Mike's Greater Athens Area Blog and Then Some

Athens Ga has made another list of top places, this year Athens is high up on the Forbes 2010 List of Best Small Places for Business and Careers. Small places, according to Forbes, are those metro areas with a population of less than 245,000 people. Athens, with an area population of 192,000, le...

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 Mar. 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 ...

"My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered." Part of the opening, and closing, lines to Alice Sebold's book "The Lovely Bones". When we lived in Kentucky, Nancy, my wife, was a member of a women's book club. This is one of the books that they read and...

  Karen Rittenhouse wrote this. She was in Washington D.C. last week and met with several in congress regarding the impact of the proposed financial reform bills upon real estate, especially effectively killing seller financing. Please take the time to read, and then comment at Karen's original p...

Since Mar 25 I have not been receiving any email notifications from Active Rain. This includes not only comments on my blog posts but also association requests, and, most importantly contact and referral requests.  The only way I have noticed any is to look on my home page at the comments that co...

Gasoling prices have been slowly creeping up, well, maybe not so slowly lately. They are approaching $90 a barrel again as well as closing in on $3.00 a gallon. this well before Memorial Day. It was only February when $3.00 a gallon was expected to be the highest gasoline hit this year. However, ...

the administration wants to make new regulations to require the health labels that are now on the backs or sides of packages to be prominently displayed on the front. According to Katherine Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services (DHSS) “Busy shoppers will be able to go into grocery stor...

Belgium will vote this month to pass a ban on full face covering veils in public. It has easily passed parliamentary committee and is expected to easily pass parliament. If it does, it will take affect in June. While not specifically mentioning burkas, it makes it illegal for anyone to wear somet...