It's round 2 of the Virginia Association of Realtors 3d annual Nationwide Blog Brawl, and intowninsider.com is among 32 Nationwide competitors. Click here to vote before 8:59 am on Friday March 21 in two of the zones of this 4 zone, single elimination contest. Intowninsider.com is seeded 2d in Zone 3 and we are facing the formidable 7th seed foe of Brian Block, a Virginia Realtor. Please vote - I would love it if 100 or more of you voted! Yes, you must vote for all of the contests in two zones, that is just 8 contests. To vote for Zones 1 and 4, and to see the whole rundown of the current contest, click here. The loser leaves town. All this talk about being nationwide makes me wanna hear some of that little old band from Texas... PLEASE VOTE - WE LOVE YOU! … [Read more...]
Intown Insider Video: 4th Quarter Market Stats
Here are a few housecleaning issues from "behind the scenes" at The Intown Insider. I said it in my first blog post. Now I'm calling him out. #1 - Greg, "Mr. I Know Atlanta" Ruis, The Pricemaster, my Business Partner, is getting to be a real wanker when it comes to actually blogging and being a part of intowninsider.com. Greg, you need to get out from behind the scenes and you need to start working that cool blog post vacuum of yours and get busy contributing to this website or else I am going to find someone who can do it for you. #2 - Rev. Bubba - you are the brains of this outfit. I will get you that photo of The Village People that we are going to use for our service providers link, by tomorrow. I'll let you know if I win the REtech South video contest, and maybe you can join me on Friday up there at that fancy Sugarloaf meeting place, if I win you that free pass. Word? #3 - Thanks to Nate Dorn at Dornstar TV for the on site video work at the Georgia State … [Read more...]
Intown Atlanta Median Sales Price down 24.4% in 4th Quarter
Median sales prices were lower in each quarter during 2008 compared to the same periods in 2007 and 2006. The overall median 2008 sales price was -12.9%, compared to that of 2007. The 4Q 2008 median price was 24.4% below that of the same period in 2007. We gathered this data from researching the following Intown Atlanta submarkets: Vinings, Inside the perimeter Sandy Springs, Inside the perimeter North Dekalb (Brookhaven, Chamblee, etc.), Greater Buckhead, Greater Decatur, Eastside Atlanta – Fulton, Eastside Atlanta – Dekalb, and Southside Atlanta (Grant Park, Ormewood Park, etc.). Intown Atlanta and Decatur Buyers – it’s OK to wonder if “the time is now.” It’s certainly OK to stay a renter, or to stay in a neighborhood that you do not want to be in next year, or to stay in a school district that is not your favorite, or to spend more time with your windshield than you do with your family, or with your best friends, or with your pets, or … [Read more...]
Just Like I Told Ya – The Intown Atlanta Urban Heat Island
I'm killing two blog birds with one stone here. I promised a follow up story to the very brief "downtown Atlanta tornado" post that I completed on March 19th last year. It was something else, let me tell ya. This is the coolest photo that I've seen of the event. Vine City got hit first, then the GA Dome, then downtown, then O4W, then Cabbagetown, then it skipped I20 and devoured a nice swath of EATL. We are blessed in Kirkwood that it went south just before it got to Tower Liquors at Memorial and Moreland. Are ya feelin' me? I also promised a follow up story on "Urban Heat Islands" that I promised in my "What's Hotter Than Georgia Asphalt?" post dated December 2007. So, lets tie these into a neat package - WIRED magazine's Science section reported on March 13 that "Urban Sprawl, Climate Change Fueled Atlanta Tornado." "...Just a few days earlier, a few mild storms had doused parts of northeast Georgia and Atlanta. Evaporation from that rainfall produced the … [Read more...]
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day – The Annual Music Video Jubilation
Last year, I chose Ireland's mighty THIN LIZZY, HORSLIPS, and U2 (with B.B. King) as the choice videos. I can't enough Thin Lizzy, so here's the first Irish choice for 2009 - you can not get a better Irish classic - "Whiskey in the Jar." Next, the amazing guitarist Rory Gallagher. Irish dudes just get the soul thing down. Look at how fluidly he plays the blues. Here's "Walk On Hot Coals." So, Irish soul. Van Morrison. "St. Dominic's Preview." I drank two black and tans and a Rubi's Irish Car Bomb on the rooftop at Six Feet Under in Grant Park, gently, all before 2pm. I feel like a champ. Rock on everyone. … [Read more...]
Intown Insider Video: Lakewood’s Butterfly Effect, 9 Years Later
$39,000.00. My listing. 9 years ago. Lakewood...the "Holistic Health Oasis." I decided to drive down Meador Avenue this morning. Before I got too comfortable in front of 1892 Meador Avenue - 30315, a City of Atlanta Police officer stopped by, at the early stage of my little morning rainstorm video shoot and checked to see what I was up to. That was cool - "community policing," baby! I am glad that I carry a handgun in an area like Lakewood, but 9 years ago, I did not even think about the need to "be prepared" in Lakewood. Lakewood was "up and coming." Watch the video - I sold that house as the Listing Agent in 2000, for the full price of $39,000.00. I sold it to a cash buyer. The "unrepresented" buyer took this house, and a few others, and created cash wealth, fairly quickly - just a few years. He sold the property to a family member, financed about $100,000 and as of about 1 year ago, walked away from any responsibility for the asset, from what I can tell. He … [Read more...]