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When choosing colleges for your children, you spend a lot of time gathering information on the values of different colleges. Why?Because each offers different programs and services, and it will impact the future of your family. In today’s real estate market, choosing the wrong real estate agent can be just as costly. With every real estate agent offering a different marketing program and

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This article was taken from the Charlotte Observer, and it gives some insight as to which upgrades you should consider, and which ones won't improve the value of your home.So how can buyers get the most resale value for their money in home upgrades? And which ones probably aren't worth the cost?KitchenKitchens and bathrooms "are where people will spend most of their money and most of their time

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Folks, there is a lot of gloom and doom in the media involving the national real estate industry...I wanted to add my little bit to this news. My team and I have listed, written contracts, and closed on 18 properties in September and October alone! We believe that we can do things to differentiate your home from others.Put simply-Things Are Only as Slow as You Let Them Be!We are busy and

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What Makes a Good Neighborhood?When you buy a house, you also invest in the neighborhood that surrounds it. The identity of a neighborhood may be as important to property values as the individual properties themselves. In a planned community, strictly controlled architecture governs a carefully crafted identity block after block. In a rural town, tree-lined streets and an old-fashioned town

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Buying and selling a home is more than understanding investment values and money. It can be a roller coaster of emotions.It is about families and their futures, future wealth, security and needs, parting with memories, selecting proper schools, taxes, financing, the physical move, notifying utility people, etc. etc.When you have raised children in a home, there is an additional emotional

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Not Having a PlanMany home landscape designs evolve helter-skelter. A plant is planted somewhere in the yard simply because there is room for it there at the time. Ideally, it's best to start from scratch, draw a plan for the whole yard, and stick to it. Short of that, try at least to sketch a rough plan for one large area of your yard, and put all your energy into implementing that plan this

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After posting quarterly gains of as much as 20 percent in 2004 and 2005, remodeling expenditures rose only 1.5 percent to $168.7 billion in the last three months of 2006, reports the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard.The return on investment for certain home improvement projects also declined last year. According to Hanley-Wood's Cost vs. Value survey, home owners recouped only 77

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New home communities are more popular than ever—with good reason. New home builders are using popular open floorplans, including appliances, sod, and blinds, and helping make it easier than ever to get into a new home with little or no money.If a buyer chooses, they can buy a new home without contacting anyone except the on-site sales agent. However, this might expose you to devastating losses

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About Finding and Hiring Real Estate AgentsI hate to admit this, but I was once hired to sell an expensive house simply because I was standing in the street, wearing my name badge and yakking on my cell. The seller spied me from her front porch and said, "Hey, you look like a real estate agent. I want to sell my house!"Speaks volumes about agents, doesn't it? She was lucky. I knew how to price

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RALEIGH, N.C., Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Home affordability and the housing industry received a big boost today from Congress, which approved a measure that would for the first time allow lower- and moderate-income homebuyers to deduct the full cost of mortgage insurance from their federal taxes in 2007. The provision was included in the omnibus tax bill approved by Congress early Sunday morning. "

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Most real estate markets experience a holiday slowdown. Charlotte’s is no different. Many real estate agents give up and begin turkey stuffing or Christmas shopping. Also, winter finds many agents getting ready for the spring market instead of focusing on the here and now. The holidays are usually filled with serious buyers who often are willing to act quickly to get into a home before the first

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Hello. My name is Jay White, and I work with one of the largest, most successful real estate teams in the Charlotte area. We set this blog up to provide our clients (past, present, and future) an opportunity to ask questions, express their opinions, and share their experiences with us and each other.The Johnny White Team provides world-class representation to clients involved in real estate

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