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  • March 8, 2023

    Staging Your Home to Sell

    Staging Your Home to Sell

    Home Staging is the art of creating an atmosphere that will appeal to the greatest number of potential buyers in a market. It is furnishing and decorating a home in a style that buyers will fall in love with the moment they enter the door…

  • January 12, 2023

    Why This Housing Market Isn’t a 2008 Repeat

    Why This Housing Market Isn’t a 2008 Repeat

    Real estate, financial, and economics professionals are discussing: No one knows the future, yet here are some key points on how our current market, while erratic, is not the same kind of market as the one leading into The Great Recession, and why a housing disaster is not likely.

  • July 10, 2022

    One Way to Be Cool in The ATL

    One Way to Be Cool in The ATL

    On a whim, I recently visited The Wren’s Nest House Museum in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta. This place is off the beaten path of typical Atlanta vacation destinations. If you want to be inspired, if you want your mind enriched, if you want some joy in your life, then please consider adding this…

  • April 13, 2022

    The Advantage to Buying, Even in this Aggressive Market: One Buyer’s Scenario

    The Advantage to Buying, Even in this Aggressive Market: One Buyer’s Scenario

    I would like present a scenario I recently heard about for a 1st-time Homebuyer (aka a Renter). Fast-rising rents have many people seeking the protection that a consistent, fixed mortgage payment provides. Through this narrative I hope to demonstrate the advantage to buying a home, even in an unprecedented Seller’s Market like the one we…

  • April 10, 2022

    What’s Happening in Peachtree Corners — Town Center Spring/Summer Events

    What’s Happening in Peachtree Corners — Town Center Spring/Summer Events

    Peachtree Corners’ social center, the Town Green, offers a variety of events this Spring/Summer. Movies, concerts, livestreamed sports broadcasts displayed on the giant screen, early-morning yoga and Crossfit…the PTC Festival…plenty of outdoor FUN!

  • October 29, 2021

    Great news for first-generation and first-time homebuyers

    Great news for first-generation and first-time homebuyers

    Congressional leaders have released a long-awaited framework for President Biden’s “Build Back Better” program, which includes hard-fought NAR priorities like investments in affordable housing and down-payment assistance. A top-line price tag and an outline of new social programs directly affect the real estate industry.

  • October 23, 2021

    Outdoor Dining in Peachtree Corners

    Outdoor Dining in Peachtree Corners

    Beautiful fall weather lends itself to outdoor living…and one of my favorite ways to enjoy our wonderful climate here in the south is open-air dining. When the al fresco-dining mood strikes, we are fortunate to be able to choose from a variety of dining styles locally, in city of Peachtree Corners. From open-air casual, to…

  • September 5, 2021

    What’s Happening in Peachtree Corners — Town Center Fall Events

    What’s Happening in Peachtree Corners — Town Center Fall Events

    Peachtree Corners’ newest development, the Town Green — located in the popular Town Center, offers a variety of events during the fall season. From movies to concerts to livestream sports broadcasts on the giant screen, to early-morning yoga, there is surely something for everyone to enjoy!

  • August 11, 2021

    Peachtree Station Market Update

    Peachtree Station Market Update

    Did you know that 97 people a day are moving to the Atlanta area? Not everyone chooses to live in the city. In fact, there is a solid demand for homes in the suburbs.

  • July 21, 2021

    In my kitchen: A Summer Favorite — Cookies ‘n’ Cream Ice Cream

    In my kitchen: A Summer Favorite — Cookies ‘n’ Cream Ice Cream

    If you haven’t made homemade ice cream before, I encourage you to try it! There is something quite special about making your own summer dessert, something industrious about getting out the ice cream machine, and something magical about lifting off the cover and seeing that your cream custard has transformed into a frozen treat!

  • June 21, 2021

    In my Kitchen: Homemade Moisturizer

    In my Kitchen: Homemade Moisturizer

    The first time I made this moisturizer I was astounded! I had made my own beautiful, rich, face cream, and it was a pretty easy process.

  • June 14, 2021

    What’s Happening in Peachtree Corners — Town Green Summer Events

    What’s Happening in Peachtree Corners — Town Green Summer Events

    Peachtree Corner’s newest development, the Town Green — located in the popular Town Center, offers a variety of events over the summer months. From movies to concerts to livestream sports broadcasts on the giant screen, to early-morning yoga, there is surely something for everyone to enjoy!

  • June 1, 2021

    Limewash Fireplace Transformation

    Limewash Fireplace Transformation

    The limewash process gives an old-world, antiqued/weathered look. Some of the brick color remains exposed, which results in a warmth you just wouldn’t have with a painted brick.

  • May 3, 2021

    Low Mortgage Rates Benefit Many — Not Just Buyers

    Low Mortgage Rates Benefit Many — Not Just Buyers

    Mortgage rates are continuing to hold below 3% this spring. Rates were at record-breaking lows throughout most of 2020, during the unprecedented real estate market during the global pandemic. After rising a fraction in early 2021, the rates for a 30-year mortgage were averaging at 2.98%  on April 29, 2021. It’s natural to see homebuyers…

  • April 23, 2021

    Gone Thrifting!

    Gone Thrifting!

    Do you ever go “thrifting”? The phrase is trending, but the act itself has been around for decades.

  • March 22, 2021

    PANTONE Color of the Year = Springtime

    PANTONE Color of the Year = Springtime

    PANTONE Color System is best known for its PMS (Pantone Matching System). This color matching system is used internationally among designers in graphic, interior, and product design, and printing. The system is used to assure that colors are accurate when products go into production regardless of the various equipment used, whether by professional designers or…

  • March 16, 2021

    Atlanta’s Real Estate Resilience

    Atlanta’s Real Estate Resilience

    What made the ATL real estate market resilient last year? How is it possible that we had a market boom during a pandemic? I believe the resiliency of the Atlanta real estate market was due to the very nature of our great city: the strong economy for jobs and growth, and the housing affordability of…

  • March 8, 2021

    A corner of my kitchen

    A corner of my kitchen

    I have a spot in my kitchen that is all set up for making espresso drinks. I can remember how, when I was growing up in the 70s, my mother would sit for hours and hours at the kitchen table with her sister and their friends, laughing, talking, and pouring and sipping their coffee. Mama…

  • March 7, 2022

    Metro Atlanta Living – Things that impact our lives and our real estate

    Metro Atlanta Living – Things that impact our lives and our real estate

    Atlanta is emerging as a top-rated U. S. city to live and work in. Metro Atlanta has the 3rd-highest growth rate of large metro cities in the last 10 years. It’s a “Best state for doing business” for the 8th year in a row…How is Atlanta positioned as such a great city? Our Real Estate…

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