Feeling comfortable with your Crystal Coast custom new home builder is critical to your peace of mind and ultimately to your budget. When selecting a prospective new home builder, consider using these interview questions.
Continuing from my last post, when selecting your real estate listing agent to market your Emerald Isle, Indian Beach or Atlantic Beach home or condo, it is important the agent possess many online tools to increase your chances of selling your Crystal Coast home. In part I of this series, sellers were informed of the many syndication websites available to feature your home. These tools are meant to attract buyers, which is a good thing for you. Just understand many of these buyers may not necessarily qualify for your home’s price point nor be drawn to your home’s features. So what online tools should your potential listing agent use to help you market your home? Great question!
Here are a few things to keep in mind when selecting your Crystal Coast real estate agent. Now more than ever, deciding who you select as your Crystal Coast real estate agent could mean the difference in your Crystal Coast property languishing on the market or it selling in a timely manner. Why? It’s all about using the power of the Internet to market your home for its maximum fair market value so it has every opportunity to sell quicker.
On our first trip to Maui, my husband Bobby and I walked up to the cabana at the Maui Marriott swimming pool to pick up a couple of towels. When we asked the attendant (Tom) stationed at the cabana for our towels, he immediately asked if we were from North Carolina. WOW! I guess our accents gave us away. We told him that we were from Raleigh. Tom exclaimed “North Carolina has the best beaches in the world”.
A trip to the Crystal Coast beaches is a treasure in itself, soft sand between your toes, the sound of the waves against the shore and warm ocean breezes. With a little effort you can find treasures that often get overlooked.
Each year it seems the popularity of bicycling grows here on the Crystal Coast. One only has to watch the
steady stream of vacationers with bike racks filled with bicycles cross the Cameron Langston Bridge from Cedar Point to Emerald Isle. No doubt, the bike path that parallels Highway 58 in Emerald Isle is a major reason for so many bicycle racks jammed with bikes. If you’re one the many families traveling to the Crystal Coast from distant locales like Ohio or maybe Pennsylvania, you might have second thoughts strapping several bikes to your trunk or lip of your minivan.
This summer my husband Bobby and I will celebrate 35 years of marriage. Over the past 3 ½ decades, some of our favorite memories are tied to the Crystal Coast. Prom weekend 1971, I went to Atlantic Beach with 6 of my friends. Bobby also went with his friends and we spent the weekend hanging out and enjoying the sun. The following summer, I went with his family on vacation at Emerald Isle. I will never forget being tossed in his father’s boat by the huge wake of a tug on the Intercoastal Waterway. Bobby was water skiing behind us and skied over the wake like a pro.
Families familiar with Crystal Coast rental rates understand the best way to save hundreds of dollars on your vacation is to rent your Crystal Coast vacation property during the “shoulder seasons”. Just visit a few of the Crystal Coast real estate agency websites on the Internet and you’ll quickly realize the rental rates in late spring and early fall are very attractive. These seasons offer you a significant savings over the “prime” season of Memorial Day to Labor Day.
You would think renting a beach home or condo here on the Crystal Coast would be a pretty simple task. The fact of the matter is this, you should never take anything for granted or leave anything to chance when it comes to renting a vacation home. Otherwise, expect your vacation to be a big disappointment. With that said, make sure you remember this tip the next time you rent a beach property over the web from any individual or Crystal Coast real estate agency.
I find trivia fascinating. Did you know?
During the Victorian era, a Valentine party would find young ladies writing their name on slips of paper. The young men would draw the slips of paper and pin one to their sleeve. This is the origin of the old expression “wearing your heart on your sleeve”.
Did you know wedding rings are worn on the fourth finger of your left hand because people at one time thought the vein in this finger traveled directly to your heart.
From the staff here at the Crystal Coast Blog – Happy Valentine’s Day!
