Don’t Want to Sell Your Home – Follow This Advice!

November 25, 2008 at 12:28 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment
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Today’s real estate market is a great time to buy since interst rates are fantastic and people are willing to negotiate on their homes. On the other hand, sellers need to be realistic about their properties and not get too carried away with their demands.

 

I figure I will give you a list of things that you can do to not sell your home. Here’s a cynical list to be followed only by those intent on not selling their house. These are situations that I have encountered during my real estate career.

 

10. Stage it like you are big Civil War fan and have rebel flags and Confederate memorabilia all over the place.

 

9. Refuse to have open houses.  I mean, hey, weekends are for watching sports games and sleeping.  Let the prospective home buyers find a time that’s not inconvenient for me.

 

8. Don’t let agent list home on FMLS and MLS.  Don’t tell anyone I am selling my house! 

 

7. Refuse to have your agent put a lockbox on the property.

 

6. Insist on keeping your four cats each with their own litter boxes in a small two bedroom condo.  (This one smelled real nice!)

 

5. Don’t want a for sale sign.  Don’t want passers-by to know home is for sale.

 

4. Hire your cousin who is not a full time agent who travels for work to sell your home. After all, it’s more important to hire somebody you have a connection with than a real local professional who will be available for you almost all the time.

 

3. Insist on the buyer to pay for your commission when you are the listing agent.

 

2. Paint the house in a bright blue color and have it clash with all the homes on the street.

 

1. Overprice the home because my home is much better than anything else in the subdivision.

 

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Civil War History In A Popular Sandy Springs Subdivision (Huntcliffe)

November 23, 2008 at 1:21 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
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I enjoy history of all types. Living in the South for most of my life, I have always been fascinated by being in the midst of the same areas where there has actually been Civil War activity. I grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was constantly seeing historical markers denoting areas of historical significance.

Well, even in our little city of Sandy Springs, there was some Civil War Action. In July 9, 1864, U.S. General Garrard needed to cross the Chattahoochee River in the area of where Roswell Road crosses the river. The bridge, which had been destroyed by Confederate Wheeler’s Calvary, was around 300 feet west of the modern day crossing. Garrard’s men found a shallow area of the river and waded across into the area that is now known as Huntcliffe Subdivision.

For more information about the activity during this month of the war, you can click on the link to the Dunwoody Crier article about the topic.

Can you share your interest in the Civil War in the area?

Woodland Charter Elementary and Sandy Springs Kiwanis Club

November 7, 2008 at 6:54 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
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The Sandy Springs Kiwanis Club  recently spent a little time with a fifth grade class from Woodland Charter Elementary.  We brought them some playground toys for their future use.  I have include the scanned thank you notes from these children.  Please click on the links to the files.  They are large and may take a few minutes to open so be patient.  Enjoy!

 

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Another View of Sandy Springs….

November 7, 2008 at 12:49 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
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I am going to diverge from my usual positive post about Sandy Springs.  I have tried to keep politics out of my blog since there are plenty of places to go to get opinions regardless of what you believe.

I have lived in Fulton County way before the city of Sandy Springs became a city, when it made its transition to a city, and currently.  I have followed the socio-econonomcs and politics of the county and city as well.  Below is a video made by a group call Inside USA.  I dk much about them except they have made a lot of videos posted on YouTube which are left-leaning.  After viewing the one on Sandy Springs and their video editing, I can see how their other videos are going to be like.  I encourage you to watch the one below (it is long!) since it will give you an idea of how certain folks think about Sandy Springs in relation to Fulton County.  This is a good example of class warfare propaganda that these anti-Sandy Springs folks spread.

A few thoughts about the video.

1.  The narrator describes Sandy Springs as a place where the average family makes $80k a year and then shows the gated mansions that are in the millions.  Being in real estate, how can a family earning $80k a year live in a $3.5 million dollar home?  The average home price in Sandy Springs is well below what the video showed.

2. The narrator did not explain the great disparity of public service between South Fulton and Sandy Springs in terms of police and fire coverage.  South Fulton had a great number of police and fireman per person than Sandy Springs. The number had not changed since 1985 even though the city population exploded.

3.  The narrator did not explain the amount of revenue Sandy Springs generated for the county and how little of the money stayed in the area to improve infrastructure and public sevice.

4. The narrator did not show all the new facilities and parks that have been built in South Fulton. Many of these facilities do not have the population to support such things. Many of these facilities were paid for by the residents of Sandy Springs.

5. The biggest error was equating the demise of Grady Hospital to the formation of Sandy Springs. The authors even interviewed Jane Fonda to talk about how bad Grady’s future looks.  I do believe that Grady is extremely important to the area and needs to be fixed.  The video doesnot address that the hospital was in dire straits before the city of Sandy Springs came into existance and that it is the state that is having problems funding the place.  Also, it does not examine the leadership of the hospital which is run by South Fulton cronies who have looted the budget, mismanaged it, and has given millions of dollars of contracts to friends and family members. Some of which are in jail!

These are just a few thoughts.  Post your opinion.

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