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Aug 30 2016

Myrtle Beach Real Estate Market Update July 2016

Here’s the latest Myrtle Beach Real Estate market update from the president of our local Association of REALTORS® here in Myrtle Beach.  This is an update as of July 2016.  Our market here in Myrtle Beach remains very strong.

If you are thinking of buying or selling in the Myrtle Beach area, I’d love the ability to assist you.  Feel free to contact me with any questions.

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Written by Jeremy · Categorized: market reports · Tagged: myrtle beach market report, myrtle beach real estate

Jul 21 2016

2016 Mid Year Myrtle Beach Real Estate Market Update

Myrtle Beach Real Estate Report

Here’s your Mid Year Myrtle Beach Real Estate Market Update.  It’s hard to believe that we are already at the halfway point of 2016.  It seems like it was just yesterday that we were welcoming in 2016 and wrapping up a strong 2015 real estate market and now we are at the halfway point of the year.  Here’s your market update:

As you can see, the market is even stronger than 2015 with homes selling in less days for a higher price.  Also, inventory numbers are down showing it’s even a stronger sellers market.  If you have been thinking of selling a home in the Myrtle Beach Area, right now is a prime time to do so.  Two of my last few listings have gone under contract within the first week of being placed on the market.  Check out my marketing plan to selling your Myrtle Beach Home and contact me today to get it listed.

Written by Jeremy · Categorized: market reports

May 02 2016

Going Beyond Real Estate #morethanhouses


It’s hard to believe that today marks my two year anniversary back in real estate full time.  When starting back into real estate after my Father’s passing, I had some serious decisions to make as to where I wanted to hang my license.  Since I had over 10+ years experience in the business plus great notoriety as a national speaker to real estate agents, this was a very tough & difficult decision for me to make.

Things that factored into my decision were things like the monthly expenses, commission splits, office locations, the management/staff, the co-workers, and so much more.  But, one thing that played another huge factor in my decision was what the company did beyond real estate to help the lives of those in the community and company.  I believe strongly that success breeds success and what you sow into others, you will reap.

CMN LogoWith my history, I had the opportunity to go work at any company I’d like along the beach.  I went and interviewed with several of the top brokerages in town and met with their leadership to see which seemed to be the best fit.  I ended up picking the #1 RE/MAX in the area, but the reasons why might surprise you.  It wasn’t because of the awesome compensation plans that they offered.  If that was the only reason, I would have ended up at a brokerage that was offering me ownership in the company to come work there.

It wasn’t because they offered me a nice corner office with amazing views either.  My office is actually one of the smallest in the building and I’m cool with that.  It wasn’t because of some amazing lead offering system that was offered to me.  I know how to generate my own leads and know how to convert them at a very high rate.  While having these things are great, they didn’t have any part in my decision.

What made me choose the place I come and work every day are the people and their willingness to help others and give back.  Our brokers, are great understanding people willing to help others at any time with anything they can.  When I was in the hospital in December, one of my brokers Tad stepped in to help keep my biggest sale of 2015 together and saw it through to the closing table. I didn’t even have to ask, he volunteered to do anything I needed with no questions asked.  During that same time, one of my other brokers stepped in to bring groceries to the house and meals for the family to make things easier on them.

CMN BBQAs a whole, RE/MAX is a big donor to the Children’s Miracle Network.  Since 1992 RE/MAX has donated more than 140 Million to Children’s Miracle Network. Our office alone donated over $20,000 to CMN in 2015 alone.  Every agent in the company donates a portion of each sale to the program.  This past month we did a quick fundraiser where I cooked up some BBQ to help raise money.  We were able to make close to $400 in one lunch that day just making BBQ plates.  It was so successful that we will be doing this again in a few weeks in our Garden City office and then in North Myrtle Beach some time in June.  Our company is constantly looking for ways to be involved in the community and ways to give back.  In fact, they just recently hired a new position to help us become even more involved in our area.

These are the reasons that helped me decide where I wanted to work each day and the culture in which I want participate in.  It’s much more than just selling a house and collecting a check.  The culture of working here is something that is often imitated but rarely duplicated.  It’s also the reason that our company has remained #1 for the past four years.

If you are planning on buying or selling a home, let me know how I can help.  When we close on your home, you too will be giving back to the community and helping the children by the donations I make in your name to the hospital.  We’ve heard countless stories about how our donations to the Children’s Miracle Network has helped babies who would not survive without CMN.

Life is so much more than just selling houses.

