Best in Atlanta
Adair Park is located southwest in downtown Atlanta. It’s an affordable residential neighbourhood that’s just a walking distance to Marta - Atlanta’s Main Mass Transit System. This neighbourhood is a hidden treasure and historic district in south western Atlanta.
Great place to live
It’s easy to live in this impressive neighbourhood with its beautiful surroundings and relaxing bungalow-style homes, with landscape gardens, and nice people to talk to. If you are looking for a "small-town" feel in the city, in Atlanta Georgia, Adair Park is for you. It has a great sense of community because people look out for each other and the area is just as safe as anywhere else in town. One reason why people love this place is the wide streets and beautiful trees around the streets.
Fast foods, restaurants, shops are around the corner. For the students, who may be on a limited budget, fast food is not a bad thing. This town also has 2 unique parks for the kids who love to play games. Kickball is commonly played by kids and adults alike. It’s really fun to get together and creates bonds with families and other neighbours as well.
The best thing about Adair Park, aside from the good people and the housing situation, is the location. It’s very accessible and just a walking and biking distance to shopping, arts and entertainment areas in downtown Atlanta. That’s why it is known as a “Neighbourhood in Diversity”.
It’s more fun in Adair Park
Just like in other towns, Adair Park is also celebrating many events every year which makes people creates unity and peace and more bonds together. It’s very important to have unity in the neighbourhood because people can do more together than when they are apart. And neighbours in town are very active in terms of activities and events. It’s one way of expressing their selves, having enjoyment and free from stressful works and activities in school for the students. This event that they’re celebrating monthly as well as yearly is totally different in the activities in schools and in work. One of the events in Adair Park that happens every October 31st that adds a whole new dimension to the celebration is the “Adair Park Halloween Kids Face Painting”.
Residents in Adair participated in several neighbourhood cleanups and park renovations yearly. It is a great way to get some trash off the streets and meet people in the area and do some workout activities outside. It really helps a lot for most people who don’t have much time for exercising and socializing with neighbours. In this physical activity, they have much purpose. They end a day by beautifying the neighbourhood, exercising to maintain healthy mind and body and most of all they get the chance to create groups of friends.
Adair Park is certainly a great place to live.
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Why You Need An Emergency Fund For Your Real Estate Business
Even a well run real estate business with a good reputation and with a foresight to weigh up possible risks can still run into unexpected problems and setbacks.
Skilled real estate investors buy houses and resell them so quickly for a return on their investment so that any costs incurred are residual and easily absorbed by the profits. Flipping houses, whether or not there is any rehab, is associated with wholesaling. And the principle of connecting sellers to buyer’s works for all kinds of commodities, including houses. After starting out in real estate business, a few successful transactions can make a tidy sum with enough to live off and reinvest back into your business venture. However at this point, it is prudent to start to set aside a sum into a fund to cover for unexpected delays and problems. For example, a house bought at an auction may come with faults that you will be obliged to declare or rectify. Either way, to sell this real estate property you will either cut back your profit margin by selling cheaply or you may decide that you can make a handsome profit by giving the house a rehab.
To do the real estate rehab, you are going to need cash to buy materials and to pay your certified contractors. Depending on the extent of the rehab and if this goes beyond a paint job and new counter tops in the kitchen or to replacing rotten woodwork and a new roof then, you need to tie up a pot of money for several weeks or even a few months.
If you are a very lucky person, used to things that are always going exactly your way, then you may think why bother to keep money tied up just in case. In real estate wholesaling, sooner or later you will need funds for such a project unless you have a cash rich partner willing to stump up the necessary funds at short notice and you would be well advised to make a provision for such occasions. A sum equivalent to six months operating costs for your real estate business is considered a workable amount to cover for unseen events that could see your business falling over a financial cliff. You still need to pay wages, overheads for home / office associated with your real estate business, not to mention taxes, insurances and HOA dues.
