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About Atlanta
If I Can't Sell Your Home, I'll Buy It! | Don't Believe This Lie! - May 28 10:07 PM
A lot of Atlanta home sellers only sell a home every few years, and really do not understand all that is involved. Ever see some real estate signs that say" I buy homes!" Or "If I Can't Sell Your Home, I'll Buy It?" Rule #1 Beware - there is no easy and painless way to sell a home! So deceptive marketing is really an ethical issue. A lot of listing agents want to gain your confidence quickly and ...
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I Sold My Home From Active Rain | Active Rain Sells Atlanta Homes | Active Rain Home Sales - Aug 22 01:52 PM
We just sold our home in Atlanta from our Atlanta Real Estate Blog on Active Rain. An Atlanta home buyer found our listing on the Internet within 2 days of writing a Blog on our own home for sale in Alpharetta, and made an appointment to see the home.
I originally designed the Blog as a real estate flyer in www.Postlets.com and then published it on our Atlanta real estate Blog on Active Rain. Within 2 days we had ...
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Eliminate the Cold and Add the Warmth Thru Home Staging - May 16 08:16 AM
One of the challenges faced by home owners is that the pictures of their vacant home often appear cold. How the home appears on the internet is an important element to consider. Here are examples of a home we staged yesterday.
Here's the same room, different angle.
The following picture shows the living room. The hall way, behind the staircase leading down, takes you to the master bedroom. As ...
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I Took Some Time off From Active Rain to Sell Some Real Estate! - Jun 30 02:18 AM
Bloggin is one of the best things that has ever happened to me since REMAX CompuServe Forum! Friendships, brainstorming, networking, an sharing ideas are great! Personally, I've found blogging addictive and almost compulsive, but it has allowed me to attain some new goals. First of all, I am getting new ideas here all the time, those ideas generate more ideas! Ideas can lead to implementing new marking strategies, and those can hopefully lead to more closed ...
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A Piece of Real Estate We All Love or Hate, but Can't Live Without! - Sep 16 10:54 PM
I still struggle as to what to write in my blogs, but in this case, I now can thank Mariana Wagner for giving me a whole list of things to Blog about.....
Now this topic does relate to real estate....in one way or another! AIRPORTS! You see, we'd love to be land owners close to an airport that's planning an expansion (depending on what we get paid for our property) yet the last place we want to live ...
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City Lights, City Sights - Sep 02 10:49 PM
As I sit here, 27 stories above the hustle and bustle of Midtown with that picture out my window (yep, just took it 10 minutes ago!) I remember back to my thoughts of how I could ever leave my suburban home, for "city life." Now let me explain something first....I grew up on a 200 acre ranch in Montana!!! You can't get much more room around you than that! But, my home in the "burbs" here, ...
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Pictures and Blogs! Pictures and Blogs! - Apr 27 11:27 AM
When I first discovered Active Rain, I saw all these picture on posts. Some of them you could tell were "stock" photos, or they were cartoon in nature. And I read where you should have your camera with you all the time, you never know when you might find a great picture that could be the source of a blog!
So, this morning, I was downloading the pictures from my digital camera to my laptop, and ...
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What is possible with your real estate website? - Mar 10 07:06 AM
It is interesting to look back on a career in Atlanta real estate, and look at what worked, what didn't, what I would not do again, where did I make money, where did I throw money away, and what I wished I did more of sooner! The longer I am in real estate the Internet is one of those things that seems to fascinate me more and more. It is so effective! The more I use ...
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Why are Median Home Prices Rising In this Real Estate Market? | What Do Home Sales Numbers Not Tell You? - Sep 04 11:06 PM
Ever try to make sense or monthly home sales in your market? You have not made a sale in months, units sold are in the tank, and yet the latest monthly statistics show the average home price in youar area is rising? How can you explain this to a homeseller that you are trying to get them to price their home to sell so it is not on the market for 5 years! How deep do ...
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"JUST MAYBE" This is Good Advice for Home Sellers - Jun 27 12:28 PM
So it's time to move! Time to sell the old homestead!