Written by Jeremy · Categorized: #morethanhouses · Tagged: morethanhouses, myrtle beach real estate, remax

Mar 25 2016

Creating a Life Legacy

It’s hard to believe it’s been two years already since my father passed away.  It was a sudden and definitely unexpected death that none of us were prepared for.  The post below is a repost of what I wrote only a few days after his death.  I think it sums up the amazing person my father was and the things he taught me in life and how it molded me into the man I am today.

Friends and family that we talked to the few days leading up to his service kept referring to the “legacy” that dad left behind.  The more I kept hearing that it made me realize that he did leave a legacy behind that touched the lives thousands all around the world.  He was one of the most intelligent, loving, and giving people you could ever meet.  When he was a young teenager his musical talents helped him excel as he began to teach piano lessons for a local music company in PA.  I still to this day have the image of someone in their mid 40’s coming into his room for their lesson and being greeted by this scrawny 13 year old.  In college his musical abilities garnered him a brief stint traveling with the group Chicago.

These are the things that I feel led to the legacy that he has been left behind and how he touched the lives of so many people.

Here are the 9 things he instilled in me that I try to live my life by each and every day:

1. Be willing to help others- When you see a friend in need, reach out. The smallest acts of kindness can change someone’s life. No matter how busy he may have been, Dad would stop the world to help others at any time and at any cost.

2. Be a man of your word- If you say you are going to do it, you do it no matter what. This was his foundation to building trust. Everyone knew that if they asked Dad to do anything and he said yes, there was no reason to worry again. He would finish what he said he would do, even if that meant working on the task till 4 AM.

3. Build up others to be better than you. Dad was a constant mentor, teacher, trainer, and helper to all around him. He would always say he wanted to raise up those around him to surpass him one day and he meant it.  In February 2013, he called me one morning all excited on the phone.  As I answered the phone he said: “Jeremy guess what!  Brittany just won rookie of the year!”  I congratulated him and asked if he won any awards, to which he replied: “Yes, I got top sales, top listings, and top referrals, but BRITTANY WON!” He was so much prouder that he mentored her and she won than anything else.

4. Be a man that stands for what you believe. Everyone knew Dad was a man of faith and wouldn’t compromise it for anyone.  In 2002 when our team broke a 30 year company sales record I remember our CEO asking Dad at an awards dinner what was the secret to our success.  My father paused a moment, smiled large, and replied: “Well Don, that’s easy, it is prayer.  We pray each and every day for our clients, their families, our business, and the things that are going on.  We pray that our clients that need their home to sold that the right buyer comes so that they can move forward, and those that need to buy a house, that we can find them the right property.”  Don looked at him, tilted his head and said “prayer hmmm, I like that Dennis.”

5. Love unconditionally and equally. It didn’t matter who you were, whether you were buying million dollar homes or 30,000 condos, you were given the same amount of attention & help. It didn’t matter if you drove a BMW or were homeless, Dad loved everyone the same.  I’ve heard many say that while Dad was one of the smartest people you would ever know, he never looked down upon others and treated everyone with the same.  He didn’t care if you were a Doctor or a high school dropout, you all received the same level of love and attention.

6. Have Fun– While Dad really didn’t have a bunch of hobbies in life, he still would have his ways of fun. We all remember some of his 2/3rds of a Pun “P. U.” jokes that he would share with you. Things like:

His phone calls where he would act goofy and try to order a pizza from you when you answer the phone in his terrible Chinese accent. Or maybe you were lucky enough to experience the ever so popular answer he would use when asked “Is there anything you need?” He would respond “Got any large bags of hundred dollar bills?” My personal favorite was when you would ask him “How are you Dennis?” he would respond “Highly unpredictable, somewhat debatable, a little controversial, but other than that, just fine.”

7. Live a standard of excellence- The only choice for dad was the best. The cars always needed to be cleaned, the hair needed to be all in place. The pocket square had to be perfect. During the funeral home visitation one of our friends told us about how he spent an hour just last week to get his pocket square just right for his new professional pictures.  He tried to always exceed the expectations of others with things he did.

8. Details, details, details– This is probably the biggest item that attributed to Dad’s legacy. For those of you who ever worked with him in real estate, he was a stickler for the details on a contract. I’ll never forget him saying there should NEVER be a blank spot on a contract Jeremy, at least put in “N/A”. He became infamous for his “sign here” & “initial here” stamps that were all over every single page of the paperwork. Plus, who could ever forget, We need to make a backup of the backup of the backup, “Just in case.”  His attention to detail earned him the nickname AROC which stands for Anal Retentive Obsessive Compulsive. Paying attention to every detail in every aspect of life is what helped set him apart in his personal and professional life.

