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Real Estate Agent - Retired
Life & Real Estate in and Around Athens Ga.

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2011 

The following charts show the month to month residential real estate sales volume of the Greater Athens Ga metropolitan area for the months of Mar. 2010 through Apr. 2011. Sales volume of residential real estate was up again in April over Mar. The April 2011 volume, is up more than 8% over March ...
05/30/2011
For quite some time, over a year now, I have been the #5 ranked Georgia Active Rain member. There I was, fat, dumb and happy, feeling secure in my position, but not anymore. That darn persistant Tammy Lanford has quietly and surely bumped me from my seat. Actually, Tammy has been posting a lot of...
05/30/2011
Charlene Hamilton gives a great synopsis on how certain events can negatively affect your credit in her post negative behaviour affects your credit post. At the end she urges all prospective home buyers to get their free reports. That is excellent advice. It was her post that inspired me to go be...
05/30/2011
On Memorial Day, take some time to remeber that it is more than just a three day weekend, barbeques and the beach! Madison County GA Veteran's Memorial - Viet Nam War Danielsville GA Oglethorpe County GA Veteran's Memorial Lexington GA Oconee County GA Veteran's Memorial For 235 years men and wom...
05/29/2011
  I have been waiting for an iphone app for this and now here it is. With all of what has been happenning out there, this should be a great tool along with any office procedures for "iffy" showings and customers. If you don't have it, get it.   This is very cool and I just had to share. Every so ...
05/26/2011
Herman Cain, the declared winner of the first Republican debate, and, since then a winner of a straw poll in Washington State, and coming in second behind someone not running, Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey, in a recent poll will make it official tomorrow and announce his candidacy for th...
05/20/2011
It wasn't too many weeks ago that terrible tornadoes spread across the south into the middle Atlantic states. Hundreds of people were killed, many more injured and property losses were tremendous. Well, you won't be able to prevent property loss with this, but, you may be able to prevent injury o...
05/19/2011
Come Jan.1, 2012, we will no longer be able to purchase (legally) 100 Watt Incandescent light bulbs. However, what will we replace those with? Yes, we can get 100W (effective output) CFL's. But they cost more, and, have to be handled as hazardous material when they burn out or break (there is a b...
05/18/2011
During the month of March 2011, the Jackson County Ga real estate market had an increase in volume after a decrease in Jan and flat in February. One bit of good news for the increase, the sales were not driven by the need to close on homes by the end of June in order to get the Home Buyers Tax Cr...
05/18/2011
Chris Wallace is one of the better interviewers on TV these days. He may possibly be the best. He asks tough questions regardless of who his guest is. And he hits the questions that often the interviewee does not to answer. And, he does not take misdirection, sticking to his point. Herman Cain is...
05/18/2011
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