When I was growing up in the North, sweet potatoes generally made an annual appearance – for the holidays, and they were usually drowning in brown sugar and butter. As a kid, I was convinced that you could eat them if you couldn’t taste them. It wasn’t until I moved to the South that I [...]

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Which came first, the chicken or the egg? A question often posed and one that, even with all our technology, we will never truly know the answer to.
Which came first, an increase in our unemployment rate or the magnitude of foreclosures?
How has the unemployment rate affected housing? It is safe to say that the current [...]

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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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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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Buying a home is more than just buying a home. Anyone who owns a home will tell you that.
When you buy a home, you are buying into a community. What do I mean by that exactly? Well think about it for a second. The neighborhood where you purchase your home is a community within [...]

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While having access to so many online tools and resources can make the home-buying process less time consuming, it doesn’t necessarily make it any less overwhelming.
There are a few basic steps I recommend that can make the process a whole lot easier for you.

Get pre-qualified. When I say that you may be sitting there wondering, [...]

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The Carolinas are known to be home to many of the top golf courses in the world. But what isn’t that well known is that the Thornblade Club in Greer, S.C., is fertile cultivating ground for the top golfers in the world.
This Mother’s Day, the Wells Fargo Championship PGA golf event played out at Quail Hollow [...]

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Art is more than just something pleasing to look at. It entertains us, but it is more than that too. It strengthens the communities we live in. Art brings culture to our communities. It brings diversity. And with that comes desirable places in which to live and relocate.
I moved to Greenville, SC, 13 years ago, [...]

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I can plant flowers like nobody’s business. I can trim hedges, not quite like Edward Scissorhands, but well enough that they look professionally done. I mulch my own yard. I eradicate weeds that mistakenly think they can make their home in my flower beds. The day I discovered Preen® is still vivid in my mind. [...]

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Median. Mode. Average. Range.
Remember these words from the math classes you took in high school? Or was it elementary school? That just shows you how much I remember from my math classes! If I had understood back then how I would actually use this information, I probably would have cared to learn it a [...]

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