Hooray! The drought is over!

On Monday, state climatologist David Stooksbury said that an usually wet March “has brought major drought relief to North Georgia.
Except for the Lake Lanier and Lake Hartwell basins, “the remainder of north Georgia is drought-free,” Stooksbury said.
The Weather Service has recorded 7.12 inches of rain so far this month at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, a surplus [...]

Housing Stimulus is the Key to Unlocking America’s Economy

The current economic crisis is the result of problems in the nation’s housing markets. Efforts to boost the overall economy will be wholly ineffective if the Economic Stimulus bill that goes to the President does not include provisions focused on stabilizing real estate markets.
Both the House and Senate versions include provisions that are consistent with [...]

Stovall Street Stuffed Shells

I held a caravan at 462 Stovall Street yesterday.
A lot of agents turned out and I got great feedback on this house!  What a great investment - contact me for a private showing.
I also got a lot of feedback on my stuffed shells that I made for lunch. 

Make a Smilebox recipe

Termite bonds

I have a buyer who is buying a place with existing termite service.  I called the company & the guy answered on his Nextel and I could tell it was a one-man operation.  He couldn’t look up the account right there and said he’d get back to me within two days.  He didn’t know if [...]

Buggy

I showed a house today that had dead roaches.  Ew.  I’m not talking like the house has been vacant and we live in Atlanta and there’s a few bugs lying on their back around.  I can handle that.  I’m talking there were 4-5 of them in every single room of the house!  Don’t you think [...]

Bad MLS photos - overexposed!

Wow.  I don’t even know how to make photos look like this…  Fancy. 

Bad MLS photo - I LOVE this bed!

I don’t have words. 

My first listing - Before and After

BEFORE

At the time I took this listing, I had never even heard of staging - it wasn’t even an HGTV topic.  All I knew was we had to clean this joint up.  So I set to it.  I worked so hard.  I came over to check on the handyman frequently (who also turned out to [...]

Bad MLS photo - what’s for breakfast?

I get it… this loft happens to be in a historic hotel and I assume that this has something to do with the breakfast served at said hotel.  But it is in no way explained by a caption or description.  Just this strange unexplained (and frankly real estate irrelevent) photo.  Must not have been enough [...]

My first listing - the appointment

When I entered the home, I sat in the front room for a moment to meet the couple.  And their menagerie of animals.  There were two big dogs and several cats and who knows what else living in this little bungalow.  And it smelled it.  The bigger of the dogs came and plopped his big [...]