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This is a follow-up to my post, The Curious Case of The Disappearing Buyer.  In it, I talked about how each market cycle has it's own special "quirks" that come with it, and how this current cycle has created the "disappearing buyer."  That is, a buyer that is qualified, able and supposedly ready...
09/15/2010
A touring photography exhibition, Celebrate North Carolina: Faces and Places, will be on display at the main branch of the Catawba County Library, located in Newton, NC. The exhibit is divided between the Eastern and Western parts of the state and each has 30 images of that particular region. The...
09/14/2010
Catawba County, North Carolina has already started the property revaluation process for changes to your home's tax value for the 2011 tax year.  Currently, the county is running on a four year cycle for property revaluations. Home owners should start receiving notices of their property's new tax ...
09/13/2010
  Larry Bettag with Cherry Creek Mortgage wrote this great post about what you need, as a home buyer, to get approved for a loan.  It's very good and written in an easy to understand method. All lenders aren't the same, but these are good, solid guidelines for you to follow if you're interested i...
09/13/2010
As I was reading through some Active Rain blog posts, I started looking at where the writers were submitting their posts.  Specifically, what AR groups. Several posts submitted articles to groups that didn't seem to fit what the post was about.  Seeing that, I decided to look through some blogs a...
09/11/2010
I recent Inman News article, written by Robert Griswold, answered a question submitted by a renter concerning a recent plumbing problem she had had.  Inman's articles frequently get shortened to blurbs for non-subscribers, if it has or if you simply don't want to read it, I'll summarize. The rent...
09/11/2010
When you write a post for your blog, especially one of those that tend to get people to react (for good or bad), what is your purpose for publishing it?  Did you intend to start a discussion or is your blog used mainly as your sounding board?I ask because I've read several posts of late that were...
09/10/2010
  Here is a post by J Philip Faranda that really explains why setting a higher price on your home for sale than the market can bare isn't such a good idea, and if you did, why you shouldn't fight a price reduction. Now, the median home price for the Hickory NC Real Estate market is around $120,00...
09/10/2010
Every real estate cycle has it's little quirks about it.  Whether it's a buyer's market, a seller's market, if it's up or down or stable, besides the obvious differences, there's always those little details that make each on "special" onto itself. I think everyone can agree that in most areas, it...
09/09/2010
With technology of today; the Internet, email, data phones, etc. I finding that with the exception of contracts, there are very few things that I should have to print from my computer.  I mean, there are lots of files and documents that I would like to keep handy, but I can either email them to t...
09/07/2010
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