Case Number 381-848768

At $144,000 near the Heart of Cary, this home has a ton of potential!

This HUD-Owned home is just waiting for your offer. HUD requires you to use a HUD-Registered agent to write and present it.

I am a HUD-Registered agent and can show it, represent you, and write up your offer. Note: Some HUD properties are reserved for Owner-Occupant, Government Agency, or Non-Profit Bids only through a period of time.

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Only $105,000. HUD Home: Cute Condo, 104 A5 Choptank Road

104 A5 Choptank Road in Cary is a cute 2 bedroom condo with great potential as a rental or personal home, and priced at only $105,000, in Chesapeake.

See 104 A5 Choptank Road on my No Hassle Property Search.

This HUD-Owned condo offers:

• 1448 Square Feet
• 2 bedrooms with a vaulted master suite and an office/den.
• 2.5 baths
• Dramatic vaulted ceiling in an open floor plan.
• 2nd level loft, Office/den, and living room.
• Large kitchen for the cook
• Great private deck with a lovely, wooded view.
• Heat pump heat
• Great location in North Cary.
• Exterior maintained by HOA
• Quiet location.
• Great Town of Cary services.

Bright Cook’s Kitchen

Dramatic open Floor plan with vaulted ceiling to open loft.

HUD Requires you to use a HUD-Registered agent to write and present your offer. I am a HUD-Registered agent and can serve you as your Buyer’s Agent and write your offer.

Call me to arrange your showing of this great opportunity in Cary.

Mike Jaquish, REALTOR^®

919.880.2769

http://caryrealestatesales.com/

Broker Associate

KELLER WILLIAMS_® Realty Cary NC

Only $265,000. HUD Home: 307 Swordgate Drive

307 Swordgate Drive in Cary is a cute 5 bedroom home with great potential, and priced at only 265,000, in MacArthur Park.

See 307 Swordgate Drive listing on my No Hassle Property Search.

This HUD-Owned Home offers:

• 2776 Square Feet
• 5 bedrooms with a vaulted master suite.
• 2.5 baths
• Only 16 years old, built in 1995.
• Family room, Office/den, and living room.
• Large sunny kitchen with smooth-top stove
• Great deck in a lovely and private, fenced back yard.
• Natural Gas heat
• 2 car garage.
• Easy care vinyl siding
• Convenient location with Daveis Drive/Davis Drive/Green Hope School Assignments.
• Great Town of Cary services.

Bright Sunny Kitchen

Master Bath has separate tub and shower, and dual vanities

Private back yard and large deck

HUD Requires you to use a HUD-Registered agent to write and present your offer. I am a HUD-Registered agent and can serve you as your Buyer’s Agent and write your offer.

Call me to arrange your personal showing of this great opportunity in Cary.

Mike Jaquish, REALTOR^®

919.880.2769

http://caryrealestatesales.com/

Broker Associate

KELLER WILLIAMS_® Realty Cary NC

501 Midenhall Way Cary NC

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501 Midenhall Way is a lovely home in the Wessex neighborhood of Cary.

Wessex offers large lots, custom homes, lush landscaping and a superb Cary location.  Wessex residents enjoy easy access to RDU Airport, Downtown Raleigh, RTP, NC State University, NC State Fairgrounds, NC Museum of Art, RBC Center, Carter-Finley Stadium, and shopping and retail.  Also nearby are Lake Crabtree County Park, Umstead Park, and North Cary Park, all accessible via easy access to the Town of Cary Greenways.

Wessex is also outside the Raleigh-Durham International Airport Air Traffic Noise Disclosure zones.  There may be an airplane overhead from time to time, but plane traffic is light enough that disclosure is not required.

