Remodeling Magazine's Cost Vs Value Report 2011 -2012

It's all here, the 2011 - 2012 Cost vs Value Report and here's a direct link to the article: http://www.remodeling.hw.net/2011/costvsvalue/national.aspx. Every year Remodeling Magazine does a study: How much does the remodel cost? How much can the homeowner/seller expect to recover when the house is sold? The suprise is - no seller recovers the cost of the remodel when they sell! Remodeling a house in the hope that you'll recover more than the cost of your remodel is a myth. That's right, it always costs more to do the project than is recovered apon the sale of the home. But as a real estate practitioner I would rush to say, if you hadn't done the remodel, would the house have sold at all? Dated kitchen? Maybe not, or maybe it would have sold for far less than value, so don't stop thinking about that remodeling project just yet. Have a look at the report, adding a room in the attic? Hmmmm. Work smarter, have a look at last year's report, and know this year's report is due January 17th. I can hardly wait.

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Let's Make Movies

I know, I know, I'm supposed to be a Realtor, so why am I making movies? Haven't you heard? Visual tours are all the rage, and some of those slideshow templated freebies, are worse, yes I said worse, than nothing. If you like to fool with pictures and write, and I do, rather than using a templated site like the free ones, (which is, OK, I concede, somewhat better than nothing), you'll want to run a You Tube channel. The freebies are useless when it comes to setting up and running a You Tube channel. So, here are some tips for storyboarding - and more to come. http://video-editing-software-review.toptenreviews.com/how-to-make-a-movie.html In preparation for the next phase of my real estate career I have purchased a new all-in-one computer with touch-screen, a 1 TB hard drive, great graphics card, and everything I need to make it fast and grand and perfect for recording and uploading to YouTube. There's only one thing missing - Your Listing! But it's the fall of the year and my phone is ringing with happy potential buyers passing through and I have to go take them around the valley. I am working on your movies as time allows. I'll send you an updated link as soon as I have one. Video is the next big thing in real estate advertising, and I'm embracing it although I promise, the learning curve is somewhat daunting. Lucky for me, one of my clients Robert Humphrey was the film trainer for the US Military and literally wrote the book, the three books, for Military film makers. He's taken a look at my visual tours and says he'll help me. How cool is that? So, I've bought the equipment, I'm prepared to do the work, now I just need to squeeze a few hours out of my schedule. It'll be worth it, you'll see.

And sorry I had to turn off comments, somebody publishing under the name Pushpendra Yadav started publishing advertising nonsence in my comments and emailing me every 2 minutes. "Omaxe Constructions is amongst the large Real Estate Development companies in India and has executed more than 120 prestigious Industrial, Institutional, Commercial, Residential and Hospital construction projects.
Omaxe " It would seem like Omaxe Construction (s) might like to know the firm they've hired to do advertising is causing some trouble with a Real Estate Blogger in Western Carolina.

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July 2012

I had my left hip replaced on June 26th in Tryon, NC by Dr. Rosenberg and came home to recover. I followed Doctors instructions and for the first two weeks post op was home bound and pretty groggy with pain meds. "How badly did it hurt?" Everyone wants to know and I've gotta tell you, as far as I'm concerned, it hurt more before surgery than afterward. Now granted, I'm recovering, and I'm not brand new, raring to go but it's not bad. I knew I'd made the right decision when I sat on the side of the bed and dangled my legs for the first time.

As a consequence, there was no July Newsletter, everyone had to get by with updates from List Hub and Trulia, but there weren't any complaints. We did stay in touch and I don't know how this happened but real estate started selling. I've had a few more sellers call Clayton in, including Steve and Dawn on lot 89 Big Rock Road, their lot was way overgrown and Clayton put a crew on it and even cut a trail to a huge view. I don't have pictures, yet, I can't get out to the rocky overlook with my cane, but soon, and very soon. I'll be posting pictures.

Meanwhile, here's a picture for you:

This fine specimen was slithering across a driveway on Yellowtop. I believe he would have hung around but he didn't particularly want his picture taken. Luckily the people who were with me saw him, too and we all have interesting pictures on our iPhones as a consequence.