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Home Partners Atlanta continues to be an Atlanta home resource for better living in Georgia.  Events, tips, ideas and news to improve  home values and quality of life for Georgians.  

Georgia Trend:

  Jeffrey Humphreys published November 2008 in Georgia Trend Magazine

Georgia’s prolonged and severe housing downturn has nearly run its course. Sales of new homes will bottom out in the final quarter of 2008, and sales of existing homes will bottom in the first quarter of 2009. New home sales will lead the turnaround because builders have been quicker to cut prices than homeowners. Spending on new residential construction will rise in the second, third and fourth quarters of 2009. Read on

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Georgia Culture:

 Foreclosure Help

HOPE NOW is an alliance between HUD approved counseling agents, servicers, investors and other mortgage market participants that provides free foreclosure prevention assistance.

 HOPE NOW is an alliance between counselors, servicers, investors, and other mortgage market participants. This alliance will maximize outreach efforts to homeowners in distress to help them stay in their homes and will create a unified, coordinated plan to reach and help as many homeowners as possible. The members of this alliance recognize that by working together, they will be more effective than by working independently. More Info

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How to Barbecue: Not Just Grilling

If you are interested in learning how to prepare a killer barbecue meal without pulling your hair out of your head. There are at time misconceptions about the term 'barbecue'.Read On

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Georgia Culture:

Art in the City: Thursday Nights at the High

 

Thursdays, 5-8 p.m. Continues through Oct. 30.

The High Museum is open late Thursdays to accommodate the working class with guided tours, lectures, gallery talks, music, wine-tastings, book signings and more.

More Info

   

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Scam Alert: BBB Phishing Scheme

 

 

Better Business Bureau is alerting consumers and businesses about a phishing scheme that uses both e-mail messages and blog posts directing recipients and viewers to register software with BBB. BBB wants the public to know that such messages and posts are not coming from any element of the BBB System, and that this attack has not affected BBB computer systems or networks nor has any data been comprised. Read on

 

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If you haven't had it happen to you at least once, consider yourself lucky. You're standing there at the stove, melting some of those little blocks of chocolate that come in boxes. You anticipate with glee those chocolate-dipped strawberries that will be tonight's dinner finale. You look up to check the time or talk to the kids, and when you look back at the stove, your chocolate is not becoming silky smooth, but gloppy and weird. And to add insult to (culinary) injury, the more you heat and stir, the lumpier it gets. Read On

The Top 10 Costliest Landlord Mistakes

 Classic business philosophy teaches that a great part of survival and subsequent success lies in an operation's ability to reduce mistakes. The cost or repairing the mistakes is inversely proportional to the amount of profit potential of the operation. In other words...

"Mistakes Kill the Profit Margin!!!!!"

As landlord's, we dont want to do damage to the precious profit margin we fought so hard to nurture. A landlord's profit margin struggles every day to survive, grow and flourish in a sea of predators, competitors and government regulators. Below are the top 10 threats to you thriving profit margin. Read On

Recipe of The Month:  Cajun Catfish With Spicy Strawberry Sauce

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