Life in Big Canoe, Real Estate in the Mountains

Over the past couple days, I have been trying to resolve a problem where another website had copied multiple blogs (in their entirety) from our site and re-posted them on their own site.  Not only had they taken the content from us, there was no link back to the original article or mention of the [...]

Ok…they took the bait.  I have the IP address of the splogger, so now I want to double check.  So here is one more post to act as bait.  You can read the whole story about these sploggers stealing our content here. http://ibamountainhomes.com Life in Big Canoe, Real Estate in the Mountains  

Well, the sploggers stole my content again last night, so I guess I’ll have to try to set out some bait for them.  You can read the last post about these sploggers stealing our content here.  If they grab the bait, I can block the IP range they use to crawl my site and scrape my content.  [...]

Last night, I wrote about the importance of having good web exposure if you are involved in the Big Canoe real estate  market (as well as any real estate market).  In that blog article I discussed how it involves work to create content for web sites.  So, this afernoon, I am searching a variety of [...]

When IBA Mountain Homes first started as a company in the North Georgia community of Big Canoe, there were a couple of major differences between then and now.  Then, the Big Canoe real estate market was booming.  There were buyers for all types of homes – from rustic mountain cabins tucked away in the woods to very [...]

The 2008 GAR (Georgia Association of Realtors) Forms are out, and there were some big changes in the Purchase and Sales Contract. These GAR forms are often used in North Georgia real estate transactions, and I have a lot of customers on the verge of buying, so I thought a brief explanation of Buyer’s and Seller’s responsibilities [...]

As a follow up to last night’s “vent” regarding the incredibly rude homes.com sales pitch ( read the article – House.com – Real Estate Marketing Gone Awry? ), I thought I would write a short blog on cold calling.  I posted a blog on Active Rain (a website site mostly devoted to and populated by realtors) last night regarding [...]

The real estate market has been evolving over the past few years.  Many things have changed – the amount of commissions, discount brokers, and most conspicuously Internet marketing.  It has been widely reported that most people searching for new homes begin their search via the internet.  While many real estate brokers have been a little [...]