Skywalk Homes Construction and Deal Blog

    Some of us enjoy the freedom of working from our home offices and are not too sad to wave bye-bye to corporate life. Your decision to cut the security of the umbilical cord and a regular paycheck is offset by the limitless opportunities that being a lone ranger brings. At home, you can make y...

I recently read an article by Sir Richard Branson advising to use an unlikely mix of people from different backgrounds, placed in unusual but enjoyable situations to get a “think-tank” of unusual and creative ideas that can work. This beats brain storming on Monday morning with a bland backdrop o...

      Let’s not overcomplicate this, shall we?  Communication is king, even over cash.                IMHO, communication is king even over cash.  After all, would you send cash to someone without actually communicating first?  Even the scammers in other parts of the world that send random e-mail...

More than 30% of houses listed for sale get withdrawn or expired so make sure that yours is one that sells for the most money.  There are two factors that sway buyers; price and condition. Price depends in part on available inventory and you cannot control that but you can take charge of the pre...

The Most Critical Number in Real Estate is…   Although profit is the most important thing to most businesses including Real Estate, but we need to determine what’s the most important single  number or measurement  that leads to making a profit or even more profit.   In real estate, numbers and s...

Although the housing recovery has been gradual, the Buyer’s market has already turned to a Seller’s market in many states.  In my market of Atlanta, this is definitely the case in many more parts of town than not.  As inventories have shrunk, housing prices continue to rise.  Over the last six y...

  For most Americans, buying a home is one of the largest financial transactions they will ever undertake.  Their motivation may be a desire to own their own home, to accommodate a job change, or to gain a smaller or larger living area. In recent years, we have seen a dramatic change in the valu...

    Have extra wiggle room when you buy from HUD.   HUD deals seem to be the rage these days, especially with owner occupants.  The pricing in many markets including ours for HUD homes has been beyond inexpensive in owner occupant markets where a bidding war is the norm.  Investors homes are no d...

  It is now news in the media that Atlanta housing is ‘recovering’.  In some areas recovering means not dropping any further but in some parts, housing prices have risen.  This is to the dismay of many, whether homeowners or investors looking for ‘a deal’.  The market has been down so long that ...

  I love cash Buyers!  And not just the investors.  We recently had a transaction close for a retail sale where the Buyer paid cash.  Now of course this is ideal and we all love this.  However how we got to this point was downright frustrating.  The Buyer for our home as I understand it initially...