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By Anthony Acosta - ALLATLANTAcondos.com, Associate Broker
(Harry Norman, REALTORS® )
Discover Reserve at Wildwood, a premier townhome community in Vinings, Atlanta, GA, conveniently located in zip code 30339. Built between 2019 and 2021 by Ashton Woods, Reserve at Wildwood offers 60 townhomes featuring 3 stories, 3 bedrooms, and 2-car garages. Enjoy modern living with open floor plans, hardwood floors, and 10′ ceilings on the main level, along with gourmet kitchens featuring large islands overlooking the family room. With six different floor plans to choose from, there’s a perfect townhome for every lifestyle. This up-and-coming community boasts top-rated schools, including Brumby Elementary, East Cobb Middle, and Wheeler High. The homes range from approximately 2,200 to over 3,200 square feet, showcasing exquisite design elements such as chef’s kitchens with high-end a...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
Atlanta Buckhead Midtown - Weather Comparison - Atlanta To Newton, Mass              Beauty in everything we choose to see.                          JANUARY 30, 2021Same day and same time of day... Newton, Massachusetts gets darker earlier than in Atlanta, Georgia Heard several AR members' stories of recovering from Covid-19 today. Brings a contemplative mood and lots of gratitude for each and every recovery - within our community and all around the world. Be safe out there everyone!
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
Atlanta Buckhead Midtown - Landlord Disaster Relief -      RE: Unpaid Rents                 IMAGINE YOURSELF IN THE SEATS ABOVE...THAT'S WHERE LANDLORDS WERE LEFT SUSPENDED Atlanta Buckhead Midtown Westside are all neighborhoods seriously affected by the Covid 19 rental concessions to Tenants. While there is no question that a nationwide crisis exists, solutions were offered to Tenants and not to Landlords. That is, Landlords face Foreclosure if not paying 100% of their Mortgage debt monthly. Landlords encounter penalties for not paying taxes. Landlords face risk if Hazard Insurance is not maintained. EXPENSES WITHOUT RENTAL INCOME!On Quora, Steve Shapiro asked a very pertinent question to an international audience: What steps are being taken to help landlords who have lost rent due to ...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
         Atlanta Buckhead Midtown  Funny Reflections On The Gifts of 2020                                  Everyone has a favorite story about the ups and downs in our "Most Recent Past Year" of adventure. Let's hope that your upcoming year will be full of joy and success! The deadly dozen below came to me as the 40th forwarded name on the email. Generally, don't read those but glad not to miss this group of reminders to smile. Which reminds me - hats off to Rocky Dickerson for his FRIDAY FUNNIES series. A dose of laughter goes a long way towards success! "Here are some things to consider since we closed the door on one of the craziest years of our lifetime:* The dumbest thing I ever bought was a 2020 planner.* I was so bored I called Jake from State Farm just to talk to someone.   He a...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
Atlanta Buckhead Midtown    - COVID 19 Vaccine -   No Pain Premedication                Image:NIAIDALERT:       Stay away from ibuprofen and/or acetaminophen immediately before vaccine.    Dr. Simone Wildes, an infectious disease specialist at South Shore Medical Center and a member of Massachusetts’ COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group, cautioned, “We do not recommend premedication with ibuprofen or [acetaminophen] before COVID-19 vaccines due to the lack of data on how it impacts the vaccine-induced antibody responses.”    When speaking with ABC News, the doctor explained that "now  COVID-19vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are being offered to an increasing number of people. Vaccine recipients typically experience minimal side effects -- the most common being temporary pain and s...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
   Atlanta Buckhead Midtown                Covid 19 + Fulton County Board of Health Merger         Atlanta Buckhead and Midtown are part of Fulton County in Georgia. When the Fulton County Board of Commissioners met on January 20, 2021, they approved a resolution to continue the transfer of the Fulton County Board of Health (FCBOH) to the Georgia Department of Public Health. The date of transition is set for July 1, 2021. The Board of Health will continue to rely on the County for the provision of legal and facilities services.Fulton is the LAST county (of a total of 159 counties) to merge with the Georgia Department of Public Health. In April of 2016, the Georgia General Assembly passed HB 885 to initiate the transfer. In April of 2017, the Fulton County Commissioners passed two relate...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
Atlanta Buckhead Midtown     - Foster Children -Clothing Donations NeededThe Bloom Closet serves 90 counties in Georgia supplying clothing and other items to Foster Children. Last year they served over 3000 children out of the 12,000+ children who are in Foster Care in Georgia. The non-profit's history is a reflection of the good that can be achieved when one person gets a great idea. Alisha Lane hosts a YouTube tour of the Charity headquarters and explains about its mission. This week volunteers are collecting donations in Atlanta in the Buckhead area. You may contact them (770-460-6652) to find out the address for drop-off. Or write to them by email at info@bloomouryouth.org. A List of items needed may be found at the end of this post. BTW - Boy's items are in very short supply. Reall...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
   Atlanta Buckhead Midtown - GA Driver License Changes -             January 2021  The Georgia Department of Driver Services (DDS) has  replaced the system used to process licenses with a more modern and secure one. The new computer system went live January 18, 2021.    How will the change will impact you?After January 18, 2021, you must recreate your Online Services and DDS2Go mobile app accounts to securely view your license, ID, or permit status and receive real-time updates.     You will not have online or mobile access to your       information until a new account is created.   The following services will be available from your mobile devices after you create your account.  Further explanation available: Georgia DDS.
