Helen Ga Real Estate Blog

Heard all the hype about how difficult it is to get a home loan now?  Well, here in the Helen GA area, we still have some great terms available for you when you purchase your home, or even second home. You can actually still get a loan for a SECOND home with as little as 5 per cent down!  Yes, yo...

Make sure you are ready to take a trip to northeast Georgia this weekend!  Helen, Ga will be a mass of beautiful fall color!  Bring your camera and click away.  Bring your appetite and visit one of our many local restaurants, try something new!  Stop in Cleveland and visit The Cabbage Patch.  You...

How is the color?  Getting there is the answer!  My oaks are turning slowly, the acorns pelt the roof and deck with shotgun like retorts!  Never have I seen so many acorns fall.  The actually hurt if they happen to hit your head.  My car had to be parked in a clear area!  THe pets are becoming ac...

Helen Georgia should enjoy visitors from near and far this leaf season!  Gas prices are coming down and that will bring out "leaf lookers" as the locals call them, from Atlanta, South Georgia and Florida!  The recent rains should work in favor of good color this season.  Reports from the local we...

Everyone is asking "Are we there yet"?  Meaning, has the stock market hit bottom?  No one know for sure, but we are about as close as we are going to get.  How do you know if we have hit bottom?  You DON'T!  Once you know we have hit bottom, we are on our way up!  It is like asking what the winni...

You want to buy a home.  (Not steal a home, but get good value). You are moving, you are motivated and you are worried.  This past week has frightened most prospective buyers.  Are there loans out there, and are the rates something you can afford?  The answer is probably so!  Real Estate is local...

Helen Ga has long been a destination for tourists and visitors from Atlanta, as well as other parts of the country.  "How's the Market" questions are still the number 1 question I hear, but the number 1 question right now is "How's the Gas"?  Better is the answer.  However as Atlanta goes, so goe...

Does the current economy downturn hurt possibilities of Lease/Purchase options?  Perhaps it has tightened up the procedure!  In the past, Buyers have been able to get into lease/purchase agreements with a minimum of problems.  Now?  Things are and will be changing.  In the past there was a low pe...

If you are interested in the First Time Home Buyer Tax credit of $7,500 you may have some questions. First, who is eligible for the tax credit? A first time home buyer is a person who has not owned a PRINCIPAL residence in the 3 year period prior to this purchase.  If you are single, this is easy...

Everyone who has been connected to the outside world knows there is an economy probem involving a credit crunch.  People are worried about investments and retirement funds.  People are taking cash out of banks and putting in "under the mattress" so to speak. My suggestion is to put your cash into...