Peter Den Boer's Blog Posts

Doin' Delta

If you have never checked out the Delta flight museum in Atlanta, you need to put this on your bucket list. Located very close to the Atlanta airport, this museum traces the history of Delta

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Photography Club

The Cherokee Photography Club has met in the old arts center downtown Canton since 2002. Because that building has become decrepit band is reverting to the county, the club needed to move to a new

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It's still a bizarre Real Estate Market

I was just thinking of a past movie title, It's a mad, mad, mad world! While the movie was funny, the current real estate market is not. I have never seen so many obstacles in the way of someone

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Interest rates are a'risin.

I was looking at this mailer from 2017 and noticed that I mentioned rates going up. Well, we are back to that again. After enjoying historically low rates for the past years, they look to be on the

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Boat too Small?

I ran across some mailers I did back in 2017 and decided that the messages on them were still strong, so I thought I would recycle these in the social media.The card show above references home

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Slip Sliding Away

Another example of a mailer program I used in 2017. It essentially says that you should use a calm and cool agent to help with your real estate needs. Why, you might ask? Real Estate Agents are

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But it has to be worth that!

Well, your house is under contract. Took all of a day and you accepted an offer $25,000 above your asking price. Pretty sweet, right? Also negotiated short due diligence times and did not have to

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Craziness

The current real estate market can only be described as crazy. I showed a home last week to a couple that was priced at $545,000. It had scratched up floors, bad dog smell, very loud air

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Surprise!

Some surprises are nice. Spur of the moment flowers. A beautiful sunset. A new puppy. Others not so much. New home builders are using a new tactic in their fight against rising costs that are

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You did what to the house?

I have an investor who buys, fixes up, and resells homes. We were talking the other day before we listed and he was telling me he remove a wall in his latest venture. He does a really nice job on

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Earnest Money, Please!

When real estate transactions occur, most times money is put up to show the buyer is earnest in their intent to buy. Usually this money will be returned to the buyer if they decide to terminate

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Blind Offers

Blind offers are very common in the Atlanta market these days. These offers come from investors or from investment companies and are called blind because they offer to buy without seeing the home

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Oh inventory, where for art thou?

When you hear a real estate agent talk about "Inventory", they are usually referring to actual homes that are listed for sale in the area. The balance between inventory and buyers in the market

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The Big Chicken

Yesterday I wrote about a Turkey. Today, a chicken. Don't get me wrong, I am not in a "Fowl" mood, just like talking about quirky things in the area. So, what's up with a big chicken? Not a big

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Bob the Turkey

Several years ago while driving down the main street of Woodstock, Ga. during the rush hour crush, motorists were treated to the sight of a full grown turkey walking up and down the sidewalk. Now,

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