Alright, I committed one of the most heinous crimes a blogger can commit, and I am about to admit it: I failed to post recently! It’s true, and you know it. Spencer from Athens Habitat for Humanity noticed it, and he was good enough to email today and say, “Dude, you need some new posts!” [...]
Archive for August, 2008
This and That About Athens, GA Real Estate Trends
Posted in Blogging is fun, buyers, Joe's Posts, Mortgages and Loans, real estate in the media, sellers on August 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Home Inspection Prices in the Athens, GA Area
Posted in buyers, home inspections, Jared's Posts, Uncategorized on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fees for home inspections in the Athens, GA area can vary greatly. They start around $200 for a townhome or condo and increase from ther,e depending upon several factors. These factors can include age, square footage, asking price, location and foundation type. In the Athens area, you can expect to pay about $300 for a [...]
Weekend in Athens, GA: A Repost from last winter, if you can call December in ATH Winter.
Posted in Athens Life, Joe's Posts, Uncategorized on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a post that got lots of readers and comments on my old classcityguide.com blog. I thought I lost it, but I just found it (Everything stays on the net. Yikes!)). I am posting it again since I still think about that weekend as a quintessential ATH lifestyle snapshot, at least for me, anyway. [...]
Greenspan: The Former Fed Head Weighs in on Housing, Bailouts, and He Offers a Modest Proposal to Boot.
Posted in buyers, Joe's Posts, real estate in the media, sellers on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You probably would be better off just reading the Wall Street Journal article because it is sort of interesting. If you don’t want to, here is what he has to say. Not sure he is worth listening to, but the WSJ felt strong enough to put him above the fold. Then again, one time he [...]
Foreclosures in Athens, GA Area Part II: The Builder Foreclosure or The Bigger They are, the Harder We All Fall.
Posted in buyers, foreclosures, Joe's Posts, sellers on August 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Until very very recently, Athens was in the midst of a residential building boom, and the precursor to any building boom was also booming. I’m talking the development boom. You can’t build homes in new neighborhoods unless land is readied by removing trees (hopefully selectively), grading the land, installing sewer and utilities, building roads and [...]
ON HOLD: Foreclosures in Athens, GA Part II: The Builder Foreclosure
Posted in Athens Life, Blogging is fun, Joe's Posts on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am writing from my makeshift office called my dining room table. The family has now been away in Tahoe for five nights, and I am hunkered in with the dog instead of going into the office. I am slowly becoming a bachelor again. Man, living alone this past week makes me realize how much [...]
A Comment Challenge!
Posted in Blogging is fun, Joe's Posts on August 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
When the Classic City Guide was in its previous state, it drew more comments than now Based on the stats, there has been one comment since we rolled our newly re-skinned blog, and that was me commenting on one of Brian the appraiser’s posts. We’ve had many visitors in the short time we’ve been re-presented, but no [...]
Moving to Athens Ga? Things to Know Part IV
Posted in Athens Life, Joe's Posts, subject index on August 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yet another installment of the things you want to know about our wonderful city. As I read over this post, I realize there is so much more in Athens, Georgia, that these posts can become quite habit-forming. Forecast Calls for Thunderstorms Every Afternoon During the Summer. It doesn’t always happen, but the weather person seems [...]
Moving to Athens, Ga? Things to Know Part III
Posted in Athens Life, Joe's Posts on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The University Makes this Town Great and So Do Holidays and Summers When the School is Closed or on an Off-Season Schedule. Traffic basically disappears, and parking spaces reappear. No waiting at restaurants, gyms, etc. Yes, the restaurants adults frequent are also frequented by college students, and here’s why: Many Students at UGA are from [...]
Screaming Deals: Real Estate in Oconee County, GA and Discount vs. Decline
Posted in buyers, Joe's Posts on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished a rather lengthy online home search and report for a prospective buyer, and I am continually amazed by the number of great buys in Oconee County right now. My buyers are in the mid 200′s, and for what they want, I would have told them last year that it just wasn’t going [...]
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