Atlanta First Time Buyer Webinar

June 16, 2010

So you are thinking about buying your first home. Congratulations, No more paying someone else’s mortgage. Other than finding your first dream home, your primary goal should be making certain that all your questions are answered and that you are protected by proper representation throughout the process.
The Atlanta Real Estate market is in a constant [...]

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How fast are Homes Selling in Northeast Atlanta

June 14, 2010

How fast are homes selling, is a question that as a REALTOR I answer on a regular basis. To rephrase the question just a bit would be to ask, what is the Absorption Rate for homes Northeast Atlanta? In real estate, the absorption rate is the length of time that the market will take to [...]

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Questions about the Georgia Buyer Broker Agreement

May 19, 2010

In a recent class we were discussing the benefits of the Buyer Brokerage Agreement to the buyer. One of the agents in attendance recently had a buyer pose some very interesting questions regarding the agreement. We decided to address these questions as a group and also come up with a few additional questions concerning this [...]

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2009 Broker Owner of the Year

May 12, 2010

RE/MAX Regional Services, who services Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Southern Ohio and Southeastern Michigan, recently presented Patrick Finnick of RE/MAX Center in Suwanee, GA their prestigious Broker Owner of the Year Award for 2009.
The momentum did not stop, even as the New Year came in. Per Finnick, “Homes from every price range have been selling [...]

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Atlanta Home Buyer Services Plan

May 5, 2010

As a REALTOR community we have been taught for years that it is of utmost importance for us to have a Marketing Plan for Home Sellers. This plan details the services that we offer in the marketing of a home. As I see it this addresses exactly 50% of the market. It only addresses the [...]

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Tax Credit Expires

April 30, 2010

With the expiration of the home buyer tax credit, some are worried that the real estate market will cave in. I don’t think this is the case. My article of April 20, 2010 detailing the First Quarter 2010 Atlanta Real Estate Market shows that compared to the same time period in 2009, the Atlanta Market [...]

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Spring Home Maintenance

April 30, 2010

Spring Is Here
Now that we have been through the time change and the days are longer, we now have time to get some of those spring home projects done. Hopefully this list will help you organize the projects that you need to do and of course if you think of any that have been left [...]

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Atlanta Real Estate – First Quarter 2010

April 20, 2010

January 2010
January 2010 stared a little slower than the experts anticipated. As fact would have it in January 2010 there were 2604 total closings, a decline of 8.9% in the number of properties sold compared to January 2009. The decrease came from the Single Family Detached properties which were down 11.5% while Single Family Attached [...]

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HAFA – Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives

April 19, 2010

This article is being published in an attempt to help put into layman’s terms some of the verbiage in the directives associated with the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives Program. I hope it helps.
Possibly one of the least successful programs the federal government has ever instituted is the Home Affordable Modification Program, known to some as [...]

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Atlanta Real Estate… The Last Three Years

April 1, 2010

It’s safe to say that over the last three years the Atlanta Real Estate Market has seen some amazing changes, most of which are not what we would call favorable. From the highs of 2006 it was inevitable that the market would experience some decline we just didn’t know how much of a decline there [...]

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