David Patterson - Columbia South Carolina Real Estate

The Columbia SC Housing Authority (CHA) will provide down payment assistance, gap financing and closing costs up to the maximum allowable assistance of $28,000. This may include an allowable amount up to $3,000 in closing costs and up to $25,000 down payment assistance as gap financing for qualif...

.....To Buy or Not to Buy..... Before starting to tackle today's "To Do" list, I wanted to query my Blog Subscriptions Dashboard, read some posts and make some comments. It didn't take too long before I came across Kim Southern's most recent post entitled Home Not-So-Sweet Home. This name was tak...

Does everything happen for a reason? Well...Due to the illness of a real estate licensing instructor, I was called at 8:30 Monday morning to teach an 8:30am class. Since I did not have a Superman telephone booth or a teleportation pod, I did not arrive to teach until 10am. It was a really enjoyab...

Written by:David Patterson, REALTOR® Broker CRSKeller Williams RealtyPhone: 803.960.5231Email: activerain@davidpatterson.net After six months of Active Rain blogging, Jessica Horton and Darleen McCullen have found me interesting enough to request a Super 8 MeMe from this Columbia SC real estate a...

For the first post after reaching my 100th post milestone, I wanted to take a moment and thank some of my fellow members for their contribution to this community and helping me with my business. When you make a list like this (click here for Part One), you take the risk of offending someone. Ther...

In recognition of my 100th post, I will mark the milestone by sharing some of my favorite Active Rain female bloggers! You should subscribe to their blogs and give them a few minutes of your time. They are women! Here them roar!In numbers too big to ignoreAnd they know too much to go back an' pre...

As I approach my 100th post milestone, I wanted to take a moment and thank some of my fellow members for their contribution to this community and helping me with my business. When you make a list like this one, you take the risk of offending someone. Therefore, here were the two qualifications/di...

Before entering any new endeavor (or any listing that needs to be previewed), I like to do as much research as possible about what's "behind the door". When I started this thing called "blogging", one of the first bloggers to catch AND HOLD my attention was Darren Rowse. For those of you that don...

With any move, you are faced with creating and resolving a TO-DO List. Depending upon the task, the list can go from a simple list that can be written on a Post-it® Note to a season-long project with an implementation plan in Microsoft Access. My recent move to Keller Williams Columbia SC has req...

What does Steve Krug, author of Don't Make Me Think, the O'Jays and the website www.RealEstateInTheMidlands.info have in common? They all believe in giving the people what they want! With little fanfare, Columbia SC real estate professionals have listened to the public and real estate consumers a...