As a child, one bite of a tomato would leave me covered in hives. My father, who considered sliced tomatoes a necessary part of every meal, couldn’t believe a child of his was allergic to tomatoes.
I grew up dreading tomato season in the Carolinas. Humble neighbors bragged about their bounties. Bags of tomatoes mysteriously appeared [...]

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We have written in recent blog posts that now is the time to buy your next home in North Carolina and South Carolina. Combine low mortgage rates and lower housing prices, and you have an incredible housing value.  We believe these will be the days we all look back and wish we had bought another [...]

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The answer to the question above is simple. Everyone who owns a business (full or part-time) should have business insurance.
Your business is one of the most important assets in your life.  It’s the livelihood that ultimately provides for you and your family.
In order to paint the full picture as to the importance of the business [...]

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Most people would think about the inspection of their home the day before the home inspector is scheduled to arrive. But if you are planning to sell your home it is always good practice to take care of some of the potential issues before you put your house on the market.
Is the banister to the [...]

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According to Wikipedia, there are four main types of barbecue in the United States: Memphis style, Kansas City style, Texas style, and Carolinas style. I will agree that the other three types are distinctive and enjoyable, but especially for those of us native Carolinians, there is no barbecue like ours.
I grew up on Eastern North [...]

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Many years ago my wife and I visited Beaufort, S.C. (that’s Bewwfort not to be confused with Beaufort, NC pronounced Bowwwfort).
Beaufort is not a town that you pass by on the interstate; you have to want to go there because there’s one way in and out. On the map it appears to be between Charleston [...]

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I bought two houses before I even fathomed I would have a career in real estate.
With the first house, I found an agent to represent me by haphazardly calling numbers I saw on “For Sale” signs that I drove by. The truth of the matter is that she became my agent by default. Her persistence [...]

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One potato, two potato, three potato, four. Five potato, six potato, seven potato, more.

Substitute the word “potato” for “social network” and you’ve got yourself a catchy little ditty that sums up today’s social networking climate beautifully. Every time I so much as look away, it feels as though I have to look back and play [...]

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Did you know that the American Water Works Association performs water-tasting competitions across North America annually? I didn’t until recently when the Greenville Business Journal announced that the Greenville Water System won first place, “Best of the Best,” in a water taste test.
I’ve enjoyed the taste of our upstate water over the years, and as [...]

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Ten years ago, you didn’t expect to turn on the television and see insurance companies battling it out for commercial time in between your favorite shows. You also didn’t see them as some of the biggest sponsors of the sporting event of the year, the Super Bowl.
Times have changed though—and some of the big [...]

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