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Last Saturday, May 14, on a voice vote the NAR passed the RPPSI with "little dissent". What does that "little dissent" mean. It certainly doesn't reflect what I have seen locally and statewide here in Georgia. There were many concerns about RPPSI. It also didn't reflect what I saw here on AR, the...
05/16/2011
Crawford W. Long Statue Behind Historic Madison County Ga Courthouse During the month of March 2011, the Madison County Ga real estate market had the most active month for total sales since June of 2010. Only this year, the sales were not driven by the need to close on homes by the end of June i...
05/16/2011
Treasury Secretary Geithner stated that starting today he would not be funding 2 government employee funds in order to increase borrowing. If a private sector company executive announced this there would be screams and lawsuits and that executive would likely end up in prison. So this guy who can...
05/16/2011
Quite probably! Last week Gingrich announced his intentions to run for president in 2012. On Sunday, it looks like he put the first steps of his plan to lose in place. On NBC's "Meet the Press" Gingrich may have doomed his bid. He came out in favor of mandated insurance coverage. When you combine...
05/16/2011
Keller Williams Realty has an annual R.E.D. Day (Renew - Energize - Donate) on which corporate wide the independant local offices perform a community service, a day of "Give Where You Live". This year, on the 3rd Annual celebration, Keller Williams Realty Greater Athens volunteers stained a new f...
05/12/2011
Does average sales price mean anything in today's market? Does median sales price? I really am not sure. I still use each of them in my monthly stats reports but am still not sure if they are meaningful. Right now, I believe that maybe median price is the most meaningful, since it shows me where ...
05/11/2011
An English pub singer was arrested on the Isle of Wight on charges of singing the 1974 popular song Kung Fu Fighting. He was charged with Racially Aggravated Harassment. Simon Ledger, the singer, was performing his regular set at an open air bar when a Chinese couple walked by. The man in the cou...
05/09/2011
Several people here on ActiveRain, as well pundits such as Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and many others have been demanding the release of bin Laden death photos and are not accepting Obama's explanation that he does not want to throw gasoline on an already burning fire. Yet many of these same folks...
05/08/2011
I watched the Republican debate (that is certainly loosely used) last evening and today (while the Rain was down). I won't give a run down of it because Jason Sardi has already provided an excellent summary. I thought that perhaps Herman Cain and Tim Pawlenty came out ahead of the other candidate...
05/06/2011
Herman Cain will be at the Republican (hopeful) undeclared candidate debate this evening. If you don't know who Herman Cain is you should. He has been a successful columnist, talk show host, business man (former CEO of Godfather Pizza, taking it from bankruptcy to success), and the former Chairma...
05/05/2011
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