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Renovating UGLY investment home in Durham, part 2
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Renovating investment home in Durham, part 1
Wow, it has been a very long process. Had a partner who was a contractor, moved from CA to Chapel Hill, NC. We drove up and down the streets searching for an area of Durham that we knew would appreciate. We found a great area that was close to downtown Durham which was just beginning [...]
Does it make sense to invest in real estate in 2009?
I spoke with a retired high school principal who said he has been buying real estate since he was 21. Pulled all of his stock out of the market before the crash, and put it into real estate. His property is worth so much more than when he bought it and doesn’t fluctuate like the [...]
Why do Real Estate professionals write so much about buying and selling?
if you want to buy, sell or invest in properties, there is so much info out there online, in books, classes, on TV, etc. that it is total information overload. There isn’t much info that I can add, so I’d rather tell you why I adore living in the Triangle, especially Chapel Hill, Carrboro and [...]
Real Estate Investments, my personal investment stories in Chapel Hill, Carrboro & Durham, #2, property managers
Back to my story of the 2 bed, 2 bath, 2 story condo in Chapel Hill renting to UNC students because of the great location and a private bath for each bedroom. We used to pay a property manager to handle getting tenants and managing the property until I went into the condo one summer and [...]
Restaurants & Food in Chapel Hill & Durham?BBQ
I’m a foodie and a food snob. I graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 1972, one of the first 13 women graduates. Here in Chapel Hill I used to own a homemade ice cream shop. Now that I no longer have my own ice cream, I often have to import it from other [...]
Real Estate Investments, my personal investment stories in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Durham, #1
I thought I?d share the story of my real estate investments in Durham, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro, NC ? if it helps you in your quest for investment properties, great. When I moved to Chapel Hill in 1994, a university town dominated by the University of NC there was hardly a house that cost more than [...]
How to Get a Quick Sale in a Slower Market
I read an article about how some houses sell quickly even in a slow market. The analysis was of home in the Baltimore area during November. The average time on the market was 105 days, 13 percent of the 1,892 homes that sold in Baltimore and five surrounding counties had contracts in two weeks or [...]
NC great place to invest in real estate
Interested in real estate investment? Have you considered the tax advantages? Saving for education? retirement? other big expenditures? Now is the best time to buy because the market is down but it will go up in a few years. People from foreign countries are buying up New York City and San Francisco because the prices [...]
Trader Joe?s in Chapel Hill!!!!!
When Nordstrom’s opened its first NC store at Southpoint Mall in the Triangle, I thought, ah ha, the Triangle has made it. Trader Joe’s just opened in Eastgate Mall in Chapel Hill–guess what? We’re now on the map! Trader Joe’s moves into areas where people are foodies, spend money on quality, are educated, well traveled [...]
