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Small and Techy Trumps National and Expensive | Warmath Real Estate Forms Relationship with Maxsell Real Estate
categories: Announcements, Self Promotion
We’ve been mulling it over for months now and discussing it online to get your perspective. The question: Which is more relevant in today’s web2.0 real estate world, a large national broker or a small local broker?
At Bloodhound Blog, we tossed around the idea of what the role of a broker could and should be in today’s real estate world … at Maxsell Real Estate Brad Nix discussed the merits of a large broker versus a small one … on this blog, I asked if it mattered to you - my clients, prospective clients and colleagues - if I were with a national or boutique broker.
Plus I’ve asked long-time agents in multiple states, friends and current and past clients if it mattered to them if I were affiliated with a national broker. Asked another way: "Does the brand matter?"
The resounding answer I got was "No. What matters is the service that you provide; we don’t get anything that we can really put our finger on from the broker."
This due diligence put the wind in my sail to make a change and I’m happy to announce that we have relocated our real estate affiliation to Maxsell Real Estate.
I actually believe that a broker does matter in two ways that will directly affect my clients: One, a broker charges me money and the national compensation plans are very expensive. With a less onerous plan that a local broker can provide, I can invest more in my business (marketing / systems / personnel) which will have a positive affect on my clients and attract new ones.
Second, Maxsell understands technology. That makes two of us and my believe is that 1+1 is more than 2 in this marriage and that together we can continue to lead the way for real estate in Alpharetta, North Fulton and wherever the future may take us.
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Freemanville High School Environmental Impact Meeting Scheduled
categories: Announcements, Schools
For people interested in learning more about the proposed Freemanville High School in Milton from the citizens’ perspective, there will be a presentation by local residents tonight at the City Council working session. The presentation is scheduled for 6 PM and will highlight some of the environmental impacts of building a new high school on the proposed site.
I don’t want to ruin the ending for you, but one of the significant findings is that the a new high school would product 100,000 gallons a day of septic waste. It would be the highest single source septic system in the City of Milton by far and would further increase the bacterial load in Chicken Creek, which is already elevated.
Negative environmental impact is the horse that community opponents are betting on to stop the development of the high school at that location. For more information you can goto: ProtectMilton.com or check back with the City of Milton website for the minutes after the meeting.
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Southern Lacrosse Gets Boost from Northern Schools | Alpharetta Lacrosse Ranked #2
categories: Announcements, Stuff I like to talk about
Between the tornados that battered Atlanta this weekend, the Notre Dame men’s lacrosse team battered the Big Green of Dartmouth. It was fantastic to see a Division 1 lacrosse game played in Atlanta (promoted by BreakAway Lacrosse and played at Lovett High School) and the support the northern schools are giving to the growth of lacrosse in the South by scheduling the game in Atlanta.
Kids from all over the metro area game dressed in their game jerseys giving you an idea of just how wide spread the game has become in Atlanta and how much it has grown in just the past 3-5 years. Lacrosse is now a viable extracurricular activity for your children if you live in Atlanta or are planning to relocate to Atlanta. That’s sweet news for families moving to Atlanta from El Norte, where lacrosse is more mainstream.
One of the season’s best boy’s high school teams to date is Alpharetta High School. They are ranked #2 behind Lovett and are so far unbeaten at 8-0. They dominated #7 Lassiter this past week 14-2 and will play #8 Roswell High School on March 25 and #1 Lovett on April 23rd at Lovett on the same field that Notre Dame took Dartmouth to task 19-7.
I captured a few images from the Notre Dame - Dartmouth game. This is my favorite. To see the rest, go here: http://picasaweb.google.com/kevinwarmath/NotreDameVDartmouth
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Birmingham Highway - Wood Road Elementary School Informational Meeting
categories: Announcements, Milton Real Estate, Schools
This post is mostly informational only. There is a meeting on September 25th at 7PM for the community to learn more about the new school and to ask questions about the school’s features, design, bus transportation and redistricting. The meeting will be held at Summit Hill Elementary School on Providence Road.
This is not a meeting to discuss whether or not there should be a school on the site at Birmingham Highway and Wood Road just south of the entrance to White Columns. That ship has long since sailed.
Personally, I’m not opposed to a new elementary school at that location. (However, what I am opposed to is the proposed new high school and possibly middle school at the other end of Wood Road on Freemanville Road.)
We need another elementary school. It is fitting that the meeting will be help at Summit Hill because that school stands to benefit the most from the construction of a new school. Summit Hill is the most overcrowded elementary school in the Fulton County School System, with an enrollment of 1,008 students, fortunately down from the projected 1,050 students. For anyone who is opposed to a new elementary school, count the trailers there or visit during recess and see where the kids get to play.
The new school is apparently going to be modeled after Renaissance Elementary in Fairburn, which is 
pictured above. The school will sit facing northwest on the site and have an 850 student capacity and 54 classrooms. There will be a 45,000 gallon septic system with fourteen drainfield zones located on the northwest portion of the site.
All access to the school will be off of Birmingham Highway; no access will be from Wood Road.
The projected opening date for the new school is September 2009. Originally it was supposed to be 2008. That is one of the questions that I have: Why was construction delayed? The money was available through SPLOST funding. What I heard is that the City of Milton slowed the project down, but I don’t know that for fact or why they would do that, not that it can be changed now. I’m just curious to know what our elected representatives and newly formed city are doing in this regard. They say they have no control over the new high school.
In the end, though, the school is only a physical building. It is not really a school until you fill it with children and teachers and administrators. The most important thing is not selection of the brick color or the direction the school faces but who will be the principal. That, and, of course, what the mascot and school colors will be.
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Candidate Forum for Milton City Council
categories: Announcements
The League of Women Voters is hosting a Candidate Forum for the Milton City Council election on Wednesday October 4, 2006 in the Milton High School Auditorium.
The time is 7:30PM. There is a “Meet and Greet” to follow the forum.
For a list of candidates see this post.
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Welcome to the North Fulton Real Estate blogsphere
categories: Announcements
We have a great place to live in North Fulton and now we have a great place to discuss all the housing related issues in this area, that is, or course, this blog. I’m starting this blog in order to start “saving my thoughts.” I can’t remember things like i used to so hopefully this blog can become part of my memory bank — i have quit the habit of “small pieces of paper.” That is where you write phone numbers and notes on the first scrap of paper that you find and then of course can never find that scrap again when you need it.
My desire for this blog is that when i have what i think might be a somewhat insightful though - or at least something that someone else might be remotely interested in - to reach for my blog instead of a scrap of paper. The end result will be a nice catalog of my thoughts, hopefully spiced up and improved upon by your comments. I’m certain that not everyone will agree with my opinion on certain matter or my analysis and i encourage discussion: It is only through healthy debate that we get closer to the “truth.”
Here goes…we are off on a new journey into the blogsphere.
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