Cherokee and Cobb County Neighborhoods

Active Adults Communities in NW Georgia

sueboughton — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:42:39 +0000

There is good news for active adults interested in moving to NW Georgia. More and more communities are being built and prices are lower than ever! The Villas at Riverstone are great homes that are now being offered in the low 100’s — many of these have full basements. Lawn care is taken care of, medical facilities are around the corner — as well as grocery stores, restaurants, and lots of shopping!

The Seasons at Laurel Canyon continues to attract many active adults with the emphasis on ACTIVE. Their amenities and activity calendar is hard to beat! If you want to stay active with your tennis skills this is also the community to consider. Their clay courts are easy on the bones and they have full time tennis pros, lessons, tons of teams at all levels, and lots of tennis always going on. Of course there are other active adult communities that also would please the active tennis players and I will be happy to send you all the info on those too!

Cherokee County has become a great place for active adults to “retire” to for many reasons. The medical facilities are abundant and growing - great communities at even better prices– and don’t forget the property tax break (up to 75%) when you turn 62 years of age. Many active adults are buying their future retirement homes now with prices so low and using them as second homes until they sell their present home. For more information or to see what NW Georgia has to offer please call or email me — I would love to help you find your next home surrounded by the beautiful North Ga mountain scenery.

Tennis, Tennis Everywhere!!

sueboughton — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:45:30 +0000

Fall Alta season is right around the corner and it reminds me of how important TENNIS is here in Atlanta. The Alta member book used to be bigger than most cities phone book. (now it is on-line) There are many subdivisions in the greater Atlanta area that cater to tennis players — and being an avid tennis player myself I do keep up with that area of the real estate market. Of course you have all levels of neighborhood commitment: from one lonely unlighted court — to 30 courts, clay and hard surface with numerous full-time tennis pros and grandstand seating!! Whatever level of tennis player you are — if you are looking for a neighborhood to pursue your favorite past time in, give me a call. Also it is a fantastic way to meet your neighbors and make new friends. Many of my friends to this day are team mates from my first tennis team from back when I moved to Atlanta in 1986. Call or email and I will be happy to supply you with all the tennis info you want or any other real estate needs you may have.

Home Prices & Interest Rates drop again!

sueboughton — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:07:52 +0000

Normally home prices dropping would be bad news. But I guess interest rates dropping is always good news. However if you are contemplating a home purchase this should be music to your ears. Why is now the time to buy?? Because you are sure of 2 things right now. Home prices are very depressed and interest rates are at historic lows!! Will these two factors ever be this favorable at the same time again?? Probably not. Foreclosures are being grabbed up pretty quickly by the investors that have finally started swooping in. That means by next year a great deal of inventory will be gone — you know the laws of supply and demand. The interest rates are anyones guess. They always go up — by how much is another guess. But everyone in the industry agrees– the rates have to go up soon as the banks cannot afford to keep tying themselves into such low interest mortgages if they are to flourish in the future. So.. call me or email and I will set you up on an internet program that will email you all the available homes: foreclosures, short sales, stepless ranches — whatever your wishes may be I can set up a program to search for it!

Active Adult Living in Dallas GA.

sueboughton — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:54:27 +0000

A new active adult community in Paulding County GA has just reached completion! Paulding County was just featured in a national real estate publication as one of the fastest growing counties in the country. It placed in the top ten along with Forsyth County — another great area that has several new active adult communities and a senior property tax cut to boot! The Villas in Paulding are featuring a $12,000 builder incentive for buyers this month. There are several different floor plans — but most feature private courtyards, granite counter tops, wood flooring and walk-in pantries. The landscaping is taken care of which leaves more time to enjoy all the amenities the neighborhood has to offer! Call or email me and we can visit this community and all the others on my “A” list

Ranches — Ranches w basements — Stepless Ranches

sueboughton — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:36:08 +0000

I am finding that more and more clients are interested in ranches — and if you have lived in the Atlanta area for long you know that ranch homes can be hard to find! Builders and Developers have finally jumped on board with the trend for more One-Level homes, so finally there is more choice out there for buyers. I would like to invite you to email or call me for my specialized lists of ranch homes available in the NW Atlanta area. I have them categorized mainly by three criteria: stepless ranches with level garage, ranches with basements, and ranches on acreage. If you would like one of these lists emailed (or all of them is fine too!) just email or call and I will email to you that day. I do update them once a week so the information you get will be fairly current. I don’t think you can go wrong buying a ranch home now with prices so reasonable and the trend growing every year for their popularity. Also don’t forget about the tax credit — you still have a couple of months to cash in on that!!

