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Mark Friday April 1 and Saturday April 2, 2011 on your calendar for silly fun in downtown Tryon.  It's a family-oriented Street Festival with fun for all. Festivities begin at 6:33 PM Friday evening with a street dance on McCown Street.  There will be a dance contest sponsored by the Tryon Fine ...

Finding the right place means both finding a place that is in the right place for you and equally important, a place where your investment will hold its value. Start by thinking about what is most important to you. Create your dream neighborhood. What does it look like?  Do you want to sit on you...

                                                                                                                                              Beverly-Hanks & Associates have joined forces with Blue Ridge Log Homes  Neal Hanks, CEO of Beverly-Hanks & Associates, REALTORS, and Chip Smith, CEO of Bl...

  Exciting news from the marketing department at Beverly-Hanks!  Beverly-Hanks & Associates, the oldest and largest real estate agency in western North Carolina, has just implemented new mobile phone technology designed to help WNC visitors interested in real estate get a really fast response to...

Dan Buettner has written a  NY Times best seller The Blue Zones: Lessons For Living Longer From The People Who've Lived The longest. He researched four places in the world where people not only live to be old but stay fit and active deep into old age: Okinawa Japan, Costa Rica, Sardinia Italy, a...

  It's no secret that fewer people are playing golf. More golf courses are closing than opening. Opinions for the downturn vary from "it's the economy" to a simple change in demographics.  But some are wondering if the rules of the game are part of the problem.  Enter Flogton (not golf spelled b...

  Reform of the mortgage markets is coming.  It has been mandated by the Dodd-Frank Law. But how to meet the challenge of avoiding another financial market meltdown while making sure Americans will be able to get a mortgage is not simple. The recently made public Obama Administration report offer...

The Dodd-Frank law has legally mandated a makeover for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  Fannie and Freddie, along the FHA (another government- backed agency), are behind nearly 90% of US mortgages. The goal of reform is to make sure we do not ever see another financial meltdown requir...

More good news for boomers! It seems we may be smarter than we were in our 20s.  You already suspected that, didn't you?  For years, we have been told that our brains peak in early adulthood and then slowly go downhill from there. Now, science has discovered that our brains continue to produce n...