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Real Estate Broker/Owner - Realty Arts - NC Broker License #235526
Cary NC, REALTOR® serving the Greater Wake County area.

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2010 

November 22, 1963 was the day I fully realized that there is evil in the world.  The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy was completely inexplicable to this 11 year old kid.  Life to that point was about baseball, football, bikes, and hiking through the woods for me. I was at school and we w...
11/22/2010
  Most newer subdivisions in Cary have some sort of stormwater retention and management structure to protect surface water quality.  These structures can be puzzling to people who come from areas where such runoff management practices are less common.  Older towns often did not have tight stormwa...
11/21/2010
Richard Zaretsky does a great job in this post of telling how recession is a very personal matter, more than it is just a set of statistics mouthed by media pundits.  Many Americans have "hit bottom" very hard, and stats are not adequate to tell their stories. NOTE:  If you find the story Richar...
11/20/2010
Now we are getting somewhere!  How about scanning a QR Code with your phone, and the QR Code gives you coordinates you can import into your phone's navigation system? Could you, would you, use that function? Would your clients with their Iphones and Androids use it?  Is this an application that m...
11/19/2010
Maynard Pond is a small private community pond in Coronado Village, in the Heart of Cary, NC.  It is a lovely pond that offers residents and their visitors the pleasant serenity one can enjoy near water.  View Larger Map   And in the fall, when Mom Nature's Paintbrush colors the surrounding tree...
11/18/2010
Kilarney Pointe in Cary, NC is a nearly new, recently completed subdivision of about 40 homes in a great location off SW Cary Parkway near Old Apex Road.  The neighborhood is a culdesac loop, so the street is quiet, with no through traffic.   View Larger Map Kilarney Pointe was developed in 2005...
11/18/2010
We have a common tract built house in Cary, with many of the typical compromises that come from plucking a plan from a page and plunking it onto a plot. Yet as time goes on, I begin to see how fortunate we were when we bought it.  It is nearly perfectly situated for enjoyment of the natural light...
11/18/2010
Verde Park in Cary is a small neighborhood, but the convenience of the location is Huge. View Larger Map   Nestled on culdesacs, off Sudbury Drive, Verde Park was developed by New Fortis Homes in the early 1990's.  The neighborhood backs up to the Black Creek Greenway, and offers quite convenien...
11/17/2010
I have had to explain weep holes many times.  Here Jay Markanich does a very nice job of explaining why weep holes are necessary in brick veneer construction. . . . ______________________________________________________________________ In the olden days the brick siding you saw on houses was str...
11/16/2010
  Whittington Park has affordable townhomes in a superior Cary, NC location!   Positioned in Northwoods, along NW Maynard Road in Cary, Whittington Park is very close to multiple grocery stores, drug stores, restaurants, and other daily necessities.  Residents also enjoy easy access to Robert V ...
11/16/2010