by Jay on June 20, 2010
New Director Speaks at Durham Rotary Club Meeting.
There’s some irony that while a locally produced documentary about Durham gang life got some national attention and was dragging down the city’s image, Durham’s own Full Frame Documentary Film Festival was becoming one of the top film festivals in the world and the premier documentary film festival.
I recently had a chance to hear Deirdre Haj the new director of the festival describe her plans going forward to make the festival even more a part of Durham. I wrote the event up in for the Rotary Club program and posted it over on our DurhamLuxRE’s sister site, www.SpringtreeTerritory.com. Here is a link to the full post about this presentation by Ms. Haj about the Full Frame Festival.
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by Jay on June 9, 2010
My Picks for the Ten Best Websites to Learn about Durham
If you believe that the three most important things in real estate are location, location, location, it probably seems a little bit of a paradox that the descriptions most real estate agents write about their listings barely mention it. Part of this is just habit left over from the boom days when marketing a home wasn’t that important. But some of it is a twist on the forest and the trees conundrum.
Describing the forest and not just the trees
Local agents in any market are usually so familiar with the forest, or their communities, that they forget that many potential buyers are from out of the area and are shopping for homes online. This is true for Durham real estate and Durham luxury real estate. The experience of living in identical homes in Forest Hills or Hope Valley would be totally different, to say nothing of Duke Forest, Treyburn or Croasdaile. [click to continue…]
