Forecaster Got It Right

December 28, 2007

Last night on the local evening news the weather forecast was for rain and thunderstorms in North Georgia today. Now I know that we have made fun of weather forecasters in the past but this is one time that everyone in Metro Atlanta should want this forecast to be correct. After all we have not [...]

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Atlanta Real Estate Market Summary 2007

December 27, 2007

What The Experts Say
Long recognized as one of the industry leaders in the following and reporting of home prices in the United States, Standard & Poors Case-Schiller Home Price Index sheds an interesting light on the Atlanta Real Estate market. The Index, while showing statistics back to January of 1987, has each of it’s [...]

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Southern Charm in Lawrenceville

December 26, 2007

Part of our family holiday tradition is to ride around looking for interesting light displays on personal homes. Sure Lanier Islands, Stone Mountain Park and Calloway Gardens can put together light displays that will almost take your breath away. What about the individuals who put the time and effort into decorating their homes for the [...]

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Dominick’s Italian Restaurant in Lawrenceville

December 19, 2007

As we were finishing the last of the Christmas shopping yesterday evening the conversation turned to dinner. We had been so busy that we totally forgot about eating. Millie remembered that one of our neighbors had told her about a new Italian restaurant in downtown Lawrenceville and we decided to give it a try. To [...]

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The Week Before Christmas

December 17, 2007

Twas the week before Christmas and the search engines were slow, shoppers were searching for places to spend their dough.
With mom on her laptop and me on the pc, we knew that the family would be happy as could be.
On VISA, on MASTERCARD, on AMEX we spend, will this internet shopping spree ever come to [...]

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Atlanta Buyer Seminar

December 15, 2007

After writing the article on new home buyer beware yesterday I began thinking why and how this could happen. Why would 50% of all new home buyers’ elect to buy directly from the builder or the builder’s agent? Several thoughts came to mind and I want to share them with you.
My first thought was [...]

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New Home Buyer Beware

December 14, 2007

Recently I attended a meeting where part of the discussion was about a study done by The National Association of REALTORS®. This particular study is titled "2007 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers" and contains one set of statistics that quite frankly is scary. I hate to think how much money buyers have lost nationally [...]

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Green Holiday Lights

December 11, 2007

They are beautiful to look at and in many cases provide us with countless hours of conversation, so whats the big deal with the energy required to operate outdoor holiday decorations? A little higher power bill for the month of December has come to be expected. The problem is that when you take a major [...]

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Christmas Tree Decorating

December 8, 2007

As has happened in years past, decorating the Christmas Tree around our home starts early in the morning with the assembly of the tree. To hold all the ornaments we have a nine foot tree that requires around 1400 lights. Once the tree is up and the lights are on, our trip down memory lane [...]

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Bank of America Mortgage Fees

December 6, 2007

At the end of October the was an article published in a San Diego Real Estate Blog about Bank of America doing away with their wholesale mortgage division. The article quoted officials at Bank of America saying that they would be concentrating on direct-to-consumer lending. The article went on to state that Bank of America [...]

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