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INVESTORS’ CORNER: When you take away Free Markets, you create Black Markets
The above is a quote from Winston Churchill, and is every bit as true today as it was well over half a century ago when he said it. Please allow […]
INVESTORS’ CORNER: The Power or Indignation
Indignant is not a very strong adjective. True, it hits much harder than its perfumed and delicate cousin petulance, but carries nowhere near the weight of its 3 elder brothers- […]
INVESTORS’ CORNER: Don’t Squander Your Most Precious Resource
As Real Estate Investors, we are largely independent of the direction and supervision most employees receive, and thus the temptation to misuse time until such misuse has become a habit […]
INVESTORS’ CORNER: That’s Not Funny!
Did you ever notice that some of the very funniest things we have as memories and to tell stories about were not the least bit funny at the time the […]
INVESTORS’ CORNER: The Power or Indignation
Indignant is not a very strong adjective. True, it hits much harder than its perfumed and delicate cousin petulance, but carries nowhere near the weight of its 3 elder brothers- […]
INVESTORS’ CORNER: Best Day of the Year to Buy a Home
Many of us have vague notions (mostly secondhand, or worse, so dislocated from the source that we cannot begin to gauge their authenticity) of the best time of year to […]
INVESTORS’ CORNER: Be A “Don’t-Wanter” of the Deal
I’ve been involved in a lot of negotiations, and read a lot of books on the subject. There is a basic principal of negotiation that is fundamental- that is- below […]
INVESTORS’ CORNER: The Vocabulary of Real Estate Investing: Part 3
Here are two more words instrumental to a sound grasp of the principles that will speed you along your journey to success in Real Estate Investing: Equity– most of us […]
INVESTORS’ CORNER: The Vocabulary of Real Estate Investing
Much as with any highly specialized field of endeavor, R/E investing has a language of its own. A firm grounding in some of the more important terms can help you […]
INVESTORS’ CORNER: On the Shoulders of Giants
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”. Sir Isaac Newton The Charlotte Real community has suffered a great loss with the passing of […]
INVESTORS’ CORNER: The Funniest Thing a Tenant Ever did to Me
Have you ever noticed that the very funniest stories that we have to tell were not in the least bit funny at the time the events occurred. It seems that […]
INVESTORS’ CORNER: Mexican Boy Glues Self to Bed to Avoid School
But what, you may ask; does this recalcitrant youth’s behavior have to do with real estate investing? Nothing in some ways, and in some ways- everything. (By the way, to […]
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- Construction employment rises in 32 states and D.C. with North Carolina adding 13,600 jobs
- ATTOM reports home purchase loans at 12-year low amid rising mortgage rates
- NCDOT unveils six design concepts to reconnect I-77 South corridor in Charlotte
- ATTOM report finds home prices grew in nearly half of opportunity zones
- Foundry Commercial Brings Uptown Charlotte Site to Market
- Construction Employment Rises By 9,000 In April As Nonresidential Hiring Offsets Residential Declines And Average Hourly Pay Rises To $38.73
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