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Not too long ago I wrote a post about short sale negotiation and included information from Ned Blumenthal about how the law relates to real estate agents and brokers. Ned was kind enough to email some more information back in April and I want to share it with you today as it is very important to ...

Selling or buying a home in Acworth, Georgia probably means you are within the FHA loan limits for the area. I know Acworth well, I grew up there from 1962 to 1977. The good news is Acworth home prices in the 30101 zip code have recovered much of their loss over the last few months. With the medi...

If you have enough friends you never have to sell anything. If you have ever attended the Carnegie Institute you almost certainly know that in 1936 Dale Carnegie wrote, "How To Win Friends and Influence People". My uncle, Benjamin Wilkes Hale, did his best to get me to read it when I was about se...

For anyone who has been paying attention over the last five or so years you have witnessed one of the most volatile times in the economic history of not only the United States but the world. Many very well educated and experienced experts say the worst could be yet to come unless ....  They all h...

What is it that you do? This is a question often asked at first meetings in social settings. Go to a business meetup and chances are you'll get one to three minutes to tell your name, name of your company and state what it is you do. What is your answer? Do you reply, "I am a real estate agent" o...

Usually when we give an SEO tip in an online chat like in Tuesday Thunder or during our weekly online radio show for the consulting group Social Media Edge we get responses like, "can you put that in English now?" Or "and how much is that going to cost me?" You will be very relieved to know the m...

Oh great! A mortgage guy is going to tell me something about search engine optimization, right! Actually, you may well flip that statement around and say "an SEO guy is going to tell me something about mortgages, right!" Long before I was a full time, seasoned mortgage pro I was a computer scienc...

This post has the potential to be inflammatory so let me begin by saying, "I'm just the messenger." In Georgia there are two attorneys who are considered to be and are, in fact, held out to be the real estate contract experts. By experts I mean they wrote the book on Georgia real estate contract ...

View Larger Map Established in the 1830s as a shanty town for railroad construction workers the city of Kennesaw, Georgia has come of age. It was once little less than a whistle stop town on the railway between Terminus (later to be named Atlanta) and Cartersville a few miles to the north. During...

So you're thinking of getting married. Congratulations. Unlike a few people I recommend marriage as long as both partners understand it's a 100%/100% effort to prop up the other party. Marriage, when done right, is a wonderful idea and I support it whether it is simply performance of a civil cont...