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By Keldia Sarante There are many benefits to owning a home, including the sense of stability, security, and accomplishment that comes with owning property. In addition to providing a place to live, owning a home can also be a good ...

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By Thomas Elrod, Keller Williams Ballantyne-Area Agent If you are in the market to sell your home, there’s something very important you should know. Real estate agents are NOT all the same. Your decision to place your property for sale ...

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By Brett Caldwell, Application Specialist, GSSI, Inc.  As the saying goes, “Time is money,” and general contractors, superintendents and project managers know that the cliché means focusing on keeping workflow going as smoothly as possible. Like a conductor of a ...

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By Mary Webster The real estate market is changing rapidly, and every week brings new updates and data to be evaluated. Rising interest rates, inflation, low inventory of homes for sale, continued high demand for housing, and economic uncertainties are ...

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By Julie Staley, Keller Williams Ballantyne-Area Realtor   Age is a tricky subject. As someone born and raised in the South, I knew it was considered impolite to ask an elder about his or her age. But, when discussing the current ...

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By Melinda Waldrop [email protected]  Twelve defendants from seven construction-related companies have been sentenced for employment tax fraud felonies and crimes related to hiring unauthorized workers in a scheme that saw at least $15 million in bogus checks cashed.  The convictions ...

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Four lawsuits over the city of Charlotte’s taking of adjacent properties near the city’s center have been consolidated into one $1.07 million settlement, the landowner’s attorney reports.  Thomas “Tommy” Odom Jr. of The Odom Firm in Charlotte reports that the ...

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BY CORREY E. STEPHENSON  BridgeTower Media Newswires  A little-known quirk of bankruptcy law in North Carolina is garnering national attention as courts across the country debate whether the different treatment afforded debtors in the state’s bankruptcy courts violates the U.S. Constitution.  The issue ...

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Warm weather, sandy beaches, sunsets … so many visions of idyllic summer vacations were seemingly washed away in the COVID-19 wave of 2020. However, with distancing, quarantine, and other similar restrictions now being loosened in several states, the thought of ...

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By Connie Yates Having been a real estate broker for over 15 years, I have not only worked through the 2008 economic crash that took years to rebound from but have also seen how the COVID pandemic has affected our ...

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