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Julie Brittain Not Your Typical Agent

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The Atlanta Business Chronicle named Keller Williams Realty – The Rawls Group to its list of “Atlanta’s Best Places to Work.”

The Rawls Group ranked No. 1 on the 2010 list of Atlanta’s best places to work for large companies, and was the only real estate company listed in that category.

Atlanta Business Chronicle, in partnership with Quantum Market Research Inc., annually surveys the metro area’s businesses and organizations to find those that have discovered how to be among Atlanta’s Best Places to Work. More than 500 companies participated.

Just after accepting the award, Shaun Rawls, Operating Partner noted “I am speechless and humbled. Our agents and staff both earned and deserve this prestigious award. My team strives every day to provide an atmosphere that is learning based, energetic, inspiring and fun. Hearing that our associates feel that way when they walk in to one of our offices is extremely rewarding.”

General Manager Jeri Moran was equally moved by the recognition. “We are very proud of our leadership team in each of our seven offices for casting vision and helping our team thrive in a challenging market,” she said.

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Keller Williams Realty – The Rawls Group – Ranked among Atlanta’s Best Places to Work

Coldwell Banker Cascade Joins Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Metro Brokers With the merger of Coldwell Banker Cascade, BHGRE Metro Brokers has completed one of its largest acquisitions to date. Founded in 1986 as Bob White Realty, CB Cascade is a well-established company in South Fulton and one of the biggest Coldwell Banker franchises in Georgia. More than 80 agents will now operate under the BHGRE Metro Brokers name.

They will now work out of BHGRE Metro Brokers’ Cascade office on Fairburn Road, and also have access to BHGRE Metro Brokers’ President and CEO Kevin Levent (left) welcomes Coldwell Banker Cascade broker Bob White to 24 other offices located in metro Atlanta and the BHGRE Metro Brokers family. north Georgia. Bob White, former broker and owner of CB Cascade, is very excited about the opportunities that BHGRE Metro Brokers is now offering his agents. “I’ve had a long relationship with Kevin (Levent),” explains White. “His concentration on technology and marketing, and the convenience of the other offices, will serve my agents well into the future.”

White will continue on at BHGRE Metro Brokers as an associate broker, and will concentrate on residential sales and property management as well as providing continuing support for the agents from his former company.

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Cover Story

Julie Brittain

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With boundless energy and a focus on her clients’ needs, this “economy defying” agent is proving that real estate is still a great business!

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During its 2010 Annual Convention & Trade Expo in September, the Georgia Association of Realtors® named Stephen Walker of Prudential Georgia Realty’s Peachtree City office as the 2011 Chair of the GAR Convention Stephen Walker Committee. A longtime volunteer with GAR and the Fayette County Board of Realtors®, Walker is a past president of the Fayette chapter of the Women’s Council of Realtors® and has been honored by the Fayette Board as Realtor of the Year. During the convention, he also received the Founders Award from the Women’s Council of Realtors®.

Cleve Gaddis, managing partner at Gaddis Partners North Atlanta Real Estate at RE/MAX Center, received the RE/MAX Lifetime Achievement Award, which is given to agents who have been with RE/MAX for at least seven years and achieved more than $100 million Cleve Gaddis

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in sales during that time. Only 56 Georgians have received the award since its inception in 1992.

For the last eight years, Gaddis has been in the top 25 RE/MAX agents in Georgia, closing an average of $24 million in sales volume each year.

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Metro Brokers welcomed several new associates to the firm.

Associate Broker Kirk Hill (R.E. Magazine Cover Story February 2007) brings 12 years of experience to the Northlake office. For eight Kirk Hill years, Hill has been named one of the Top 15 sales agents in DeKalb County.

With six years of experience, Tracy Cox works primarily in Roswell, Alpharetta and Woodstock, where she specializes in relocation, executive and luxury homes, equestrian properties and estates, and unique properties like sound studios and athletic facilities. She also is licensed in the state of Florida.

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Kendra Hutt

Kendra Hutt joins the Gwinnett office after spending the last five years selling real estate in Virginia. Her specialty is first-time homebuyers.

