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Open Houses in Roswell Sunday June 8th
2008-06-04 16:46:00
This weekends open houses will be in the Roswell neighborhood of Northcliff located off of Riverside Drive. We have teamed up with 2 other agents with listings in the neighborhood so that you can see everything available at one time. For details about the open houses, please visit our Roswell open houses page for an ...
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Staying Relevant Also Means Providing Value
2008-05-22 03:38:00
Yesterday I posted about the need to stay relevant everyday in this real estate market if we are to stay competitive as well as provide value to our clients. Another way to help sellers to obtain more exposure for listings and help you stay relevant is to find ways to market for open houses online. ...
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What Are You Doing to Stay Relevant?
2008-05-20 21:45:00
When I was about one year into my real estate career, one of my mentors, Frank Wynne asked me this simple question. We no longer work together as he is now with Atlanta Fine Homes and I am with Keller Williams, but, we still talk about real estate from time to time. Not a day ...
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Open Houses in Atlanta - Weekend of May 24th - 25th
2008-05-19 17:05:00
Our upcoming open houses in Atlanta for May 24th and 25th include three; one in Roswell, John’s Creek and Sandy Springs. Saturday - Sandy Springs Between 2 and 5 p.m. we will have an open house at 750 Crest Valley in Powers Ferry Estates inside of I-285 just off of Powers Ferry and Crest Valley. You can view ...
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Media, the Market and the Mentality of Many Buyers
2008-05-16 22:38:00
Fishing For The Big One? Are you the buyer in this picture? It’s O.K., be honest. It’s not your fault. The way the media portrays the real estate industry currently, you probably think it’s the right thing to do to go fishing for the big one. You might want to be that person you heard about ...
More About: Media , Market , Buyers

Zestimate For Roswell Not Too Far Off the Mark
2008-05-14 06:21:00
I received an email from Zillow.com today stating that according to their zestimate, home values in Roswell were down 2.7% for the 1st quarter of 2008 compared with the first quarter of 2007. You can see the report here.I’m always a little bit leery of these national sites and the accuracy of the data so ...
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Trulia is Your Competitor, Not Your Partner - Help Protect the Consumer
2008-05-12 14:58:00
There is a lot of buzz around the internet right now exposing one of the leading national real estate third party websites for what they are - a competitor and you may have been duped into thinking that they are a partner. It’s time to work this out and set the record straight. I first posted ...
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Real Estate For Sale in 30022, 30005 and 30004
2008-05-07 05:09:00
Search homes for sale zip code 30022, real estate in zip code 30004 and real estate in zip code 30005. One of the best parts of having a custom IDX that pulls the FMLS data feed is that I can create a custom search for anything that I can search for as a real estate professional in the FMLS. One ...
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Northcliff Homes in Roswell on the Chattahoochee
2008-05-03 04:53:00
If you are unfamiliar with Northcliff by name, it’s located off of Riverside Drive in Roswell about 2 miles down from Old Alabama Road. This river community boasts one of the  Roswell’s most convenient locations with access from Eves Road or Old Alabama from Holcomb Bridge, just off of GA 400 as well as the back way ...
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Where is the Breaking Point in the Market?
2008-05-02 05:50:00
Jonathan Miller writes an astute post about some of the misleading logic volleyed about on the internet today about the real estate market. The long and the short of his post is that basic economic principles dictate that the market will not on its own begin to shift back to a more balanced market and ...
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What?s Really Happening in the Alpharetta Real Estate Market
2008-05-01 04:16:00
O.K. As a consumer, you deserve to get the very best, most accurate information that we as real estate professionals have available. Most of the time, we can login to our trusted accounts in the FMLS and enter in what we are looking for and the system will dump the data in our laps which we ...
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The Trulia Spin Stops Here
2008-04-30 21:26:00
Nothing like a good post by another one of the excellent writers over at the Bloodhound Blog, Galen Ward (no relation) to get me worked up. Again. About Trulia. I’ve written about Trulia before, but, before I go on about what I don’t like about them, I think that I do owe them a tip of the hat ...
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Alpharetta Real Estate Market Update on Home Values
2008-04-25 14:48:00
The latest numbers for March are out for statistics from the FMLS and the overall Metro Atlanta real estate market is not beginning to show signs of an upswing. In fact, prices in Metro Atlanta as a whole are still declining. The chart below is for Alpharetta and goes back one year. As with most ...
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Roswell Real Estate Market Update For 30076
2008-04-23 22:24:00
I’ve been posting some charts with updates on different areas of the market over the last week and today you can see a chart indicating the sold values for Roswell real estate in zip code 30076 over the last 2 years. There is a trend with all of the cities in North Fulton that differs ...
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Open House in Sandy Springs
2008-04-21 14:39:00
Open house this Sunday, April 27th from 1-3 p.m. 750 Crest Valley Drive in Sandy Springs, 30327 Don’t miss this Sunday’s open house where you will have an opportunity to view an extremely hot property inside the perimeter in Sandy Springs. Attached below are some of the photos that you can see by viewing the single ...
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Sandy Springs Sold Homes Values 3/07 - 2/08
2008-04-19 14:30:00
As with the sold homes values for Metro Atlanta, the information we use to gather the numbers for sold home values in Sandy Springs comes directly from the First Multiple Listing Service (FMLS). Sandy Springs home values, like most of North Fulton have not suffered the way the national average has. I have inserted a ...
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Sold Home Values For Atlanta From 3/07 to 2/08
2008-04-18 14:51:00
If You Don’t Acknowledge This Before You List, You Can’t Sell Your Home . There is really only one trusted source if you are looking to find local real estate market statistics whether you are looking in Atlanta or some other area of the country That is the local MLS. Here in Atlanta, I use data from ...
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Market Update For Alpharetta - Waiting Seems to be the Order of the Day
2008-04-17 04:20:00
In the last market update for Alpharetta that I did the second week of February there were 1,372 homes for sale. Here we are about 2 months later there are 1,384. Essentially the same number of homes for sale. Another key statistic as we look forward to the summer as an indicator of future sales are ...
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Marketing Contest for the Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World Coming to
2008-04-14 20:19:00
May 1st ends the contest for the greatest real estate agent in the world contest and I have learned a lot which I can now take back to market homes for sale in more and better ways for my clients. It also gave me an opportunity to see how my website stacked up against some ...
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John?s Creek Open House Sunday April 20th
2008-04-14 17:01:00
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Sandy Springs Housing Market Update - April, 2008
2008-04-14 04:34:00
The National Association of Realtors put out numbers for February indicating that pending sales nationally in February were the lowest on record and even the local statisticians working on behalf of the FMLS (First Multiple Listing Service) make it clear that we are not in a period which makes it is easy for homes to sell. So here is a look ...
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Atlantic Station Townhomes For Sale
2008-04-05 21:44:00
Located along 16th Street you can find something other than the typical condos found in Atlantic Station . Here is a new listing that we have at 370 16th St in Atlantic Station. You can view the property website for more information by clicking on this Atlantic Station townhomeslink. Below is a quick view of some ...
More About: For Sale , Sale , Townhomes

