Charlotte, NC: Many years ago when I was a newer agent, maybe a little sophomoric, I made a big mistake that cost my sellers a lot of money. Since there was little real training back then it was ignorance more than a "stupid moment", but I should have known. It was my job. The sellers in thi
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02/22/2013
Charlotte, NC: I am in Dallas this week for our annual Family Reunion Keller Williams Convention. I am leaving for Charlotte shortly and while I am waiting for the airport shuttle I wanted to share the most important thing I learned while I was here; interestingly, it came on the last day at the
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02/19/2013
Buy Low, Sell High. January 26, 2013 by The Charlotte Home Team | Edit Charlotte, NC: This market is not like any other real estate market I have experienced. At the risk of showing my age, I remember the last time we had a market this bad…1980. I had a freshly minted license, great expectations
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01/26/2013
Charlotte, NC: My 2 golden retrievers, who lead a charmed life by the way, get bored running in our 1/2 acre backyard. So today I took them with me today to preview a few houses for sale in close in Charlotte neighborhoods. They got to ride in the car…always exciting… and run in the park and th
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01/22/2013
There is no place like New York City for the holidays! This year in lieu of a going into debt or spending too much money on a bunch of Christmas presents that we not long remember we decided to take a road trip as a family to the Big Apple. It happens that I am fr
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12/27/2011
Charlotte,NC: Recently I had a buyer burst into tears as we began to write an offer on a property here in Charlotte. She wanted to offer about 10% less than the asking price which I knew the seller would not only reject but would more likely not even counter the offer as the seller was al
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12/11/2011
Charlotte, NC: The overall Charlotte real estate market peaked sometime in mid 2007 and then almost dropped dead. I don;t know what happened in July 2007 to make it happened but I almost think I can pinpoint the day. Builders, investors and especially house "flippers" who came into the marke
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12/06/2011
Charlotte, NC: While researching the Charlotte market recently I came up with some interesting data about luxury homes in the Charlotte area. Luxury is defined for our purposes here as over $750,000 and goes up to a high of $8,000,000. As I write this 2.5% of our active listings are in the lu
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12/05/2011
I have been praying about and asking for guidance about the issues around why things I want do not appear. I came back from Keller Williams Mega Camp in Austin rather bittersweet. Sweet because it was, as always, very inspiring, and a bit sad because there are so many people doing so well even
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10/17/2011
I live in Charlotte NC. but this week had to go to NYC to see about my dad who has some health issues. Usually someone picks me up at the airport but this time no one was available. I thought I would try to experience the real city and take public transportation from LaGuardia airport to Penn Sta
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10/08/2011
