President Obama is expected to sign a bill passed by Congress today extending and expanding the first-time homebuyer tax credit to homes under contract before April 30th. The credit, equal to 10 percent of a home’s purchase price, remains capped at $8,000 for first-time homebuyers, but income limits have been raised. Continue Reading »

Found a very cool site for web statistics www.compete.com.  Very happy to see how well my company’s website, www.HarryNorman.com stacks up against a few of our competitors in the Atlanta luxury real estate market.  These stats are for unique web visitors for August 2009. Harry Norman rocks with over 22,000! Click the graph to make it larger.

I found this fun FREE way to make a photo collage and just had to try it with photos of my clients and their homes!  You can download it here.

Never pay for 411/information service again!

This is a great tool that I have used over and over again! I even used it recently to settle a dinner party debate about the age of a celebrity.

Google offers Google Mobile SMS, a FREE service to cell phone users to obtain various information from driving directions to currency conversion to local restaurant addresses by text message. What do you do? You send a text message to GOOGL (that’s 46645) with the information you need. You need to be somewhat familiar with the capabilities to use the application, although the program is fairly intuitive. Continue Reading »