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Sellers Pre-listing inspection from Jeff Hardesty of Elite Home Inspections
Seller’s pre-listing inspections.
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Eventually your buyers are going to conduct an inspection. You may as well know what they are going to find by getting there first. Having an inspection performed ahead of time helps in many other ways:

It allows […]

Electrical Safety Tips from Jeff Hardesty of Elite Home Inspections
Electrical Safety

Electricity is an essential part of our lives. However, it has the potential to cause great harm. Electrical systems will function almost indefinitely if properly installed and not overloaded or physically abused. Electrical fires in our homes claim the lives of 485 Americans each […]

The FED lowered their benchmark rate this afternoon by 1/2%.  This will take Prime rate down to 6% next month.  So far mortgage interest rates have been unaffected by this lowering.  I have pasted a summary of the FED meeting below in case you would like some more details of what […]

I hear other real estate agents saying how they dislike Home Inspectors but I know there must be people out there who like and respect them as I do, right? If not, consider these points:
When representing buyers, I want my buyer client to hire the pickiest Inspector he can get–he’s paying for […]

Our market centers on a tiny strip of sand bordering the Atlantic Ocean called the Outer Banks of North Carolina. You could say we are part of “hurricane central” which can mean occasional flooding.
Here, as you can imagine, we live by the FEMA special flood hazard zones.
The flood insurance coverage we carry (or not) […]

        Many economists are calling this week a once in a generation occurrence.  This is because the last time the FED enacted an emergency lowering of interest rates by .75% was in the mid 1980’s.  This lowering along with a plummeting stock market sent rates to decade lows for Tuesday and Wednesday of […]

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I just commented on another post and ended with the above quote, a favorite old restaurant saying that I learned as a stressed young hostess juggling waiting lists of angry, hungry would-be diners waiting (too long) for their tables.
I can’t cite my source because it was 20 years ago and I can’t […]

The Bodie Island lighthouse, just south of Nags Head, has been a shining beacon to mariners since 1847. It is in need of repairs and renovations which have been in the planning stage for the last couple of years.
The funding was provided for the study and planning of the renovation and contract for the actual repair […]

North Carolina’s Ferry System got a huge passenger traffic boost this season after “Dr. Beach” endorsed Ocracoke Island as the top beach in America.
Stephen Leatherman, director of Florida University’s Laboratory for Coastal Research is the person who more famously goes by “Dr. Beach” and began compiling his annual America’s Best Beaches lists in 1991.
This […]