Doug Harris

Only $1000 over the other, this is still a close enough contender for the lowest site built list price of the weak...Mt Vernon school district though.

This weeks cheapest site built house currently listed in Hall County!

Looking for a foreclosure or a move in ready lake home? Maybe something in between? This is the first example (a foreclosure) in a series that looks at three houses, all built in the same area near Oakwood, but that took very different routes. Located at 4644 Sequoia Circle, and listed for $100,000, this foreclosure needs a lot of work. It is a 3/2 on a basement. Not only does everything look original it has seen some serious neglect. Give me your thoughts and let me know... if you want to see it before you go on to look at the rest of the series 2 of 3 Typical 70’s house https://youtu.be/r8j6M200vXM 3 of 3 this is the flipped lake house https://youtu.be/hqLANgai-7o

This is the last of three in the series linked below. 4715 Virginia Street is a 3 bedroom 3 bath with a finished basement. This house, built in 1974, was foreclosed on in 2015, and just look at what they did with the place! This should provide some serious inspiration to the previous two houses. And on top of everything it comes with a single slip dock, but a double slip permit. Take a look, give me your thoughts, and let’s look at it in person! 1 of 3 this is the foreclo...sure https://youtu.be/ndIAaMAKOjs 2 of 3 Typical 70’s house https://youtu.be/r8j6M200vXM

This is the second of three in the series linked below. Located at 4609 Circle Dr this house is listed at $330,000. The listing says that it is a lake lot and they have a survey with it hitting Corp property, but the neighbors and my online maps disagree. We’d have to look into that if you are interested. This 4 Bedroom 3.5 bath with a finished basement was built in 1977, and this house still has much of the original feel as you'll see. However it at least seems like it wa...s maintained. Give me your own review or let’s got take a look in person, and then see what the owners of the last house in the series did with it! 1 of 3 this is the foreclosure https://youtu.be/ndIAaMAKOjs 3 of 3 this is the flipped lake house https://youtu.be/hqLANgai-7o

Wow probably the only home in the city limits under $100k!!! Great starter or it currently has a tenant for all of the investors out there.

I didn’t even mention bikes in an earlier post. Shame on me. How much different would our cities be if we had accepted bikes as a valid method of transportation decades ago?

This is probably a good thing, but it just will not be effective in the Atlanta area until other changes take place. Building a MARTA line and with the expectation that it will create a need for people to use it is backwards. Productive growth follows a pattern along the lines of a people driving, walking, or taking a taxi between two places (say residences and places of employment). Then as more people follow the same pattern a bus route is financially viable. Then if t...hings get crazy and the density supports it maybe a street car. Then maybe if there is just a huge amount of demand, and perhaps the demand to be linked to other places, it might be worth constructing an elevated rail line. See how the need drives the construction. That is a much more financially responsible development pattern instead of speculating and attempting to engineer need. So yay regional planning, but let’s focus on growing the need through more walkable and bus linked communities before doing anything crazy.

Very deep and important article. I wanted to pull a quote but no single blurb does it justice. For the Hall County people think Danny’s Donuts v. Duncan Donuts. Local capitalism creates far more local wealth AND it makes a resilient (non fragile) local economy.

Amazing restoration. The only thing that I fault is it looks like overhead garage doors. Folding doors would have been more reliable and appropriate.

At over $500k this tiny shotgun house certainly doesn’t bring down neighborhood values. We need to recognize that diverse housing makes a more resilient town and usually HIGHER home values for all. Sadly that is something that most real estate agents don’t understand.

The value of central business districts (CBD), or downtowns, is phenomenally misunderstood. Measured by appraisal or tax revenue alone they are outstanding. These dense mixed use tracts of land provide more money per acre and at a lower cost than subdivisions, industry, shopping malls, strip shopping malls or any other "zoned" use. These districts developed organically in response to the needs of the town. There was no central land use planning beyond creating grids for the r...oads. Once left for dead, while they subsidized suburban and retail sprawl, they are finally starting to make a comeback. And that's the best possible thing for a city. Not only are they good on the finances. They are also economically tough. 50 business employing 2 people each is much more resilient than 1 business employing 100 people. And if all that isn't enough they do it with existing infrastructure and vastly fewer hand outs from any level of government. How many big company's or subdivisions can say that?

1.11 acres in Chestatee district! 4 bedroom 2.5 bath at 2300 square feet. It is even move in ready with upgraded floors and new paint. I'd love to show it. Message me or reply and I'll send you the full sheet.