Carl Martens's (carlhmartens) Blog

Are you looking to buy a new  Atlanta home? Are you thinking that now’s a great time to find bargains? Before you make an offer, it pays to know a little about the seller’s situation. If a home is being sold for less than the current homeowner owes on the property and don’t have sufficient funds...

About a year and a half ago I purchased my first home (pictured throughout this article).  The home was also a foreclosure.  Now a year and a half later I can say that I am almost finished with the rehab work on the house.  Speaking from experience, I plan to provide you with 5 tips for buying a...

The majority of neighborhoods in Roswell belong to Fulton County, but there are a small few that are in Cobb County and their residents get to enjoy the lower Cobb County taxes and East Cobb schools. With a Roswell address and the benefits of low Cobb taxes and award winning East Cobb schools the...

Chatsworth Chatsworth is a community of 153 homes in Roswell, Georgia founded in 1987.  The community of Chatsworth is located between Sandy Plains Road and Mabry Road NE Southwest of Woodstock Road.  The subdivision is accessible off of Mabry Road NE. Feel free to contact us if you have any det...

Any home built prior to 1993 must have low flow toilet and plumbing fixture installed before the new homeowner can obtain water from the county. Effective June 1, 2008, sellers will be required to disclose the Dekalb County Ordinance when selling their homes. Before the new homeowner can obtain w...

When I first joined the H2Realty Team, contract to close was something I handled.  We used a three ring binder with tabs to organize the contract, turn-in docs, faxes, finance info, etc.  However, electronically we were not organized.  Every client folder had different sub folders from one client...

The innaugural REtechSouth event hosted in Atlanta was a huge success.  In all, about 100 people attended the conference with guest speakers such as Jonathon Washburn and Bob Stewart (Active Rain), Dustin Luther, Pat Kitano, Mary McKnight, Rudy Bachraty, and many more.  Read more.

Check out www.auntbrenda.com as a resource and tutorial on how to leverage technology to be more productive. The site was created for a class I taught at our local Keller Williams office, however it has taken on a life of it's own.  I will continue to post on the site and share my wealth of knowl...

Hello all, I am teaching a class titled, "Email Concepts" at our local Keller Williams Realty.  I'm not entirely sure what all to cover...I was hoping some of you might have some suggestions. Some of what I planned to cover is below: - How to insert pictures or Publisher files into email- How to ...

A federal appeals court on February 5, 2008 ruled against an agreement that Georgia reached with the Army Corps of Engineers for water rights to Lake Lanier, handing Alabama and Florida a major victory in the states' years-long water wars. The decision overturned an earlier ruling from 2003 that ...