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Fresh insights from Northwest Atlanta — published weekly by Nicole France and her team.
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Best Guide to Your First Year Owning a Home in Georgia: 8 Steps | Nicole France RE/MAX
Your first year owning a home in Georgia comes with deadlines nobody hands you at closing. The attorney gives you a folder. The lender sends a welcome letter. Then everything goes quiet, and the notices that actually matter arrive months later looking like junk mail, with a countdown already running. Here is the reframe. New…
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Best Guide to Why Buyers Back Out of Contracts: 8 Reasons | Nicole France RE/MAX
When buyers back out of contracts, the seller absorbs the damage in a currency nobody tracks: time. You took the home off the market, made plans around a closing date, maybe went under contract on the next house. Three weeks later the deal ends and you relist with cumulative days on market that buyers can…
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Best Guide to Home Inspection Red Flags: 9 to Never Ignore | Nicole France RE/MAX
Home inspection red flags hide inside a forty-page document that also lists a loose cabinet handle and a missing outlet cover. Buyers open the report, see eighty-seven items, and either panic and walk away from a good house or fixate on a dripping faucet while scrolling past the sentence that actually matters. Here is the…
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Best Guide to Georgia Pool Barrier Requirements: 8 Checks | Nicole France RE/MAX
Georgia pool barrier requirements are the part of a pool purchase nobody thinks about until an insurance underwriter or a county inspector brings it up. Buyers walk the backyard, picture July, and negotiate the price. Then they discover the fence does not meet code, the permit was never finaled, and their carrier will not write…
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Best Guide to Home Warranties in Georgia: 7 Facts | Nicole France RE/MAX
Home warranties in Georgia show up in almost every transaction, usually as a line a seller offers to sweeten a deal or a renewal notice that arrives twelve months after closing. Buyers accept them without reading anything, assume they are covered, and then discover what the contract actually says on the July afternoon the air…
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Best Guide for Out of State Buyers Georgia Closing: 7 Facts | Nicole France RE/MAX
Out of state buyers hit a Georgia closing expecting the process they know from home, and almost nothing matches. There is no escrow officer. There is no title company running the file. The disclosure form you were handed in every prior purchase may never arrive. And the person actually conducting your closing is a lawyer.…
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Best Questions Before Buying in a New Construction Community | Nicole France RE/MAX
Buying in a new construction community means buying two things: a house, and a neighborhood that does not fully exist yet. Buyers scrutinize the first one carefully. They walk the model, compare floor plans, negotiate options, and read the builder warranty. Then they sign without asking a single question about the second one. Here is…
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Best Guide to Buying a Home With a Septic System: 7 Facts | Nicole France RE/MAX
Buying a home with a septic system is routine across large parts of Northwest Atlanta, and it is also where buyers make the most expensive assumption in the transaction. They assume the general home inspection covers it. It does not. A standard inspection looks at the house, not at a buried tank and a drain…
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Best Guide to Foundation Problems in Georgia Homes: 9 Signs | Nicole France RE/MAX
Foundation problems in Georgia homes are the single most feared inspection finding, and the fear is out of proportion to the reality in both directions. Buyers walk away from perfectly sound houses over a hairline crack that has not moved in fifteen years. Other buyers close on homes with genuine structural movement because the seller…
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