Owner: Lane's World, Garage with a detached home? URL:http://lanebailey.com Join Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:01:19 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Lane is a REALTOR in Atlanta that specializes in homes for auto enthusiasts (think "Cool Garages"). He also deals with special properties, like lake front on Lanier and horse properties. As Lane likes to say, "I will find a home for you AND your toys." Site statistics:Click here
Garage Floor Options 2008-03-27 20:36:56 One of the biggest improvements one can make to their garage is to recondition the floor… or in the case of new construction, to do something to protect the floor. Let’s run over a few options…
Floor
paint. Just don’t do it. The first time you drive into the garage, the paint will peel off [...] Read more:Garage
, Options
Survey Announcement 2008-03-26 12:04:34 Yesterday I posted up that I was kicking around the idea of a Seller Seminar. The focus of this seminar would be to help sellers get ready to enter the market.
Of course all sellers have been through the purchase process, but it might have only been from the other side. Even for those that have [...] Read more:Announcement
Give them a visit 2008-03-29 20:35:26 We hit the Decatur Fire Department this afternoon… not on purpose, but not a b ad thing, either. WE had dropped by Decatur high School to drop off some electronics at a recycling drive. They have this event twice a year, and we had some stuff that needed to be recycled as opposed to polluting [...] Read more:visit
Buy a house, get a car… 2008-03-28 18:34:27 I see these pretty regularly, but this one was surprising because of the price.
Traditionally, these deals have involved $1m homes and leases on cars like a Mercedes or BMW. This is a house priced at $260k, and the car is an outright purchase. The house is either brand new, or pretty recently [...]
This just isn’t natural… no fooling 2008-04-01 13:29:05 I know, it is April Fool’s Day. I have left a few little jokes here and there around the web. I put my Jeep project up for sale on my 4wd club’s forum. I posted about how I wanted to be average on Active Rain.
But, this is different… I came across [...]
Just a few notes… 2008-03-31 00:56:10 I just wanted to pass along a few things to help out some people.
GBR Mud 4 Blood
First, Here in the Atlanta area, the GBR4WD Club will be hosting its 5th Annual Mud 4 Blood drive. I have mentioned it previously, and will soon mention it again (at least on my Active Rain blog). [...]
Some Roll, some don’t. Video Sunday 2008-03-30 16:20:22 Today’s videos are quite different from each other. The first is an Australian Hummer video, although I know that a lot of the footage is from Moab, UT.
The next video is from the middle east. These guys are definitely pretty good at what they are doing… although I think I would be a [...] Read more:Sunday
I can sell ANY home in a week 2008-04-03 10:52:45 It isn’t that hard. In fact it is downright easy. Selling a home in a week or less is pretty simple. It only takes a few simple steps.
Saturate the market with marketing. If nobody knows it is for sale, it won’t get sold.
Make it look perfect. It has to beat out ALL of the other [...]
Ready to actually sell your property? ZAG! 2008-04-02 14:09:47 Everyone in the real estate industry is zigging… ok, not everyone, but enough. Most real estate agents (and unrepresented sellers) think that tossing a couple ads on Craigslist and claiming the house on Zillow is an Internet Marketing Strategy. Most real estate agents are actually cutting back on their marketing efforts… money is tight, slow [...] Read more:property
And they walked away… 2008-04-06 13:16:50 While sitting down to update the GarageHomesUSA website today, I turned on the NASCAR race. During qualifying the other day, Michael McDowell, a rookie, got a serious introduction to the “safer barrier” and the Car of Tomorrow.
Despite already being an incredibly safe sport, NASCAR has upped the ante with the new car, and installed [...]
Look for your “reassessed” valuations… 2008-04-05 17:05:11 I just got back from the mailbox. Gwinnett County, in all of its wisdom, has determined that my house is worth about 12% more than last year…
Keep in mind that nearby homes have recently sold for under the price my wife and I paid for our home seven years ago. also keep [...]
I’m entering a new age… Video 2008-04-04 22:35:47 Active Rain, a real estate agent centered community that I blog on, is having a contest for agent promotional videos. The contest has pushed me to do something that I have been resisting… make a video.
Here it is.
I certainly intend to make more. I’ve been wanting to alter my Gwinnett County Market Reports to [...]
Are you in a car club? 2008-04-07 21:24:00 It is pretty obvious that my blog and website cater to the type of people that would be in some sort of car club. Well, I am too.
photo credit: k4cay
So, if you are in a car club, especially one that is in the Atlanta area, or has a chapter around here, I’d love [...]
We did it now… 2008-04-08 15:00:37 Some of you might know that our oldest son (soon to be 4 years old), Garrett, has been taking skating lessons for about 3 1/2 months. He wants to play hockey… and be a Goalie.
Today, my mother bought him his first pair of hockey skates. He will also be getting some player gloves [...]
