A few days ago, I posted a video about my son getting new hockey skates.  He was a proud little boy with those new skates.  At “not quite 4″ he has decided that he wants to play hockey, and he has enthusiastically gone to skating lessons for the last 14 weeks.  We have also gone [...]

I try to sneak into the local MLS every few eeks and take a look at the overall picture of 4+car garage properties available in Gwinnett County, GA. There are generally a good selection, in fact there is generally a better selection than most of the other counties in Metro Atlanta. Please [...]

I have loaded the new Gwinnett County Market Report onto GarageHomesUSA.
The news is mixed… and that is better than all bad.
Good.

Days on Market went down.
Listed/Sold % went up.
New Listings down from last year.

Bad.

Absorption Rates not good yet.
Sales still down from last year.
Listed/Sold % still weak.
Days on Market needs to drop more.

For the real story, follow [...]

Some of you might know that our oldest son (soon to be 4 years old), Garrett, has been taking skating lessons for about 3 1/2 months. He wants to play hockey… and be a Goalie.
Today, my mother bought him his first pair of hockey skates. He will also be getting some player gloves [...]

It is pretty obvious that my blog and website cater to the type of people that would be in some sort of car club.  Well, I am too.
photo credit: k4cay
So, if you are in a car club, especially one that is in the Atlanta area, or has a chapter around here, I’d love [...]

While sitting down to update the GarageHomesUSA website today, I turned on the NASCAR race. During qualifying the other day, Michael McDowell, a rookie, got a serious introduction to the “safer barrier” and the Car of Tomorrow.
Despite already being an incredibly safe sport, NASCAR has upped the ante with the new car, and installed [...]

I just got back from the mailbox. Gwinnett County, in all of its wisdom, has determined that my house is worth about 12% more than last year…
Keep in mind that nearby homes have recently sold for under the price my wife and I paid for our home seven years ago. also keep [...]

Active Rain, a real estate agent centered community that I blog on, is having a contest for agent promotional videos. The contest has pushed me to do something that I have been resisting… make a video.
Here it is.

I certainly intend to make more. I’ve been wanting to alter my Gwinnett County Market Reports [...]

It isn’t that hard.  In fact it is downright easy.  Selling a home in a week or less is pretty simple.  It only takes a few simple steps.

Saturate the market with marketing.  If nobody knows it is for sale, it won’t get sold.
Make it look perfect.  It has to beat out ALL of the other [...]

Everyone in the real estate industry is zigging… ok, not everyone, but enough.  Most real estate agents (and unrepresented sellers) think that tossing a couple ads on Craigslist and claiming the house on Zillow is an Internet Marketing Strategy.  Most real estate agents are actually cutting back on their marketing efforts… money is tight, slow [...]