Just like everyone wants to be liked, Sellers just want some buyer love. Your home gets shown, and show, and shown, you get the idea. Everybody “likes” you but who LOVES you? We can lower the price and wait some more. That’s the traditional approach, right? Why do we feel it necessary to do what…

Forsyth - Of all the posts I’ve written, this post last October about a house auction in Annapolis has made my phone ring more than any.  It never ceases to amaze me when I see that Maryland area code come across my caller id … I know what the call is for sure. To date they have…

ALPHARETTA – We’ve all been there – or at least I think we have – when in order to get something you have to do something uncomfortable first. It’s the old dare: You show me yours and I’ll show you mine. No! You first, I said. Really … I’ll show you mine. Really … I…

LEXINGTON, MA- I’m fond of saying that every house has a story – and that it is the job of the listing agent to tell that story. After all, potential buyers always want to know "What’s the story with this house?" and often people buy a home as much for emotional reasons (they can see…

Over the last few years I’ve received a number of phone calls from residents of Milton and Alpharetta neighborhoods asking my opinion, as a realtor, about how they can increase their home values.  Usually these calls are from older neighborhoods where the price of their homes was relatively lower than some of the newer neighborhoods. …

I received a phone call from a local newspaper yesterday asking for some real estate market analysis.  It seems that word has gotten out that I like to crunch the numbers. Someone had forwarded the reporter a link to an article on CNN Money that listed Atlanta (and mentioned Alpharetta) as one of the six…

No Picture Available.  Like shown on the left, that is what is displayed in the MLS when, duh, the agent has not loaded any pictures. Pictures increasingly tell the story in our visual age.  That explains why home buyers who are browsing homes online are frustrated when they come across a listing with no pictures. …

Hello, Buyers:  There are 1,004 homes for sales in North Fulton (Alpharetta, Roswell, Johns Creek and Milton) between $225,000 and $500,000.  If I were personally looking to buy, I’d be in the market. It’s a buyers market yet people tell me every day that they don’t think they can buy a house.  Some buyers are scared…

While every trend is towards wireless these days, Georgia is going wired.  At least, for real estate transactions, that is.  While going wired in this day in age might sound regressive, Georgia will actually be catching up to what other states already do. Here’s the problem:  When certain mortgage companies went bankrupt last month they…

Warning:  Statistics lie.  Well, actually, people can lie with statistics.  If you don’t believe me, check out this book. With that disclaimer, I’ll tell you that the real estate market in North Fulton county is flat…and I’m not lying, really. He is my definition of flat:  In July 2006, 162 single family homes were sold…