Associate Broker Vickie Lester, ABR, GRI, comes to the Stonecrest office with 16 years of experience, primarily in residential with a focus on first-time homebuyers, new homes and residential land. She is a recipient of the Multimillion Dollar Producer award from the East Metro Board.

Judy Dougherty joined Prudential Georgia Realty’s Northwest office, Vickie Lester bringing 24 years of real estate experience with her from Hedgewood Realty. She is a member of the Cobb Association of Realtors, where she is a life member of their Million Dollar Club, and the Cobb chapter of the Women’s Council of Realtors®.

Dougherty has earned the Certified Sales Professional, Senior Real Estate Sales Professional and the Real Estate Judy Dougherty Owned Specialist designations.

Prudential Georgia Realty also welcomed Kim Tordik to its branch office in Suwanee. Formerly of RE/MAX Around Atlanta Partners, Tordik has five years’ experience in real estate, and is a member of the Northeast Atlanta Metro Kim Tordik Association of Realtors®.

Tom Phillips has joined the RE/MAX Town & Country Woodstock office. He lives and has worked in the community for the past six years. Prior to getting his real estate license, Phillips worked as a lease administrator for an IT firm, in the Tom Phillips real estate and facilities department.

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Mark Moore was recently named branch manager at Poli Mortgage’s new office in Decatur. In the mortgage industry since 2001, Moore was one of the first to graduate from top-rated Xinnix Mortgage Academy in April 2002. He was most recently with ProLending Mortgage.

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Jo Kenney, with Keller Williams Metro Atlanta, was recently elected to the position of 2011 National Financial Secretary for the Women’s Council of Realtors® at the annual meeting in New Orleans. Kenney has been an active member of WCR for many years at her home chapter of DeKalb, and as a state officer for Georgia, including president in 2006 and two years as governor. She has been recognized as the Member of the Year and Entrepreneur of the Year by her local chapter.

She has served at the national level for many years, and has been honored to be on the faculty of the Leadership Academy for the past three, and was also elected to the Executive Committee.

Kenney has served at her local association for many years, as vice president for three years, and as chair of professional standards. She has received the Mary Nelson Spirit Award and continues to serve as a state director.

Brad Lynn

Brad Lynn has joined AmeriSave Mortgage, an Internet-based mortgage lender. Formerly the CEO of The Mortgage Group, a Gulf-shores area mortgage lender, Lynn was most recently the vice president of business development for FirstOption Mortgage.

Designations Kim Perez and Wanda Stephens, both of Prudential Georgia Realty’s Northwest office, both recently earned their Graduate, Realtor® Institute designations Kim Perez Wanda Stephens through the National Association and the Georgia Associations of Realtors®.

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Calendar of Events December 2010 December 8, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

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December 9, 11:00 a.m. -1:30 p.m.

DeKalb Association of RealtorsÂŽ Annual Holiday Luncheon and Installation Cost: $15 Members Non Members $30 (at door, add $5) Location: Druid Hills Country Club 740 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta Website registration: www.dekalbrealtors.com or call Andrea McCue 770-493-6100

December 8, 11:30 a.m.

Atlanta Board of RealtorsÂŽ Annual Business Meeting Award Ceremony and Installation of 2011 OfďŹ cers Cost: $35 Members Location: Piedmont Driving Club 1215 Piedmont Ave N.E. Website registration: www.abr.org

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cover story

With boundless energy and a focus on needs, this “economy defying” agent that real estate is still a great business!

Even though Julie and Jen Jenacova worked together at the Keller Williams office in Alpharetta, they didn’t really get to know one another until they reconnected when both “I love having Jen as a friend and fellow KW team member,” Julie says. “Even though she is busy with her own full-time real estate career, she always makes time to help 10

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o one is sure who dropped the ball, but it is clear that someone forgot to tell Julie Brittain that we are in the middle of a recession.

Either Brittain, Keller Williams Realty First Atlanta’s top producing

individual agent, didn’t get the message, or she simply refuses to understand that in a real estate climate where many homes sit on the market for over a year before selling, she should not continually increase her year-over-year production.

her clients’ is proving

Having completed thirty-eight transactions in just the last 10 months, with an average time on market of 28 days, Brittain is defying the odds and redefining the real estate industry.

