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Staging Homes for Sale in Winston Salem, NC Recently I was taking a young lady on a tour of homes for sale in Winston Salem  and surrounding towns and decided to make it a project of seeing her reactions in homes with no staging and those that were.  It's a proven statistic that more sales come o...

Winston Salem NC Triad Home Values  Statistics Holding Strong The statistics are in!   ...For Winston Salem NC Triad Home Values ... and they prove that home values remain strong!  For Winston Salem, Greensboro and High Point, North Carolina, our Multiple Listing Service (MLS) is saying that sinc...

Foreclosures In Winston Salem NC and How to Buy HUD Foreclosure Real Estate Foreclosure homes in Winston Salem are a good deal when they can be purchased in such a way as to realize built-in equity "at the closing" table.  Everyone knows that having equity in one's home means that your financial ...

Homes For Sale In Winston Salem, Triad NC First Time Home Buyers! Is the Recession over yet?  I'm no economist, but I've been reading everything I can get my hands on concerning "the worst recession since the 1930s".  It appears that we are heading in the right direction, FINALLY.   Homes for Sal...

Homes for Sale in Winston Salem, NC - Buyers Get Off The Fence! Now is the time to buy a home in the Winston Salem, NC area and surrounding communities!   Okay, I'm preaching to the choir.  But look at it from this point.  What can you purchase now with a $5,000 or $10,000 down payment that would...

First Time Homebuyers in Forsyth County, NC $8000 Tax Credit Deadline Approached! Whatever monitoring device you use, such as Microsoft's Outlook Calendar, Facebook's CountDown Feature, or just a plain old "Wall Calendar",                                        NOW is the time for First Time Home...

Home Sales are stabilizing in Winston Salem, NC!  I was out walking my dog, “Winston”, a two year old male Schnauzer, the other day and struck up a conversation with another fellow from the adjoining neighborhood. He asked me what I did for a living and I told him I was a REALTOR®.  I naturally r...