If you have filed for Homestead Exemption on a MAC computer for Fulton County, be prepared that your homestead was not accepted. It was just brought to our Broker’s attention that they realized their system did not communicate with MACs. You will need to dispute and have your taxes adjusted. If you filed electronically, whether […]
June 2012 Market Update Signs of recovery continue in the housing market, demonstrated by improvements in the number of homes sold and national home prices. For the first time since June 2011, the median home price has exceeded $175,000. Continued strength in economic indicators, employment, and consumer confidence could help to bring full recovery to […]
Whether a business owner views himself as a entrepreneur or simply the owner of a small business, any individual who forms and/or manages an enterprise does so with considerable initiative as well as risk. To mitigate those risks – and increase the likelihood of thriving – experienced business leaders advise their counterparts to do as […]
February 2012 Market Update 2012 is off to a promising start. Mortgage rates continue to drop and have remained under 4% for nearly two months. Home sales are strengthening and pending home sales, a measure to gauge future sales, are at their highest levels since March 2010. Job growth has been increasing for most of 2011, […]
This newsletter is designed to share ideas and information proven to help small, growing enterprises. Please circulate it to business owners and managers you think would find it of interest. This time of year companies of all sizes and trades are focusing on how to achieve their sales goals in the new year. Top consideration […]
One of the most common questions I get is “What do I do with my hands?” To which I say: “Forget about your hands. If you’re engaging your audience with a strong message and energy, no one will notice your gestures.” I understand why people are worried about gestures. Hands and arms have a full […]
Back to Basics – How to Keep Your Teen Drivers Safe If you’re like most parents with a teen about to begin driving, or who has been driving for a short time, you’re probably concerned about safety. And with good reason. New teen drivers are involved in four times more crashes than any other age […]
One of the key drivers of homes sales, the employment rate, is beginning to show promising signs of a turnaround. The four-week average for jobless claims, as of November 19, was 394,250, a drop of 3,250 from the previous four weeks, and at the lowest levels since April. Consumer confidence also rose 15 points in […]
Let’s Move Your World Regret: to feel sorrow or remorse for (an act, fault, disappointment,etc.): He no sooner spoke than he regretted it. To think of with a sense of loss: to regret one’s vanished youth. Bronnie Ware worked as a palliative nurse. She turned her book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying into […]
While home sales in September were down slightly from a relatively strong month in August, they were up from a year ago, giving encouraging signs of a strengthening market and potential for stabilizing, if not appreciating, home prices. These signs include an increasing demand, shown by the number of people shopping for homes, and the […]