Merry christmas

It is time of the year to share with our family and friends. Kids are so excited and they got up early to wait at the door for gifts.

Wish you a great holiday.

Great HUD bank foreclosure home

This is a all brick HUD foreclosure home in west Columbia. It is less than 5 minutes from downtown. Simple commute to downtown. It is very spacious inside with close to 1500 af.

It also has fenced backyard.

If you like to check out more bank foreclosures, call me. The monthly payment is around $600.

Great Rental Home available in Lexington, SC

One of our tenants got a job promotion ( is it that nice) and needs to relocate to California. We will have a great rental home available beginning January 1st, 2012. The rent is $1200 per month with one month rent deposit.

It is in a great location in Millstream Crossing subdivision. IT is around 2300 SF, 2 stories, all the bed rooms are up stairs. It has spacious 3 bed rooms and one open space for loft or media room.

Downstairs has large living room and open kitchen. It is back with the forest. If you like quiet and peaceful neighborhood, you had to check out this one.

The school is the award winning Midway Elementary School and Lexington Middle and Lexington High School.

Downtown fixer upper, Columbia sc

My friend has a fixer upper in downtown, Columbia SC. It has lots of space with 3 bed, 2 bath rooms. It is hardwood floor throughout the house. There is a fenced backyard. The owner is very flexible with the price. You can either get it for as it is $75,000 or he paints and sand the hardwood for 82,000

Beautiful home in Wilmont subdivision, Lexington SC

There is a open house in Wilmont today and I love to check out this neighborhood. Every home is customized built in here. They are all brick homes. It is not a big subdivision with around 50 homes. Lots of families have great landscaping.

Check out the pictures I took. I love the details in the kitchen and the gleaming hardwood floors in the whole first floor. The backyard is quiet and peaceful. There is nice forest on the back.

Dream home in woodcreek farm- lake front

My great builder Mr. Kim designed a beautiful home in woodcreek farm. This home is around 6500 sf. Many details in the house are very unique. It is a gorgeous home.

Once you stand in the middle of 24 feet ceiling living room, you think you are in a palace. When you look out the window, it is the beautiful lake, reflecting the sunlight.

If you like to have a private tour, call me.

Great bank foreclosures with 6.5 acres of land

The bank listed this foreclosure home around 6 months ago for 90,000. Then they slowly dropped the price. I was wondering what happened to the house.

I finally got a chance to check the property today and I found the HVAC was stolen, some of the wires were cut, but it has a great basement and spacious 3 bed rooms . It does need some works. But for a 1900 sf with 6.5 acres of land, it is only $50,000. how can you get wrong?

Great fixer upper for sale in downtown Columbia SC

My friend has a great deal for sale. It is very close to down town. The lot is great size with designated pets area.

The house has great bones and it needs some updates. Call me and we can check it out.

Buy a new home or older home

Most of buyer clients always ask me, will you buy a new home or older home. My answer is always : it depends.

1 older homes have lots of personality. It has beautiful matured trees and landscaping. New homes normally do not have much trees.

2. Older homes might need more money to keep up. Water heater lasts about7-10 years. And it cost around 800-2000 to replace it.
Air conditioning might be close to the end of the useful life. And it is a lot of money to replace it. The other factor is the window. Some old windows are not energy efficient. You can see major price difference in utilities bill.

3. Some of the older homes have great craftsmanship in woodwork. It is great art to enjoy it. I saw a older home has great tile work in the bathrooms. Even after 30 years, it is still in great shape.

The key is to think of what do you like most before you move forward.

Battle of Camden , South Carolina

Historical Camden is a beautiful, peaceful place in South Carolina. It has the annual Revolutionary War Reenactman every November. we are big history fan. And this annual event is a must event for our family. We brought Boy Scouts Pack 15 to join the show this year.

The historic camden revolutionary war site is located at 222 Broad Street, Camden, SC 803-432-9841. You can find out lots of detailed information on their official website at www.historic-camden.net.

The battle they performed is the battle of hobkirk's hill tactics.

The children learn so much about the history. They learn how people lived in 1781. There was no eletricity. People used candle to get light at night. They did not have gas to cook. All they had were wood to get fire and cook.

They smoked fish close to the fire pit in those days. Can you guess how long this will take? it is normally around 5 hours.

Will you buy this house?

We are looking for homes for a client. We found a beautiful home. The house has many upgrades. It has customized curtain, hardwood, wood molding around the whole house. It is a stunning home. We do not know why such a beautiful home would go foreclosure. But deep in my heart, I had the question.

After we checked With the neighbor. They told us the former owner committed suicide inside the house, right after Christmas.

Will you buy a home to live in if someone died inside?

Korean Festival 2011 Columbia, SC

Korean Church normally has their festival in October. They provide all kinds of performances, games and delicious food. All the proceeds from the food selling go to charity. My Korean friend invites me to come to the festival.

We saw some pretty Korean traditional dress. The performances are very nice. They have dances, taekwondo and singing. One of the line dances attracts lots of the people dance with them.

Korean food is always great to taste. Some families bring the home made Kim chi to sell. You can sell all the traditional Korean food. I bought a bowl of Korean noodle soup. I had not eaten all day and the food is so delicious.

Once the sun is down, I start to fell cold.

The Hyundai car dealer bring the most luxury model Equus . The price tag is $65,000. My boss said that is the most expensive model for Huydai and it feels like Royce Royce.

Pick up the old blogger

After 3 years, I finally found this old blog. IT has not be touched in the last three years and I almost forgot about it.

I tried different place for blog and I realized none of the other is as good as this one.

Let us start to share our stories again.