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Leigh Brown's thoughts on real estate and everything else in the greater Charlotte NC area.
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2007
Surprise, surprise, surprise. (said in my very best Gomer Pyle impression!).Anyone you go online you will read about the drama in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. The system is too large and unwieldy to produce the kind of results you would expect in an area with rising income levels and lots of ...
01/31/2007
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At least, that's what I'll call it to give another agent the benefit of the doubt!Get this. I have a listing that is scheduled to close tomorrow (it's a 20-some-odd year old house), and the buyers had their final walk-through tonight.I get a call from the buyers' agent that there are holes in th...
01/30/2007
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There are many real estate training programs out there. Most, if not all, of them have a dialogue for encouraging offers that goes something like this: "The house you're looking at today and want to think about tonight, is the house someone else saw yesterday and thought about ...
01/28/2007
Seems that a lot of folks who move to the Charlotte area, have a desire to have that 'forever' house built, instead of seeking a resale home.Lots of wisdom in that thought process-if you want the perfect house, the only way to get close is to build it yourself (and be forewarned, even then, it's ...
01/26/2007
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I love The Charlotte Observer. Such a lovely liberal newspaper, they can always be depended on to spin something in such a way as to generate commotion!Today's paper had an article about the bonuses for 2006 being paid out to Bank of America employees (BofA is headquartered in Charlotte, if you'...
01/23/2007
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There are myriad posts out there about listing photos, the good-the bad-the ugly-the unbelievably horrible.I was in the car today with a client of mine-I currently have his house listed and he's looking for the replacement house. We were chatting about his boss, who just listed her house-and 4 d...
01/22/2007
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I currently have two of my investment properties on the market. They're in SC, and while I'm licensed there and work a small portion of the state, I don't purport to know the entire state-just as I don't know all of NC.So I sought out an agent to market them for me. Didn't want to use the guy w...
01/22/2007
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You know, nothing is free in this life.Kannapolis NC has been ecstatic ever since the announcement by mult-bazillionaire David Murdock of the North Carolina Research Campus. If you're not familiar with the project, it's a collaboration between Murdock and the University of North Carolina system ...
01/21/2007
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Why, oh why, do the powers that be always think the answer to growth is a building moratorium? The county manager for Cabarrus County (that's Concord, Harrisburg, Kannapolis NC) is apparently panicking at the current rate of growth and wants a moratorium to slow it down. Granted-this area is un...
01/21/2007
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