I’ve been cutting my lawn with a reel mower for 4 or 5 years now.  It’s amazing the “look” you can get just by cutting with a reel – regardless of anything else you do to your lawn, like fertilizer, etc.  I’ve found a great company called ReelWorks that deals exclusively in service (and some [...]

Lately I’ve become excited about biking.  In fact, I’ve been riding a LOT.  I first caught the bug doing the indoor kind called spinning. That’s where you lock yourself in a room with 20 other people and jam some really loud music for about an hour — while riding a funny looking stationary bike. Anyway, [...]

The first quarter of 2010 has come to a close.  21 homes were sold in Hamilton Mill over those first 3 months of the year.  This is our usual “quick snapshot” of the sales results.  It’s meant to give you a basic idea of what’s happening in the market.  You’ll see as you look into [...]

My good friends at Altos Research just released their latest Real-Time Housing Market Update. This is a national view of the market based on a 10 city composite index. Since Atlanta is one of the 10 cities it’s always particularly interesting to me when the updated report comes out. It looks at price — we’re [...]

If you’re selling your Gwinnett home this spring, it’s a great idea to get a professional opinion about decorating choices, furniture placement and even lighting options to make sure that you’re highlighting the best features (and minimizing others).  We’ve been working with MJN Interiors for some time now & so I thought I’d post their [...]

I ran across an article that parses IRS data on which states are gaining population and which are losing population.  GA is doing pretty well on the list… only a couple of states gained more population that we did here in GA.  Texas and North Carolina picked up more households than the 37,000+ Georgia picked [...]

Image via Wikipedia Last year I wrote about Senate Bill 55 in the Georgia Senate.  Basically, the bill required the Counties to include foreclosures in assessments.  Previously, assessments for taxes excluded foreclosures, so they (falsly?) increased values and tax revenue to the counties. While that makes it tough for the counties, it is a needed [...]

Over on one of my other blogs, I re-blogged a post from Jeff Corbett.  He is VERY involved int eh mortgage and housing industry and loves diving into the ugly underbelly of the industry. Image by The Life of Bryan via Flickr In this post, he lays out the reasons he sees why there will [...]

We’ve been hard at work on the Annual Report for Hamilton Mill that will give you all the details on the 99 homes that sold last year in Hamilton Mill Golf Club.  It’s certainly less volume of sales than we’ve seen in previous years (down about 30%).  It also takes much longer (on average) to [...]

This new data came to us yesterday from our good friends over at Primary Residential Mortgage… Waiting a few extra days or weeks to purchase a home this spring could cost buyers thousands of extra dollars as the office of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) implements several changes for loans guaranteed by the Federal Housing [...]