4+ Car Garage Homes in Gwinnett, GA… What’s available? 2008-04-10 11:45:57 I try to sneak into the local MLS every few eeks and take a look at the overall picture of 4+car garage properties available
in Gwinnett
County, GA. There are generally a good selection, in fact there is generally a better selection than most of the other counties in Metro Atlanta. Please [...] Read more:Garage
, Homes
New Gwinnett County Market Report is out 2008-04-09 22:21:21 I have loaded the new GwinnettCountyMarket
Report onto GarageHomesUSA.
The news is mixed… and that is better than all bad.
Good.
Days on Market went down.
Listed/Sold % went up.
New Listings down from last year.
Bad.
Absorption Rates not good yet.
Sales still down from last year.
Listed/Sold % still weak.
Days on Market needs to drop more.
For the real story, follow [...]
Are you NOT in a car club? 2008-04-12 10:59:02 If you are an enthusiast, you should be…
I posted a few days ago offering a free rotating banner on my website for any local car club (or local chapter of a national club). I would love to have as many clubs as possible showing themselves so that people coming to Atlanta can find them.
But, what [...]
Style points count 2008-04-11 23:00:52 A few days ago, I posted a video about my son getting new hockey skates. He was a proud little boy with those new skates. At “not quite 4″ he has decided that he wants to play hockey, and he has enthusiastically gone to skating lessons for the last 14 weeks. We have also gone [...] Read more:Style
, count
Sunday, Air Video Sunday 2008-04-13 20:32:14 I wanted to elevate the level of the videos today a little higher… So, let’s get airsick.
The first one is the gentler of the two…
The second one is a little wilder…
I hope you enjoyed…
I also want to apologize for the slow reaction of the site of the last few days. I [...] Read more:Sunday
Problem solved, slowdown sped up. 2008-04-13 00:58:44 I figured out what was slowing down my blog when it was loading up. I have corrected the problem and the page loads up MUCH faster now.
Look for the video post later today.
Thank you for your patience. Read more:Problem
Here’s a deal… 2008-04-14 21:31:34 This story was my “Good Morning” today. The AP and AOL conducted a poll, and while the story is probably accurate (technically), I am seeing a serious bias here. And I really don’t like to play the media bias card… Let me toss out a couple of quotes from the article:
The growing reluctance to dip [...]
This might actually help… 2008-04-15 21:37:51 Walk-away borrowers have been a problem in a few markets (luckily, not so much in Atlanta). The government and lending industry are both looking at ways to keep borrowers from just walking away.
So, here is the situation…
Someone buys a home with a 0% down loan. The market turns a bit south, and now the property [...]
Want coverage for your car show? 2008-04-17 14:39:16 I am a car guy, and I need a business excuse to go to more car shows… I can tell my wife that I am “networking”… Seriously.
photo credit: omniNate
So, to that end, I want to have a new feature on GarageHomesUSA. It will take a little while to spin up to full speed, but [...]
WooHoo… New Property Search! 2008-04-16 14:21:10 I was just able to get it integrated into my site. I have a new property search (IDX).
softRealty rolled out their new IDX solution just this month, and I was one of the first in line to get it. I have long wanted a better search for my clients and visitors. Not [...] Read more:Search
Do you do del.icio.us? 2008-04-18 20:14:39 if you aren’t already familiar, del.icio.us is a “Social Bookmarking” site. I ran across it last year, bookmarked it (how appropriate…) and then just kind of left it alone. At the same time I downloaded a plug-in for FireFox… and left it alone. I thought it was cool, but got sidetracked with running a business [...]
A different kind of property marketing… 2008-04-19 11:15:54 One thing is certain is that buyers are using the internet to find homes. They aren’t looking in the classifieds in any great number. The “Little house, Little head” books aren’t really a great sales tool. Instead, Google, Realtor.com, Zillow and local brokers IDX feeds are the preferred choices.
photo credit: Ingorrr
But, most real estate [...] Read more:different
, property
Just a couple of old favorites 2008-04-20 22:11:01 I could say that I was feeling nostalgic, but the truth is that I have a couple
of big projects going and got behind… So I had to drag a couple of videos out of the favorites
folder. So, here they are:
I hope that you had fun with those.
I’ll try to get something [...]
del.icio.us Links are now posted… 2008-04-21 22:48:46 I mentioned a few days ago that I was going to get rolling with del.icio.us. I had numerous links that I needed to sort through and tag to make them easier to search.
It took a few days of looking at old links (and reminded me of a lot of great sites I need to spend [...]
Garage wishlist 2008-04-23 22:36:10 As a “Garage
Guy” I am asked occasionally by builders and other about what the “perfect garage” might look like… I have a lot of answers, so I will break them down a little. I’d also LOVE to get reactions and input from anyone that has them.
For a two car garage:
Find someone that makes a [...]
Selling your house? Buy your domain! 2008-04-22 10:33:43 I am in the process of building a butt-kicking single property website for a home here in the Atlanta area (not ready to spill the beans quite yet on which one…). I have previously mentioned this here.
As I’ve put this together, I have been consulting with a small number of other agents around the country [...] Read more:domain
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