I just got off the phone with a client of mine who called interested in buying an oceanfront house. He told me, “Jim, if you have some dry powder you are sitting on, now is a good time to act”. He is exactly right. I was quoted today at ABCnews.com where I said “smart money’s [...]
We can tell what? We can tell when one of our listings is going to sell. Recently, my coach, Coach Ken, asked me to name the next five listings that I thought would sell. So I did a study based on several items and gave him the five listings I thought would sell next. A [...]
We at Charter I Realty are pleased to announce that James Wedgeworth has been named “Realtor of the Year” for 2008. We cannot think of anyone more deserving of this award than James. The following was an article featured in The Bluffton Today on December 20, 2008: James Wedgeworth is Realtor of the Year Each [...]
The headlines in the local Island Packet said “National Mortgage Rates Lowest in 57 Years.” The actual article went on to say it was actually 37 years – it was a misprint – but who’s counting. 37 years is a long, long time - I was not even in the real estate business 37 years ago. [...]
I once heard the definition of a recession is when your neighbor loses his job and a depression is when you lose yours. Obviously, anyone who has been in the Real Estate business for the last year knows that we have not been a recession – we have been in a depression. That is easy [...]
I was driving to work early this morning listening to CNBC and they were talking about dismal automobile sales and commenting that the showrooms just are not getting people in to look at the cars and if people do not come in to look at cars, they are probably not going to buy them. They [...]