Financial Reasons to Purchase a Home

Financial Reasons to Buy a Home There are a number of personal and emotional reasons to buy a home. But there are also some strong financial reasons to make the investment. Here are just a few of those reasons: Increase Net Worth: Few things have a greater impact on net worth than owning a home. [...]

Atlanta Home Prices Drop in 3rd Quarter

Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 1:36pm EST Atlanta home prices drop in third quarter Atlanta Business Chronicle Median home prices in the metro Atlanta area fell 14.5 percent in the third quarter, according to data published Tuesday by the National Association of Realtors. The NAR report said the median price of a single-family home in the [...]

Atlanta #1 for Recession Proof Retirement Cities

Atlanta Ranks number one for Recession Proof Retirement Cities. The Atlanta Business Chronicle reports that Metro Atlanta ranks No. 1 on a new list by Forbes of America’s 40 “recession proof” retirement cities. Forbes said it considered such factors as average income for seniors, current and expected home prices, job-growth predictions through 2014, the cost [...]

Recycling in DeKalb County Neighborhoods

Recycling  Made Easy for DeKalb County Residents What could be easier than putting your recyclable items on your curb?  You don’t even have to sort the plastic, aluminum and glass, it all goes in a tidy blue bag.  All paper goes in the blue bin and then, once a week to the curb.  For an inital [...]

Chamblee Methodist Fall Festival

Free Stuff for Kids Join Chamblee Methodist Church for their annual Fall Festival, Saturday, October 17th.  The fun starts at 1:00PM and finishes up around 4:00PM.  Activities include games, cake walk, inflatables, cider press and so much more.  For more information go to www.chambleeumc.org. Becky Veal – Home Source Group www.FreeAtlantaHomeSearch.com

Go Green Tip of the Week – Ecycling

Consider ecycling – recycling unwanted electronics to recover and reuse the product itself or materials like copper, steel, glass that the product contains. Some other tips include: keeping old televisions for games, videos or DVDs; donating working televisions to a charitable organization or giving them to a friend; or offering televisions through a local “freecycle” [...]

Maison Robert Relocates

As a longtime fan of Maison Robert, I had the treat of visiting their new location.  Wow, the space is incredible and their shop is beautiful.  I had a yummy Vegetarian Pan Bagnat (french bread with layers of marinated olives, lettuce,tomato, carrots, cumbers, fresh basil and brie) need I say more.  Wade had the turkey [...]

Flood Waters Recede

Shocking Floods in DeKalb County I’ve lived in the Chamblee Dunwoody/Ashford Dunwoody area for the better part of 20 years.  This past week was like nothing most of the residents have ever seen.  The water on the fields at Murphey Candler Park was waist deep in some parts.  Nancy Creek left it’s banks at D’Youville [...]

Go Green Tip of The Week

Water Filter and Reusable Water Bottles The bottled water industry is thriving, so it’s no wonder there are concerns regarding the oil it takes to manufacture and ship the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles, as well as the effects on our landfills after they’re discarded. The good news is that the recycling of these bottles is [...]

Go Green Tip of the Week

CFL Light Bulbs Switching to compact florescent light bulbs is one of the easiest ways to diminish the energy used in your home, as well as the associated costs. While CFLs are more expensive than incandescent bulbs, they last about 10 times longer. Each bulb actually pays for itself after the first six months of [...]