ALPHARETTA - Expanding on yesterday’s post about house swaps and real estate log jams, here is a slightly different angle to this problem. Take builders.  I didn’t talk about them yesterday. They are the opposite of the first time home buyer.  They don’t have anything to buy, only...

ALPHARETTA - We’ve all been there - or at least I think we have - when in order to get something you have to do something uncomfortable first. It’s the old dare: You show me yours and I’ll show you mine. No! You first, I said. Really … I’ll show you mine. Really &...

Maxsell Grows Others Shrink 2008 was one of the worst real estate markets in the history of Metro Atlanta. The number of sales dropped, the value of real property dropped (although only slightly in Atlanta), and many builders, lenders, and realtors were forced to leave the business. However, the s...

ALPHARETTA - This is the time of the year when we are resolving to make the coming year better than the past year. No industry is more in need of improvement than the real estate industry (including the auto industry), both in terms of overall market conditions and in the way the industry functions...