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Matt Nocks • October 28, 2022

The Best Black Friday is Coming!

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This black Friday is going to be my favorite black Friday ever! Unless we lose.

 

It’s not because there's going to be some amazing sale on something that I want or don’t need.  THIS black Friday the USA is playing England in our second game of the World Cup at 2:00. For those of you that know me, you know my main interest outside of family and work is soccer.  This World Cup is the first time in 8 years that the US will be playing in the tournament. 

 

There are going to be some great places to watch the game, Yee-Haw Brewery in Greenville, will have it on the big screen outside for one.   Lots of other places will have the game all over.  There are plenty of interesting twists and stories to each of these teams.  (Hey England – Harry Maguire!) With so much passion from each player representing their respective country, there is always some drama and great sport stories. This is the biggest and most watched tournament in the world -of ANY sport- on the biggest stage, and on Black Friday it will be time to actually perform as a national team.   

 

If you are not a soccer follower, then wondering why in the world is coming up this Thanksgiving and holiday time, it is because Qatar is the host country for the World Cup. There is a great deal of controversy and human labor rights surrounding that, but there's no way they could be played in the summer with their temperatures, so it has been adjusted to the winter for this tournament. 

Four years from now the Cup will be hosted between US Canada and Mexico for the 2026 World Cup. If you want to join me in watching it, look for me at Yeehaw on black Friday to see it on the big screen outside! 

SCHOOL IS BACK!!!

By Matt Nocks • August 26, 2022
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I did a thing! Or maybe it should say we? - No ‘I’ in Team, right?

By Matt Nocks • July 28, 2022
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New Contract for South Carolina

By Matt Nocks • June 24, 2022
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The Network

By Matt Nocks • May 17, 2022
The Network A few weeks ago I went to a Sotheby’s international Realty networking event called the Ski NE. One of our brokers in charge and I were supposed to go to a different event out west back in the fall, but a goose hitting the plane pretty much derailed that whole trip. So we were going on the next one that would work for our schedules, which to both of our liking was out in Big Sky Montana, a skiing and networking event. We wanted to make sure that we didn't end up with something like the previous trip affecting this one, so we safely book ended travel days on it, and to include an additional ski day for us. After day one of skiing, we met up with our Sotheby’s group that evening and enjoyed a happy hour and mixer. From the beginning of that happy hour to the end of the event, I met about 150 different Sotheby’s International Realty agents in markets other than the upstate of SC. From Telluride, Lake Tahoe, Scottsdale, all the way up the California coast and around Seattle, Montana, Boston, and down in Orlando with smatterings in between. They were of course valuable takeaways from different panels, and different conversations with individual agents over the days there, but it was interesting and reassuring to see how high the standard for Sotheby's International Realty is everywhere. The small world experience of it is I was sitting next to an agent I had been emailing with in Boston, regarding an upcoming listing, and here we were sitting next to each other at Sushi restaurant at the town center in Big Sky, Montana!  I also spoke about the Upstate of South Carolina market to that group, who some had no idea about what all Greenville in the surrounding areas have to offer. If you could live and work anywhere, why not here!? Great experience, great people, amazing network!

Guardians of the Pond

By Matt Nocks • March 24, 2022
Hi all, So I get asked a lot of questions from friends, clients, and just people who know that I am an agent about various topics and things that come up in real estate. Whether it is: do you know a good lender? What do you think of this market?, or just an interesting feature or funny home showing experience, I am going to post about them here periodically. I am going to aim for a biweekly post, whether long or short. So be on the lookout, and I will also have a link in my monthly e-newsletter to it. I am going to start with something short on the lighter side: I was on a listing appointment sitting down with the sellers talking through the details, and what was being conveyed with the home and property. There is a private stocked pond on this one with a handful of ducks, and on the list of items that convey, will be those ducks. They aren't basing any future home purchase on the livelihood of their feathered friends, and want to make sure the future owners know those guys will be long lived "guardians of
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