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We've been waiting four years to list this wonderful 65 acre farm, and the time is finally here.  Will be coming to market in a matter of days at the price of $549,900.  This one is in northern Mitchell County at the "end of the road", yet easily accessible year...

Is homesteading for you?  Real estate for homesteading or prepping is a different world than that which most folks envision.  Very often I get a call from someone who recognizes the frailties of our society and sees its cracks getting wider.  They live in the suburbs...

The Taffie Ridge Farm is back on the market.   This property is delightful 22 acre farm in northern Buncombe County just five minutes to I-26 and less than ten minutes to the town of Weaverville.  Weaverville has everything you would want: a walkable downtown with...

Have written a couple times recently about the gradual downward spiral we've been witnessing regarding productivity and supply chains here in the U.S.  Still hard to imagine that we could be turning into Venezuela, but its happening on a slow boil with most folks not...

The Perfect Property?   It doesn't exist. One thing about real estate, even in "cookie cutter" subdivisions, every property is unique in some manner.  In tract built housing, the differences are minimal, but when it comes to rural land, farms, homesteads, off-grid,...

For quite a while, real estate agents (myself included) have held the opinion that property values are inflated.  After all, how does one explain the incredible price increases over the past two years and bidding wars we see on single family homes in some markets?  I...

What's happening with the market?   I'm getting that question a lot along with its cousin, "What do you think is going to happen to the market?"  Now if I could accurately answer that, I wouldn't be our schlepping real estate would I?   My response is, "I don't...

As many of you know, in addition to owning my own firm of Retreat Realty, Ltd., I'm also an affiliate with Keller Williams Professionals, the largest real estate brokerage company in the United States.  Historically I've operated on my own as Retreat Realty (and its...

A member of our church is personal friends with a gentleman named Alex in Ukraine with whom he's come to know after having visited Ukraine on numerous mission trips.  Over the past two weeks this friend has been forwarded video reports from Alex showing what life is...

Just when it appeared we were through the pandemic and returning to the "new normal", whatever that is, we're now witnessing atrocities in Eastern Europe involving a nuclear superpower that is threating to actually use nuclear weapons.  My wife asked "What do they...