ATTENTION ACTIVE ADULTS!!

sueboughton — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:24:32 +0000

Hi Active Adults! There have been some great reductions in several new communities in Cherokee County that you definitely need to see! Also there are several resale communities that are offering some unbelievable prices due to foreclosure or estate sales. If you have been wanting to downsize — now is definitely the time! You will qualify for the $6500 tax credit if you already own a home and if you are getting a loan — the interest rates are still historically low! For a list of homes please call or email (sueboughton@remax.net) and you can see for yourself what fantastic homes await you!!

THERE’S STILL TIME!!

sueboughton — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:04:21 +0000

It may seem like time to hit the panic button for the Tax Credit — but the April 30th timeline is deceiving. You do have to be in a BINDING CONTRACT by April 30th — but you dont actually have to close on the transaction until July 1st, 2010. There is the $8000 tax credit for the first time homebuyer. This does not have to be paid back — but the home must be occupied by the buyer for a minimum of 3 years. The move-up tax credit does not just apply to buying a more expensive home — it just includes present homeowners in the fun! This tax credit is for $6500 and again the home buyer must occupy the new home for a minimum of 3 years. If it is not possible to occupy the home this long you will have to pay back some of the tax credit on a pro-rated basis — depending on how long you did live there. The income limits for this credit are fairly liberal — I won’t go into all the numbers in this article — but email me at sueboughton@remax.net or call me at 678-549-4949 and I will forward information to you that explains everything in very understandable language. It would be a pity to not take advantage of discount home prices — the lowest interest rates in history — and this tax credit combined — so call now and get set up on an email program where you can view all the homes that match whatever criteria you enter into the search.

Tax Credit Extension

sueboughton — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:11:46 +0000

>евтини мебели OFFICIAL!!! The tax credit has been extended for First Time Home Buyers. AND a great caveat is that present HOMEOWNERS may also be eligible for a tax credit up to $6500!! YEAH!!! The extension will last until April 30, 2010 …. but buyers have 60 days after this date to close as long as they are under contract by the 30th of April. With present homeowners the tax credit is available as long as they have been in the home as their principal residence for five years or more. There are still 100% loans available and some funding programs so if you thought you missed the boat for Nov 30th …. you didn’t. Come back on board & give me a call…. you can start your search knowing this is still a fantastic buyers market….rates are still amazingly low…. and the inventory of available homes is huge! Call me at 678-549-4949 and I will email you a list of homes that match your criteria today!!

Short Sales and Foreclosures

sueboughton — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:03:48 +0000

The word is officially out on Short Sales — “not for the faint of heart.” Even Clark Howard has been explaining on his show that short sales are better suited for investors than the typical home buyer. Why? Mostly because the outcome is so unpredictable–if you are really needing a place to move into sooner or later–you just don’t know IF the short sale will come to fruition or WHEN it will come to fruition. Investors on the other hand can wait it out — are not worried about having to move by a certain time or close by a certain date to get a better interest rate, etc.

Now Foreclosures on the other hand are very home buyer friendly. Local banks have been responding to offers within HOURS. They have also become much more reasonable in their expectations in my opinion and are even working with buyers on mortgage and inspection issues. The foreclosure homes of today are not like the foreclosure homes of the past. Many of these homes are newer and in excellent condition for the most part. Recently quite a bit of new construction has become available in the foreclosure market — with home warranties and all!

Call me for more information about short sales and foreclosures. Also if you would like to take advantage of the best housing market the Atlanta area have ever seen, call me and I will be happy to show you all the great deals that are out there right now! CELL #: 678-549-4949 …. EMAIL: sueboughton@remax.net. Don’t forget about the Fed and State Tax Credit –up to $9800 free money!!

TOP SELLING COMMUNITIES

sueboughton — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:59:29 +0000

What do most of the top-selling communities have in common?? AMENITIES GALORE (tennis, clubhouse, fitness center, pools, golf, trails, etc) and SECTIONAL PRICING (entry level homes to custom-built mansions). The homebuyer that moves in the 150K townhome can participate in all the same neighborhood amenities that the homeowner in the 950K home does. North GA has its share of mega-communities and many of these neighborhoods have been on the top-seller list for years. BRIDGEMILL (golf & tennis), LAKE ARROWHEAD (golf, horseback riding, lake) TOWNE LAKE (several neighborhoods combined), WOODMONT (golf & tennis), RIVER GREEN (tennis, pools, trails) and HARMONY ON THE LAKES (tennis, lakes, trails) are the most popular communities in CHEROKEE COUNTY. These neighborhoods have been popular with first-time homebuyers as well as retirees because of ……….AMENITIES & VARIABLE PRICING. Even If neighborhood amenities are not that important to you — RESALE probably is. These neighborhoods have consistently been among the best selling neighborhoods in the North GA area and even in this real estate downturn they continue to attract homebuyers. For more information on these or other communities in the North Atlanta area please email or call me - I would love to help you find your “dream” neighborhood and home!