Life in Big Canoe, Real Estate in the Mountains

  Anyone who reads this is probably wondering how death threats, lost dogs, and real estate marketing could possibly be tied together, so let me explain by fleshing out the title a bit more:   First, let me explain the death threats. The metro Atlanta area has a very popular talk show personality named Clark Howard [...]

Customers always ask me to find them certain style homes when they first come to Big Canoe. They have big ideas in mind and I’m always happy to help whether it’s a rustic cabin with a view or a formal well appointed home with all the bells and whistles. As you know, Big Canoe real estate has such a [...]

  Georgia is a Lost Dog in Big Canoe Over the past couple days, I’ve been noticing signs for a lost dog named Georgia.  My 5 year old son who is just starting to read has seen the sign and keeps asking me  “Did they find Georgia yet?”  Today, Karin (my wife) met Ellen Rambo [...]

What’s Available in the Big Canoe Community? There’s no doubt that one of the 250 homes listed on FMLS for sale in Big Canoe  is right for you, but which one is ‘it’? Hopefully you have read my past blogs regarding the different sections in the Big Canoe Community. All of the sections have available lots [...]

Heed My Warning – Don’t Touch! Have you ever done something, gone through a process, or committed to a course of action and then been smacked in the face with the cold hard truth that maybe your way of doing something was not the best way to do it? And to add insult to injury, something [...]

Over the past weekend I was speaking with a broker here in the Big Canoe community about a real estate show he had recently attended down in Florida. The purpose of the show was to match potential buyers with real estate groups selling mountain property, and hopefully to make a few sales. This broker explained [...]

Well, there were about 125 disappointed young soccer players this Saturday morning with the heavy rains on Friday night. However, ALL the plants in Big Canoe were waving their leaves with joy because not only did they avoid the predicted hard freeze, but they also got some rain to boot!. Many of you already know [...]

My house just got a whole lot bigger, thanks to the warm sunny weather. Suddenly the rocking chair front porch is my new favorite office. The screened porch doubles as a great place to read a book and dinners taste a whole lot better cooked on the grill and served on the deck! This is [...]

  The Big Canoe Community has been remarkably stable throughout the nationwide dip in real estate sales.  I blogged about this fact the other night, and I’ll repeat a thought I mentioned in that article:  It’s very reassuring to me that our mountain community has retained its character, and that prices have been so stable.  Even [...]

Over the past weekend, we had several calls from clients looking for second homes or “weekenders” as we like to call them.  We also had a few clients looking over our Big Canoe real estate listings that were to be used for their primary residence.  Considering the different ways in which these two groups of clients intended to [...]