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Fresh insights from Northwest Atlanta — published weekly by Nicole France and her team.
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Best Georgia Fixtures Checklist Guide: 10 Rules Sellers Miss | Nicole France RE/MAX
The Georgia fixtures checklist is the most skipped page in the entire transaction, and it is the page that causes the most arguments three days before closing. Someone took the washer. Someone expected the chandelier. Someone pulled the TV mount off the wall and left four holes behind. Here is the flip. Almost every one…
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Best Georgia Buyer Repair Request Guide: 10 Seller Facts | Nicole France RE/MAX
A Georgia buyer repair request usually shows up on day eight or nine, right when you had started to relax. The inspection happened, the report came back, and now there is a list. For most sellers, the first reaction is the same: this feels like the buyer is renegotiating a deal you already made. Here…
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Best Downtown Woodstock Things to Do: 10 Local Picks | Nicole France RE/MAX
Most downtown Woodstock things to do lists get written by someone who has never tried to park on Main Street on a Saturday. They name three restaurants, mention the shops, and move on. The result reads fine and helps nobody. Here is the flip. Downtown Woodstock is not a place you visit once. It is…
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Best Ways to Win Multiple Offers in Georgia: 7 Tactics | Nicole France RE/MAX
Multiple offers in Georgia have not disappeared just because inventory went up. They have concentrated. The average listing sits longer than it did two years ago, but the well-priced house in the right condition still draws three offers in a weekend, and buyers who assumed the market had cooled walk into competition they were not…
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Best Guide to Georgia Property Taxes by County: 8 Facts | Nicole France RE/MAX
Georgia property taxes by county surprise more buyers than almost any other closing-related number, and the reason is structural. Two nearly identical homes, priced the same, ten miles apart, can carry annual tax bills that differ by well over a thousand dollars. Nothing about the houses explains it. Everything about the county lines does. Here…
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Best Guide to HOA Special Assessment Georgia: 9 Questions | Nicole France RE/MAX
An HOA special assessment in Georgia is the bill nobody warned you about. You closed in March, budgeted the annual dues, and in October a letter arrives explaining that the pool needs resurfacing and your share is $3,400, due in ninety days. You did not vote on it. You were not living there when it…
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Best Guide to Renovation Loans in Georgia: 7 Facts | Nicole France RE/MAX
Renovation loans in Georgia solve a problem thousands of buyers run into and then quietly give up on. You find a house in the right neighborhood at the right price. The bones are good. The kitchen is from 1994, the roof is questionable, and the bathrooms need everything. You have enough for the down payment,…
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Best Guide to Title Problems in Georgia: 8 Closing Delays | Nicole France RE/MAX
Title problems in Georgia surface at the worst possible moment. The inspection went fine, the appraisal came in at value, the loan is clear to close, and then the attorney’s office calls to say there is an issue with the title. Nobody in the transaction did anything wrong. The problem has been sitting in the…
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Best Steps When an Appraisal Comes In Low: 9 Facts | Nicole France RE/MAX
When the appraisal comes in low, both sides of the transaction usually assume the deal is over. It is not. It is a negotiation that just acquired a new fact, and the people who understand that fact tend to keep their contract together while everyone else panics. Here is the reframe. Buyers treat the appraisal…
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