9.  Put others first- He constantly put the needs of others well before his own.  If he saw someone needing shoes, he’d walk up and hand them money to go shopping for new ones.  Whenever he heard me mention about a slow month in business, or a deal falling apart, he would stop by with groceries and other essential supplies at our home just to help out.  Most of the time he would go without so that he could do for others.  If my mother would forget to bring her lunch to work, he would drive well out of his way just to bring her something to eat.

Now, these were the things that Dad taught me during his life, but in his passing he taught me one last key to living a life of legacy:

10. No matter what, we aren’t in control.  The day after Dad passed I went by his office to pick up a few things and noticed a scripture taped to the front of his computer.  It was Proverbs 16:9 which says  The mind of man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps. Many that I’ve talked to referred to Dad as one of the smartest people they ever knew.  When he took his Doctoral exams he set new records for Doctoral exams at Temple University.  He had things planned out and was always prepared.  The picture above of him in his suit and tie was taken just 3 days before he went to the hospital where within three days of being there he passed.  No matter how smart & planned you may have things, life is one thing we don’t get to set the plan for.  God directed his steps and decided it was time for him to go to heaven.

This has taught me to live each day with purpose and meaning. Live to love those around you.  Cherish family and the time you have with them, you never know when that will be gone.

I love you Dad, you will be missed but not forgotten. Just like I told a friend who was sad realizing she would never see him again at church: Dad influenced so many people in his life, you will see his thumbprint every where you go and on all those around you.  This is what it means to leave a legacy behind.

Written by Jeremy · Categorized: Life · Tagged: dad, dennis blanton, real estate

Mar 22 2016

Mind Over Matter

atticToday marks 3 years since my wife had her bad accident in our house.  She was placing some luggage up in the attic when our son climbed up the ladder.  In her attempt to keep him safe, she lost her footing & fell through the ceiling next to the ladder falling around 9 feet onto the concrete below.  She fractured her back in two places as well as cut her head open on a screw.

She spent almost 30 days in the hospital going through multiple major surgeries to repair her spine and was in the battle for her life when a staph infection took over her body.  She had over 80 staples put in her body, 100+ x-rays & scans, blood transfusions, & over 8 months of antibiotics after, the one thing that never happened was my her spirit getting down.

When we first arrived at the hospital the nurses & doctors all said that my wife would live the rest of her life in pain, that she would never be able to dance without tremendous pain, that picking up the kids would be painful, and that she could never had children again.  The “experts” told her of all the things she would never be able to do anymore and how her life as we knew it was basically over.

Little did the “experts” know the determination my wife possessed.  Within a few weeks of being released from the hospital my wife had gotten completely off of the painkillers that they thought she might spend the rest of her life on.  She got back into her normal routine of driving the kids around town to different weekly events like dance, the library, & bible study.  By the middle of summer, she was back outside pushing the lawn mower and taking bicycle rides with the kids around the neighborhood.

MiriamAfter a mere 9 months we then found the greatest/nerve-wracking news of all.  My wife shared with me that she was pregnant with our third child. The doctors all shared how she would have constant back pain as the pregnancy continued along and the baby grew.  They were concerned as she began carrying the weight of the baby it could cause some issues with her spinal implant.

Never once did she complain about pain in her back while she was pregnant.  In fact, the pregnancy went very smooth & easy.  We were blessed with the birth of Miriam Elizabeth on August 30th, 2014.  She has been nothing but a bundle of Joy for our family since.

So here we are three years since the incident occurred and for those who know my wife, they would never know anything is wrong.  My wife decided that day that she was not going to allow this accident to control her future life moving forward.  While the Doctors shared all doom & gloom, she wasn’t accepting it and knew that if she kept a good attitude and had determination, she could overcome this too.

It’s common to find her in the mornings dancing around the house with the kids and acting silly.  Many mornings I find her giving piggy back rides to the kids around the house.  You hear regularly the sounds of her & the kids playing and laughing with joy.  What you don’t hear is complaints of her back hurting, or excuses of not being able to do something.

Her mindset from the moment the accident occurred through the trying recovery where she was less than 24 hours from death from the infection ravaging her body, was always positive.  Katherine didn’t allow anyone or anything keep her down or deny her from quality in life.

The point is that too many times in life we allow others to influence us and talk us down from our dreams and goals in life.  While we have the potential to reach greatness, our friends/experts begin to inject negativity and doubt that keeps us from reaching greatness.  Don’t allow these things to happen.  Be more like my wife and set your mind on the prize and don’t allow anything to keep you from reaching your goals.

Written by Jeremy · Categorized: Life · Tagged: accident, family, kids, wife

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