As well as having the real estate emergency fund to continue paying for bills you already know about, also consider some other reasons that are not as foreseeable:
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Skilled real estate investors buy houses and resell them so quickly for a return on their investment so that any costs incurred are residual and easily absorbed by the profits. Flipping houses, whether or not there is any rehab, is associated with wholesaling. And the principle of connecting sellers to buyer’s works for all kinds of commodities, including houses. After starting out in real estate business, a few successful transactions can make a tidy sum with enough to live off and reinvest back into your business venture. However at this point, it is prudent to start to set aside a sum into a fund to cover for unexpected delays and problems. For example, a house bought at an auction may come with faults that you will be obliged to declare or rectify. Either way, to sell this real estate property you will either cut back your profit margin by selling cheaply or you may decide that you can make a handsome profit by giving the house a rehab.
To do the real estate rehab, you are going to need cash to buy materials and to pay your certified contractors. Depending on the extent of the rehab and if this goes beyond a paint job and new counter tops in the kitchen or to replacing rotten woodwork and a new roof then, you need to tie up a pot of money for several weeks or even a few months.
If you are a very lucky person, used to things that are always going exactly your way, then you may think why bother to keep money tied up just in case. In real estate wholesaling, sooner or later you will need funds for such a project unless you have a cash rich partner willing to stump up the necessary funds at short notice and you would be well advised to make a provision for such occasions. A sum equivalent to six months operating costs for your real estate business is considered a workable amount to cover for unseen events that could see your business falling over a financial cliff. You still need to pay wages, overheads for home / office associated with your real estate business, not to mention taxes, insurances and HOA dues.
As well as having the real estate emergency fund to continue paying for bills you already know about, also consider some other reasons that are not as foreseeable:
- Renters unable or unwilling to pay their rent leading to legal costs to have them removed.
- Squatters moving into an empty house leading to legal costs to have them removed
- Partner with cash withdraws or passes away
- Rehab costs shoot up due to unforeseen structural defects
- Buyer insists on you bearing closing costs and you have no other buyer
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Monday, April 8, 2013
The American Dream and Real Estate Agents
For most Americans, buying a home is one of the largest financial transactions they will ever undertake. Their motivation may be a desire to own their own home, to accommodate a job change, or to gain a smaller or larger living area.
In recent years, we have seen a dramatic change in the valuation of residential real estate. While some areas have fared better and some have fared far worse, the average home in metro Atlanta is down approximately 30 percent from its high point five years ago. You might expect that home buying in general, would have lost some of its luster. And in some areas it most certainly has. Neighborhoods that commanded a higher dollar five short years ago are run down in some spots and some have become ‘warzones’ as you hear on the streets. In spite of this, a recently released report by the NAR (National Association of Realtors) shares some interesting discoveries:
First time buyers accounted for 39 percent of the total homes bought, only slightly below the historical norm of 40 percent. Among recent homebuyers, 30 percent stated that their primary reason for their purchase was their desire to own a home. Real estate agents continue to play a key role in the search for the right house despite the rise of searches for homes starting online rising to 90 percent and above.
Apparently the American dream has not diminished too much but rather slowed a little as the lending institutions have made lending available on much stricter terms. The reality still remains that a lot of people do not want to be renters even though we have seen articles alluding as such many times in recent years. People still like the opportunity for their money to count toward something of equitable value and with prices down, they recognize that that is a much stronger opportunity today for when prices rise.
What Buyers may be running into now is that the mad dash to buy a home ‘is on’ in markets where inventory is low. I know one couple who has been looking for a home for nearly a year. In an attempt to find their ‘perfect’ home, they went from a Buyers market to a Sellers market and now are kicking themselves a little bit as their choices have dropped. The perception of tons of inventory forever has indeed faded. Yes, finding and reading information about homes for sale is easier now that it has ever been but understanding, interpreting, and applying that information is not so easy. This is where a good real estate agent comes in.
Today’s home-loan applicant faces multiple pitfalls on the road to a successful closing. Appraisals come in low, inspections seem to beyond silly nit-picky, lenders have stricter terms and want higher visibility into your finances and what used to be a very good credit score is not enough for some lenders. A good agent can help bridge these gaps. The above mentioned issues are all very common however a good agent can help navigate these waters with confidence to ensure success to the best of their ability. If you are Selling a house, the same holds true as it is remarkable how many people still believe their home is worth what it was in 2007 which is seldom the case in most of our market. A good agent can help get the house sold by helping the Seller have realistic expectations to sell today!
