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Archive for October, 2009

My neighbors, Steve and Margaret, are Rowan County, NC natives.  Last weekend we all piled into the Realtormobile and headed to one of the culinary jewels of China Grove and our area.  When you head toward Rowan County, you can expect to have many good choices for barbecue.  Those folks just know how to do it [...]

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Recently you could read all kinds of news about where the housing market is going.  Some of it is encouraging and some of it is still rather depressing.  Most of what you may hear or read is about the state of the combined markets in the United States.  Trouble is, you can not make good [...]

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Got this note from Nydia Ferral, Executive Director of Community Housing Dev. Corp. of MSI asking for help raising funds for this Mooresville based non-profit that helps people acquire affordable housing through education programs and construction of affordable housing.  See their website HERE. “Community Housing Dev. Corp. of MSI, a nonprofit organization located in Mooresville is [...]

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As the economy improves, more people are thinking of selling their current homes in order to get a different size home or move to a new location.  If you’re thinking about that, you’ll want to do what you can to make your property stand out among the competition without spending too much.  Here’s a Coldwell Banker [...]

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Ran across an interesting video clip from an effort to draw attention to the money we spend and the CO2 we pump into the air when we dry our clothes exclusively with electric dryers.  See the Drying for Freedom web site HERE.  I don’t think anyone with a dryer is going to give it up if they can help [...]

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This is an important week!  This is the beginning of the end of the availability of the first time home buyers tax credit.  Some would say, ” but it doesn’t run out until Dec. 1!”  That’s true.  So, if you are a first time home buyer (or have not owned a home within the last 3 years), [...]

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Yesterday, one of my friends on Facebook mentioned having an album of music by a certain performer.  She explained that she was talking about an LP (Long Playing) record.  I commented that my wife’s kindergarten kids saw her use them in class a while back and called them “big black CDs.”  I don’t think she’s used [...]

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I have been working with a client couple for many weeks to find them a home in the Mooresville area.  After several trips looking at listings, we found just the right home.  It was in a neighborhood they liked, had the size and features they liked and was in the right price range.  So, we made an [...]

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After watching an episode of the PBS series “Craft in America” last night, they said that there was more on the PBS site. I decided to take a look.  There, I noticed that they have a new section that offers full-length videos of lots of their series.  I thought, “WOW!”  How cool!  This may be better [...]

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A lot of people in our area depend on groundwater wells to supply their needs for drinking and bathing, not to mention laundry, irrigation and other uses.  If you’ve bought property and paid to have a well drilled and installed, you my have some appreciation of what is involved and the cost of putting in a [...]

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