Wow, maybe you sensed it was coming. Obviously the home is now too small for your growing family. Or, maybe it is too big now that the kids have grown up and moved out. Or maybe it is too small because the kids have grown up, moved out, had their own kids and now there is more family than ever!
Maybe it's time to move, ...
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Atlanta Market Reports
Atlanta Real Estate FMLS Active Listings Hit All Time High! Active - 89225 Properties Found - May 30 05:15 PM
We just hit another milestone for Atlanta real estate today, but it may not be one worth bragging about. Atlanta real estate FMLS Active Listings Hit All Time High! Our primary Atlanta MLS - FMLS posted Active - 89225 Properties for sale in Atlanta today as I write this blog. This exceeds last summers peak in the high 88K's. The reason that there are so many homes for sale in Atlanta is that financing is harder to come ...
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Atlanta Home Sales Plummet 36.8%! | Atlanta Housing Report - Home Sales February 2008 - Mar 21 03:13 PM
The Atlanta area First Multiple Listing Service Market report for February finally posted today. Sales levels of Atlanta homes for sale dropped to 2,939 detached single family homes a decline of 38.8%, and Condos / Town homes sold 541 units or a decline 36.9% ***These numbers represent Atlanta homes sales for all counties in our MLS service area. *** This represents all homes sold in the entire Metro Atlanta area in February 2008.
This is a substantial drop in ...
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Atlanta Foreclosures Market Report June 2008 | Foreclosures rise 23.5% in May - Jun 13 08:54 PM
Atlanta foreclosures. Atlanta - Georgia foreclosures rise 23.5% in May according to an article released today in the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Georgia had the 6th highest foreclosure rate in Realty Tracs May foreclosure report. Keep in mind, most of these listings are located in the Atlanta metro area. This May saw 10,241 foreclosure filings...which included: default notices, auction sale notices and bank REOs. This was a 23.7% increase over last May and an 11.5% increase since April. ...
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Atlanta Real Estate Market Report | Atlanta Homes Sales Decline | Atlanta Home Sales Data - May 22, 2008 - May 22 09:06 PM
Atlanta Real Estate Sales - Market Report | Atlanta Real Estate Market Data May 22, 2008
Metro Atlanta real estate sales continue to decline according to our First Multiple listing Service FMLS* in Atlanta. 3,564 Atlanta homes sold in April. These were detached units - a decline of 32.6%. 561 Atlanta condos and town homes closed in April 2008. That amounted to a decline of 41.5%. Year to date January-April, condos and town homes ...
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Tax Time - No More Excuses! Atlanta Home Sales Should Pick Up! - Apr 15 09:46 AM
In the years I've been selling Atlanta real estate there is normally a pause in home sales in April. This year has been beyond sluggish! Atlanta homesales are way off their norms! Usually at certain times fo the year, sales slow and then pick up! I call it the "Spring Bounce!" April usually represents, Easter (This year it was early) Passover, spring break and tax time! It is a months where sales in real estate fall off while ...
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So How is the Atlanta Real Estate Market? Atlanta Market Report 11/25/2007 - Nov 25 09:34 AM
Atlanta real estate market report. Sold homes in Atlanta: Listings in the Atlanta MLS are at an all time high and not softening. The current First Multiple Listing Service FMLS is showing 86340 Active homes for sale, and 4336 Sold in October 2007 VS. 6359 sales in October of 2006. That is a 32% drop in sales. We are at a point that Expired listings, and Withdrawns listings (unsuccessfully sales) are exceeding sales 2 to 1. The problems is ...
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Homes Seem to be Selling in My Area of Atlanta - Jun 18 04:57 PM
I hear a lot of doom and gloom about the real estate market. I like to be up to date on the general market conditions. I read the monthly numbers that are put out by the MLS and I read all the national updates by the NAR. The FMLS numbers for April said that sales were down by 15% over the previous year. That sounded pretty bad to me. Many buyers are hearing the same thing ...