With approximately nine out of ten home sales being assisted by a real estate agent in the last year, the role of the real estate agent even with today’s technology is still quite secure. There is specialized knowledge needed that most homeowners simply do not want to take the time to learn. With time being a precious commodity in today’s high paced world, the time spent with a solid real estate agent is time will spent indeed.
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In recent years, we have seen a dramatic change in the valuation of residential real estate. While some areas have fared better and some have fared far worse, the average home in metro Atlanta is down approximately 30 percent from its high point five years ago. You might expect that home buying in general, would have lost some of its luster. And in some areas it most certainly has. Neighborhoods that commanded a higher dollar five short years ago are run down in some spots and some have become ‘warzones’ as you hear on the streets. In spite of this, a recently released report by the NAR (National Association of Realtors) shares some interesting discoveries:
First time buyers accounted for 39 percent of the total homes bought, only slightly below the historical norm of 40 percent. Among recent homebuyers, 30 percent stated that their primary reason for their purchase was their desire to own a home. Real estate agents continue to play a key role in the search for the right house despite the rise of searches for homes starting online rising to 90 percent and above.
Apparently the American dream has not diminished too much but rather slowed a little as the lending institutions have made lending available on much stricter terms. The reality still remains that a lot of people do not want to be renters even though we have seen articles alluding as such many times in recent years. People still like the opportunity for their money to count toward something of equitable value and with prices down, they recognize that that is a much stronger opportunity today for when prices rise.
What Buyers may be running into now is that the mad dash to buy a home ‘is on’ in markets where inventory is low. I know one couple who has been looking for a home for nearly a year. In an attempt to find their ‘perfect’ home, they went from a Buyers market to a Sellers market and now are kicking themselves a little bit as their choices have dropped. The perception of tons of inventory forever has indeed faded. Yes, finding and reading information about homes for sale is easier now that it has ever been but understanding, interpreting, and applying that information is not so easy. This is where a good real estate agent comes in.
Today’s home-loan applicant faces multiple pitfalls on the road to a successful closing. Appraisals come in low, inspections seem to beyond silly nit-picky, lenders have stricter terms and want higher visibility into your finances and what used to be a very good credit score is not enough for some lenders. A good agent can help bridge these gaps. The above mentioned issues are all very common however a good agent can help navigate these waters with confidence to ensure success to the best of their ability. If you are Selling a house, the same holds true as it is remarkable how many people still believe their home is worth what it was in 2007 which is seldom the case in most of our market. A good agent can help get the house sold by helping the Seller have realistic expectations to sell today!
With approximately nine out of ten home sales being assisted by a real estate agent in the last year, the role of the real estate agent even with today’s technology is still quite secure. There is specialized knowledge needed that most homeowners simply do not want to take the time to learn. With time being a precious commodity in today’s high paced world, the time spent with a solid real estate agent is time will spent indeed.
Sell Your Atlanta House Fast for Cash Today! We Buy PRETTY and UGLY Houses! We Pay Cash for Homes and We will Buy Your House Fast! We are Atlanta Real Estate Investors. We look forward to hearing from you today with your Atlanta Real Estate needs! Visit - http://workingwithhouses.com and http://atlantabuynow.com
Friday, April 5, 2013
Generate Real Estate Leads and Get Your Creative Juices Flowing
I recently read an article by Sir Richard Branson advising to use an unlikely mix of people from different backgrounds, placed in unusual but enjoyable situations to get a “think-tank” of unusual and creative ideas that can work. This beats brain storming on Monday morning with a bland backdrop of filing cabinets, clinking of the coffee cups and the refreshments trolley moving around the office.
Some Out of The Box Ideas:
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Some Out of The Box Ideas:
- To close more real estate deals, think creatively, go to the park and join in with the yoga instructor. As we all know yoga makes the body more flexible and relax even if you are in a stress stricken environment. Encourage your staff to practice yoga as well. Yoga can help them feel happier, peaceful and more energetic.
- Travel broadens the mind and it can sharpen your wits to close more deals. Go on a nature trail or climb a mountain or jump onto your speed bike and peddle your way to somewhere and enjoy the journey. You may also offer free trips to your staff as an incentive for increased productivity.
- Read that motivational book about flipping your way to millions and read all the blogs about housing on LinkedIn or Twitter so that you are fully attuned to current ideas and can follow on with your own plans.
