Trash Pickup Leads to Real Estate Insights - Not Really ;->
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MILTON: Providence Road - When you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail, so the adage goes.
The weather has warmed up here to 70 degree days; what we expect in Georgia. It was a nice reprieve from actual snow a couple of weeks ago. Of course the kids, many of whom had NEVER even seen snow, loved it.
My eldest daughter and I took the warm weather opportunity to do our January roadside clean-up for the section of Providence Road between Birmingham Highway and Freemanville Road that we maintain as part of the Milton Adopt a Road program.
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I want to give Clara public acknowledgement for a job well done. Thank you, honey. She stayed focused on the job and only managed to get her hair tangled in the brambles a couple of times! Plus, she came away for the day with a renewed appreciation for public service and not littering. The next time you are going to chuck that coffee cup or coke can out the window, think of the Summit Hill Elementary third grader who will be crawling in the bushes to dig it out! That’s my girl!
Back to the hammer and the nail. As we were working, I couldn’t help but relate the trash to real estate. As a realtor (hammer), even roadside trash looked like a nail.
Not that it was a huge "ah ha," but rather a renewed realization of how much thru-traffic there is in Milton. Traffic is always a hot topic as it relates to real estate, but you have to realize that a lot of Milton traffic originates from East Cherokee county. These are people who are trying to get to Alpharetta and must travel through Milton.
The evidence is on the roadside, of course, (tongue in cheek): Bud Lite, Pall Mall, White Castle. Yes, there were some Amber Bocks and India Pale Ales, but these were littered by the locals and far fewer in number! And when your rear end is bent over inches from the white line, you realize how many trucks (with oversized tires) versus sedans travel our local roads.
The evidence is also in the traffic statistics. The Crabapple (just down the road my our adopted stretch of Providence Road) Planning Study just reviewed showed that there are 9,000 trips per day on Birmingham Highway and 18-20,000 trips per day on Arnold Mill Road. A lot of this it thru traffic in Milton. Yes, there has been a lot of growth in Milton and it is responsible for traffic increases, but there also has been a lot of growth north and west of Milton and these people have to get to Alpharetta and GA-400.
My other real estate related observation while picking up trash was how much litter is left behind by our utility companies. There was a fair amount of local outcry last year with the institution of the local franchise fees on utilities and how they were passed along on our bills. I say: fine, charge the utilities to use the right of way, but also make them clean up after themselves. Recently they have been laying a lot of fiber along Birmingham Highway. The utilities trench and dig and leave all kids of orange pipe and other construction waste behind. They, too, can thank Clara. ;->
Mostly, though, I just wanted to thank my daughter for doing a great job and that I’m glad we were able to spend such a beautiful day together even if it was picking up trash. The father-daughter ball it wasn’t, but it may have been time better spent.
Love, Dad.
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Wait, there is no White Castle restaurant in Georgia, is there? I guess those were of the frozen variety - shrug. You about made my day for a second!
[...] Trash Pickup Leads to Real Estate Insights - Not Really ;-> MILTON: Providence Road - When you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail, so the adage goes. The weather has warmed up here to 70 degree days; what we expect in Georgia. It was a nice reprieve from actual snow a couple of weeks ago. Of course the kids, many of whom had NEVER even seen snow, loved it. My eldest daughter and I took the warm weather opportunity to do our January roadside clean-up for the section of Providence Ro [...]
It doesn’t matter what you are doing, spending time with your kids is absolutely priceless. Great story Kevin!