Entries by Phil Whitehead

Dirt Cheap Home Staging Ideas!

According to an article in RIS Media’s Content Solutions, staging you home should not cost an arm and a leg!  While HGTV says $2,000.00 is a good number, you can accomplish the same effect for far less.  Here are the five ideas suggested in the article. Pack Away Personal Items Packing away personal items is […]

Considering Buying a Newly Built Home?

  Are you considering purchasing a new home in 2016? Did you know that in one of the fastest growing areas of the midlands there are nearly 300 new homes for sale? Have you considered how you will decide from so many homes which one will be right for you? Do you know which new […]

Move In by Christmas!

If you want to move in before Christmas, better hurry to this renovated home on The Avenues only two blocks from Krispy Kreme and three blocks from Zesto’s.  This Avenues bungalow has been renovated with updates with an open floor plan!  The living room has a fireplace and hardwood flooring  that opens into a dining […]

Does this look like a Chic-fil-A?

My first memory of Chic-fil-A in the Columbia area was at Dutch Square Mall near the current AMC theaters.  The Chic-fil-A was in a food court area and was usually busy selling their staple of Chic-fil-A sandwiches, waffle fries, nuggets, brownies; oh well you know what they serve.  There are at least seven Chic-fil-A’s in […]

FHA Retreats from the Mortgage Market

RealEstateabc.com reports that the Federal Housing Administration will begin to reduce its market share beginning in January, 2014.  FHA will do this by lowering its maximum loan limits in most housing markets, thereby forcing higher end buyers to move to private sources.  Approximaely 650 counties across the country will be affected by these lower limits. […]

Is the Housing Crisis Behind Us?

Realtor Magazine reports that foreclosures are rapidly beginning to decline.  Proof of that is a 15 percent month-to-month drop from October to November which is the largest monthly drop in three years as reported by RealtyTrac.  Since this time last year there has been a 37 percent decrease in foreclosure filings.  Also foreclosure filings, default […]

Saluda River Club — Featured Community

Lifestyle is synonymous with Saluda River Club, a new community along the Saluda River in Lexington County.  Saluda River Club’s lifestyle is based on the careful attention to detail in developing 235 acres along a mile of the Saluda River.  The community features miles of nature trails, two clubhouses and a river launch.  The actual […]

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s Home Featured in Movie ‘Argo’

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