- Hear what employees and clients are saying and react to their needs before issues get blown out of proportion. Also keep up with social media posts so you always know what people are saying and thinking.
- When calling Sellers have something interesting to talk about. Make them aware of what’s going on in the Real Estate market these days. Or make them talk in terms of what interest them the most and give some of your insights that will help them realize the importance of why their decision is the right decision.
- When dealing with Buyers and Sellers, make sure that the number works and always a win-win.
- The Power of focus. Your overall performance depends largely on your ability to focus. Focus is one powerful strategy that every successful businessmen and top performers thrive. Your 100% focus will help you enjoy more of your time, reduce any stress that you’re experiencing and of course increase your net worth.
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
To Succeed in Investing in Real Estate Don’t Let Dollar Signs Blind Your Vision
Consider this scenario and see how the folks you meet up to do business with perceive you. If you always have an agenda to resell and flip houses and that’s the extent of your vocabulary, then you are missing out. People appreciate some personal touch, some rapport and a relationship that’s not just ‘okay, it’s sold, I gotta go, I am done here!’, ‘Thank you, sir or ma’am.’ ‘I don’t have business talking with this guy anymore, I got what I wanted.’ Your goal to succeed is dependent on how you manage to transform your business goal into something more meaningful and ideal. People do business with people they like and trust is the old saying and it’s true.
It’s about common sense, common decency and identifying common interests that you and a potential client and/or business partner share. It could be your ambition for your kid’s education, or writing a book. You can always find something that you both can relate into. Not everyone is likeable though so, we try to answer the question, ‘why do people like us in the first place?’ People like us when we are honest, genuine and positive. Before we worry about impressing our potential client, let us be ourselves and say genuine things and make sure that we deliver. When the client sees your sincerity they will start to open up and that’s when you can further establish the relationship. The business bond between you two can prosper.
When you establish a lasting relationship, you will care about the risks you take and the business risks your clients take because of your recommendations and advice. The sincere and good advice you give will lead to repeat business that should last for many years to come. And business will not just stop between you two. When your client is happy, business can multiply.
Remember, the biggest turn off is greed and the lust to just make money. This just adds to the aversion people feel towards you if you are perceived that your only goal is the satisfaction of making lots of cash and have no interest in the outcome for your client. You have to be committed from start to finish. Do not shy away from commitment. Do it and don’t make excuses.
To achieve better relationships send e-mails and social networking messages that are not just about availability and prices on deals. It’s better to share a part of your life. This is not only more satisfying but may genuinely put you in a preferred category when time comes time to talk shop. People will talk and they will recommend you. You will be seen as an expert in your field. Remember, a good deed will never be forgotten.
Turn over a new leaf today and start to build lifetime business relationships that really bring about win-win deals. Whoever says “People do business with people they like and trust”, absolutely hit it right.
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It’s about common sense, common decency and identifying common interests that you and a potential client and/or business partner share. It could be your ambition for your kid’s education, or writing a book. You can always find something that you both can relate into. Not everyone is likeable though so, we try to answer the question, ‘why do people like us in the first place?’ People like us when we are honest, genuine and positive. Before we worry about impressing our potential client, let us be ourselves and say genuine things and make sure that we deliver. When the client sees your sincerity they will start to open up and that’s when you can further establish the relationship. The business bond between you two can prosper.
When you establish a lasting relationship, you will care about the risks you take and the business risks your clients take because of your recommendations and advice. The sincere and good advice you give will lead to repeat business that should last for many years to come. And business will not just stop between you two. When your client is happy, business can multiply.
Remember, the biggest turn off is greed and the lust to just make money. This just adds to the aversion people feel towards you if you are perceived that your only goal is the satisfaction of making lots of cash and have no interest in the outcome for your client. You have to be committed from start to finish. Do not shy away from commitment. Do it and don’t make excuses.
To achieve better relationships send e-mails and social networking messages that are not just about availability and prices on deals. It’s better to share a part of your life. This is not only more satisfying but may genuinely put you in a preferred category when time comes time to talk shop. People will talk and they will recommend you. You will be seen as an expert in your field. Remember, a good deed will never be forgotten.
Turn over a new leaf today and start to build lifetime business relationships that really bring about win-win deals. Whoever says “People do business with people they like and trust”, absolutely hit it right.
