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    I was watching the World Series last night when Josh Bartlett of the Tampa Bay Rays stole second base and, immediately, the network announced that anyone could visit a Taco Bell next Tuesday between 2...

  One privately owned home at Connestee Falls in the mountains of North Carolina was reduced recently by more than $500,000.          The most expensive golf communities in the southern U.S. have reached a...

One collegiate golfer pushed his luck after driving into the trees on the right at the par 4 4th hole at Piney Branch.     I followed a threesome of collegiate golfers around the well-groomed and...

I am following the final round of a college golf tournament today.  It is being played at the Piney Branch Golf Club in rural Maryland (Hampstead).  I won't be able to post anything today other than...

    How's this for a relic?  A business columnist for MSN on December 7, 2006, wrote the following, under the headline "Time to buy horrible homebuilder stocks":     "The outlook for homebuilders is...

    I am taking a real estate licensing course in Connecticut.  The textbook, published just two years ago, is Modern Real Estate Practice, and last night we covered Chapter 3 entitled "Concepts of Home...

The driving range at the newly opened Bear Lake Reserve golf course in the mountains near Sylva, NC, received the same attention to quality as the rest of the community.  Many such communities are on...

Prices on some homes inside St. James Plantation have been cut as much as $350,000, says a local realtor.  Some current homes for sale include full golf membership in the price.     The message is the...

    It was good to see Tiger Woods live on television two nights ago.  He was attending the Dodgers/Phillies playoff baseball game in L.A.  As a lifelong Dodger fan, I was happy to see a Dodgers cap on...

    In yesterday's article (see immediately below), I reported that a 5-acre piece of property in the Bald Rock community in Cashiers, NC, had been foreclosed and was being offered for $249,900 by the...

    Transylvania is a county in the mountains of North Carolina, not Dracula's home, but realtors there could be excused for thinking some evil entity is sucking the blood from their market.  During the early...

    "This is a good market to get into while it's in a down cycle, because I believe it will come back soon."   David Brasfield, a real estate investor, commenting on Gulf Coast real estate in a special...