Hey, I have to earn a living too.

After ten years of marketing homes myself, closely watching others do it and thirty plus years of marketing all kinds of things, I think I kinda know what I’m doing. Want to sell your home? Read a few of these posts and judge whether you think I’m just bragging.

Alberta Deals with Conflict

October 20, 2009
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(Alberta helps me out with questions occasionally with her unique point of view – Jay) Dear Alberta…my husband and I are finally ready to buy a new home. We’ve been driving around looking at neighborhoods and we can’t seem to agree on anything. We’ve been camping out in his dumpy old townhouse since before we [...]

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Oak Drive Mansion

August 23, 2009
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I won’t normally plug someone ease’s listings. But I’ve got a lot of reasons for featuring 11 Oak Drive.  First of all I was the agent for the current owners, Steve and Kim Van Horn when they bought the home several years ago. Steve is a big wheel with the EPA and Kim has a [...]

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Create Your Own Equestrian Estate

August 23, 2009
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Sometimes you can’t get your dream by buying somebody else’s; you have to build it. If your dream is a small estate for your family and a few chosen horses here is a chance to create it yourself. This site of 10.76 acres is located at 10040 South Lowell Road in Northern Durham. Long time [...]

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A Sad Story…

August 19, 2009
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I ran into an acquaintance who is not a client of mine but who had his home on the market in a neighborhood I know well in Durham. He told me a sad story of a contract that they almost had on the home until the potential buyer’s parents came into town to pass judgment [...]

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