His focus will be highlighting the mountains and inviting his listeners to visit the mountains this fall. Our firm will be acting as a concierge for people from the Lowcountry visiting the Asheville area during the fall. Ron Storto, COO of Biltmore Farms is offering discounts at his hotels for the listeners (Doubletree Hotel, Residences at Biltmore, Sleep Inn). We will be providing advice regarding restaurants and activities to enjoy while in the area. And of course, offering the listeners real estate tours of homes and/or communities in the area. We have been running ads in the Hilton Head/Savannah market in the last 6 months that highlight NC Mountain Realty Group.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Hilton Head’s Adventure Radio “Live” from Asheville
His focus will be highlighting the mountains and inviting his listeners to visit the mountains this fall. Our firm will be acting as a concierge for people from the Lowcountry visiting the Asheville area during the fall. Ron Storto, COO of Biltmore Farms is offering discounts at his hotels for the listeners (Doubletree Hotel, Residences at Biltmore, Sleep Inn). We will be providing advice regarding restaurants and activities to enjoy while in the area. And of course, offering the listeners real estate tours of homes and/or communities in the area. We have been running ads in the Hilton Head/Savannah market in the last 6 months that highlight NC Mountain Realty Group.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Cliffs at High Carolina
Sunday, August 31, 2008
AVL Airport bucks national trend
Friday, August 29, 2008
Fall Foliage Forecast
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Relationships Matter...People You Trust
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Summer in the Mountains
People are flocking to the mountains in the summer to beat the heat in Florida and in the Coastal Carolinas. Everyone is outdoors taking advantage of the perfect weather. We are often asked how hot does it get in the summer? Tough question. Why? Well it depends. With the varying elevations and exposures, the weather can be dramatically different within a short distance. Within 50 miles of Asheville you can have summer highs between 70-90 degrees. Most people think the greatest thing about summer in the mountains is the cool mornings and cool evenings no matter where you are.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
What is Winter like in Asheville?
Over the last several months, we continue to get requests from out of town clients for 30 day rentals. They want to spend time in
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Why Asheville?
It is hard to watch TV, read a magazine or newspaper without reading something about
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Developers - GOOD and BAD
Our involvement with clients looking at property across this area is always best at the earliest possible time. This positions us to introduce them to what we feel are the RIGHT communities to match their interests and prior to them establishing a relationship with a particular sales agent at a community. Recently, a client from
Sunday, February 10, 2008
How are we paid????
So, the question always arises….. IF, I involve you as my buyer’s real estate agent, how much does that cost me? When we always respond, NOTHING, they seem a little perplexed. The reputation that many real estate agents have as nothing more than a used car salesman is always looming somewhere in their head…… We offer a unique experience for buyers in that we receive no compensation from the people we represent. If one of our clients decides to purchase a property, we are paid a referral commission by the seller/developer. Further, we are not paid any marketing or presales fees by any of the developers we represent, hence we have absolutely no bias. By remaining independent we believe we are positioned to offer our clients an objective and impartial evaluation of alternatives.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Restoring Ethics in Real Estate
We continue to hear “war stories” about real estate transactions that result in less than optimum results for the buyer involved. For the members of our team who have corporate backgrounds, these stories drive us crazy. The foundation of our business was to restore ethics and integrity to the real estate market. A recent example concerned a buyer who was coerced to make a quick offer because there was a bidding war. In the past decade those situations did exist, but are rare today. While working with clients spending $200,000 to over $2 million, we carefully evaluate the entire situation for them prior to making any offers. We make sure that our client understands the ENTIRE situation of what they are proposing to buy. This often includes the history of a house for sale: when it was bought and the price, what is the current market of the neighborhood and what the best price we might be able to negotiate for our buyer. We also want to understand our client’s motivation. Is this their dream home they have finally found or is this a potential investment that they can easily walk away from if a very low bid is declined?