Calling all Beer Connoisseurs

The first ever The Beer Connoisseur® Festival (aka Pints at The Prado) is happening June 12th, 2010 at The Prado in Sandy Springs. There will be over 150 different brews from more than 40 breweries. Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door. Along with craft beers, there will be domestic beers and mixed drinks for an additional fee. Rain or shine, the festival will run from 3pm – 8pm.

The event is hosted by The Beer Connoisseur® Magazine, Taco Continue Reading »

New and improved Homebuyer Tax Credit

President Obama is expected to sign a bill passed by Congress today extending and expanding the first-time homebuyer tax credit to homes under contract before April 30th. The credit, equal to 10 percent of a home’s purchase price, remains capped at $8,000 for first-time homebuyers, but income limits have been raised. Continue Reading »

HarryNorman.com website #1 in Atlanta Luxury Real Estate

Found a very cool site for web statistics www.compete.com.  Very happy to see how well my company’s website, www.HarryNorman.com stacks up against a few of our competitors in the Atlanta luxury real estate market.  These stats are for unique web visitors for August 2009. Harry Norman rocks with over 22,000! Click the graph to make it larger.

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Jenny Pruitt & Harry Norman become Harry Norman Realtors

This week we celebrate the merger of two respected Atlanta Real Estate companies, Jenny Pruitt & Associates and Harry Norman Realtors.  This dynamic combination will operate under the name of Harry Norman Realtors and will bring the best of Atlanta to you! 
I wanted to share a letter from our president, Martha Hayhurst. Continue Reading »

Homes full of Love & Laughter

I found this fun FREE way to make a photo collage and just had to try it with photos of my clients and their homes!  You can download it here.

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Google Search Info On Any Cell Phone

Never pay for 411/information service again!

cell-text-messageThis is a great tool that I have used over and over again! I even used it recently to settle a dinner party debate about the age of a celebrity.

Google offers Google Mobile SMS, a FREE service to cell phone users to obtain various information from driving directions to currency conversion to local restaurant addresses by text message. What do you do? You send a text message to GOOGL (that’s 46645) with the information you need. You need to be somewhat familiar with the capabilities to use the application, although the program is fairly intuitive. Continue Reading »

Virginia Highland Removes Carbon Footprint

carbon-neutral-zoneCongratulations Virginia Highland! From today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Monday, January 26, 2009) Jim Auchmutey reports: Virginia-Highland becomes the first “carbon-neutral” zone.

A new sign at Virginia and North Highland avenues proclaims the intown Atlanta shopping and dining district a “carbon-neutral zone.” What it doesn’t say is that Virginia-Highland also claims to be the nation’s first such zone. Continue Reading »