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We have a beautiful new listing in Grand Veridian (picture to left) so I thought I would talk about the neighborhood a little bit. If you are interested in this home more specifically, visit the single property website located here at homes for sale in grand veridian.

Grand Veridian is a swim/tennis neighborhood that was built by Fairgreen with the first homes being finished in 2001. When you drive through Grand Veridian it doesn't take long to see that the neighborhood itself was thought out with more detail than many of the suburban cookie cutter neighborhoods. Street lights and sidewalks line the streets like most, but, it's clear that green space was given a greater consideration. Besides being built around a small lake, the cul-de-sacs are not…

Some are claiming "the bottom" here in Atlanta. John Adams, a very popular real estate investor with a talk radio show has been saying it for months, you can read other "experts" in the AJC who say that February was the bottom, but, I do not believe that to be the case and I believe that what we have is nothing more than a homes for sale in Atlanta problem - make that a too many homes for sale in Atlanta problem. In other words, there is still simply too much inventory for the current sales rates to stabilize the market now or for the near future.

The FMLS shows 43,799 homes for sale (active only) and the last month of complete sales data is April where there were 3,477 sold homes. Simple division gives you an absorption rate, or, months of inventory of…

What better time to update sales in Crooked Creek than right now when we have a listing for sale and right after I'm back with some fresh photos of the golf course. I'll post a couple photos down the page a little, but, I do want to get to the actual market. Crooked Creek is in an extraordinary community and if you live there or you are familiar with it, you probably don't need me to tell you that :). For everyone else, I think it's important to talk about what Crooked Creek is in the process of doing right now. At a time in the real estate market where many would argue that it isn't the best time to put money in your property or neighborhood, Crooked Creek is in full swing of doing more than your average upgrade. They are gating the main entrance on…

Keller Williams Red Day is an event where offices around the country take a day to give back to our community. It is another one of the many reasons that , in my opinion, separates Keller Williams from other real estate brokerages and makes it the best place to hang my license. This year, our Keller Williams Roswell office donated our time to The Foster Care Support Foundation.

The Foundation helps foster families across the state of Georgia through donations of clothing for infants, toddlers and small children who then have an opportunity to "shop" at the warehouse during the course of the year. It is a non profit that is 100% funded with volunteers and donations.

18 agents, brokers and owners from our office showed up to help prepare the new location…

Seen Through the Eyes of a First Timer

(I'm in the Keller Williams Realty Consultants office in Roswell, GA)

Saturday

I arrived in Orlando earlier today and finally got a chance to meet Cal Carter from the Gulf Shores outside of the exhibits and registration entrance at the Orlando County Convention Center. He's going to be sitting in on one of the panels so I'll definitely try to make that one. The city is jam packed with multiple conventions and traffic is a bear, but, I already feel energized and we have yet to really begin the event. I just finished scheduling the first two days of classes. I struggled a bit with whether to take this opportunity to invest some time in areas that I consider the weakest or to utilize the time to enhance my strengths.…

Roswell Georgia offers buyers some of the best value for their money in North Fulton. The location makes it more reasonable to commute in to the city of Atlanta compared to northern sections of Alpharetta, Milton and Cumming and it isn't necessary to pay more for a home, but, like other areas of Atlanta and the rest of the real estate market, Roswell has seen modest price declines and a major reduction in sales volume. Below is an update on the market for Roswell.

• There are currently 752 homes for sale in Roswell.
• There are an additional 88 homes pending sale or at various stages of the offer period.
• In January, 31 homes sold in Roswell.
• In December, 51 homes sold.
• In November, 40 homes sold.
• The three month absorption rate,…

The sky has fallen on the real estate market. Banks are even afraid to foreclose on homes until the new administration tells them how they are going to bail them out. Prices are down nationally and almost on all local levels as well. But, not everything is all bad. It never is. I don't participate in spin, but, what I just said above isn't bad spin. It's just not the entire story.

Here's the problem when we hear a news caption like this; it never tells the whole story. Let's look at a market I know well - Alpharetta. In Alpharetta as in most places, there are less sales than in the past. Fundamentally, this is because the sub prime market for home loans is gone and fewer people qualify. I have an economics question that just begs to be answered, but, the…

You've seen MLS photos shot with a wide angle lens like (like the ones below). It's probably a good photo, but, not in the form it gets uploaded to in the MLS. Typically, they get mashed (technical term) in from the left and the right until the picture looks stretched tall. Very bad image from a consumer perspective to say the least and wide angle photos really do make for better shots of rooms than a regular width photo. There is a simple way to avoid this, get your full width and not worry about the MLS screwing up what would otherwise be much better pictures of your listing and you can do it for free. Below, are two photos, one mashed up the way that the MLS would make it look and the other is the way it was intended to look and a wide angle should be…