Lane's Blog - Looking out from the garage

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Real Estate Agent - Century 21 Results Realty - GA RE Lic # 282060
Luckily I have wi-fi, and can get online from the garage. If given a choice, that is where I am. Between MLS searches, arranging marketing, and pre-viewing homes, I will try to get in a little welder time, or at least clean some of the tools from the last wrenching session.
RECENT BLOG POSTS
Image via Wikipedia Market stats for Lawrenceville, October, 2010, indicate that there are 1623 properties on the market. Overall, there is about an 9.8 month supply of properties, with sales weakening since June. Sales dropped off dramatically this year compared to last (154 v 223). In the sub-...
11/25/2010
Image via Wikipedia We all love limos, right?  When we see one, we wonder who might be in the back... is it a couple that just got married?  Maybe it is a prom couple.  Could it be a celebrity?  It might be a "titan of industry".  There are loads of possibilities... For a long time, the American...
11/25/2010
Image via Wikipedia Market stats for Lilburn, October, 2010, indicates that there are 444 properties on the market (as of October 31st). Overall, there is about a 10.7 month supply of properties.  Lilburn is actually mid-pack among cities in Gwinnett County.  Absorption Rates had been improving ...
11/25/2010
Image via Wikipedia Last year I was waist deep in dealing with buyers involved in REO properties (bank owned).  Oddly, I have been waist deep in the same process lately. As mentioned in the older post, some buyers have to go through 6, 8 or 10 (or more) offers in order to land some of these prop...
11/19/2010
Image via Wikipedia There is a video clip that has been EVERYWHERE on the internet.  It has been re-subtitled more times than I can count.  Almost any subject that is causing anyone frustration, from the collapse of the housing bubble to the Democrat meltdown to the way some people drive in traf...
11/19/2010
Image via Wikipedia I have been running Gwinnett County Market stats for the last couple of hours.  And the results are interesting, if not pretty... For the county-wide numbers, I don't have the most accurate numbers until a full month has passed.  That means that I have numbers for October, bu...
11/16/2010
Image via Wikipedia For a very long time, pick-up trucks were very basic and focused vehicles.  They were designed to carry stuff... and stuff they couldn't carry, they dragged.  They weren't: Cushy Stylish Expensive Diversified Instead, pick-up trucks were spartan vehicles that were powerful, a...
11/14/2010
Image by Alan Miles NYC via Flickr Not so fast there, Mr and Mrs Homeseller... A lot of sellers think that the sailing is going to be smooth after they go "Under Contract".  After all, the hard part is getting an offer, right? Maybe...  Maybe not... Actually, I have dealt with a rash of buyers f...
11/13/2010
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Wandering around in the stacks of AR... and any other site with a lot of real estate agents, one often runs across posts wondering just HOW consumers can view us as interchangeable cogs... all the same.  But let's think about this for a couple minutes.  We all call ourselves REALTORS(R)... We all...
11/12/2010
Image via Wikipedia This week last year, the biggest news in housing was all about the Tax Credit expansion and extension.  It went from just being for First Time Home Buyers to allowing existing home owners to get a credit also. Those credits finally expired in April (with closing mostly by Jun...
11/12/2010