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The Green Room Community Theatre's The King and I, will be the first show at the company's new location in the Old Post Office Playhouse, in downtown Newton, NC. The first showing of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I  is on October 8th 2010 (this is a week later than originally planned, du...
09/24/2010
Active Rain has a great feature in place to help you keep those posts that you really, really like in an easy to find place.  Just bookmark a post (the little link at the bottom) and it'll show up under Blog Bookmarks on the right side of your My Home AR page.If you're like me, though, you bookma...
09/23/2010
Okay, so a bad pun on an old (showing my age, old) commercial, I know.  I was recently contracted by a major lender to photograph their area foreclosures so they might know "what they have."  The pics below just show why lenders should be more proactive in their attempts to do short sales and to ...
09/22/2010
In Daniel Francis's post, The Lender is STUPID for Not Accepting My Offer! Aren't They? he gives a few cases where short sale offers were rejected by the lenders.  In the first case, the lender was presented an offer of $85,000 which was rejected.  The lender ultimately foreclosed and then listed...
09/22/2010
Reading Midori Miller's post, Listing Agents - Low Ball Offers Where Exactly Would You Like Negotiations to Begin? a comment on there posed the question, What offer is a Low Ball Offer?  At what price offered is it considered low ball? The first comment on Midori's post says that he received a lo...
09/21/2010
Have you seen this in an email lately?  If you're a real estate agent with any listings at all, I'm sure you have.  It means someone has found your listing and is inquiring about. I have a good love/hate relationship going with that phrase right now.  Love it because it means that some buyer was ...
09/20/2010
Just read a post by "The Lovely Wife" TLW on finding your true Google search engine rank (Sorry, kiddies, AR members only post. But if you're a member, you can check it out here).  It's a very good article on how to clear your Google cache so that you get a real time view of your ranking while in...
09/20/2010
First, this is NOT a political post.  To steal a line from a great song, I'm not a real political man. But with recent headlines, I have to say that the two main political parties must be completely out of touch with "the People" they supposedly represent. The news that Christine O'Donnell, a tea...
09/17/2010
I opened my news reader up this evening to find the headline, 70 Percent Say Buying Now is Good.Great News, Right?  Agents will be working, people owning new property, the economy rebounding...BUT WAIT!Another headline reads, New Survey Finds 76 Percent of Consumers Now Believe Renting to be a Be...
09/17/2010
The 7th annual Brett's Ride for pediatric cancer research is on October 3th, 2010 and you still have time to register for the event. The ride begins and ends at the Hickory Foundation YMCA, located at 701 1st St. NW, Hickory, NC There will be four ride options of 10, 32, 52 and 75 miles plus the ...
09/16/2010
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