If you like North Carolina barbecue, enjoy a good street festival, like live music, are into classic cars, and don't mind a nice day trip, then the Lexington BBQ Festival is for you. The Lexington BBQ Festival is one of the largest gatherings of its type in the southeast. This 28th annual festival had over 100,000 people in attendance. That's about the same number as attended the NC State … [Read more...]
July 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Raleigh The Next Big Boom Town
Is Raleigh the next big boom town? Forbes seems to think so in the firm's latest ranking of top US cities positioned to grow and prosper in the next decade. Raleigh ranked number two with regards to future prospects for prosperity. The study looked at the top 52 metro areas and ranked each with regards to past, current and future prospects for growth. One third of the score was based on … [Read more...]
May 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Raleigh Real Estate Market Update – May 2011
There are 8,246 listings in Wake County and 923 closings took place in the past 30 days. Just based on these numbers, that's a 9 month supply of homes for sale. Still way too many. I have always heard that around a 6 month supply is a balanced market. Less trends towards a sellers' market and more trends towards a buyers' market. Here's a question. What would it take to create a … [Read more...]
April 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Retirement Communities In Raleigh
There are several retirement communities in Raleigh and the surrounding area. For the purpose of this article, we'll define retirement community as a planned development, restricted to couples age 55 and above, with an on-site activities coordinator. I've lived here all my life and honestly it's hard for me to imagine the Raleigh area as a destination for people seeking to retire. But it … [Read more...]
April 11, 2011 By 4 Comments
How To Clean Stainless Steel Appliances
It happened again just last week. Someone asked me how to clean stainless steel appliances. It makes sense to ask someone who is involved with selling houses, that many times contain stainless steel appliances, how to go about cleaning them. People ask me all the time how to do things related to owning a house. Most of the time I have some pretty good answers because in my business I run … [Read more...]
February 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
1103 Front Gate In Heritage at Wake Forest
Heritage in Wake Forest is an amazing community. There's the golf course, the 2 swimming pools, the tennis courts, the walking trails. And of course there are some really great, custom built homes too. If living in an award winning, master planned community is appealing, and you would like a maintenance free, easy-living townhome full of upgrades at an affordable price... read on. This … [Read more...]
