Randy's Blog about Real Estate

Is anyone familiar with the Hit Router feature of Active Rain? I'm really not sure how that works or if is a valuable tool. If anyone has had success with the feature, would you let me know? I put i the local areas I work in but haven't reallly figured out how it directs traffic, etc.    Randy

Flowering trees and shrubs cover this county.  Here are two very close to my home, a flowering cherry (from Ison's Nursery) and a Forsythia bush (don't know where I got that one!).   Do you have a favorite flowering tree or bush?  Take a pic and put it in your comment, or email it to me at randy...

In our rural county, we still have many single wide mobile home on acreage.  It's a tough job evaluating them for sale.  Looking at solds i the last 6 months seems to be the way to go on this one, but it still amazes me how quickly they depreciate in value!    Randy

Listen, I am a committed Crackberry fanatic.  The capability of the little machine with a big chip in it is amazing.  The listing photos are as good or better than my other camera, i keep all the listing info in my phone and have been known to send information on a listing to a client in Georgia ...

I hope it's not just my imagination, but calls are much more frequent and I'm seeing much more activity in the Residential market!  I've already closed more houses to date than I did all last year- which is to say I had a pretty bad year, I guess.  Commercial still looks very slow here, but the r...

                Fourth of July Parades, Pimento Festival, Pirate Football, fireworks, sidewalks downtown, pull in parking on the Square, the old Courthouse that still has a Court, good roads, responsive government, ball fields and soccer fields, the Williamson walking track, the Concord walking t...

Has anyone used the referral system to their advantage.  Mostly, it looks like those emails I always get offering to send me oodles of referrals with cash in their pockets and pre-appoved for $10 million, if only I send them $100 to get the process started (or my bank account number and SS#).  Is...

I just completed a seminar at which they said to link from my Real Estate blog to Face Book.  Then, again, I heard that once a client is on the blog, you don't want them back on your Facebook page.  It's very confusing as to what to link to where.  I do know that contacting me is the first priori...

I just completed a seminar at which they said to link from my Real Estate blog to Face Book.  Then, again, I heard that once a client is on the blog, you don't want them back on your Facebook page.  It's very confusing as to what to link to where.  I do know that contacting me is the first priori...

Easter hats, white pants, pastel shirts, nice dresses, coats and ties, dogwoods, tulips, daisies, Easter Lilies, warm days, cool nights, family together, Easter dinner.  Ham, turkey, rolls and gravy, green beans, creamed corn, fried chicken and venison roast.  Church in the morning, grace at meal...