Mike's Greater Athens Area Blog and Then Some

This week I am thankful for a couple of things business related. First, I have matched a picky buyer with a piece of property that he is finally willing to commit on. We should be putting in the offer tomorrow. He has been looking for over a year and we have  been working together for about 6 mon...

50 years ago today I was walking home from John Marshall Elementary School in Glendale, Ca. I had my transister radio up to my ear, no Walkmen or IPOD's, not yet. We weren't allowed to have them in school, but, I had my ways. And then the news came on the radio. Richie Valens, The Big Bopper and ...

 While pending home sales are up nationally, and existing home sales were up nationally last month, the Athens market sales volume is still down.  However, the decline did slow in January, with annual sales volume down only 1.1%. On the positive side, the average sales price was flat, still up ov...

I have just finishe reading Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America - & How We Can Get More of It! by Arthur C. Brooks. Basically, it is an analysis of who, in the United States, is happy and why. There were some answers that I expected but several that were a surprise. For in...