As long as I have been selling real estate, I never, until late last year, heard of people stealing metal to sell to the recyclers. I have had air conditioners stolen and wiring and copper pipes stripped from homes I was selling.
Late last year I was marketing a foreclosed property on 5 acres with a huge, way bigger than the house, metal outbuilding. One day the man..(read more)
I saw Dar Thompson, owner of World Gym, in a Stein Mart, PTC, the other day and he mentioned seeing me in The Citizen FREE Speech section. This is where anyone can write about anything or anyone anonymously. Mostly people say negative things about local politicians but, on June 25th, someone wanted to say something negative about me. So, I went online and found this:
“Smart”..(read more)
Sometimes I mute the TV and listen through the surround sound only. When muted, the closed captioning starts moving across the bottom of the screen. I can hear the words and read them at the same time. What I have noticed is that the words on the closed captioning are not what is being said on the TV. I suspect the majority of hearing impaired people using closed..(read more)
The California Supreme Court rule this week that same sex couples are entitled to marry. While those in favor of the ruling are rejoicing across the country in hopes acceptance will spread across the country, some very vocal opponents to the ruling are making themselves heard on television, in papers, on the internet and on talk radio.
This is a tricky subject for me to comment..(read more)
A friend sent this to me the other day without an acknowledgment of the source so I don't know who wrote this, but thought is was well worth passing on.
A Modern Parable.
A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company (Ford Motor) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. (read more)
According to the news this morning, one in every ten homes in Clayton County is currently in default. That statistic makes it very hard for owner occupants to sell their homes when the foreclosures in their neighborhoods continue to push prices down. It is happening in all price ranges and the only homeowners who are immune to the fall in value are the ones who are not trying to sell.
The..(read more)
There are currently 3318 active single family residential properties in Clayton County listed for sale in Georgia MLS. The average list price is $144,762 and the average number of days on the market is 133.
In the past twelve months 3161 listings sold with an average of 109 days on the market and an average sales price of $113,012 . That sounds like a lot of home sales in the..(read more)
As of today, May 13, 2008, I have closed 22 properties with an additional 3 properties scheduled to close by the end of this month. While I have sold more in past years, my current sales numbers are more than 10 times the average real estate agent's sales. I think there are good reasons why this is true.
Sellers and Buyers who might have used their new, part-time..(read more)
Another flu season has passed and again I did not get the flu. Although I have never had a flu shot, it is my personal decision and I am not recommending that anyone else do the same.
One of the things I do to avoid contamination from germs is to carry my own pen at all times. I do not share public pens, at the grocery checkout, signing for credit cards or anywhere else.. Be..(read more)
