Are you interested in owning a vacation home, but you aren’t quite sure you are able to afford this leap into multiple home ownership? While owning a second home is a luxury that not everyone can afford, owning a fraction of a vacation home might be more accessible to you than you realize. Through a home ownership model called “fractional …
Since shortly after the Coronavirus pandemic began, we’ve been constantly hearing about supply chain issues and labor shortages, and we have gotten used to many of the items we order taking much longer than usual to arrive at our doorsteps. And while most of the items we need from the supermarket are now in stock, random outages persist and holes …
If you talk to real estate agents or read real estate magazines and blogs, you will likely hear a lot about curb appeal. Real estate experts love to point out how the front and exterior of your home are the key focal points for making a good first impression when you are listing your home for sale. Great curb appeal …
What goes up must come down cries the old song, but when it comes to the hot real estate market in Atlanta, things still seem to be moving up, up, up. For at least the past year, experts and amateur market watchers alike have been proclaiming that the end to the strong housing market is just around the corner. They …
Here in the south, we are always up for a celebration, and nothing makes a small party seem more formal and important than hosting it around the ornately carved dining room table in the formal dining room. Times are changing though, and many of us are hosting fewer gatherings in our homes, while we are also hosting our group and …
Most of us are familiar with the damage that freezing cold weather can do to our pipes, or what our roof could look like after the remnants of a tropical storm with violent winds blows through. But those are not the only extreme weather conditions that can wreak havoc on our homes. Here in the south, we’re quite used to …
One of the most important considerations when you are planning your summer garden, or deciding which flowers and plants to include in your landscape design is location. Specifically, the amount of sunlight your plants will need, and how much they will receive in depending on where you choose to locate them in your yard. Some exposure to the sun is …
Many of us have been anxiously looking forward to the end of the school year so that we can catch our breaths and enjoy a summer slow down, only to find that now that summer has arrived, we are as busy as ever. If you are still feeling the stress of the daily grind now that a supposedly slower time …
Shopping for a new home has become a competitive sport lately, and while it is true that supply is down while demand is raging on, there are still plenty of homes hitting the market each day in the metro Atlanta area. If you are in the market for a new place to live, you likely already have a list of …