Let Your Voice Be Heard and Your Questions Answered
2008-04-02 17:27:00
I’ve been trying to figure out a way to help make this blog a better sounding board for you, the consumer and other real estate professionals to interact. In the ‘Web 2.0′ way. I suppose. Although, the concept is nothing new, the idea is to make it easier and more comfortable for people to ask ...
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Encore Park Progress Update - Alpharetta Get Ready!
2008-03-28 03:36:00
Encore Park is just as few months away from the big opening in May so I went by to take a look at the progress. I took with me my tripod and camera and brought it home to upload into a new panorama program and virtual tour plugin to bring it to you. Back in ...
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Homes For Sale in Crabapple and Map of Where Crabapple is Located
2008-03-27 17:07:00
The small community of Crabapple, which borders Alpharetta, Roswell and Milton has been a very popular area for new homes and development over the past 5-7 years. Development in Crabapple is in line with the popular trends seen across the country and offers residents something more than the typical suburban experience in that mixed in with the residential developments ...
More About: For Sale , Sale , Homes

Extreme Marketing Makeover
2008-03-25 21:02:00
Not for us, but for you!  What are you doing to sell listings? We all realize that selling a home in today’s market is different than what we did last year because it’s harder to sell homes - this doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out. Our clients also know that when they list their home with us ...
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How to Create an Accurate Market Analysis
2008-03-19 21:34:00
Putting together an accurate market analysis for a potential seller is quite possibly the most important asset that you bring to the table at the beginning of the listing process outside of your personality. Most MLS’s offer tools that help to make the process fairly easy to get a rough outline, but, in today’s market, ...
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Atlanta Real Estate Market Update
2008-03-07 15:20:00
Atlanta real estate is comprised of a diverse group of cities in a number of counties, depending on who you ask, it’s between 10-14 and that number is continuing to grow as the popluation of the Metro Atlanta area grows. So to look at the numbers I’m going to provide and think that they will ...
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Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World - They Won?t Do This!
2008-03-06 15:01:00
In the ongoing series for the greatest real estate agent in the world contest, I thought I would not need to break out this video, but, really - I think it’s time. I put this video together prior to the contest to illustrate the bad and the ugly of what some sellers are dealing with ...
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Greatest Real Estate Agent in the World Part 2
2008-03-05 15:56:00
The greatest real estate agent in the world contest has brought out some of the finest internet marketing minds in the real estate industry and has also brought out some of the ugliest sides of competition for coveted places in the search engines for the actual important items that we all covet. For me, the contest ...
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