IBA Mountain Homes

IBA Mountain Homes is a realty group located in the North Georgia community of Big Canoe. Big Canoe® is a registered servicemark of Big Canoe, LLC. IBA Mountain Homes is not affiliated with the developer. IBA focuses on resales in Big Canoe including homes for sale, lots, and condos.

IBA created this blog to discuss living in Big Canoe as well as the North Georgia real estate market. We are full time residents of the Big Canoe community, and our job is real estate - thus the name of the blog! :) Our blog is opinion. Feel free to leave us a comment if you like, and as with anything on the internet, we urge you to always verify information independently.

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Splogging Site Has Been Removed

Monday, February 18th, 2008

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 [...]

I Got a Bite….One More Piece of Bait for the Splogger…

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

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
 

Bait for the Sploggers…

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

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.  [...]

Sploggers Stole My Blog!

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

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 [...]

The Big Canoe Real Estate Market and Why You Need a Strong Web Presence

Friday, February 15th, 2008

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 [...]

New Real Estate Contracts for North Georgia in 2008

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

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 [...]

Real Estate Cold Calling…The Right Way

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

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 [...]

House.com - Real Estate Marketing Gone Awry?

Monday, January 21st, 2008

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 [...]

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