501 Midenhall Way, based on the award-winning John Weiland Homes Waterton floor plan, has all the features you would expect in a fine upscale home in Cary:

• Hardwood floors
• 3 Sides Brick Exterior
• Granite Countertops
• 2 Story Family Room
• Side-loading Garage
• Gorgeous Master Suite on the Main Level with vaulted ceiling
• Generous Closet and Storage space on all levels
• Circular Drive on an Appealing Corner Lot
• Large Front Porch for Relaxing and Viewing the Neighborhood
• Private and nature-filled back yard

In addition, the owners have had the home inspected and performed the repairs. They also added significant upgrades for your comfort and reliability:

• Copper water supply lines replacing polybutylene
• Hurd Low-E windows throughout, including the patio door, replacing builder-grade windows
• Complete replacement of the HVAC systems with Lennox SEER 13 equipment, including all ductwork, electrostatic air cleaners, and humidification on the lower level.
• 75 gallon water heater in the Garage, with hot water circulator.  Never run out of hot water
• Security System
• Built-in Sub-Zero freezer in the huge laundry room

View the Triangle MLS Buyer Sheet for 501 Midenhall Way, MLS#1801212

And this home LOOKS great.  See the 501 Midenhall Way Slideshow:

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505 Spencer Crest Court offers:

• 3252 Square Feet
• 5 bedrooms, including one on the main level
• 3 full bathrooms, all with tile
• Granite tops in the kitchen and master bath
• Stainless steel appliances, including gas cooktop
• Hardwoods on the main level and the entire staircase
• Excellent bonus room for media
• Large open 2nd level loft for reading nook, school desks, etc.
• Exterior is brick on four sides, with stone and fiber-cement accents
• Low maintenance lot, with reclaimed water irrigation and attractive landscaping
• Wonderful and convenient N Cary location

Access to points of interest is excellent, including Raleigh, NC State University, RDU Airport, NC State Museum of Art, the NC State Fairgrounds, Umstead Park, North Cary Park and Town of Cary Greenways, and Wake County Lake Crabtree Park.

505 Spencer Crest Court is located outside the RDU Air Traffic mandatory notification zones. There may be occassional air traffic, but not at a level that mandates disclosure.

Call me for a showing or more information:

Mike Jaquish, REALTOR®
919.880.2769

Broker Associate, KELLER WILLIAMS® Realty
Cary NC

Great 4 Bedroom HUD-Owned Home

QR Codes in Real Estate

QR Codes in real estate are a hot item right now.  Using QR Codes in real estate marketing is in its infancy, but beginning to gain serious traction.
QR Codes can be used to convey great amounts of information to smartphone users who scan them.

I like the use of QR Codes for offering GPS coordinates, and since most smartphones have GPS capability, that seems like an efficient use.
But one can also use QR Codes to offer purely real estate data and information.  A listing agent can connect buyers to photos, flyers, documents, and make it easy for buyers and buyers agents to gather data they need to write an offer on a listing.

So, I am seeing more QR Codes on real estate listings in Cary.

One criticism of QR Codes is their industrial/utilitarian appearance.  Some folks call them "ugly."  There is little doubt that, with some care, a real estate agent can present an appealing QR Code.  They may never be confused with seascapes by Monet, but QR Codes can look better. The video runs nearly two minutes, but “60 Seconds” just didn’t seem adequate: 

Buyers and Dealbreakers

Buyers will often cite a "dealbreaker" when considering a home.  In Cary, NC, some of those items are steep driveways, proximity to large powerlines, proximity to busy thorofares, railroad tracks, or excessive airplane traffic.

Some buyers are willing to work with a home that has only a single negative feature, but when they add up, those buyers often lose interest.
A few years ago, I listed and sold a home with a steep driveway, powerlines and a railroad behind it.  How can that be overcome?
We have a saying in real estate, that "Price fixes all deficiencies."  In other words, when a home's price recognizes the diminished value created by excessive incurable deficiencies, and there is an affordable home with otherwise great features, there will be a buyer.

Smart home sellers and their listing agents in Cary will take negative items they cannot change into account when pricing the home for sale.

30 days of Real Estate Closing in Cary, as of August 17, 2011

Numbers are pretty stable in Cary real estate.  As of today, we closed 123 residential sales in the last 30 days.

Days on Market were 93 for those 123 listings.

Cumulative Days on Market, meaning that the property was listed more than once, were 115.

On July 17, those numbers were 87 and 114.

I pulled out three of the highest DOM properties, and the remaining 120 homes showed 86 Days on Market,
and 102 Cumulative Days on Market.
Fun with numbers…

Average selling price was 0.962 of final listing price.