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Atlanta Foreclosure Lists | Atlanta Foreclosures All time Highs! - Feb 15 09:31 AM
I just received this months Atlanta foreclosure lists and it is almost too big the be believed! I am looking at over 215 pages of foreclosures in Atlanta in mice type. This months list contains over 7500 foreclosed properties in the greater Atlanta metro area. This is some serious stuff and will impact the Atlanta area with declining home values and blighted areas for years to come. We are now at the point that see this is ...
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Atlanta Georgia Real Estate Market Report | Atlanta Home Sales - Condos Sales Continue to Decline - Jan 21 09:05 PM
Atlanta real estate market report. Atlanta homes sales and prices continue to decline. This market report encompasses the entire FMLS market area and is not limited to just the city of Atlanta, but rather the entire metropolitan area.
On the Atlanta real estate market report just issued today by our First Multiple Listing Service, the number of single family homes sales declined in December to 3,178! Compared to last December 2006 we had 1865 less sales, and ...
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Say "Nay!" To Nay-Sayers - Sep 09 09:27 AM
Why is it that it is so easy to get sucked in by naysayers? Naysayers include, but are not limited to, the media, other agents, clients, brokers, friends, family - the list goes on. In order to stay focused on a high-level business, with top-botch customer service, you need not give the time of day to these naysayers.
One way we combat this in the office is to continue our daily customer service and lead generating ...
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Atlanta News & Events
Atlanta, Georgia Listed in "The Best Cities for Young Professionals" - Jul 15 08:49 PM
Congrats again, Atlanta!
First, you're the #1 city on Hotwire.com's 2007 List of Value Cities, and now listed on Forbes.com's list of top cities for young professionals!
Based on criteria ranging from populations size to cost of living to percentage of single professionals, Forbes released a list of cities across the United States. According to the article, "If you're a recent graduate looking to jump-start your career, New York City isn't the only destination you should consider."
The top five ...
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Idiot move of the week, Cleveland suing banks - Jan 12 12:26 PM
Here's your card...
According to the Columbus Dispatch, the city of Cleveland is suing 21 banks that loaned money in their inner city areas, saying:
...subprime lending in inner-city neighborhoods has created a public nuisance that hurt property values and city tax collections.The story goes on to say:
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, seeks to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, including lost taxes from devalued property and money spent demolishing ...
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Staging it Forward; One Step at a time - May 28 10:12 PM
There are quite a few home stagers and Realtors in the Atlanta real estate market that are working daily to educate home sellers on the value of staging their home.
It was a "smile on my face" and a "warmth of gratitude" to find out that the ATLANTA HOME IMPROVEMENT MAGAZINE wanted to do an article on the benefits of home staging in the Atlanta real estate market as well as the how to find a home ...
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Have You Been To Home Stager's Heaven? - Jun 04 03:11 PM
I just came from home stager's heaven . . . well, actually I was in Atlanta, but it must have resembled home stager's heaven, because I had the opportunity to exercise my talents to create a lovely atmosphere in this already charming home! I'm not sure what seemed so magical to me . . . I staged it in a day. It was just me; no one to share company with; but it was pure pleasure. My enthusiasm ...
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Condo Buyers Beware - Feb 25 09:04 PM
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...
We recently encountered a new wrinkle in lender approval (mark accurately, disapproval) for the purchase of condominiums that took us by surprise.
Our clients - relocating home buyers - found the perfect home for their current lifestyle. Located in close proximity to work, shopping and entertainment, this ranch condo is in a small gated community with a neighborhood pool.
The 3-bedroom, 2-bath ...
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Earth Friendly Clothing - Nov 12 04:04 AM
Saving water and cutting back on energy consumption is just a couple of things we, as consumers can do to help the earth to stay green. Purchasing earth friendly products is another way.Clothing designers do their part, too. Charles Josef, based in Atlanta, uses earth-friendly fabrics when creating his clothes. He and other clothing designers from this area will be showing their wares at a fashion show called "the Little Green Dress"
What: A Fashion ShowWhen: On November ...
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This market's nuts! - Sep 12 08:01 AM
I have four active seller listing presently and all are nice homes at a good price. Nobody's getting activity (showings). I call the agents in the areas I have listings and ask about their experience but keep hearing the same woes. Where are the buyers. Atlanta is growing by about 1,000 per month, [intown, per ARC #s] and they can't all be living in Post apartments? First time buyers take note. I have a lender partner with ...
