Powder Springs, GA

Broadlands subdivision, Powder Springs, Ga., West Cobb

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Broadlands subdivision, Powder Springs, Ga. is a swim and tennis neighborhood conveniently located on Midway road in west cobb County near Dallas Highway and Lost Mountain. The neighborhood is only minutes away from shopping and dining at the Avenues of West cobb, and is just a short drive the the major shopping districts on dallas Highway, Town Center/Kennesaw, Acworth, or Hiram.

Vaughan Elementary School   Lovinggood Middle School    

Hillgrove High School (up to $300,00)       Hillgrove High School ($300,000-$500,000)

Hillgrove High School ($500,000 and over)

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Powder Springs,Country Walk Drive - Bad Ice- Read more

My wife, being the great employee that she is, just headed off to work. About 2 minutes later the phone rang ..."my brakes aren't working, I just slid all the way down the hill, come get me".

Country Walk Drive is VERY icy. This is ICE. For all of you folks who have moved here from north of the Mason-Dixon line, this is ICE it is not snow. Don't be a D*** yankee and drive like you think you know what you are doing :-).

Country Walk Drive and Barnwood

I went and rescued Barbara and drove the car up to Old Lost Mountain Rd for her. Once you get to the main roads it is much safer but there are still many icy paches. Anyway while I was walking back I observed some interesting things. Lots of tire spinning, slipping, sliding, etc. When you are driving on ice, do not talk on your cell phone or apply make up... please.

There was a small compact car trying to head up the hill from Trailside Ct stop sign. They were heading in to the neighborhood, sliding and spinning up the hill. I walked on past and heading toward me was an SUV that I could tell was going to fast for conditions. About the same time the compact car finally cleared the hill and was heading toward the SUV. All I could do was stop walking and wait and watch. They missed each other but then the SUV did a nice slow speed all ice accidental u-turn, a 4000 pound ballet on ice, and came to a rest about 30 feet in front of me!

The driver completed the u turn and went back the other way. I'm sure to call in to work or at least change underwear.

Stay home if you can. If you must drive please be careful out there!

See homes for sale in Country Walk and all of Powder Springs Ga. at www.PowderSpringsHomes.info

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I consider myself fortunate that I started in real estate when I did, back about 6 or 7 years ago. There I was with a real estate license and had to figure out how to build a business. That was really about the time that the internet was becoming the prominat way for buyers to search for homes. Recognizing that, I made the decision to learn and concentrate in on internet marketing as a core part of my business.

How my services are presented on the internet has evolved dramatically but one thing is still the same. People want information. New platforms like blogging and the growth of social networks has changed the way I work. Gladly, ActiveRain has been a huge part of that.

Here's a story of how that's paid off for me recently....

Back in July the folks at ActiveRain did a contest to promote hyper local content. The idea was to write 7 neighborhood specific blogs in 7 days. Everybody who did it got 100 bonus points and of course would reap any rewards from the efforts. I jumped on the idea and got to work. I made a list of 7 neighborhoods to feature and got them posted 1 per day for the next 7 days.

Fast forward to October. I got a phone call and email form a propective buyer that was moving to PowderSprings from Tallahassee. Its alwasy a good sign when they email AND call. :-) Anyway they wanted to see homes in Oakleigh subdivison, a very nice swim,tennis neighborhood here in Powder Springs, Ga. they had seen the post from back in July with all of the current Oakleigh home listings. With my IDX service embedded in the post they saw all of the current listings as of that day.If you go to that post today you will see todays current listings even though the post is now several months old!

We met and viewed some homes and hit it off pretty well. However there was one sticking point. They had to sell the home in Tallahasse before they could buy here. I did a search on ActiveRain for Florida agents and found Joe Manausa who is the owner broker with C21 First Realty in Tallahassee. As it turned out he also lived in the same neighborhood as my sellers.. Joe and his top notch team got the home in Florida under contract in less than 30 days! Outstanding results in todays tough market.

We closed on the on the home in Oakleigh yesterday and my clients are unloading the moving truck today. They'll be in their new home for Christmas!

So a simple blog post and some networking here on ActiveRain led to the sale of a home in Florida and a home in Georgia.

Yeah, I think this internet thing will be around for while...