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
              Atlanta Buckhead Midtown30327 Rental Home Available February 1st           In Brandon Elementary District, four bedrooms and three full baths - all updated in January 2021 - ready to move in. Enjoy living in a large ranch featuring: a "Cook's Kitchen" with Breakfast Room Oversized Living Room and Formal Dining Room Full-size Tiled Laundry Room. Hardwood Oak Flooring Large, Fenced Back Yard Ample parking at house on Parking Pad Near Memorial Park and Bobby Jones Easy showings with SUPRA access.Masks and Gloves at Front Door. 
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
       Ask An Ambassador - Friday Fraud Evasion Steps -      Be Aware - 1/22/21            Avoid FRAUD - Be AWARE!Posting about FRAUD is both easy and difficult. Easy because there are so many examples. Difficult to know which aspect to choose first.Probably best to start with email - lots to review there.   Does your email address include any of your birthday data?Identity theft is a serious problem in the US and around the world. We learn in a statement from InfoArmor that identity theft "...creates a problem that can't be solved overnight or even in a few weeks. On average, it can take between 100 and 200 hours and six months to fix."Thieves need to obtain our data to take over. Using any part of your birth information only makes their job easier. While the most frequent identity the...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
     Ask An Ambassador - Tuesday Techie Tidbit - Traffic/Short URL - 1.21.21  Vol.1/#3       Some things are just technical but some things are FUN technical! IMHO - really FUN is checking my Traffic! Haven't tried exploring this exciting Feedback measure yet? Go to "My Home" page under your Profile Picture - then click on Traffic. Let's start with a definition of TRAFFIC. Basically, your traffic is how many clicks you received - meaning how many people viewed your Blog post. There are two types of TRAFFIC. Organic traffic is what you get naturally without having to “force” it - that is, paying to get the readers or to use some other method to get eyeballs on your post. Most organic traffic comes from searches. That means the traffic you get when a person types a question or a keyword i...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
          AR Tues. Meet-Up            - Craig Daniels - Google Photos for Agents 1.19.21WOW!!! No other way to start this post about the Google Photos presentation by @Craig Daniels. From start to finish, the AR attendees* - about 44 members - displayed rapt attention to what was presented. In a measured tone, Craig taught what he shared in his Craig's Classroom series available on Facebook - @craigsclassroom.        Craig explained how Google Photos works. One MUST have a Google account but the account may have any email address from any company attached to that Google Photos account. Storage is free until the end of May 2021. Whatever photos have been up-loaded by then are stored in the Cloud without charge. However, starting in June, different accounts will have different pricing. Vi...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
      Ask An Ambassador  - Tuesday Techie Tidbit - Blog Editor Colors/Typefaces         Volume One - Number Two                           As the "devs" continue to work on the Blog Editor and deliver enhancements, AR Bloggers have the opportunity to learn new techniques. It took me a few tries but I think I've mastered the adding colors changes for posts and LOVE IT!Please add other tips for this color feature in the comments. I am confident that others have found even more ways to use it than I have so far. 1.  The → at the top of the image above near the title indicates where the text color dropdown menu may be located. (The arrow here, by the way, is available via the Ω icon among the "command buttons" on the "toolbar". And the symbols button offers a search bar - easy to type in wha...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
Atlanta Buckhead Midtown  - Rental Management - The Yard Matters - Part 4                   Hello you old goat! Yes, not a joke. This is how to clean up the rental house yard. A thriving business exists for renting goats to clear out overgrown yards.The "grounds crew" are dropped off at the site. The land to be cleared is inside a temporary chain link fence - an electric chain link fence. That serves to keep the goats in and the rowdy-types out. What do they eat? How about this list of unpleasant or unwanted plants?Poison Ivy     Poison Sumac    Poison Oak    Vines   Briers   Blackberry English Ivy    Honey Suckle   Privet Hedge   Kudzu - of course!                           Goats hard at work clearing out invasive plants.Once the "grounds crew" have finished, the extra touches may be a...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
                AR Tuesday Meet-Up                      - Podcast -    A Dynamic Introduction From Ken Jones             Dozens* of AR members joined together to learn from  Ken Jones  at his Podcast presentation on Tuesday, January 12, 2021. And L E A R N we did!Each week has been better than the last! Thanks again to Debe Maxwell, CRS and the rest who support her and have created a weekly opportunity to learn and share the learning with other AR members.Ken's informal presentation style combined easy to follow explanations and  clearly detailed information. His graphics made it simple to keep up with his explanations of his years of experience as he shared with all of us. With step-by-step infographics, copyrighted as part of the two-hour class he teaches about podcasting, Ken led us ...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
