Monday, June 8, 2009

A great place to visit but a better place to live...

A couple times a year I find I overlook the importance of sunscreen. Today I'm paying for it as my face resembles a red delicious apple. Adding insult to injury I incurred the burn sitting through two ECU losses to UNC in baseball this weekend. The Tarheels really got the best of my Pirates, we chose a bad time to go cold as some UNC players came through with great performances. Oh well, there's always football season.
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This past Friday JoBeth & I were invited along with other guests to the G105 studio and surprisingly got some air time on Bob & The Showgram. I was caught off guard when they put us on the spot with an ambush of relationship questions. It was a fun experience though that I'll be able to look back on and laugh about. You can hear it here, starting on Seg 9 @ 4:49 & continues through Seg 11.
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We won tickets to see The Hangover movie while we were there. That has to be the funniest movie I've seen in years and I'm anxious to get back and see it again. The folks sitting behind us did feel the need to laugh uncontrollably loud and repeat lines out loud and excessively. They were one kick of the back of my seat away from getting a drink in the lap, and I don't like wasting expensive movie sodas.
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So the Triangle area received more great press recently. Our market #'s are looking great going into the summer and that has been reflective of my business as well. On the Today Show recently the Raleigh area was rated as the #2 market in the country predicted to rebound from the housing slump. Factors such as our early foreclosure rates, jobs here in RTP, and relocation were used in our ranking.
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Forbes also just recently ranked Raleigh as the #1 place folks are relocating in the country. Charlotte was #3 behind Austin, TX so we are looking good in the Carolina's. Men's Journal just named Durhams' Watts-Hillindale as being one of the top 30 coolest neighborhoods in America. Alas the News & Observer didn't like the trend I suppose, so they continue to run negative front page housing articles like this that feed the fears of the public.
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Well I'll need to find something else on Tuesday evenings to keep me busy these days, our kickball season is officially over. We were all disappointed to lose our first playoff game to a team we had already beaten in the regular season. I'll miss hanging out with the team each week but I'm sure lot's of the same folks will be ready to play next season. I'll personally name Mike, pictured here, our team MVP for his kickball skills and post game attendance.
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I'll be having my first Ben & Jerry's open house this weekend. If you're in Chapel Hill stop by my new listing at 1112 Willow Drive and have a scoop.