This custom home is unique and with all the extras. The view of the golf course is incredible. Detailed, lush landscaping with many focal areas. This house was built with a backup generator desidgned to provide H/A, refrigeration, lights and hot water in case of power outage. How’s that for being prepared. The details throughout the house are tastefully elegant. Screened porch off master.

Auburn Open House Weekend

Weichert Realtors, Porter Properties will be opening the doors to many of our homes this weekend, April 10-11. This event, The Alabama Open House, will coincide with the REALTOR^® Nationwide Open House.

This is a great opportunity for residents to not only view a large selection of homes, but to take advantage of the tax credit before the deadline.  The tax credit, worth up to $8,000, is only applicable if the purchase contract is signed by April 30th.

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3405 Tifton Lane, Opelika, Alabama

This custom home is unique and with all the extras. The view of the golf course is incredible. Detailed, lush landscaping with many focal areas. This house was built with a backup generator desidgned to provide H/A, refrigeration, lights and hot water in case of power outage. How’s that for being prepared. The details throughout the house are tastefully elegant. Screened porch off master.

3901 Eagle Ridge Lane, Opelika, Alabama

This home is an approved short sale and can close within 30 days.  It features crown molding, granite counter tops, tray ceilings, garden tub/separate shower. It’s in a great location off of Opelika Rd.

At a recent reception, our company, Weichert Realtors Porter Properties, gave away prizes to the realtors for their excellent work this year.  One of the prizes was a free home staging from a great staging company here in Auburn.

I know the idea, of course, was to use the staging on a client’s home, but I couldn’t help thinking that if I won, I’d be tempted to use it on my own home!

Selling your home is fraught with many emotional upheavals and as a Realtor, I don’t take “invading” my client’s homes lightly.   Here I am someone who spends their day getting other’s homes picture perfect, but I come home to…

For one thing, the sewing machine has been sitting on the desk for two months.  I pulled it out hoping I’d get inspiration from it and take a “minute” to do some mending. Meanwhile, the mail and miscellaneous paperwork that should be where the sewing machine is, are now making a permanent pile on my bedroom dresser.

It’s a domino effect.  I don’t want to hang the clothes that need mending in the closet, so they’re folded in a neat pile in a corner of the closet floor.  Ok, so, yeah, the pile isn’t so neat anymore.  I’ve done this exercise more than once before.  The truth is that by the time I get around to mending them, the kids will have outgrown them anyway, so I need to just toss them out and sell the dang sewing machine!

Oh, but I do love the idea of getting the mending accomplished. And it’s just these kinds of emotional attachments and the resulting work-arounds and inconvenience they cause in our daily lives that makes your house uniquely your home…your nest.  Now if some expert home stager comes in here and suggests that I “declutter” starting with the bills on the dresser and the sewing machine on the desk, they are really going to hit a nerve!  To put the sewing machine away having not completed my task is to….admit defeat!

All real estate licensees are not the same. Only real estate licensees who are members of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® are properly called REALTORS®. They proudly display the REALTOR “®” logo on their business card or other marketing and sales literature. REALTORS® are committed to treat all parties to a transaction honestly.

REALTORS® subscribe to a strict code of ethics and are expected to maintain a higher level of knowledge of the process of buying and selling real estate.

An independent survey reports that 84% of home buyers would use the same REALTOR® again.

Visit these open houses this weekend:

$738,900 2180 LESTER COURT, AUBURN, AL 36830 4 Br 3.5 Ba 4600 Sqft MLS # 93324 Open On: 02/06/2010 11:00 AM to 03:00 PM Courtesy of WEICHERT, REALTORS – Porter Properties. © Lee County Association of REALTORS, Inc.

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$294,900 234 W MAGNOLIA AVE #105 & 107, AUBURN, AL 36830 2 Br 2.5 Ba 1308 Sqft MLS # 90522 Open On: 02/06/2010 11:00 AM to 04:00 PM Courtesy of WEICHERT, REALTORS – Porter Properties. © Lee County Association of REALTORS, Inc.

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$269,000 1927 TALCOTT CT, AUBURN, AL 36830 3 Br 2.5 Ba 2047 Sqft MLS # 93880 Open On: 02/06/2010 02:00 PM to 04:00 PM Courtesy of WEICHERT, REALTORS – Porter Properties. © Lee County Association of REALTORS, Inc.

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$265,000 1332 GATEWOOD DR, AUBURN, AL 36830 4 Br 3.5 Ba 2585 Sqft MLS # 91878 Open On: 02/07/2010 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM Courtesy of WEICHERT, REALTORS – Porter Properties. © Lee County Association of REALTORS, Inc.

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$187,500 725 LUNDY CHASE DR, AUBURN, AL 36832 3 Br 2.5 Ba 1760 Sqft MLS # 93226 Open On: 02/06/2010 10:00 AM to 04:00 PM Courtesy of WEICHERT, REALTORS – Porter Properties. © Lee County Association of REALTORS, Inc.

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$124,900 1477 N DONAHUE AVE #508, AUBURN, AL 36832 2 Br 2.5 Ba 1263 Sqft MLS # 94082 Open On: 02/06/2010 02:00 PM to 04:00 PM Courtesy of WEICHERT, REALTORS – Porter Properties. © Lee County Association of REALTORS, Inc.