It's no secret that spending time with a camera is one of my favorite activities and has been one pretty much my whole life. Yesterday on Thanksgiving, I pulled down one of many boxes of photos and revisited events that happened almost 20 years ago with exquisite clarity. Leslie pointed out tha
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11/28/2013
What is earnest money and how much is enough earnest money when someone makes an offer? You aren't going to like the answer...technically, an offer doesn't HAVE to be accompanied with an earnest money amount but the real answer is whatever the two parties will agree to. (side note...in almost 10
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11/26/2013
There have been a number of concerts recently that I thought would be fun to attend...until I heard the price of the tickets. Guess I have good taste? or maybe that's what the all cost now. That started me thinking about the first ever live concert that I went to see when I was maybe 15 years
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11/24/2013
Yeah, that's right. Not all sellers are created equally. Fellow agents, you KNOW I'm telling the truth. There are just some sellers who deserve a higher return that others. Of course, those would be the sellers who treated their homes like organic entities and went beyond simply mowing the y
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11/21/2013
Funny how the act of doing something very simple can create a very complex chain of thoughts which causes moments to be enriched. This morning when I walked the dogs it wasn't that cold according to the thermometer, 31 degrees. Of course, the gale force winds weren't taken into consideration.
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11/18/2013
This morning I woke up thinking about the Renaissance Masquerade Ball that I went to a couple of weeks ago with my friend Laurey-Faye Long (also my favorite potter ever!). The Ball was a fundraiser to build a permanent theater for Asheville's "Montford Park Players", longest running theater group
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11/17/2013
One of the first questions we ask new home buyers is "When would you like to be in your new home?". The first time I met Megan she told me "I'm not in a rush". Sometimes those words strike a mental shoulder slump in many Realtors and its hard to explain how some of us have an innate sense of seri
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11/17/2013
The Northern Jackson Board of Realtors and Multiple Listing Service have been searching for a way to make a positive financial impact on the local communities that they serve. The entire membership present at the annual organizational meeting in October voted unanimously to donate up to $2,000
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11/14/2013
It isn't easy to never give up learning how to do something new. For many, if it doesn't come easily they just don't bother and return to their comfort zones. For me, learning new things is always a little uncomfortable at first but then before I know it, the challenge is so exciting that I forge
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11/08/2013
Before real estate, we had a retail business in Dillsboro, NC called Lighten Up! We saw many stray cats in Dillsboro and decided to trap, neuter and release. We bought a humane trap and in pretty short order trapped a feral female, adult male, junior male and two male kittens. We're fortunate
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11/05/2013