Carrboro, NC

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This is an opportunity to help build The Mountains to Sea Trail, an ambitious 1000 mile trail across our beautiful state of North Carolina, which will someday stretch from the Tennessee state line to the Atlantic Ocean!

The trail traverses Orange County through the northern community of Cedar Grove as it follows back roads and crosses NC86 and NC57 from Bryan Park in Alamance County on the way to Durham County where the trail is close to the Eno River State Park.

From there the trail heads through Northern Durham County toward Shinleaf State Recreation Area at Falls Lake, crossing I85 and US15 on the way to Guilford County. Clicking the hot links in this paragraph will take you to the topo maps and trailheads in Google maps. You can follow along the entire trail using these maps.

Today's efforts in Orange and Durham Counties begin at 9am at the Cabe Lands parking lot and "the work involves constructing new natural surface hiking trail, and will involve clearing brush, moving logs, picking up debris, and constructing the trail surface."

If you would like to check out other work days across the state visit Help Build the Trail or you can help in other ways by visiting How You Can Help

Governor Perdue has declared October 2009 as Mountains To Sea Trail Month! This is a wonderful project that will benefit all residents of North Carolina. If you are already enchanted by our own greenway system in the Triangle, imagine how much fun this statewide system will be! Get involved!

My Carrboro neighborhood has always been friendlier than many. Most everyone knows who lives in each house and we usually wave to each other as we drive in and out every day. Our newest HOA president has taken us into the 21st century, well, at least the 20th century, by setting up an email contact list. Amazing how much easier it is to schedule neighborhood get-togethers. Just because technology is part of my daily life at work has nothing to do with how I think about communicating with my neighbors. After all, this is the south. We knock on the door, borrow a cup of sugar and then share the fresh baked goodies that result.

I know which of my neighbors have children, which are retired and which ones have local businesses. I know who goes for a walk each evening but beyond that our lives are pretty separate. After all, nobody really wants their neighbors knowing everything.

Last week I was included in a group email from one neighbor, Grey Brown, responding with her suggestions to a neighborhood project scheduled for the coming weekend. I noticed a weblink in her email signature. It simply said www.greybrownpoetry.com. I clicked.

An hour later I had read every poem on her beautiful website. I now know she has published two books of poetry and I know that writing is, for her, intensely personal and the way she copes with adversity and regenerates her spirit. Her just published book of poetry, When They Tell Me, is about her experiences “raising a child on the autism spectrum.” There are selections from it on her website. I have no words.

From her website I also listened to a radio interview she did last month at our local radio station WCOM in Carrboro and another done on NPR’s State of Things. I now know that Grey works with the Duke Health Arts Network, “one of the first arts in health care programs in the nation…integrating the arts and humanities into a variety of health care settings…” integrating her poetry with medicine in a very unique way. What a fantastic project and I didn’t even know such a thing existed.

I now know how very talented my neighbor is and also how very strange it is that a simple web link at the bottom of an email can change the way I see my own world. If Grey Brown is behind the front door of her house, imagine who else might be behind the other doors in my neighborhood.

You can hear Grey read her poetry at the West End Poetry Festival on October 17, 7:15pm at the Carrboro Century Hall, 100 North Greensboro St, Carrboro, NC. See you there.

Henry Anderson Community Park is located in the town of Carrboro, NC. It is 55 acres in size, and has several attractions for people of all ages.

Directions to Henry Anderson Park:

From Carrboro, take Highway 54 west approximately one mile from the end of Main Street. The park is on the right.

Address:

302 Highway 54 West

Carrboro, NC 27516

(919) 918-7364

Attractions in Henry Anderson Park include:

4 lighted baseball fields

2 lighted basketball courts

2 lighted tennis courts

8 horseshoe pits

2 trails (0.42 miles, 0.48 miles)

Further attractions include:

Playground

Fishing lake

Fenced dog park

Covered pavilion with picnic tables

Volleyball court

Restrooms

Multi-purpose field

Henry Anderson Community Park is open from 7:00 am to dark, with lighted areas open until 11:00 pm.

Check out other community parks and public recreation facilities here!

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Hurricane Bill just skirted our coastline and there will be more hurricanes to come. North Carolina residents know that this time of year means firing up the generator to make sure it works and laying in the list of supplies on the Hurricane Preparedness Checklist. As a professional Realtor I owe it to my clients to tick the extra boxes that my experience has put on my Closing Preparedness Checklist!

Consider this scenario:

Closing is scheduled for 9 a.m. on Friday morning. The seller has moved out and the buyer has the moving truck ready to head to the new house as soon as he has the keys in hand. The seller informs his insurance company that he will no longer own the home as of Friday and cancels the homeowners’ policy as of that date. The buyer has his insurance in place, set to insure the home as of the same date. But at 9 a.m. Friday the loan docs aren’t ready. The attorney hasn’t gotten the package from the lender and has been informed that it is “on the way”. Closing time is delayed until 4 p.m. The buyer is nervous and had planned to stay in the house that night, getting settled over the weekend before starting a new job on Monday. No keys, no occupancy. Agents are scrambling to accommodate. Can the buyer move in early? Will the seller allow a rent back if closing doesn’t take place until Monday? (Did I mention there is a hurricane off the coast?)

The loan docs arrive! Closing will proceed at 4 p.m. All is well! Not so fast. The Orange County Register of Deeds closes at 4:30 p.m. and is a 20 minute drive from the attorney’s office. The attorney informs you that there is no way the deed will be recorded on Friday. The paralegal will do it first thing Monday morning. At least the buyer will have the keys and everything can get on as planned. The buyer rushes to get things moved in…hurricanes at the coast mean rain inland. There’s just one little thing about hurricanes…they don’t always listen to the weatherman. By Saturday the hurricane has tracked west…it’s heading toward the Triangle. Nothing like 60 mile an hour gusting winds to mess up a moving weekend.

By Saturday evening there are trees down all over the neighborhood and one has managed to puncture the roof in its fall. Water is quickly pooling on the Living Room ceiling as it drips through the attic. Not to worry. The buyer has insurance! Or does he?

The deed has not yet been recorded meaning the buyers insurance may not be in force under the presumption that you cannot insure what you do not own. The seller canceled his insurance as of Friday and the damage occurred on Saturday. I think you can see where this is going. Suffice it to say that at the minimum, the insurance companies will be talking and there will be some anxious days ahead for both buyer and seller.

In North Carolina you do not actually “own” the property you just closed on until it is recorded with the Register of Deeds in the county where the home is located. This actually came about because of a hurricane! After Hurricane Fran in 1996 there were, what can only be described as, “Insurance Wars.” As a result, our standard purchase contract in NC was amended to specifically define “closing” as the date and time of recordation of deed.

My job is to foresee possibilities like this and do my utmost to avoid them! I ensure that the buyer and his attorney know my concern and make all efforts to schedule closing at a time when I can be reasonably sure that the deed will be recorded. I discuss with the seller why I feel it is important that they do not cancel their homeowners’ policy until I call them and tell them the deed has been recorded. I cannot predict or promise any outcome but I sure can make sure my client knows what might happen and is prepared as well as possible for the unpredictable.

I’m quite sure there are hundreds of closings that occur every day in North Carolina and never run into a “worst case” scenario like I have just described. As a buyer or seller it is ultimately your call how much risk you wish to absorb. But I also know way too many stories about what happens when folks aren’t prepared. Replace “hurricane” with “fire” or “burst water pipe” and you’ll begin to see what I mean.

Do you need an experienced Realtor to help you buy or sell your home? Maybe not…or maybe the peace of mind is worth it to you!