Atlanta Buckhead Midtown  - Rental Management - Tenant Did What? Part 3                                                     Yes, that WAS a white laundry sink just as the previous Tenants left it when they moved out. Couldn't see showing house to rent with the sink in that condition. It would diminish the quality of the rest of the finishes.Tenants had been there for just over 12 years. Mostly the house was in good condition but... After adding elbow grease to paint thinner, we got the sink back to white again. All's well that ends well.CLEARLY - other property managers have had situations much worse. Take what happened to BG Loeffler over the years -- Tenants painting walls in truly awful colors, moving in TEN extra people in a two-bedroom home or Weegee Katz   about illegal sub-lets o...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
Atlanta Buckhead Midtown    - Sunday Special - Inspirational Quote - 1.10.21 "Your day is worthwhile when you make someone smile."  James DrayAR member James Dray began his working days as a law officer. Over the years from the 1970's to 2006, James enjoyed various careers in that field. His last job as a law official was in Bentonville, Arkansas. After his retirement there, he stayed and turned his attention to real estate.James' posts feature individuals whose life stories each have something to offer although they may or may not be well-known individuals. Often they are individuals who are well-known but not by their birth names. By his focus on each of these people, James gives his readers the chance to take a glimpse into a life of another person from another century or even our ow...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
Atlanta Buckhead Midtown - Rental Management - To Stage or Not - Part 2To Stage or Not To Stage - that is the question. When preparing a home - for rent or for sale - whether it is shown as wide open spaces or shown staged with full furnishings - a real chicken and egg discussion may arise.Imagine our surprise when the Cleaning Service our company hired to do the post-remodel clean-up left the "necessary" in such an attractive presentation. To us, that was a simple "staging" in and of itself.  When there isn't a budget for a full staging, we put one or two pieces of furnishings in rooms whose potential usage may seem ambiguous at first glance of the space. For example, the current rental we are offering contains a Master Suite with a Study and large luxurious Bath. Since one enters via ...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
     Ask An Ambassador  -  Techie Tidbit -  Spacing    Volume One Number One   Ever start writing, hit a key and everything looks messy?  Ever have striving for appearance interfere with paying attention to the content you want to share?  Ever want to change the size of the image or add space near the side of the image?  Seemingly small items can ruffle the flow when writing a post. Today let's focus on line spacing. How can one make the space between lines tighter?When typing, if the copy on the first line is long, when one gets to the end of the line, the words continue to complete the sentence and the spacing is elegant.Suppose, however, that the copy finishes before the end of the line?If one hits RETURN (or Enter, etc.), this LARGER space results.   Try this to get the reduced line...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
Atlanta Buckhead Midtown  - Rental Management -   Traps to Avoid - Part 1Whether in Atlanta, Buckhead, Midtown or over on the Westside, clear communication paves the road to successful Property Management.Step One - A careful reading of the Lease is the very most important step. Step Two - As part of the Lease, there will be exhibits. When a Tenant is moving into the property, a complete and thorough walk-around Inspection is essential. The MLS form for that inspection is seven (7) pages long!!! I always suggest that the Tenant use a cell phone and take pictures to back up each defect noted on the Inspection Exhibit. If there is a little "smash" in the wall when the Tenant moves in, it still will be there when Tenant leaves. And said damage still would  NOT be the responsibility of the ...
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By Lynn B. Friedman CRS Atlanta, GA 404-617-6375, Concierge Service for Our Atlanta Sellers & Buyers
(Atlanta Homes ODAT Realty - Love our Great City - Love our Clients! Buckhead - Midtown - Westside)
    AR Tuesday Meet-Up - ADU Methods And Excitement    With John DL Arendsen Starting off the New Year with a fascinating presentation from John DL Arendsen, the first Meet-Up of 2021 was packed with TONS of information. John speaks in a calm voice and therefore his style made it possible to absorb all the new information he presented about his career with Crest Backyard Homes. John is a Factory Built Home Contractor. He explained that everything a new home process requires when being built on site is also the step-by-step process for a  factory-built home. So fascinating to think of that process.Meet-Ups generally start on time at 2:00 pm ET BUT starting around 1:30 or so, people sign in to greet each other. During "visiting" time today, John explained how Jeff Dowler, CRS introduced h...
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