Your Guy for That Saturday, October 30th, 2010 No Comments
EAST POINT, GA – Educators from across the state are visiting seven high-achieving schools on a bus tour, including the KIPP South Fulton Academy. Located on East Washington Road, the charter middle school is to be a showpiece on the tour, hosted by by the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education.
For more information please visit: East Point Charter School Among High Achievers…. Continue Reading East Point Charter School Among High Achievers
Your Guy for That Friday, October 29th, 2010 No Comments
Meet me at the Beltline Saturday morning for the groundbreaking of the new Eastside Trail! It will be a 14-foot concrete path from the new Old Forth Ward Park (behind the old City Hall East) all the way to Piedmont Park! After the groundbreaking at 10AM there will be a walking tour of the new trail and Atlanta Beltline Dine-Out.
The Atlanta Beltline is one of the most comprehensive economic development efforts ever undertaken in the City of Atlanta and the largest, most wide-ranging urban redevelopment currently underway in the U.S., the Atlanta BeltLine is being developed as a public-private partnership combining greenspace, trails, transit, and new development along 22 miles of historic rail segments that encircle the urban core.
For more information or to follow the event on Face… Continue Reading Groundbreaking for the Atlanta BeltLine Eastside Trail!
Your Guy for That Thursday, October 28th, 2010 No Comments
With houses sitting on the market longer leading into the holiday season Seller’s are becoming more and more anxious to make a deal and move on to their next home, job, or life in general; at the same time interest rates at record lows… IT’S GREAT TO BE A HOME BUYER!
The Wall Street Journal reports “The Mortgage Bankers Association predicts rates on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage will average 4.4% in the fourth quarter of 2010, increasing to a 4.7% average in the first quarter of 2011, and climbing to 5.1% by the end of next year. That is barring any ‘blockbuster’ announcement from the Federal Reserve next month, said Jay Brinkmann, chief economist of the MBA”
This comes on the heals of hearing that home sales dropped slightly in August and September causing stress for Seller’s with the… Continue Reading Great time for Home Buyers
Your Guy for That Tuesday, October 26th, 2010 No Comments
Your Guy for That, Dustin Drabot, is now able to offer a FORECLOSURE OUTLOOK report. FORECLOSURE OUTLOOK is a tool allowing you to see all real estate transactions affecting home prices including Pre-Foreclosure notices and Bank Transactions vs. Market Transactions. This new tool provides you with all the information you need to make smart decisions about buying and selling Real Estate.
So, how are foreclosures effecting your home’s value? Every neighborhood is feeling the foreclosure crisis in a different way. Some neighborhoods are maintaining, some are still falling while others are seem to have two completely separate markets operating in the same community.
Let Your Guy for That run a custom FORECLOSURE OUTLOOK report for you and keep you up-to-date on the ever changing fore… Continue Reading New Foreclosure Forecasting
Your Guy for That Sunday, October 24th, 2010 No Comments
The City of East Point, GA has announced that October 25th – 29th will be Fall Amnesty Week offering you the chance to clean out your home for fall. Bulk Pick-Up will occur on your regularly scheduled garbage pick-up day. Be sure to have all items that you wish to have picked up as part of the Amnesty Week out the night before or earlier than 7AM on your regular garbage day.
Bulk pick-up includes items such as sofas, chairs, tables, desks, mattresses, washers, dryers, hot water heaters, stoves, etc. Refrigerators MUST have Freon removed prior to disposal. Lawnmowers MUST have gasoline and oil removed prior to disposal.
Items not permitted for bulk pick-up include dirt, rock, gas, coals, paint, branches, tree trimming, flammable materials, construction debris, remodeling debris, demolition … Continue Reading Free Bulk Pick-Up Week in East Point
Your Guy for That Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 No Comments
AUSTIN, TEXAS (July 30, 2010) —According to the J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Home Buyer/Seller StudySM, Keller Williams Realty, Inc., the third largest real estate company in the United States, has received the highest overall satisfaction ratings from home buyers among the largest full-service real estate firms for the third year in a row. The company also ranked second among home sellers in the study for the second year in a row.
“We are incredibly proud of our associates for earning this distinction and want to thank them for their commitment to their clients and communities,” said Mark Willis, CEO of Keller Williams Realty. “We see this honor as demonstration of our company philosophy that it is the agent’s brand that matters most and no amount of money spent on advertising… Continue Reading Keller Williams Realty Named Highest Ranked in Home Buyer Satisfaction by J.D. Power and Associates for Third Straight Year
Your Guy for That Friday, October 22nd, 2010 No Comments
Please join Mayor Pittman and the East Point City Council for a Town Hall Meeting on Saturday, October 23, 2010 from 12:30pm – 3:30pm. The meeting will take place at Paul D. West Middle School located at 2376 Headland Drive, East Point, GA 30344.
• Hear Updates
• Capital Projects – including Municipal Complex options,
Street Maintenance/Resurfacing and Sidewalk Installation/Repair
• Parks and Recreation Master Plan
• Customer Care Department
• See New Capital Equipment – Public Safety Vehicles,
Street Sweepers and much more
For more information, please call 404-270-7017…. Continue Reading East Point Town Hall Meeting
Your Guy for That Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 No Comments
Please join me at this wonderful Open House this Sunday from 1:00-4:00PM at 1043 Jefferson Avenue in beautiful Jefferson Park, East Point. In addition to touring this renovated cape-cod I’ll be serving up hot apple cider and have the proposed 2010-2020 EP Parks Master Plan on display.
Fellow East Pointers, be sure to bring a friend from out of town and show them how great our East Point homes, neighborhoods and city is!… Continue Reading SUNDAY OPEN HOUSE – Jefferson Park Community, East Point, GA
Your Guy for That Friday, October 15th, 2010 No Comments
Dustin Drabot is proud to announce that he has joined the Keller Williams Realty Intown Atlanta office!
After working with a number of highly successful and productive real estate teams from 2004 through 2008 it was an easy decision for Dustin to come back to Keller Williams. The only difference, this time he will be working as an independent agent. Since 2008 Dustin has spent a significant amount of time expanding his knowledge of green building technology and received the LEED Green Associate designation from the U.S. Green Building Council.
In addition to Dustin’s background in real estate and green building technology he has been extremely active within his community. Dustin is a past president and current board member of the Colonial Hills Neighborhood Association and has been appo… Continue Reading Dustin Drabot Joins Keller Williams Intown Atlanta
Your Guy for That Thursday, October 14th, 2010 No Comments
Check out the link below…
Georgia to investigate foreclosures | ajc.com.
In my opinion, until Georgia and the other 26 states step up and stop the banks from foreclosing on people’s homes without going through the courts this problem will not be fixed.
In the past few days several people have asked me what the review or freeze on foreclosures means to them. Unfortunately in Georgia it doesn’t mean a whole lot. Each bank is defining their freeze in a different way. For some it means no more evictions, for others no more auctions and for a rare few it means the whole process is on hold. Very few, if any, banks have actually stopped marketing and/or selling the homes they’ve already foreclosed on that are sitting on their books.
If you have any real estate questions, foreclosure… Continue Reading Georgia to investigate foreclosures | ajc.com