The Columbia real estate market has remained strong throughout the year. It closed 2007 about 5% down from 2006. However, 2005 and 2006 were two record setting years for the Columbia, SC real estate market. Therefore, closing out 5% down from two of the best years on record is really not that ba
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01/15/2008
I don't embarrass very easily, so, as of yet I have not had a client that embarrassed me. I do however have a friend whose clients had him add into a offer that they would not buy the house unless the owner left the dog with the house. This deal did not go through, I guess the owner really liked
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01/15/2008
Do you allow your personal life to spill over into your work? I have known many people who are afflected by this potential problem. And believe me, it can have disastrous results if you can not find a way to push your personal problems aside long enough to take care of your professional agenda.
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01/15/2008
What creative ways do you use to promote and advertise an open house. I always list them in the open house directory of the paper and advertise them on a few websites. Then I usually run an ad in a few of the local papers and newsletters that circulate in the area of the open house. I have had l
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01/12/2008
Though towards the end of December my office was sluggish to say the least, things have changed quite a bit here in the new year. Suddenly, the entire office is a flurry of activity on a daily bases. The people are starting to wander into the office and the phones are starting to ring once again
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01/12/2008
All right, so the truth is that South Carolina is not that small of a community. We're no Texas, but we do have a little size to us. As for the rest of the title, in my opinion, it's absolutely true. The the presidential primaries are well on their way. It's been a while since I really took a cl
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01/11/2008
As if the world at large doesn't have more than enough excuses all ready. Did you ever notice that people are no longer responsible for their actions. Evryone is to blame except for the person or person who committed the offense. It's really gotten to be quite humorous for me. This mostly because
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01/10/2008
Did you ever notice that sometimes the people you counted out come through in the end. The people that you simply gave up on and wrote, just come right back out of nowhere. It's great when things work out well, when you least expected it to. I received a phone call two months ago from a gentlema
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01/09/2008
I have a friend who is the president of a furniture and cabinet company. They have recently been in a bit of a slump, and of course, the housing market is all to blame. His company makes $15,000 beds and sells $80,000 kitchens. And never mind that it's an election year and most of his clients ar
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01/08/2008
You know, many times over the course of my life I have had people accuse me of not caring. This is simply because I really don't spend very much time worrying about anything. Worry if you must, but come to the stiff realization that worrying about the problem is not the same as solving the prob
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01/07/2008