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Trading Garden Time for Shop Time

Posted in gardening, Quality of Life, tagged , on March 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Since mid-January I’ve been clomping around in a “walking boot” provided by my doctor after we concluded that I’d fractured my fibula back in December.  The walking boot is supposed to keep everything fixed in place so that it will heal correctly.  It’s no doubt way better than wearing a cast all the time.  I [...]

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Payback for Wretched Excess

Posted in General Real Estate Market, tagged , on March 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Just talked to my daughter, Laura, who lives in Raleigh.  She’s loves to curl up with the newspaper everyday.  We were talking about how my real estate business is going, and she mentioned an article she read in yesterday’s News & Observer about an entrepreneur who built a luxury home in the Raleigh area several years [...]

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Insulated Windows- To Fix, or Not to Fix?

Posted in General Real Estate Market, Iredell County, Lake Norman, Mooresville, Real Estate, tagged , , , , on March 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Some of my clients and I just got the results of an inspection on a house in Mooresville, NC  that we have under contract.  The house was built in the mid-seventies, and the windows have basic IGUs- Insulated Glass Units.  These units in the windows are what you’ll see in most homes, with two panes of glass separated by [...]

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Tax Benefit for First Time and Repeat Homebuyers Not Having Much Effect

Posted in General Real Estate Market, tagged , , , , , on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Real estate agents make a living helping people buy and sell homes.  For quite awhile, there have not been nearly enough home buyers or serious sellers to keep us agents happy.  There are always some buyers and sellers out there, and we’re thrilled when we get to help someone, particularly since the funky market has made [...]

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Our Realtor Association Gets an Honor

Posted in Iredell County, Lake Norman, Mecklenburg County, Quality of Life, Real Estate, tagged on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Realtors Care Day, 2010 is coming up on April 23.  This is an event where hundreds of local Realtors perform maintenance and rehab work on many houses in Mecklenburg and Iredell Counties.  Our Realtor Association, through its Housing Opportunity Foundation, created and implemented the program for the first time last year.  Today we were informed that [...]

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MIT- Mitchell in Town

Posted in Iredell County, Lake Norman, Mooresville, tagged on March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Those of us who live in and around Mooresville, NC have for years referred to our local institute of higher learning as “MIT.”  As you guessed from the title, that stands for “Mitchell in Town.”  This facility opened in 1984 and has provided convenient training and educational opportunities to south Iredell residents for all those [...]

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Real Estate Market Heating Up

Posted in General Real Estate Market, Real Estate, tagged , , , , on March 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

My fellow agents and I are seeing some upbeat interest in selling and buying homes among the local population lately.  Buyers and sellers are starting to call our office and our agents.  That’s one reason why it’s been awhile since I’ve posted here.  When I have the choice of writing a nice blog post or working [...]

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Two Great Choices for Iredell Music This Weekend

Posted in Iredell County, Lake Norman, Mooresville, Quality of Life, Real Estate, Statesville, tagged , , , , , , on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

You’ve got great choices to enjoy live music in Mooresville and Statesville this weekend, from bluegrass to symphonic. From my friend, Stu Eaton of Mooresville Concerts: THE NEW DIXIE PHARAOHS Saturday, MARCH 13th at 7:30 PM, meet the New Dixie Pharaohs in Downtown Mooresville, playing a blend of traditional and progressive bluegrass. This performance and [...]

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Troutman Library Update

Posted in Iredell County, Lake Norman, Quality of Life, Troutman, tagged , , on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Went to the monthly meeting of the Friends for the Troutman Library.  Of course, we’re all excited at the prospect of opening that wonderful new library building and seeing it full of books and people, and we were assured it will open sooner rather than later.  The big holdup right now is the Iredell County [...]

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Warren Buffett Upbeat on Housing

Posted in Finance, General Real Estate Market, tagged , , , on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Warren Buffett has always been an interesting man.  He’s been wildly successful in the business of investing, yet he seems to be someone with whom you’d feel comfortable having a leisurely chat over coffee.  He just not full of himself like many very successful people.  Bill Gates even pals around with him, the better to [...]

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