I had an opportunity recently to speak with Jim Waddell of AB Home Inspections. Jim is a home inspector in the Birmingham, AL area. He provides home inspections for various reasons but the one I talked to him about was the services provided to home buyers. Jim does a lot of work with new home […]
Birmingham, AL Area 1st Quarter Home Sales Report
May 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Birmingham Area MLS recently released it first quarter sales figures and I have compiled a 1st Quarter Home Sales Report. The figures encompass the entire Birmingham Metro Area. In future posts I will break the numbers down for various locations that I am most active in, but for now I thought I would give […]
I’ve Got A Copy Of My Appraisal, Now How Do I Read It?
May 2, 2011 By 4 Comments
I received a call from a homeowner the other day about an appraisal I had done on the home they just purchased. They had gotten their copy of the report and was looking over it, but was having a hard time understanding where some information was, as well as what some of the abbreviations stood […]
The Value Of A House Is One Thing, The Value Of A Community Is Another
April 28, 2011 By 2 Comments
Wow. I am writing this one day after multiple deadly tornado’s travelled across several states, including my own state of Alabama, and which resulted in a record setting number of deaths and amount of destruction. We will not know the total number of lives lost until days or months from now. I write a lot […]
What You Will and Will Not Get When You Order An Appraisal From Tom Horn
April 26, 2011 By 4 Comments
I had a discussion with a customer this week that called me for an appraisal, that really surprised me. This was a homeowner who wanted to sell their home, and needed an appraisal to set an asking price. They had called several other appraisers and had to leave a message on an answering machine. The […]
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