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Friday, February 29, 2008 - Leap Year! - Feb 28 03:11 PM
Leap Year -- that once-every-four-years phenomenon in which February, the red-headed stepchild of the calendar, gets to be almost as long as its cohorts.
No, Leap Years were not just invented to confuse us and make us write March 1 on our checks a day early. It's not the universe's version of April Fool's Day (because then it would occur in April, wouldn't it?)
Leap Years actually exist to keep our calendar working properly, to keep it lined up ...
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Ok....I've Been "Cultured" By The Opera - Oct 12 09:07 PM
Yes, some of you may have read from my good AR friend Julie Neerings about my recent Birthday experience. I have never been to the opera, and quite frankly, had no interest in it. I want to be able to understand what the people are singing about, etc. hence I can take Broadway plays for days! But it was time for ME to have some culture!
This picture does the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre no justice ...
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Atlanta's Fabulous Fox Theatre Named #1 Venue in the U.S. for its Size! | The Fabulous Fox Theatre | Atlanta, Georgia - Feb 01 01:58 PM
Congratulations to Atlanta's Fabulous Fox Theatre!
The Fox has always been a prized venue for Atlanta. The performing arts industry has also recognized it as a leading venue of the world's stage for 2007.
Venues Today magazine has ranked Atlanta's own Fabulous Fox Theatre as the "#1 Venue in the Country for 2007" for venues between 2,001 and 5,000 seats. The Year-End Report is published annually in the publication's December issue. The Fox outpaced the other venues in ...
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Atlanta Listings
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Executive Homes For Rent in Atlanta Sandy Springs - Jun 14 08:13 PM
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1615 Jackson Way NW Atlanta GA 30318 - 3 Bedroom 2.5 Bath Town Home - Jun 14 03:53 PM
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Price Reductions At The Residences of AQUA Midtown! - Jun 10 09:30 PM
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Twilight Open House - This Saturday June 7th - Atlanta - Jun 05 08:15 AM
250 AMAL DRIVE #9005 ATLANTA, GA 30315
Join us at out Twilight Open House
Saturday, June 7th 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
MLS# 02438976
www.250amaldrive9005.com
Chic 2-story Townhome located minutes from the heart of Downtown Atlanta.
Tax Abatement,
Low HOA,
Down Payment Assistance Allowed.
Features: 2 Bedroom, 2 ½ Baths separate Living and Dining, All Kitchen Appliances included, Den, Master Suite with Walk-In Closets, Garden/Jacuzzi Tub, Private Bath in 2nd ...
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Fixer upper Foreclosure Jonesboro Rd SE, Atlanta, GA - May 29 04:18 PM
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Just Reduced! The Residences of Aqua Midtown! - May 27 09:16 PM
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Traditional Home with Contemporary Flair in South Fulton Country Club Setting - May 24 10:01 AM
Check out this nearly new home in Wolf Creek Country Club!
This home features four bedrooms, 3.5 baths, an inviting, two story foyer, formal living and dining, a two story family room with a wall of windows - you can sit and see clouds, gourmet kitchen with breakfast bar, island, upgraded appliances and pantry, master on the main with a spa-like bath featuring an oversized, jetted tub with leaded glass window, separate vanities, tile shower, separate ...
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New Spalding Lake listing - 7870 N. Spalding Lake Dr. - May 22 01:45 PM
The Anderson Group would like to announce a new listing in Spalding Lake. This beautiful 6 bedroom 5 full bath home is located in one of Atlanta's finest neighborhoods. Designed and built by Bill Grant, this home located at 7870 N. Spalding Lake Drive, highlights some of the finest craftsmanship found throughout Bill Grant homes.
With an updated kitchen, formal living room, large dining room, and huge family room/keeping room, this home is ideal for a ...
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Atlantic Station Condos For Sale - May 19 09:45 AM
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Jim Crawford ~ Atlanta Real Estate-ABR E-PRO
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Tim Maitski ~ A Home Buyer's Advocate
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