Angela Carpinella, Atlanta Real Estate

Sammy is happy to see us! Missed my little man last week!

Awwww. What a nice surprise today! So honored and grateful! . Love my KWPR team!! Look out 2021!

Coming soon! Great investment properties in Decatur and Fairburn. Stay tuned!!

Ending 2020 with a closing for a sweet and wonderful client! I am so grateful for the trust and opportunity to help sell her late parents’ Lithia Springs land. Happy New Year, everyone!

Excellent off market opportunity! Who do you know that is looking to buy their first home or investment property? Check out this amazing 2/1 condo in the heart of Buckhead! 425 Lindbergh. No rental restrictions! Light filled and full of original charm and features. Ready for cosmetic updates to build instant sweat equity! Pre list priced at $160,000. Contact me to schedule a tour!

Just Listed! 1799 Pounds Road SW, Stone Mountain, Georgia 30087 Meticulously maintained by original owners since 1969, this amazing home is ready for new owners to create memories in this 4 sided brick ranch. Rare opportunity to be in highly sought after Parkview High School district! Bring your dreams and your contractor to make this fixer upper your own and build sweat equity. Spacious eat in kitchen and dining room lead to a covered patio and large private backyard. Perfe...ct for enjoying nature, morning coffee or entertaining. This home also has a large family room. Living room, hallway and 3 bedrooms have original hardwood flooring. 2 bathrooms w/ vintage tile. Great bones and so much potential! New driveway and patio, new water heater, roof still under warranty with Findlay Roofing. Conveniently located near shops, restaurants, Stone Mountain Park and US78. Estate owned, being sold as-is, no seller property disclosures. Offered at $180,000 Exclusively Listed By: Angela Carpinella 404.229.8528 [email protected] Keller Williams Peachtree Road 804 Town Blvd., Ste. A2040 Atlanta, GA 30319 404-419-3500

Friends, before you go and ask for a discount on commission from a Realtor for helping you sell your home, please understand what you're truly asking for them t...o do ... and ask yourself this question: If your boss came to you and asked you to work overtime, but wasn't going to compensate you for doing so, would you still do it? Another day, another person who says realtors are overpaid and an unnecessary part of a transaction. I’m assuming that those who think this have either been watching too much Million Dollar Listing or think they know how to do it all on their own. A few things to consider: There is no salary in their job. No guaranteed income for them until the home actually sells. If it doesn’t go through for any reason, all of hours and time spent helping you and your loved ones go without any compensation for the time spent. You see 3% on a $200k home as $6k. The agents sure don’t. That commission is paid to them: - Before taxes - Before broker splits - Before marketing - Before board dues - Before office bills - Before professional photographs on your home - Before professional staging on your home - Before all the other costs of doing business Out of what’s left of their checks after all this, they can then begin paying for everything else. But wait, that’s not all! They don’t get afforded a lot of the things you enjoy at a 9-5 job. They don’t receive: - Employer healthcare - Employee matched retirement accounts - Paid vacations - Weekends off - Nights off - Maternity leave - Bereavement pay/leave - Company car They pay for all of this out of our own pockets. Every single penny. Yes, there are some realtors married to people working company jobs who receive some of these benefits. But the vast majority of real estate agents, they support their families on what’s left after their benefits are taken out and spoken for. Yes, they did choose to sell real estate. It’s a career which they love and it allows virtually uncapped growth and income potential. But they also have to often be available at any time of the day when needed. Whether it’s showing homes at 7pm, writing offers at 11 pm or doing final walkthroughs at 6am. They are there, available to help their clients when they are needed. So before you tell another one of them that they make too much money and aren’t really needed anymore, I encourage you to do the following ... Get your own real estate license, start lead generating on your own, find clients who like you and trust you to help them with the BIGGEST purchase of their lives. Make sure you know not only what goes in the blanks of the contracts, but also what the promulgated parts of them say. Learn the legal steps of what happens once you write a contract, and what business partners are a good fit to help you and your clients and who’s a scam. Try and keep deals together when they’re about to go south with critical thinking skills all while staying within legal parameters. Educate your new homeowner clients about what’s going to happen after they close and what to expect in the years to come. Then listen, repeatedly, as others tell you the money you’ve been paid is WAY too much and they could do what you’ve done for much, much less. Exhausting, isn’t it? PS. Steve SchraderBachar wrote this, if you’ve seen it elsewhere.