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It's a delight in the evenings to sit on the covered front porch, amid all the different colors and types of foliage, with a great view of the nearby Blue Mountains, feeling the gentle breeze as you sit a spell. This house is in the perfect area, a quiet residential cul-de-sac, with one way in and one way out. At the same time, it's in the city limits and you get all the benefits such as water, garbage pick up, police patrol, quick response to any power outages, and almost immediate road scraping in the winter. This house doesn't go without heat in the winter, for if the power is out, the house stays toasty with a gas log fireplace and another second gas back-up heater. There's a creek in the back, that's always fun, and it's not deep if the kids want to jump in on a hot summer day. There are also three beautiful huge trees in the backyard, one of which has been a great background for years of family pictures. The big garage is wonderful with enough room for a car, and to store all sorts of goodies. There's also a shed with power for outdoor equipment and gardening supplies so you can keep these items out of sight, yet handy. The privacy fence in the backyard keeps young children and/or pets in, and keeps most all other critters out, except of course for the squirrels and birds. Every night you go to sleep to the neighborhood hoot-owl, and arise to bird song. The two driveways are handy as well, one paved, one gravel that leads to the backyard garage. The front lawn is adorned with a wide variety of perennials, so you don't have to fret about beautifying your lawn, it's already established, so you can just enjoy both the flowers and the greenery. There's also a pebbled walkway from the second driveway to the front door. If you like, you can take a small walk to the bike trail, which is another joy in itself, get some exercise, or even walk on into town. Just down the road is the skate park, the post office, the recreation center, the elementary school, and the college is just a short distance. Inside the house are many wonderful things, for instance, the closed off laundry room. It keeps the heat from the dryer out of the house, also hides your laundry/storage area from guests, while being only one step away from the dining area. Here we have a large screened sliding door, which is really nice in that you can leave it open and enjoy the fresh mountain air. It also adds a lot of light to the entire room. The kitchen has a wide long counter that's great for preparing meals, and while at the sink you have a wide view of the backyard. The living room is the perfect size, not too big and not too small. The open floor plan gives the feeling of space and roominess, yet the kitchen is hidden from entrance, so if you happen to have a few dishes in the sink, your guests will never know. The super wide hallway is fabulous, no tight squeezes, and this is an added treat and something unique to this house. There are three bedrooms, all substantial sizes and on the same end of the house. Everything in both bathrooms has been redone, even down to the fixtures, so they are really nice. On the opposite end of the house is the den/office area which could be used for a multitude of purposes, it's even large enough for a pool table! It's currently used as an office and game room, separated by a bookcase, so it's serving as two rooms in one! The large windows give a lot of light, as does the seated bay window. Another lovely part of this room is the high shelving that encircles the outer walls. Also, lighted ceiling fans in almost every room are delightful, as is the big picture window in the living room, and the brick fireplace surrounding the gas logs. The cabinets in the kitchen are simply gorgeous, having been redone and brought back to their original glory. All new hardware matches the decor. Some of the windows are double pane tilt, and these are so easy to clean. The front door has a wide glass panel, as does the storm door, so you always have lots of clear light in the living area. The home is situated in a wonderful neighborhood, right on the edge of city limits, so you get the best of both worlds.

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111 Cherry Street
Brevard
$209,000

Move in ready home in Ridge Haven one of our most desired communities of Brevard, North Carlina. Offers winter & year round views, excellent outdoor living spaces, cool elevation, a gentle lot backing up to a natures paradise. Large, light & bright rooms, 4 bedrooms plus 2 multi use rooms. Open kitchen with breakfast nook opens to formal dining, den, laundry, dbl garage & workshop, generator, zoned heating /cooling, garden area, under 12 miles to downtown Brevard, and only minutes to Gorges State Park. Home offers winter & year round views, excellent outdoor living spaces, cool elevation, a gentle lot backing up to a natures paradise. Large, light & bright rooms, 4 bedrooms plus 2 multi use rooms. Open kitchen with breakfast nook opens to formal dining, den, laundry, dbl garage & workshop, generator, zoned heating /cooling, garden area, under 12 miles to Brevard, minutes to Gorges State Park

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425 Panther Gap Road
Eastatoe
$289,900

