Stan Suther's Real Estate and Stuff

A Mooresville golf club will be getting the Donald Trump treatment soon.  Members of the club voted last night to sell the club to Trump for $3 million.  In return, “the Donald” says he’ll spend millions on improvements to the club. Club members hope that this will increase the value of their proper

The volume of sales of homes in Iredell County is picking up.  The result is shown by one measure we use- months supply of inventory. That means that at the current rate of sales, it would take 9.3 months to sell all the listings.  Clearly from the chart (click on the link below) you’ll see that we’

Earlier this week I had a most remarkable thing happen to me.  I was at a meeting at our Realtor Association office in Charlotte.  Having been on the CMLS and CRRA boards for several years, I was quite comfortable going there without concern for security of my car and property.  When I arrived, I pa

Site Selection Magazine has named the Statesville-Mooresville micropolitan area tops in the nation for new and expanded corporate facility projects in 2011.  Not bad considering that there are 576 such areas in the country and Statesville-Mooresville has won this status 8 out of the last 10 years. 

Back in January I posted on the subject of radon and radon testing.  January was Radon Month, and I was able to order a radon test for free from the North Carolina Radon Program hosted by  the NC Department of Health and Human Services.  I received the test kit in a few days and eventually got [...]

Many people in the real estate buyers’ market become interested in homes that are governed by home owner associations (HOAs).  Sometimes after they’ve bought their home, they discover that something they want to do with their property is prohibited by the CCRs- Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions

OK, how about a show of hands-  how many of you know what Radon is?……. That’s what I thought.  Not many people know about radon unless they’ve bought a house in the last 10 years.  Radon- sounds like the name of a sci-fy robot or something, doesn’t it.  In fact, it’s a colorless, odorless gas [...]

Charlotte Magazine recently named me as one of their Five Star Realtors for 2011.  According to the information I got from them, “Charlotte magazine asked Five Star Professional to conduct research with clients, peers and industry experts to determine the real estate agents in the Charlotte area who