Welcome home to Heron Point. This stunning, gated waterfront community is comprised of only 4 large 16-20 acre lots. Embrace nature and build your private dream lake and mountain estate in Heron Point.
Welcome home to Heron Point. This stunning, gated waterfront community is comprised of only 4 large 16-20 acre lots. Embrace nature and build your private dream lake and mountain estate in Heron Point.
No, not what car you drive, mansion you own, single, married or “it’s complicated” status. We are talking real estate! In real estate jargon we have Active, Under Contract, Pending and Closed for our various statuses in real estate. These are fine and do a good job letting the buyers and sellers of this great nation know what they do and do not have a opportunity to purchase. However, we are missing a major status that we feel would really help in the buying and selling process.
The negotiating status. Why is this not a thing? Think about all the buyers that look at a property, they love it, it meets everything they have told you they are looking for and low and behold, they do not make an offer. In fact they come at you with one of my all time favorite lines, “why hasn’t it sold?”
Grrrr. So they are saying they only want it if someone else wants it? Like watching our two dogs fight over the same bone even though we have provided each with enough cow femurs to make our living room floor look like the Chicago stockyards of the 1880s.
We at the Lake James Team would be thrilled to be able to have button to click that says “NEGOTIATING” or “OFFER In PROGRESS”. Think about all those buyers that may come out of the wood works and make offers thus possibly resulting in the seller making more money?!? If I got an offer in writing, the first thing I would do would be to change that listings status! It would feel so go to let the world know that we have two people interested in trying to make a deal.
We do recognize that this proposal is not without a potential downside. If you were representing just the buyer and this status change caused another buyer to make an offer it might not work out for you, but it would encourage your buyer to quit screwing around and make the best and strongest offer possible instead of a terrible low-ball that is never going to work out and wastes everyone’s time and energy.
We feel that the upside far outweighs the downside and would like to see the MLS of the world and/or the Zillow’s of the world make this “a thing” to use the parlance of the younger generation.
Like what we have to say? Like what we are selling? Come see us at http://www.nclakejames.com
Y’all ever go on Zillow? Don’t lie, we know you do. Everyone does, apparently.
Ever wonder how it works? Well, basically, we hand over our MLS data and money to them because we know you go to their website and our listing clients need your attention. It’s that simple.
Why does it suck? Well, as a Zillow Premier Agent, let me be frank on a few points:
Y’all ever try REALTOR.COM?
It’s gets confusing, even for those of us who are around it everyday. But REALTORS are more that just licensed real estate agents and we should be proud of the difference. Here’s a good list I found that describes what makes REALTORS more accountable and responsible to buyers and sellers.
The National Association of REALTORS® was founded in 1908 and its members number more than one million. If an agent is not a member, often it’s because they don’t do enough business to justify the expense of membership.
Full disclosure: Elizabeth Weintraub is a REALTOR®.
At the time of writing, Elizabeth Weintraub, CalBRE #00697006, is a Broker-Associate at Lyon Real Estate in Sacramento, California.
We get this question almost as much as “how deep is the lake?” so I figured I would take advantage of the slower time before the summer rush and actually count ever waterfront lot on Lake James, besides it is a much easier question to answer than the lake depth question.
Here is what I came up with, 749 waterfront homes and 596 undeveloped waterfront lots. I even broke the list down by communities and further broke the list down by communities according to what decade they were developed. It was all very interesting and you can see this break down on your LinkedIn page. Not that we ever expect anyone to check that page, but it is full of interesting and useless information like this.
The bottom line is there are becoming fewer and fewer waterfront lots, and to find a quality waterfront lot has become even more challenging. Many of the lots that are out there never should have been a lot, but developers in the mid 80’s and 90’s didn’t care much about laying out a lot that fit the topography because they knew that if they priced it low enough someone would buy it.
Our advice to people looking at lots is come see us, we know what we are doing! http://www.nclakejames.com #nclakejames #lakejames #lakejamesnc
We’ve decided to dip our toes in a different lake, but y’all know the water comes from Lake James, right? You may have noticed a couple new sections on our website dedicated to Lake Rhodhiss. As is our style, we’ve got community mapping for Lake Rhodhiss you won’t find anywhere else. Here’s a link:
http://www.nclakejames.com/communities-map-lake-rhodhiss.cfm
McGalliard Pointe is located on the south side of Lake Rhodhiss, bordered by park land, and within 4 miles of downtown Valdese, NC. This is a Lake Rhodhiss jewel. More land for your money and close to town. Here’s a link to one of the lots we have for sale in McGalliard Pointe:
http://www.nclakejames.com/property-detail.cfm?mls=3480520
Check out Lake Rhodhiss on nclakejames.com and then come see it in person, preferably with Bryan, Fletcher, or Lew to help show you around.