of marketing strategies that will set them apart from the crowd and convince buyers that the seller’s property [...]

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Iredell Live- Music in March!!!

Posted in Entertainment, Iredell County, Quality of Life, tagged , , on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If you like live music and you live in the Iredell County area, this weekend will give you plenty to enjoy. On Friday evening (March 13), Historic Downtown Mooresville will have “At the Corner of ART & Main” from 6:00-9:00 PM.  This is an “Artwalk” of local business along Main and Broad Streets accompanied by many live [...]

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Mooresville-Statesville Tops Site Selection Magazine Again!

Posted in Iredell County, Lake Norman, Mooresville, tagged , , on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I went to the monthly meeting of the Iredell County Developers’ Council yesterday and was pleased to learn that for the 4th time in the last 5 years, the Mooresville-Statesville area has been named the Top Micropolitan area by number of projects in the United States by Site Selection Magazine.   North Carolina was awarded the [...]

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Short Sale? What’s a Short Sale?

Posted in Finance, General Real Estate Market, tagged , , on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Following up on my post about buying bank owned property, you may be reading about people trying to do short  sales.  A short sale is sort of a half-step prior to a property being foreclosed and then in most cases sold by the lender that had the mortgage.  Selling short means that the lender is [...]

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Buying Bank Owned Property

Posted in Finance, General Real Estate Market, tagged , , on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Nowadays, lots of buyers call and say they are interested in buying a foreclosure property.  They figure that this is the best way to get “a deal.”  No doubt there are great deals to be had out there, but that doesn’t mean that all bank owned property is a great deal or that all great [...]

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North Carolina Floodmaps

Posted in Iredell County, Mecklenburg County on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

While working on an Iredell County listing recently, I talked to Ben Stikeleather in the Iredell County Planning Department about zoning and floodplains.  I got my question answered about zoning and was complaining about the fact that Iredell County’s GIS mapping system does not show FEMA floodplains.  Mecklenburg County’s GIS site does do this, and [...]

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How Do You Do the “East Monbo”?

Posted in Iredell County on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Having grown up in Troutman with family and friends living in the East Monbo area, I’ve always found it interesting to ask newcomers who live around here if they have any idea of how East Monbo was named.  You have to admit that it is a curious name when you think about it.  People who [...]

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Snow Wonder!

Posted in Quality of Life, tagged on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We’ve finally gotten our one nice show for the winter.  In the Iredell/Lake Norman area, we often get agitated by the weatherperson saying, “it’s coming, just you wait!”  Then the next day they tell us we “missed it by this much.” (Remember Maxwell Smart?)  This time, they finally got it right and brought us the perfect [...]

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