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It’s Time to Make Our Real Estate Resolutions | Quality Brokerage, Statistical Reporting and Direct Foreclosure Search
ALPHARETTA – This is the time of the year when we are resolving to make the coming year better than the past year. No industry is more in need of improvement than the real estate industry (including the auto industry), both in terms of overall market conditions and in the way the industry functions (or ... [Continue Reading]
Happy Holidays – No Wreaths.  More Llamas.
ALPHARETTA – We started a company holiday tradition a few years ago of giving on behalf of our clients to Heifer International.  No wreaths from Warmath Real Estate…we give livestock! I just went back and reread my post from last year regarding our contribution to Heifer International and I must say: I hit the nail ... [Continue Reading]
Christmas Light Show at Brierfield House Raises Money and the Bar for Christmas Light Displays in Alpharetta
ALPHARETTA – In the past, I’ve highlighted Brookhill Crossing Lane in Crabapple Chase as having the most impressive lights – and the owners in the cul-de-sac still wins hands down for sheer volume of lights. However, the Stack family has taken us to a new level by setting their lights to Christmas music that you ... [Continue Reading]
Buy a Million-dollar House for $50 | What a Stinking Good Idea
Annapolis and Milton – You can buy a million-dollar house for $50 in Annapolis. Now here is the catch: It’s a raffle. You buy a $50 raffle ticket and are entered into a drawing for the house (shown to the right with the porch).  Ten percent of the proceeds also go to support a local ... [Continue Reading]
Halloween Foreclosure Humor
Sometimes you just have to laugh.  Even the kids could be feeling the effects of the housing market this Halloween. Admit it … it makes you feel better to smile and this will do it. Boo! ... [Continue Reading]
What Has Happened to Alpharetta’s City Center?  Project Still Spinning Its Wheels
ALPHARETTA – Why isn’t the graphic for this post a picture of Alpharetta’s new City Center stretching toward the sky?  Because it doesn’t exist.  That’s why.  Ghosts don’t show up on film or digital sensors. I wrote almost two years ago about Alpharetta’s plans to redevelop "downtown" Alpharetta and build a new City Hall.  To ... [Continue Reading]
Why Home Owners’ Associations Are A Good Thing
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.  This is why neighborhood controls can be good. If you didn’t like that one, try this one.  Don’t worry, it is no where near Alpharetta, if you were considering buying a home there.  You have to go into Atlanta to find gems like this:   ... [Continue Reading]
Going Gated | Alpharetta and Milton Neighborhods Installing Gates
Often when we ask people, particularly those relocating from Florida, their requirements for a new home in Alpharetta, they say they want to live in a gated community.  The reason is not so much exclusivity, but security.  They don’t understand that for all intents and purposes we have no crime. So why in the world ... [Continue Reading]
Blogging for Alpharetta Real Estate Has Lighter Side
I’ve been blogging about Alpharetta Real Estate now since September, 2006, and mostly it is a pretty sober affair here:  North Fulton housing trends, the latest information on schools, new home construction in Alpharetta, etc. I appreciate all the kind phone calls and emails I’ve received since I started this blog and the new clients and friends I’ve ... [Continue Reading]
Thanksgiving Brings Much Needed Rain to Alpharetta Property Owners
It has been so long since it really rained in Alpharetta that many of us have forgotten what thunder sounds like.  However, in the early hours of Thanksgiving morning we were very thankfully reminded.  A whole INCH of rain was gifted upon the North Fulton area, according to the bucket sitting on my back deck.  With Lake ... [Continue Reading]


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