The flowers are everywhere in Jackson County, NC. Not only are homeowners adding dashes of color in pots and gardens, but the towns, county, merchants and professionals are all brightening the exteriors of their areas. It is so hard to not feel positive and optimistic with all this beauty
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03/30/2012
We had lunch today with our favorite home inspector, Tom Johnson of National Property Inspections from Asheville, North Carolina. He is a great team member for any REALTOR to work with. He inspected the house we have under contract in Franklin, NC. Then he took us to a leisurely and delicious lun
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03/30/2012
Oh sure, we’ve all been feeling pretty complacent about the warmer than usual winter…what a relief, right? And yep, the colors of spring have sprung early and brilliant. But what do you think about the sounds of summer in March? I was up at the farmhouse just outside of Dillsboro this weekend le
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03/29/2012
There may be other professions that receive and send more email than real estate agents, but we have to rank in the top numbers. We’ve been cleaning out our inboxes at MoonDancer Realty the last several days because they were numbering in the thousands. I’m tempted to create a folder for the lea
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03/29/2012
It doesn’t seem like pink was ever a color I gravitated towards when I was little…I’d have to ask my mother to be sure, but I don’t think so. There certainly isn’t a shred of it in my closet now. Shades of purple, violet, lavender or lilac…sure, but pink…not so much. Except in nature, I love the
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03/27/2012
The BICAR (Broker in Charge Annual Review) is behind me now. This morning was spent at the Cumbie and Trull School of Real Estate in Asheville. Although there are many companies who offer BICAR and other continuing ed courses, my favorite is Cumbie and Trull. There’s a number of reasons, the sc
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03/27/2012
Someone needs to tell the economists and the public that there are positive rumblings in the real estate biz. In fact, the buzz is that we are all busy as bees. Well…maybe not all of us, but certainly the ones who never quit working just because the news was all doom and gloom. We’re thrilled,
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03/26/2012
Jump Start your Week, Clapton and Crow Collaborate - Music on Monday There is so much to get done this week…a couple of contracts in the mix, have to get the BICAR (Broker in Charge Annual Review) over with, property showings, CMAs and a new shhhhhh AR Contest to launch in a week. Might as well
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03/25/2012
Looking at the vignette effect on the vintage tractor photos taken in Franklin, NC this past week makes me feel like I could easily have taken them with one of those huge format cameras that photographers had to drape black fabric over themselves and the camera. Oh yeah, I would also like to envi
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03/24/2012
If my father had been with me last week and we passed this scene, he would've been able to tell me the make, model and year of this car residing outside of a farm in Franklin, NC. He probably could also have told me a true story to go along with it. There was hardly ever a vehicle of any kind t
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03/24/2012