Floras Bluff (Bald Head Island, NC)
By Ginger Harper, Your Southport~Oak Island Agent~Brunswick County!
(Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Advantage~ Ginger Harper Real Estate Team)
  Thanks to a dear friend and agent, by the name of Thomas, for teaching me a few tricks to ActiveRain.com.     I know that we have so much to learn from each other and to share.  Just little simple trick of our business that can help to make the phone ring.  I learned about linking in the body of my blogging that will take you straight to my website.  What a treat.   This is one of the best things that I have learned to do.  Getting foks to your website is a win...win...situation for a Realtor     Ginger of Southport
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By Ginger Harper, Your Southport~Oak Island Agent~Brunswick County!
(Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Advantage~ Ginger Harper Real Estate Team)
I just had to share this with you.. I saw it a few years ago and every time I run across it, I makes my heart stop.  It is very effective in encouraging you to WEAR YOUR SEAT BELT!   A low-budget jewel. Way cool   This is the new "wear your seatbelt" ad the UK is doing - started by some dude not hired to do it, but because the cause is important to him, he came up with this idea, and now it's being hailed across the world as a 'beautiful' commercial. And now the video has gone "viral" - which  means, has become so popular with the general public that people are forwarding it to friends/family on their own so quickly that it has spread all over  the world in a very short time.GO TO:   http://embracethis.co.uk   Share it with others.  I may help in saving lives..     
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By Ginger Harper, Your Southport~Oak Island Agent~Brunswick County!
(Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Advantage~ Ginger Harper Real Estate Team)
Showing Property today.. This is what we do ... Right? I had a great morning showing 3rd floor units to a delightful couple with 2 small precious children. It is great fun to get out and meet with folks to see what their needs are.  I enjoyed working with this couple and the children were very well behaved. They love the area and our prices are so affordable right now, with interest rates as low as they are right now. I think that our most important job is to match people with properties. That will deteremine the success of us all. Hope you are having a great day,    
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By Ginger Harper, Your Southport~Oak Island Agent~Brunswick County!
(Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Advantage~ Ginger Harper Real Estate Team)
  WE have the most beautiful sunset over Beaver Dam Creek in Southport NC.  It is always beautiful at this time of the year.  Getting warm enough to go out and sit and watch this all take place.  We enjoy the Ibis, Herons, Cranes, and gulls on the end of the dock.  Sometimes we have the  otters to come up in the creek and frolick around as though we never existed.    We have kayaks in the water to scoot around in the creek. What a glorious place to live. We never get tired of our view but if we should.. we go and walk on the ocean. Our beaches are still undeserted and we can enjoy the shore with all of the living things that live there. STILL ONE OF NORTH CAROLINA'S BEST KEPT SECRETS!   Come and see yourself!
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By Ginger Harper, Your Southport~Oak Island Agent~Brunswick County!
(Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Advantage~ Ginger Harper Real Estate Team)
I know that we are called the Baby Boomers and that our children are most likely a part of the X Generation but I get lost after that.  Just the other week I received and email that told of all of these things that were not invented when I was a child and I am NOT that OLD.  But there were not computers in our homes, no cell phones and the TV that we had as children were these monstrous boxes with a little black and white screens and hard to see.  But we still watched, Lassie, Hop A long Cassidy, The Lone Ranger,  The Lawrence Welk Show along with The Saturday Night Boxing with Gillette razors as a sponsor..    Real estate has changed since I began my career in 1983.  WE had one page for the Listing and one page for the Offer to Purchase Contract.  To get a copy of either of these, it t...
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By Ginger Harper, Your Southport~Oak Island Agent~Brunswick County!
(Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Advantage~ Ginger Harper Real Estate Team)
Today was our regular sales meeting day.  We had 2 guest speakers telling us about their products. The Newspapers are hurting for lack of advertising and they are now trying to make it more affordable for individual agents to use the papers services.  Next we had a home warranty company that came in to entice us to use their warranty company with our sales. Both are valid tools that we can use and I plan to do just that. Ginger of Southport
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By Ginger Harper, Your Southport~Oak Island Agent~Brunswick County!
(Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Advantage~ Ginger Harper Real Estate Team)
  "DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL." That familiar broadcasting statement certainly applied to the markets last week, as the volatility continued and the markets changed direction quickly. Take a look at the chart below, which shows how home loan rates have climbed dramatically over the last several weeks. In fact, home loan rates are at their highest levels since the Federal Reserve announced their Mortgage Backed Security purchase plan at the end of 2008. While the chart below is just a rough indicator of present rates that require points and fees to be paid, it's clear to see the dramatic climb rates have taken in recent days. -----------------------Chart: Freddie Mac 30-Yr Fixed Rates As we've mentioned in recent issues of this newsletter, added supply has been one of the main culprits behin...
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