Not only has Brittain consistently sold her clients’ homes in less than a month, she sold one client’s home twice in less than thirty days! Lisa Ringenberg, Brittain’s past client and good friend recalls, “We lived in the same neighborhood and she sold another neighbor’s property in something like three or four weeks. The buyers

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backed out at the closing table. It was close to Christmas and all of their things were in moving trucks and they were devastated. Julie turned around and resold the house in one day. Obviously, when it came time to sell our house and buy another one, I wanted her as our agent.”

Perhaps Brittain’s remarkable success is a testament to the old adage, “practice makes perfect.” While other children her age were playing with Barbie dolls, Brittain was playing Open House!

“When I was a kid, my sister and I used to pretend to hold open houses for my Mom and Dad. We’d clean the house and then make them go outside and ring the door bell. We’d show them the house and try to sell it to them. I’m sure Mom loved this game since my sister and I cleaned the house,” Brittain laughs.

Brittain’s life-long interest in real estate is apparent in the much-deserved awards and accolades she has received throughout the years. Brittain has been in the top 2% of Keller Williams Realty agents nationwide since 1999 and was one of her market center’s Top 5 Individual Residential Agents in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2009. In 2004 and 2005, she had the #1 team in her market center. Additionally, Brittain was a 2010 Atlanta Board of Realtors® Phoenix Award Winner, an award bestowed to agents with ten consecutive years in their Million Dollar Club.

Even other magazines have applauded her success. Brittain was named a “Realtor® of Distinction” by JEZEBEL Magazine in 2006, 2009 and 2010 and has also been featured in The Piedmont Review as a “Woman on Top.”

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rittain began her real estate career in 1997 as a buyer’s agent and assistant to an agent at RE/MAX. After more than two years of working long hours Monday through Friday and then showing homes on the weekends, she

decided that it was time to make a change.

“The agent I was working for at the time received an invitation to an introduction of their daughters were in the same Girl Scouts troop. me out when I need her!”

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“When people here say ‘I’ve got your back,’ they really mean it,” says Julie of the Rawls Group, named #1 of the Best Places to Work in Atlanta for large companies by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. From L to R: Team Leader Steve Kout, Jen Jenacova, Julie, General Manager Jeri Moran, and Operating Partner Shaun Rawls.

this early stage and start to grow our Profit Sharing Trees, but she wasn’t interested. I crunched some numbers over the weekend and decided that I would go by myself if she didn’t want to go. When I told this agent I was going to Keller Williams she wished me good luck. I had $3,000 in my bank account, a $1,000 mortgage due in 28 days and no computer. I bought a desktop computer and a printer for about $1,000. I had my first closing with Keller Williams 24 days later and paid my mortgage on time,” Brittain recalls.

Just a few of the ways that Brittain goes above and beyond to make sure her clients’ homes receive maximum exposure are by advertising in JEZEBEL, Tuxedo Road, The Piedmont Review and by utilizing ListHub, a program that maximizes her listings exposure on the web. Brittain drives traffic to her website through advertising on 680 The Fan, a talk radio station that features The Atlanta Thrashers, The Atlanta Hawks,

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and The Atlanta Braves. She has also recently obtained her EcoBroker® certification.

Brittain relates, “I walk into a house now and the first thing I notice are the windows. Are they double-pane?

An average home may lose thirty-percent of its heat or air-conditioning energy through its windows. Are the appliances energy efficient?

If you buy one of

today’s most energy-efficient refrigerators, it will use less than half the energy of a model that’s 12-years old or older. I like to think that by knowing these small little facts, I’m helping my clients.”

Always one step ahead of the market, Brittain also opened her own property management company, Julie Brittain Property Management, in 2007.

“My rentals usually take about 3 – 6 weeks to rent. I focus more on references than I do on credit, and I make sure that the rent is paid by auto-draft every month,” Brittain says.

According to Steve Kout, team leader of Keller Williams Realty First Atlanta, Brittain’s many achievements are largely due to her complete commitment to her clients.

