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Archive for September, 2008

Anyone who has lived in or visited the Athens area for even a short time will know that we love our art, and though Athens is best known as a music town, our tastes reach well into visual art, theatre, and other media.  While digging through the electronic annals of Athens writing, I came across [...]

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As a home inspector, I run into some odd fixes or modifications to people’s homes.  While some are minor in nature and typically don’t pose much of a threat, others are very serious.  I would have to say that electrical items are the most encountered and most dangerous deficiencies.  This is often due to homeowners [...]

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This is the first Ask the Professor we’ve posted, and each post will feature a question posed to John Killens, the man who has forgotten more about real estate than most of us will ever know.  In each installment, he and I will talk a little bit (mostly I will listen), and then I paraphrase [...]

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Boy, how things have changed in just one year. American consumers went from 100% financed loans, stated incomes on mortgage applications and minimum 650 credit scores or lower to no 100% loans(except FHA or Rural Development Loans), no stated incomes on applications and 700+ minimum credit scores. This time last year was the beginning of [...]

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This article was published in this week’s Flagpole, the locally owned independent newspaper here in town.  I think it is worth a read.  It is always interesting to me to hear what newcomers have to say about life in Athens, GA, especially since it is not your typical isolated university town, and the realities here [...]

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