Impressive long range year-round parkway & valley views. Cool 2600' elevation, house-site has been partially cleared & is an easy build site. This current price is nearly $80,000 less than appraised value when I bought it. Agent Broker owned by Jay & Jewell Kaiser. Priced to sell at loan value, so your gain and our loss! Call me today for house plans or any items you would like emailed. 828-421-0375 or Jay@HomeInBrevard.com This is a FIRM Price as it's priced to sell to just pay off the mortgage. Appraised at 220K I have 3 house plans ready to be built on the property form the upper 400's to the largest in the 600's that will be a turn key home, land and just hand you the keys. Naturally feel free to customize. The views are worth it all! Sylvan Heights offers some of the finest lots in our County that's an easy 12 minute drive to the center of Downtown Brevard & groceries. Community features a community park, fishing-swimming pond & extensive trail systems. Sellers are NC Realtor

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16 Kelly Mountain Road
Brevard
$139,900

All one level brick and vinyl ranch in a great neighborhood and on a level lot. The home is being sold in as is condition, as it's in an estate. Estate estimated to be settled by Dec 22nd 2011 for closing there after. The home features not only on the best in town locations that is fantastic location less than 6/10 of a mile to the Brevard Courthouse, historic Main Street shops and dining and best of all the back yard backs up to the Silvermont Mansion property Waking in the front door from the large covered front porch you walk into a large foyer with a formal living room to the left and the dining room is straight ahead. The kitchen is large and eat in with exterior access to the rear yard, a half bath, laundry and garage are within steps of the kitchen. From the half bath hall opens into a large family room with a brick fireplace and gas log insert. The family room has recessed lighting and ceiling fans. Easy access from the family room to the exterior of the house into a large covered enclosed screened in patio. Large mostly level and mostly fenced rear yard is extremely private. The remainder of the home offers 3 bedrooms, and two full baths, one with a tub and one with a large walk in tiled shower in the master bedroom. This home has great potential and is priced to sell. Give me a call today for your private showing

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120 Pine Street
Brevard
$138,500

This 3 Bedroom 2.5 Bath Custom Built Heritage hand hewn square log home is ideally sited for privacy on a 10.5+- acres of truly a nature’s Paradise located in Pisgah Forest, North Carolina. The DuPont State Forest is just a matter of a few minutes away where the famous Hunger Games was filmed along with its world renowned waterfalls miles of mountain biking, equestrian and hiking trails. Driving along the gentle driveway, passing native flowering plants and mature trees your then welcomed by this one of a kind home; then you will instinctively know you have finally found the home of your dreams. I have a feeling you will either just want to sit a few minutes on the over 790 sq feet of decks or walk around the three sides of the home on the wrap around decks as you listen to the sounds of the waterfalls from the Cascade Lake… Or you will just get so excited that you can’t wait to see the inside so lets take a minute to share the interior with you. Upon entering the home you will be impressed at the details that this owner took in building his dream home in the mountains of Western North Carolina; just a little over 10 miles to Historic Downtown Brevard. The front door opens into this light and bright custom designed home and into the kitchen with maple cabinets, tile flooring, pantry, half bath and all open to the dining and great room. The 1690 sq feet plus of the main level offers an open floor plan with soaring ceilings of 22+ feet in height, oak hardwood floors in all areas, but tiled floors in the wet areas. The focal point of the great room is the massive wood burning rock fireplace and the soaring ceilings. Just beyond the great room you will enter the master suite that offers a private deck. You will be impressed with the all the built in’s in the library with a large bay seat window overlooking the front flower gardens. The upper level not only offers two large bedrooms with usable dormer areas, a second full bath, but a well thought out extremely large office-setting multi purpose area that all over looks the great room. I should not forget to mention all the ceiling heights are almost 10 feet with the bedrooms offering cathedral ceilings. Plus the second level offers over 940 all usable square footage. This exquisite home also offers a full unfinished basement along with a heated and cooled workshop with the exterior door opening to gently rolling side yard. The gentle topography of the land could be cleared for future equestrian areas, but is currently wooded with short range mountain views. A trail system is offered to enjoy with the distant sounds of the Cascade Lake waterfall and the Merrill Creek. Welcome home to 220 Cascade Trail Pisgah Forest, North Carolina. Pisgah Forest is in Transylvania County and is only minutes from Brevard and located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains at the crossroads between Pisgah National Forest, DuPont State Forest, and The Gorges State Park all offering a smorgasbord of outdoor activities such as world-renowned fly fishing, kayaking, biking, hiking, camping and climbing. Brevard is also home to the world-renowned Brevard Music Center, Brevard College, and Transylvania Community Arts Council, bringing very diverse programs, concerts and exhibits to our mountain community. Brevard’s hometown feeling is captured by four annual street festivals: White Squirrel Festival, the famous Fourth of July Festival, Halloween Fest, and the Twilight Tour. These include special events such as the Annual Squirrel Box Derby, antique auto show, Old Time Music Competition, and Main Street Alive. The city is nicknamed “The Land of the Waterfalls” due to the many waterfalls in the area, including Looking Glass, Connestee Falls, and Sliding Rock