“Julie is a go-getter who puts her head down and does what needs to be done. She always puts her clients’ needs before her own and knows that this business

Cure. She also regularly contributes to a fund for sevenyear old Madison Ringenberg, the daughter of her longtime friend and client Lisa.

“Madison is about the same age as my daughter, Riley, and is an amazing little girl,” Brittain relates, “She has DiGeorge syndrome and needs constant

When I was a kid, my sister and I used to pretend to hold open houses for my Mom and Dad. We’d clean the house and then make them go outside and ring the door bell.

We’d show them the house and try to sell it to them. is about clients first. It’s not about the money,” Kout remarks. “She is also a really charitable person. She takes that never ending energy of hers and she channels it in very impressive directions.”

Brittain’s past clients are quick to agree. Donna Bower credits Brittain for preventing her and her husband from accepting anything less than the best deal they could get. She explains, “After we put in the offer on the house we wanted we were willing to settle for a counter offer that the sellers came back with and Julie said, ‘No way!’ Shewas such a strong negotiator. She said, ‘I’m not going to let you settle for that’ and went back and negotiated with the sellers and got us even more than we had hoped. She was our advocate. Not all agents would do that.”

medical care. You can learn more about it on her website, www.madisonfaith.com. Whenever I have a great month I contribute to her fund. My daughter is an artist and sells her paintings for $25, and every time she sells a painting, she also contributes the money to Madison.”

In June of this year, Brittain had one of her best months of commissions and contributed generously to Madison’s medical expenses. Madison was undergoing critical medical procedures in the hospital when Brittain was hired by Ringenberg to list her home.

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rittain is also committed to celebrating her success through helping others.

In addition to being a member of the Junior League of Atlanta, an organization of women devoted to promoting volunteerism, Julie is also the organizer for her office’s annual blood drive. This year, during the month of October Brittain donated While Julie doesn’t get to play tennis as often as she’d like these days, it still remains one of her five percent of her earnings to local favorite pastimes. “Not only is tennis great exercise, but slamming that little ball is a great stress affiliates of Susan G. Komen for the reliever,” she exclaims. r.e. REAL ESTATE MAGAZINE > FALL 2010

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Riley has been on so many listing appointments and home showings with me, she could probably get her real estate license! The other agents used to call her my secret weapon,” laughs Julie. “Together, Riley and I ARE Team Brittain!”

Ringenberg confesses, “I know it sounds horrible, but I really just didn’t have the energy to deal with selling our home. We had to move to a bigger house because Madison had six oxygen tanks and all kinds of medical supplies in her room, and we needed to be somewhere that could accommodate all that. I was in the hospital with her and really didn’t have the mental energy to deal with anything else. Brittain said, ‘No problem, I can handle it.’ She really made the whole transition painless.

She works miracles, even in this market.”

Ringenberg has since referred Brittain to her brother, her sister-in-law’s sister and countless others who have all been thrilled with the service she provided.

“She sold my brother’s home when he was in the Secret Service,” Ringenberg recalls. “We thought it was going to be a nightmare because he couldn’t even take phone calls where he was, but she made it effortless.

She also helped my sister-in-law’s sister sell her home.

The buyers backed out at the last minute and just like she did with our neighbors’ house, she resold the home in two days, and got the seller $14,000 more than the first contract.” s a single mother, Brittain is adamant that with all she has accomplished in her career, her greatest sense of achievement, and her greatest source of inspiration, comes from raising her eight-year-old daughter, Riley.

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“She is my biggest supporter,” explains Brittain. “Riley knows that hard work definitely has its rewards. We took a trip to SoHo in July and we did everything we wanted to do. She may complain about riding around in the car with me to look at houses, however she also makes one dollar per house she shows with me. She rides around in the backseat with her DVD player on or doing her homework and hops out as soon as I put the car in park. She’s saving for a car for when she turns 16,” Brittain adds.

Julie Brittain may not be on board with the downturn in the real estate market, but her clients don’t seem to mind. In fact, at this rate, Brittain’s daughter just might wind up with a Lamborghini!

