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Archive for January, 2010

Sitting at home in Mooresville, NC looking out the window at our snow-covered landscape, my thoughts go back to last October when we were “checking the signs” for a clue about what kind of winter we had in store.  At that time, I wrote a post on the Wooly Worm Festival in Banner Elk, NC where [...]

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I had a conversation with an appraiser today about the value of a pricing adjustment I needed to make while helping a client set a listing price.  We real estate agents work with real estate appraisers to get general ideas of how they value things like brick versus vinyl siding, additional square feet of space, pools, outbuildings, and [...]

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If you find yourself in the situation of wanting to sell your home in the Lake Norman/Iredell County area, but you’ve got the itch to try to do it yourself, I say, “go for it!”  You don’t know if you don’t try.  You might find it odd for a real estate agent to say that, [...]

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I’d like to take the time to write a nice useful, insightful post today, but unfortunately, I’ve got to spend the rest of the day packing my office for a move to our new office on Williamson Road in Mooresville.  It’s only been a year since I moved from our Troutman office to the one [...]

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This week, we learned of the passing of one the pillars of the Troutman community- Ruth Starks.  I first met Ruth when I was 16 and working as the grocery delivery boy for Neil’s Grocery in Troutman.  Each week I’d bring the groceries she ordered in an old black Rambler station wagon.  I learned a lot [...]

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For those of you who love to look at numbers and draw conclusions, here are some residential real estate stats from December of ’09 for our Carolinas Multiple Listing Service area of Mecklenburg and surrounding counties.  My own opinion is that positive change in average price numbers is worth considering to a degree, but the contract [...]

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I never fail to be amazed at all the stupid “alerts” that circulate on the Internet every day.  Now, we see them showing up on Facebook and other social networks, too.  I do have sympathy for all the Internet “newbies” out there who have concluded that if they see it on a computer screen then it [...]

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We got news this week about the sale of the old Burlington Mills textile plant on Main Street in Mooresville.  It was purchased by Wow Home Furnishings, described as a retailer/wholesaler of furniture and decorating items.  They’ve got a couple of other locations that have re-purposed old textile mill buildings.  HERE is a Mooresville Tribune article [...]

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During our meeting of the Iredell Concert Association last night, we spent a good bit of time talking about upcoming collaboration with the Iredell Arts Council.  The ICA receives some funding from the Arts Council and have members serving on both boards.  It reminded me that many readers might be surprised at the level of arts activity in [...]

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Recently, I showed a house to a customer who is trying to decide where to move.  Her choices include a range of locations in North Carolina.  She has been just riding around and calling the listing company of each property to set up a showing.  This is pretty common among people who are at an early stage [...]

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