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220 Cascade Trail
Pisgah Forest
$425,000

This is the best priced almost 10 acre parcel in the Cedar Mountain area & in the highly desired community of Steel Creek. Year round and Winter Views, gently topography & the land may be subdivided. A roughed in driveway is in place taking all the guesswork out of how to build a drive, as well as a level home site is already cleared almost ready to build on. Cool almost 3300 foot elevation, only minutes to the DuPont State Forest & Caesars Head State Park. Superb property!

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0 Speckled Trout Run
Dunns Rock
$129,000

 


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Understanding How You Work With Real Estate Agents

When buying or selling real estate, you may find it helpful to have a real estate agent assist you. Real estate agents can provide many useful services and work with you in different ways. In some real estate transactions, the agents work for the seller. In others, the seller and buyer may each have agents. And sometimes the same agents work for both the buyer and the seller. It is important for you to know whether an agent is working for you as your agent or simply working with you while acting as an agent of the other party.

This article addresses the various types of working relationships that may be available to you. It should help you decide which relationship you want to have with a real estate agent. It will also give you useful information about the various services real estate agents can provide buyers and sellers, and it will help explain how real estate agents are paid.

SELLERS

Seller's Agent

If you are selling real estate, you may want to "list" your property for sale with a real estate firm. If so, you will sign a "listing agreement" authorizing the firm and its agents to represent you in your dealings with buyers as your seller's agent. You may also be asked to allow agents from other firms to help find a buyer for your property.

Be sure to read and understand the listing agreement before you sign it.

Duties to Seller:

The listing firm and its agents must

  • promote your best interests
  • be loyal to you
  • follow your lawful instructions
  • provide you with all material facts that could influence your decisions
  • use reasonable skill, care and diligence, and
  • account for all monies they handle for you.

Once you have signed the listing agreement, the firm and its agents may not give any confidential information about you to prospective buyers or their agents without your permission so long as they represent you. But until you sign the listing agreement, you should avoid telling the listing agent anything you would not want a buyer to know.

Services and Compensation:

To help you sell your property, the listing firm and its agents will offer to perform a number of services for you. These may include

  • helping you price your property
  • advertising and marketing your property
  • giving you all required property disclosure forms for you to complete
  • negotiating for you the best possible price and terms
  • reviewing all written offers with you and
  • otherwise promoting your interests.

For representing you and helping you sell your property, you will pay the listing firm a sales commission or fee. The listing agreement must state the amount or method for determining the commission or fee and whether you will allow the firm to share its commission with agents representing the buyer.

Dual Agent

You may even permit the listing firm and its agents to represent you and a buyer at the same time. This "dual agency relationship" is most likely to happen if an agent with your listing firm is working as a buyer's agent with someone who wants to purchase your property. If this occurs and you have not already agreed to a dual agency relationship in your listing agreement, your listing agent will ask you to sign a separate agreement or document permitting the agent to act as agent for both you and the buyer.

It may be difficult for a dual agent to advance the interests of both the buyer and seller. Nevertheless, a dual agent must treat buyers and sellers fairly and equally. Although the dual agent owes them the same duties, buyers and sellers can prohibit dual agents from divulging certain confidential information about them to the other party.

Some firms also offer a form of dual agency called "designated agency" where one agent in the firm represents the seller and another agent represents the buyer. This option (when available) may allow each "designated agent" to more fully represent each party.

