Mike's Greater Athens Area Blog and Then Some

Georgia state representative Matt Ramsey has introduced HB 1184 which would permit Georgia residents to purchase health insurance across state lines. It would allow insurance companies doing buisiness in Georgia to offer plans that have been approved in other states but are not currently availabl...

If you purchased and closed on a home in Athens-Clarke County Ga last year, 2009, you may be eligible for a Homestead Exemption. While the state funding for relief under the Homeowner Tax Relief Grant (HTRG) was unfunded last year, and not yet refunded, there is still a portion of the Homestead ...

In Athens -Clarke County, GA, for the week ending Feb. 21, 2010 the real estate market in Athens, Ga. looks like this: There are 1556 active listings of which 1294 are residential, 14 are farm and land. This is an increase of 23 listings from the previous week ending 2/14/2010. There are 131 lis...

  All right. I give up. Anytime I try to copy and paste something from something else I have written, say a Word Document, or anything I lose the formatting when I am posting it to A R with Firefox as my browser. I don't have the problem when using I.E., but I.E. under Vista is so incredibly slow...

If you purchase and closed on a home in Athens-Clarke County Ga last year, 2009, you may be eligible for a Homestead Exemption. While the state funding for relief under the Homeowner Tax Relief Grant (HTRG) was unfunded last year, and not yet refunded, there is still a portion of the Homestead Ex...

The following charts show the month to month residential real estate sales volume of the Greater Athens Ga metropolitan area for the months of June 2009 through Jan. 2010. Chart 1 shows the trends for both the number of residential units sold and the average number of Days on Market (D.O.M.) for ...

Or even after 5 PM during the week? When do you take your listings? Only Mon - Fri. between 9 & 5. If it is your practice to have a 9 - 5 job, 5 days a week, do you let your seller know about this before they sign the listing agreement? Do you wait until the next business day to respond to reques...

My wife and I record a lot of TV shows on DVR (the AT&T Uverse unit lets us do 4 shows simultaneously). We watch them at our leisure. We had just finished watching something that was recorded last Monday and decided to watch a half hour show before heading to bed for the night. We decided upon De...

I woke up this morning with the increasing aches and pains of getting a bit older. I winced, grumbled, moaned and groaned and loudly commisserated about no longer being young and spry. About how nature is mistreating us in our prime years. And then I remembered a video clip that a friend of mine,...

I have seen the name bandied about but until yesterday I did not know anything about him. Jonathan Krohn is a 14 year old who wrote a book called "Defining Conservatism". He addressed CPAC last year. I saw an interview with him on TV yesterday and was very amazed at the poise, the confidence, the...