Our Raleigh real estate team has a firm belief that we should always give back to the community as much as we can. One of the charities that we support is SAFE Haven for Cats which provides care for Read the rest of this entry
Last month my team and I attended the Star Power Real Estate Conference in Murfreesboro, TN. While were were there we were given the opportunity to see Dave Ramsey live at our conference and we visited with Lisa Bates at Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace Plaza. My team and I are huge fans of Dave Ramsey and took lots of pictures of course! We created a virtual tour of all of the pictures of Dave Ramsey’s Office and thought we would share with it with you. 
Are you a fan of Dave Ramsey? His financial peace message is definitely something that everyone should hear. It will change your life and give you such a different outlook on the way we all live. We are excited to be partnering with WPTF to bring Dave ’s Total Money Makeover Live Event to Raleigh on October 16 and will be giving away tickets to the event on our Linda Craft Team facebook fan page and at a Live Ticket Drawing with WPTF here at our Raleigh Real Estate office on Six Forks Road, October 1 at 5:00 pm.
Have a great week!
Raleigh’s Time Warner Cable announced this month that they will be changing their channel line up. I don’t know about you, but I don’t like changes in my life and thought that it may be helpful to post all of the information for you in one spot. Read the rest of this entry
Join Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS and other sponsors for the 21st annual Bark Around the Park – Event for the Whole Family!
You and your dog will enjoy:
* Dog Bone Hunts
* Doggie Olympics 
* Dog Show
* Agility and Obedience Demonstrations
* Numerous booths showcasing the latest in pet care and products
Saturday, April 17, 2010
12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Millbrook Exchange Park
1905 Spring Forest Road
Raleigh, 27615
Overflow parking is available next door at Millbrook High School.
Be sure to stop by the Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS booth – our favorite part of the day is catching up with friends like you!
I had a gentleman who lives in another state contact me on my Raleigh Real Estate website about listing his 92 year old mother’s home. He said she had gotten ill over Christmas and could no longer live alone. He needed to find a senior continuing care facility in the Greater Raleigh area for her to move too because all of the family lived too far away to take care of her long distance. The long term care facilites were very expensive and he needed to know what the house was worth. 
I met with his mom, who was the sweetest thing in the world and didn’t look 92. I hope to be so lucky. I gave him a price and he was pleased then he tried to take the hardest step and here was our dialog:
Hi Linda,
I have talked to my mother and she is so indecisive I am not sure how to push her forward at this point. She doesn’t feel that she knows where to go and doesn’t know how to go about making the decision. She feels that she needs to make a decision on where to go before going forward. I try to provide help but she is very hard to deal with. She needs to be gone from that house!
Linda Craft’s Raleigh Real Estate office is a bustle of activity today as she and her team pass out a truckload of Apple and Pumpkin Thanksgiving Pies to their past clients. Linda and the team wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and a safe holiday weekend.
As parents we teach our children to never take candy or get into a car with a stranger. Yet everyday around the world strangers call into real 
estate offices and ask the eager 100% sales commission based real estate agent to meet them at a house so they can see it. What happened from childhood to adulthood that we forgot the lessons our parents taught us?
This month in the Greater Raleigh Area, a female real estate agent was held at knife point and raped in a vacant new home. Every year somewhere in the country reports are sent from the National Association of REALTORS and local real estate board office telling of another tragic story of rape, robbery or murder. Last year a female agent who was raped and stabbed multiple times survived because she was wearing a Blue Tooth and had Read the rest of this entry
The RBC Center has announced a Part-Time Job Fair which will be held
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Yesterday I called one of my clients and she was in an absolute panic. She had lost her wallet and was on the phone trying to cancel all of her credit cards. If this has ever happened to you then you know the fear, stress and dread she was feeling.
Go to your nearest copy machine today. Open up your wallet and copy the front and back side of everything in it. Put the copies in a safe place such as a locked file cabinet or safety deposit box. If you lose your wallet it won’t be fun but, you will be able to protect yourself quickly and rebuild the contents without losing sleep over what you may have forgotten.
1. File a police report in the jurisdiction where your credit cards, etc were lost or stolen. This prove to the credit providers you were diligent, and this is a first stip toward an investigation if there is one.
2. Call the 3 national credit reporting organizatons to place a fraud alert on your name and also call the social security fraud line. Placing this alert means all creditors will have to contact you before they can authorize new credit.
a. Equifax: 1-800-525-6285
b. Experian (formerly TRW): 1-888-397-3742
c. Tran Union: 1-800-680-7289
d. Social Security Administration fraud line: 1-800-269-0271
I hope this never happens to you but, sooner or later it probably will. I have had a car stolen with my purse in it and my car broken into on vacation and my purse was stolen out of it. I’ve learned the hard way to never leave my purse in the car and I have a copy of my wallets content locked in a safe place just in case I drive off from a gas station pump and leave my wallet on top of the car like one of my employees did last week.
Linda
I remember when my daughter Kelly attended Wake County schools and the fun we had shopping for new clothes and school supplies each year. Today preparing for back to school has become more complicated. There are so many things to keep up with and many of you have children in elementary, middle and high. 3 schedules, 3 schools. WOW, I only had one to keep up with!
Because of all the frequent school changes th
at take place every year I have updated my website to provide one stop shopping for parents looking for information to balance a hectic schedule. We have the latest in school information and childcare. If you know of anyone else that could benefit from this resource please pass it on.
Our team’s goal is to make your life easier as a parent. We also offer other family resources including information on Raleigh, Cary, Clayton and Wake Forest parent groups, moving checklists for kids and much more.
Ahhhh school days… I miss the bus stop where all the mother’s gather with a cup of coffee in their hand. Enjoy the moments, they grow up so soon.
Linda
