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Fantastic upgraded home with additional trim package, HW floors or tile in throughout main level, HW on stairs. Granite counters in kitchen, upgraded cabinets, gas stove. Large main level master with great tiled shower, double vanity, garden tub and walk in closet. Beautiful, finished and insulated 192 sq.ft. sun room has window A/C for summer, and opens to great room for winter heat.

 

Den/loft area on second level. Walk in storage in 2nd bedroom. House backs up to large green belt. 551 sq.ft. expanded garage has shop area and upper level storage. Rocking chair front porch. Buyers agents to verify all details of importance to buyer, and to verify schools as they are subject to change.

 

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www.AmazingVideoTours.com and Sandee Wilkerson are proud to bring you this gorgeous town home for sale in Autumn Cove at Lake Wylie.

 

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Spacious Townhome. Great Room has vaulted ceiling with fireplace, fan and door opening to patio. Kitchen has large breakfast area & bay window. Master Bedroom on main level,tray ceiling & fan. Upstairs offers large loft overlooking great room, 2 bedrooms with walk-in closets and full bath off loft area. Good Storage ….End Unit….. Immaculate Condition…..GREAT LOCATION.

 

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I recently spoke to a group of Real Estate Agents at a firm in Charlotte.  There was a pretty good crowd as their BIC strongly suggested they come, and there was no cost to them.  I got heckled pretty good, and the overarching sentiment in the crowd was that Social Media was a fad, and they could ignore it because it will go away.

 

Now, I have already preached at length about the fact that Generation Y (all 60 million of them) will buy more homes in the next decade then all other demographics combined in this blog post, and the fact that they practically live on social networks – so I won’t go there. 

 

The focus of this post is the fact that Social Networking is NOT a FAD.  It has been around for almost 20 years.  Don’t believe me, here’s a break down:

 

1989:   IRC – Internet Relay Chat – Allowed College students to chat via internet chat.

80’s – Early 1990’s:    BBS , Prodogy, and Compuserve – Share files, access news

1993-94:   AOL Chat Rooms

1995:   Classmates.com

1996:   ICQ, and AOL  Instant Messenger

1997:   SixDegrees.com 1^st to allow users to create profiles, list their Friends

1999:   Napster – Peer to Peer File Sharing

2001:   Ryze.com was launched to help people leverage their business networks.

2002:   Friendster (Social compliment to Ryze)

2003:   LinkedIn and MySpace

2004:   Flickr – Photo Sharing

2004:   Facebook (Harvard Only)

2005:   YouTube

2005:   Ning

2005:   Facebook expanded to High School Networks

2006:   Facebook expanded to Everyone

2006:   Twitter

2006:   Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Delicious

 

I remember avoiding studying at college in 1989 because I was on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) socially interacting with interesting people on other campuses clear across the country.  This was long before I ever saw my first web page on the “World Wide Web”.

 

So, as you can see, social networking is not new, it’s NOT a fad, and it is not going away.  If you choose to ignore networks such as Facebook and Twitter, you are ignoring the largest population of home buyers out there. 

 

Keep in mind that it does not matter whether or not Twitter (or Facebook) will be here in two years.  Twitter and Facebook are just the vehicles for Social Networking.  The vehicle is not important, it is the NETWORK of people you meet on these sites that is important. 

 

If you start now, and Twitter becomes a fad, don’t sweat it.  There will be something right behind Twitter, and you and YOUR NETWORK can all jump off the old Twitter bus and on to the next greatest thing.  It all boils down to people.  People are the most important thing, and people are the ones that will work with you, and refer you more business.

 

Where’s it going from here?  Let’s just say that in 2 years, you will either have a smartphone, or you will be on your way out of business.  If Gen Y can’t text you, or tweet you, they will find someone else who they can. 

 

Newsflash: Email is already passé. 

 

Gen Y is playing with their phones like we played Pong, and Pac Man. However, the games are much more advanced.  You might hear them talking about BrightKite, or Foursquare.  These are location based apps that use GPS to track your exact position.  On Foursquare, whoever “checks in” to a location the most often becomes “Mayor” of that location.  You strive to obtain “badges” as status in the game.  It becomes a competition, and there in lies the “fun”.

 

Call it silly, call it what you want, but things are moving at light speed now, and they show no signs of slowing down.  Are you on the bus, or not?

  Historical Timeline Sources: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html,  http://socialmediarockstar.com/history-of-social-media

Ever wondered how some photographers get their subjects in sharp focus while the rest of the photo is softly out of focus?

Or how they get such great photos in near darkness?

 

If you have a DSLR camera (and the kit lens that came with it) and you are longing to get portraits like you see in magazines, you might just be a mere $135.00 away from your goal.

The kit lenses that ship with most DSLR cameras are built to be work horses to satisfy the masses. They have focal lengths (for example) between 18-55mm and serve the purposes of 75% of camera users. The next lens you might have already stepped up to could be the 55-200mm f/4 – 5.6 to compliment that 18-55. But have you ever considered a 50mm 1.8 lens?

A lot of people get hung up on focal length (the18-55mm part). What a large percentage of folks overlook is how “bright (aka fast)” the lens is. If you look at your kit lens, it might read something like this:

18-55mm f/3.5 – 5.6 The first part of that alphabet soup is the focal length of the lens (18mm-55mm) but it is the second part (f3.5 – 5.6) that tells you how “fast” the lens is. In other words, the maximum “Aperture” of the lens.

Think of aperture this way. When you’ve been in the dark for a few minutes, your pupils get really big. This allows more light to enter your eye and you see better in the dark. Flip a bright light on and you are forced to shut your eyes until your pupils get smaller, and let in less light.

Camera aperture works similarly. It’s a bit confusing, but the smaller the number, (e.g. 1.8) the MORE light the lens is letting in. When a lens allows a ton of light to come in, you can get away with using faster shutter speeds in lower light. With a faster shutter speed, you have less of a chance of getting a blurry photo due to camera shake. You can also freeze motion in low light, like at a concert, or dance recital where flashes are often not allowed. Fast lenses also let you shoot at lower ISO. The lower the ISO, the less noise.

The other thing a fast lens does for you is give you that sought after shallow depth of field effect, also known as Bokeh. The idea here is that your subject is sharp and the background (or foreground, or both) are softened, or blurred. This makes your primary subject stand out and helps with composing a better shot.

When you shoot with an Aperture of 1.8, you have very shallow depth of field, the lens opens up very wide, and you can use a faster shutter speed and lower ISO. This is ideal for getting great shots in very low light without a flash.

 

So what’s the secret?  Look beyond the tele range of your next lens, and pay attention to how “fast” the lens is. Take note, a 55-200mm f/4 – 5.6 lens may cost you $230, but the 2.8 version will cost 5 to 10 times that. The good news is that a 50mm 1.8 will only set you back about $130 (which is what I shot most of these photos with). If you want to step up to the 50mm 1.4, you will pay between $330 – $500.