Sell Your Atlanta House Fast for Cash Today! We Buy PRETTY and UGLY Houses! We Pay Cash for Homes and We will Buy Your House Fast! We are Atlanta Real Estate Investors. We look forward to hearing from you today with your Atlanta Real Estate needs! Visit - http://workingwithhouses.com and http://atlantabuynow.com
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Always Be Marketing
ABM – Always Be Marketing…EVEN in a Sellers Market
We all know this. Really we do. In Real Estate, it is truly all about marketing. Our market right now along with many others in the country is a Seller’s Market in many pockets. I have already started to hear the conversations in some agent circles about good times ahead. While that may be true, my first question is always ‘How do you plan to leverage your marketing during these times?’
While the days ahead may indeed be promising for listings, one need only remember what happened a few short years ago to many agents who enjoyed the real estate boom without lifting a finger. Always be marketing was not on the forefront of many people’s minds. Always be marketing was ignored. Always be marketing may never be needed many thought. The lack of Always be marketing is what caused many of them to now have jobs and be in other career paths. What goes up must come down. And Real Estate is different.
Many agents today survived the tough years by marketing. Nothing has really changed for them and they are as consistent as always. However many have struggled to hang on. And now there are several new folks to the trade. If there is one lesson that should be learned it is this one. Always be marketing. It doesn’t matter if you have one closing or 20 scheduled. Always be marketing. Always, always, always.
You never know what tomorrow holds. If indeed good days are ahead and here to stay for some time, always be marketing so you can make the most of the moment for as long as it lasts.
Always. Good luck!
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Monday, April 1, 2013
Training Your Real Estate Team Members To Be Effective
It is essentially fact that people are the most important asset in a real estate company or any company for that matter. So, we place a great deal of time on recruitment and the interview process in order to find the right person with the right attitude. And our investment of time on finding the right person to fill the position doesn’t just stop after they are brought onboard. We continue to find ways and means to train them regularly.
Here are ten significant points to consider so that your real estate business can grow. Keeping a good staff by empowering them to take some ownership within their area goes a long way. Well trained and qualified staff will also enhance your businesses’ reputation and give you the edge over your competition.
Ten Tips:
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Here are ten significant points to consider so that your real estate business can grow. Keeping a good staff by empowering them to take some ownership within their area goes a long way. Well trained and qualified staff will also enhance your businesses’ reputation and give you the edge over your competition.
Ten Tips:
- Even before any training commences, select the right person for the job. Don’t just focus on previous experience in real estate but rather consider the applicants skill sets to fulfill the particular roles requirements. Train the new person to be proficient and competent within a particular job as focus provides better results.
- Allow some time outs during conference calls. Follow up with your trainees about what they learned during the call and how this can be applied to their job. Update them with new found ideas, new apps and other items used in real estate that you have come across that will be useful to their work.
- Consider bringing in a trainer / consultant to the office for on the job training. You can also send them to webinars to learn new skills in real estate.
- Facilitate team discussions within real estate Buyer and Seller groups so that everyone can say what went well or can be improved.
- If they will work with Sellers, train them on how to handle these individuals to win their business, especially if they have listed their home for six months with no acceptable offer. Also if they work with the online processes, brainstorm how these methods can always be improved. Sellers appreciate simplicity once they wrap their head around it.
- Make SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures) and document them to break down the elements of working instructions necessary to cover every job and process your real estate business uses. Regularly review their value and if dynamic processes need to be rewritten. Do not underestimate this time!
- Reward successes on the job, in particular if employees become qualified with awards of merit. Reward can be a cash bonus but an award like “Real Estate Sales Rock Star of the Month” trophy can do volumes. All kinds of recognition, financial or psychological can be appreciated by your reports.
- Use KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) to benchmark each employees success criteria. The number of houses listed and sold per month could be examples of KPI’s.
- Recognize talent and promote high flyers and solid reliable employees. Plan for succession for all key positions (including your own) and ensure you train the right people for the business to for the long term if you plan for the business to be around for a while.
- Finally, leverage the tracking methods available online for reports, ads or blogs to better understand the need for further improvement. Stop guessing which one of your advertisements or blogs works and which one does not. Targeted marketing that is working helps your team in producing an effective way to generate real estate leads seamlessly.
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