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The Harbour Bar and Fish House in Decatur has a 15% Realtor discount!

February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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That’s right – the owner is married to a Realtor, and they are showing love with a 15% discount if you are a licensed agent, when you present your business card. I’ve been twice and it’s definitely worth a visit. It’s becoming a busy restaurant and I expect to see it become a real sunny weather destination restaurant for happy hours and gatherings. From their site: “The Harbour Bar & Fish House is a casual seafood restaurant designed to give our customers a local place where they can come together to enjoy themselves with family, friends, and co-workers. Harbour Bar & Fish House feels like a Coastal Restaurant that you may have experienced while on vacation in Hilton Head, Charleston, Cape Cod or Newport RI. We want you to feel as if you are on a vacation in your own backyard. The interior decor is comfortable and relaxing, accented with natural woods and nautical tones of gray and blue. The exterior has outdoor deck/patio seating, two bocce courts and an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ATL Culture and Events, Eastside, Food, Fun Facts, Greater Decatur

Hot’Lanta is rekindling

January 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Curbed.com’s regional real estate reporting is superb. Their site is interesting and they are really on point with the style of their site. Recently, they reported on a grim forecast that surfaced for Atlanta’s metro economy, bringing up the bad and the ugly that “planners” statewide need to consider. The article cites ““Atlanta's persistent unemployment, traffic congestion, a 29% loss in average per-square-foot housing prices between 2000-2010, and the fact that the city is increasingly offering a lifestyle opposite of that desired by the most desirable workers and companies. The opportunities he sees are also legion, though, and many of them simply involve re-embracing our transit roots: i.e. investments in commuter rail, continuing to capitalize on the power of our airport, making The BeltLine everything it can be and getting T-SPLOST passed.” The AJC reported on the same Brookings Institution report that brought up these findings, stating the following about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, ATL Culture and Events, Eastside, General Information, Market Analysis, Northside, Southside, Westside

HENSE the name, hence the acclaim

January 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I was at an Atlanta Falcons tailgate party about three years ago, down in “The Gulch.” “The Gulch” is going to be the subject of another blog post soon, but in the meantime – if you don’t know about “The Gulch” and want to know exactly what it is – click here. I looked up, and saw that on the very top of an old, decrepit building that sits at the edge of the US federal government buildings was a massive graffiti name tag  - actually two tags – quite an accomplishment, and because of the limited and probably dangerous access, quite an effort just to get the names up there. Those nicknames, HENSE and BORN have been tags that I have seen for years around town. I have immense respect for the staying power of GREAT graffiti artists. I have immense disrespect for those who vandalize, and I tried to run off untalented taggers when I was living in Inman Park – so to me, the HENSE and BORN tags on top of the dilapidated building are artistic, cool and worthy of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, ATL Culture and Events, Candler Park, Cool videos, Eastside, Edgewood, Fun Facts, Kirkwood, Lake Claire

What exactly is “culture” in a real estate office?

January 24, 2012 By 1 Comment

Concentricity. Ever heard that word? It means “to have a common center.” I just learned that in the world of fiber optics, the definition of concentricity is about being “well-centered.” At any given real estate brokerage office with more than a few agents on staff, even the most free-wheeling and independent agents are part of the culture – the good, the bad, and the ugly. At my “market center” in Decatur, Georgia – we live up to the title of market center. We sit in the center of our core submarkets and we dominate the numbers in FMLS Area 52 – the “Greater Decatur” submarket. We also have significant market share in the nearby areas both inside and outside the perimeter. How do we do it? Well, pretty much just like other successful, mature Keller Williams market centers do it. 1. provide the The Best Technology tools to our agents As technology continues to transform the ways in which buyers search for homes and real estate professionals … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ATL Culture and Events, Cabbagetown, Candler Park, Druid Hills and Emory Area, East Atlanta Village, East Lake, Eastside, Edgewood, General Information, Greater Decatur, Inman Park, Kirkwood, Lake Claire, Midtown, Oak Grove, Oakhurst, Old Fourth Ward, Poncey Highland, Reynoldstown, Virginia Highland

A is for Atlanta, D is for Decatur and KW is #1

December 31, 2011 By 2 Comments

2011 ends with one or two real estate brokerage surprises that I did not see coming 365 days ago. Kind of a turbulent year for some in the real estate brokerage business. And 2012 is going to bring a big surprise to some real estate players, but to real estate business folks like me, we won’t be surprised. My company President, Mark Willis, claims that Keller Williams Realty is poised to be the #1 real estate company in the world next year. On 12/31/2010, I did not even speculate that one of the world’s largest Re/max franchisees, Re/max Greater Atlanta, would evaporate and scatter its agents far and wide by Spring 2011. A sad, broken business model. Ran out of money. I also did not consider that one of Atlanta’s most formidable boutique brokerages, Sanctuary, was struggling too. I got my real estate salesperson’s license in Georgia in 1999. Back in 1999, when I became a Charter member of Keller Williams Realty First Atlanta, I became a “blueprint buyer,” for Keller … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ATL Culture and Events, Eastside, Fun Facts, General Information, Greater Decatur, Inman Park, Market Analysis, Really Great Real Estate Marketing

This is the South

June 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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I am reading a book that I found in my Mother’s collection called “This is the South.” It is a “portrait in depth” by “31 distinguished authors” edited by Robert West Howard, and illustrated with a wide selection of prints and photographs. Rand McNally published it in 1959. It’s a relatively rare book nowadays, but I found one for sale at this link. Books are rare nowadays…here’s more for sale on amazon.com… The book is dedicated “to those families who are shaping the best of yesterday into a better tomorrow.” I am about to start the chapter called “The Preacher” and I am only on page 81 – I’ve read the opening “Look Away,” “The Native,” “The Planter,” “The Cracker,” “The Negro,” “The Factor,” and “The Teacher” chapters so far. It’s a timepiece. It’s respectful. It’s circumspect. It’s a fascinating look at how we all got here in the past few centuries, and each chapter is a quick read, written by an expert on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ATL Culture and Events, Fun Facts
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