Ron Chastain's Blog

The goal of owning your Stockbridge home free and clear is usually thought of as the sunniest eventual outcome of the process that begins with buying your Stockbridge house. The vision of the day when you make that last mortgage payment is an attractive one: whether in retirement or sooner, a “fr...

When it comes to appraising and developing appropriate responses to offers on your Henry County home, I’m here to offer counsel and guidance. Even so, you are the ultimate decision maker. Especially for Henry County homeowners without previous selling experience, becoming familiar with some pract...

While we’re still in Halloween Scary Things mode, we might as well address the fear factor when it comes to buying Stockbridge homes. First-time Stockbridge home buyers aren’t the only ones who experience at least some degree of trepidation as they go about such a major purchase. The prospect of ...

Hardly anyone decides to put their own Mcdonough house up for sale without wondering whether there wouldn’t be a better time to do so. There are a couple of different ways to look at the timing of your Mcdonough home’s sale—but only one of them is controversial.Controversial: timing by the calend...

Halloween in Henry County is the one day in every year when the regular order of things gets a thorough shaking up. For one thing, it’s the single day of the year when we expect our doorbell to be ringing non-stop for hours on end. It’s certainly the only time when prudence dictates that we stock...

Fa la la la la, la la la la: it’s carol time again! Not quite? You can’t almost hear those sleigh bells ringing? Well, brace yourself. Halloween is next Tuesday—and nowadays, that means that by Wednesday, holiday advertising will be with us for the duration.Whether we admit it or not, the Thanksg...

Henry County gardening enthusiasts already know this—but for those whose thumbs are anything but green, right now is a special time of year where landscaping is concerned. It’s Henry County’s high season for planting and transplanting!You don’t have to intend on listing your Henry County home any...

More than half of U.S. homeowners expect their home’s value to rise in the coming year. For Stockbridge real estate watchers who track public sentiment as a market indicator, the news comes as a welcome addition to other reports of rising consumer optimism regarding the economy as a whole.The fin...

Back when Mcdonough mortgage interest rates plummeted by 46% in less than four years, it precipitated a sort of refi tsunami. The volume of Mcdonough refinancings was nothing short of enormous. For the first time in a long time, the benefit for homeowners who could lower their Mcdonough mortgage ...

When you first look into whether an investment property in Henry County would be a suitable addition to your own portfolio, the positives leap out. Henry County investment properties can throw off positive cash flow even as they appreciate in long-term value. What’s not to like? But there is one ...