If you choose the "dual agency" option, remember that since a dual agent's loyalty is divided between parties with competing interests, it is especially important that you have a clear understanding of

  • what your relationship is with the dual agent and
  • what the agent will be doing for you in the transaction.

BUYERS

When buying real estate, you may have several choices as to how you want a real estate firm and its agents to work with you. For example, you may want them to represent only you (as a buyer's agent). You may be willing for them to represent both you and the seller at the same time (as a dual agent). Or you may agree to let them represent only the seller (seller's agent or subagent). Some agents will offer you a choice of these services. Others may not.

Buyer's Agent

Duties to Buyer:

If the real estate firm and its agents represent you, they must

  • promote your best interests
  • be loyal to you
  • follow your lawful instructions
  • provide you with all material facts that could influence your decisions
  • use reasonable skill, care and diligence, and
  • account for all monies they handle for you.

Once you have agreed (either orally or in writing) for the firm and its agents to be your buyer's agent, they may not give any confidential information about you to sellers or their agents without your permission so long as they represent you. But until you make this agreement with your buyer's agent, you should avoid telling the agent anything you would not want a seller to know.

Unwritten Agreements:

To make sure that you and the real estate firm have a clear understanding of what your relationship will be and what the firm will do for you, you may want to have a written agreement. However, some firms may be willing to represent and assist you for a time as a buyer's agent without a written agreement. But if you decide to make an offer to purchase a particular property, the agent must obtain a written agency agreement. If you do not sign it, the agent can no longer represent and assist you and is no longer required to keep information about you confidential. Furthermore, if you later purchase the property through an agent with another firm, the agent who first showed you the property may seek compensation from the other firm.

Be sure to read and understand any agency agreement before you sign it.

Services and Compensation:

Whether you have a written or unwritten agreement, a buyer's agent will perform a number of services for you. These may include helping you

  • find a suitable property
  • arrange financing
  • learn more about the property and
  • other-wise promote your best interests.

If you have a written agency agreement, the agent can also help you prepare and submit a written offer to the seller.

A buyer's agent can be compensated in different ways. For example, you can pay the agent out of your own pocket. Or the agent may seek compensation from the seller or listing agent first, but require you to pay if the listing agent refuses. Whatever the case, be sure your compensation arrangement with your buyer's agent is spelled out in a buyer agency agreement before you make an offer to purchase property and that you carefully read and understand the compensation provision.

Dual Agent

You may permit an agent or firm to represent you and the seller at the same time. This "dual agency relationship" is most likely to happen if you become interested in a property listed with your buyer's agent or the agent's firm. If this occurs and you have not already agreed to a dual agency relationship in your (written or oral) buyer agency agreement, your buyer's agent will ask you to sign a separate agreement or document permitting him or her to act as agent for both you and the seller. It may be difficult for a dual agent to advance the interests of both the buyer and seller. Nevertheless, a dual agent must treat buyers and sellers fairly and equally. Although the dual agent owes them the same duties, buyers and sellers can prohibit dual agents from divulging certain confidential information about them to the other party.

Some firms also offer a form of dual agency called "designated agency" where one agent in the firm represents the seller and another agent represents the buyer. This option (when available) may allow each "designated agent" to more fully represent each party.

If you choose the "dual agency" option, remember that since a dual agent's loyalty is divided between parties with competing interests, it is especially important that you have a clear understanding of

  • what your relationship is with the dual agent and
  • what the agent will be doing for you in the transaction.

This can best be accomplished by putting the agreement in writing at the earliest possible time.

Seller's Agent Working With a Buyer

If the real estate agent or firm that you contact does not offer buyer agency or you do not want them to act as your buyer agent, you can still work with the firm and its agents. However, they will be acting as the seller's agent (or "subagent"). The agent can still help you find and purchase property and provide many of the same services as a buyer's agent. The agent must be fair with you and provide you with any "material facts" (such as a leaky roof) about properties.

But remember, the agent represents the seller—not you— and therefore must try to obtain for the seller the best possible price and terms for the seller's property. Furthermore, a seller's agent is required to give the seller any information about you (even personal, financial or confidential information) that would help the seller in the sale of his or her property. Agents must tell you in writing if they are sellers' agents before you say anything that can help the seller. But until you are sure that an agent is not a seller's agent, you should avoid saying anything you do not want a seller to know.

Sellers' agents are compensated by the sellers.

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