A friend of mine — a local high school student — emailed me earlier today with interesting information about a project she and her classmates are currently working on. Her Environmental Science class is giving away trees to the community. They have gathered seeds from their campus and have grown...
Author Archives: Lisa Oates
Snapshot: Local Market Statistics
To give you a small glimpse of the real estate market in our area, check out the statistics below. Keep in mind that real estate is a cyclical business throughout the year. The Spring and Summer months are generally more active in terms of sales and new listings than Fall...
What Everybody Ought to Know About Staging Their Home — Part One
Before putting your home on the market, it is important to get your house ready to sell. (After putting your house on the market, we’ll give you some tips for keeping your house sparkling for showings. That will be part two.) Run down this list of items to prepare your...
Decrease Your Environmental Footprint
This is an important subject these days. One way to decrease your environmental footprint is to live close enough to common retail shops, restaurants, and gathering places so that you can walk or ride your bicycle (thus, not expending gas fumes into the air by leaving the car at home)...
House Swapping
The real estate market is seeing the “house swap” as an increasingly popular trend this year. Back in the day, vacationers would frequently swap houses for a week or two (like in the movie The Holiday from a couple years ago), but this is 2008. The economy has changed. Why...
Smart Sense
My husband and I took a nice roadtrip to South Carolina this weekend. I caught myself reading every billboard we passed. Some were good, some were quite frankly ridiculous. There was a series of billboards in Charlotte (I think) about real estate. They were simple and to the point, and...