Life in North Georgia, Real Estate in the Mountains

The Computer is a Moron - Not Me!!

I am not on the Mountain today.  I am sitting in the Gwinnett Center attending the RE Tech South show.  About 425 Realtors from across the South are here trying to learn what tools are the best tools to assist our clients.   Social Networking is getting a lot of play as well as lots of interesting new tools.

We are already using two Multiple Listing Services, multiple websites, multiple blogs, bots that push our listings to dozens of sites, we have 800 Call Back Technology and just added TEXTMYMLS this past week.  However, there are lots of other great programs and ideas out there and we hope to bring some new ones back to help our buying and selling clients.  I will be back on the Mountain Saturday with a pocketful of new ideas.

See you round  the mountains,

Don

The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month passed quietly in Jasper. 

Photo Courtesy Mari Livsey - Know Pickens.com

There was a parade of vintage military vehicles, motorcycles, the Pickens County High School Band, local Boy Scouts and quite a few “vintage” veterans.  A much larger crowd of veterans, spouses, friends and supportive citizens waited patiently for the parade to wind its way to a conclusion in front of the Court House.  It was a friendly, but reserved and quiet crowd that milled around the Veteran’s Monument on the front courtyard of the court house.  The monument carries the names of all the residents of Pickens County who gave their lives for our freedoms during wars from World War I to just last year in Iraq.

The original holiday, Armistice Day, marked the official end of hostilities on the Eastern Front in World War 1 on the 11th Hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.  Continue reading »

The vandals got my carved pumpkins last week; but I guess I should have seen it coming.  I grew up in the city and I should have known better.  If you carve a pumpkin, light it and leave it all alone out by the road some ne’er-do-well is almost certain to come along and smash it – it is almost like a law of nature.

Pumpkin Carving in Bent Tree

 But I guess I was just legitimately distracted.  Regina’s nieces were up from Mississippi for a short fall Continue reading »