Mike's Greater Athens Area Blog and Then Some

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Real Estate Agent - Retired
Life & Real Estate in and Around Athens Ga.
RECENT BLOG POSTS
If you are in the Athens, GA area on Sunday evening, Feb. 20th, stop by The Classic Center and enjoy the 18th annual Taste of Athens. Sample the fares of over 50 local restaurants and beverage purveyors and at the same time support the Community Connection of Northeast Georgia, an organization wh...
02/10/2011
On the January 27, 2011 episode of the Daily Show Jon Stewart had as his guest T. Boone Pickens. They talked extensively about Pickens vision and plan for weaning Americans off of OPEC oil by investing in our own vast natural gas resources. After the normal 5 - 7 miutes of interview, Stewart aske...
02/09/2011
At the same time the President is saying that regulations that get in the way of business have to be reviewed the EPA is merrily issuing new sets of ridiculous regulation. Now it has determined that it can regulate milk. Yep, that major environmental hazard, milk. The EPA has determined that spil...
02/07/2011
Last year the NAACP came out against the Tea Party, calling it a racist organization. More recently, it, and others, called for the right to tone down the rhetoric and quit inciting violence. While there is little evidence cited, other than disagreement with the president, and the rare sign, it w...
02/07/2011
Other than a cash purchase, do you ever counsel your buyers to get an appraisal? I have been wracking my brain and cannot come up with a benefit for having a buyer pay for their own appraisal when it will not be considered by the lender. There is an appraiser out there on another forum who is try...
02/07/2011
What happenned in 2010? 2010 was a challenging year for real estate across the country. While Madison County Ga did not escape those challenges the presence of the University of Georgia in neighboring Athens and an unemployment rate that remained below both the state and national averagesĀ  kept t...
02/07/2011
What happenned in 2010? 2010 was a challenging year for real estate across the country. While Oconee County Ga did not escape those challenges the presence of the University of Georgia in neighboring Athens and an unemployment rate that remained below both the state and national averages (often t...
02/05/2011
Just take a look at some of today's headlines and read the stories. NM declares state of emergency over natural gas shortage... - the state government has shut down services and is asking schools to close because there is not enough natural gas for heating. Rolling blackouts for hundreds of thous...
02/05/2011
For 8 years we all heard charges of conflict of interest, collusion, favoritism, etc. because Halliburton appeared to get some special treatment, such as being given no-bid contracts, etc. Of course those same critics totally ignored the fact that Halliburton received dozens of sole source contra...
02/04/2011
What happenned in 2010? 2010 was a challenging year for real estate across the country. While Oglethorpe County Ga did not escape those challenges the presence of the University of Georgia in neighboring Athens and an unemployment rate that remainedĀ  below both the stateĀ  and national averages ke...
02/04/2011