Jessica Arledge is a freelance writer and real estate agent based in Savannah, GA. Her work has been published in newspapers, magazines and literary journals. She can be reached at (912) 247-6449 or jesstomarledge@earthlink.net.

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Four members of the Atlanta Chapter of the Women’s Council of Realtors® were nominated by 2010 President Judy Harper (left) and presented state and local awards at the 2010 GAR Convention and Trade Expo in September in Sandestin, FL. These awards were accepted by: Sherry Jernigan, Humanitarian Award (not pictured); Gloria Jean Hecking, Mentor of the Year Award; Louri Kearns, Extra Effort Award and Sheila Brower, Founders Award.

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Finding Your Home’s Hidden Leaks

by Todd Lemoine, guest columnist

main entrance doorframe. In the bottom section of the panel there is a hole where a fan is mounted. With all the windows and exterior doors closed and all the interior doors open, the fan in the bottom panel is turned on and sucks air out of the home. This causes the interior air pressure to drop and the exterior air to be drawn into the house.

Air leaks are then easily located by several methods: passing one’s hand around suspected areas to feel air movement, using a smoke tracer so that the smoke moves with the passing air, or the use of an infrared camera. The infrared camera is the preferred method, as it is the most effectiveway to locate air leakage. The camera reads temperatures of house surfaces and no light is needed for this equipment to function properly. On a summer day, it will record hot air moving into or out of the house and on a winter day, the cold air. Because the infrared camera reads temperature differences, it can effectively detect missing ceiling or wall insulation. Once the air leaks are found, proper sealing methods can be used and missing or damaged insulation can be replaced.

As energy costs continue to rise, the energy audit may very well become a part of the home buying process throughout the real estate industry.

Even though a home may have high efficient heating and cooling systems and energy efficient appliances, air leaks will remain a cause of high energy costs.

Having an energy audit performed will help the home run more efficiently and economically!

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ontrolling air leakage is one of the most critical considerations in making a home more efficient in conserving energy In the past, it was thought that most air leaks occurred at seams where the building components were put together, especially around windows and doors. As building science and technology has improved over the years, it has become evident that “hidden” leaks are of more consequence than building seam leakage. Performing an energy audit on a home is now the preferred way to determine how energy efficient a home really is.

Since air leakage represents from 5 to 40% of the cost of heating or cooling a home, controlling that leakage is essential. Many hidden leaks are often found in intermediate zones – attics and crawl spaces. In older homes with a crawl space, it is estimated that 40% of the breathable air comes from the crawl space. Another hidden source may be the actual building materials used.

The cause of air leakage in a home is a direct result of air pressure differences between the inside and outside. Air is constantly moving from high-pressure areas to lowpressure areas. This means that the conditioned air in a home will want to move to the exterior of the home if the air pressure is greater on the inside of the home.

This will cause the cost of conditioning the air in the home to rise. On the other hand, if the exterior air pressure is greater than the inside, air will want to push itself to the inside of the home. Again, the cost to condition the inside air will rise. Air pressure changes can be caused by the use of exhaust fans, fireplace use as air is drafted up the chimney, whole house fans that suck air into the attic, and even wind blowing around the house. Cracks, crevices, attics and crawl spaces as well as windows and doors are all places that air moves in and out of the home.

To discover where there are leaks in a house is a challenge, but can be determined by performing a blower door test.

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aerial photography

Kane Thomas & Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-591-5200 East Cobb Office 678-337-3223 www.proclosers.com

Kenneco Aerial Photography . . . . . . . . . 770-262-0641 Low Altitude, High-Resolution Aerial Photos www.kennecoaerialphotos.com

Law Offices of Sam Maguire Jr., PC . . . 404-257-8885 Where Real Estate Meets Real People www.sammaguire.com

Sunergeo Creative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404-452-8954 (see display ad page 6)

Meredith Shearer and Associates . . . . . . . 678-560-5050

home inspection services

Murphy & Shank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-517-9300

alarm systems

Ackerman Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-552-1111 residential, small business, commercial www.ackermansecurity.com

graphic design

Atlanta Property Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . 770-932-8634

Meyer Closings, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404-257-0330

CHI Home Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-827-2200 (see banner ad page 16)

Morris|Hardwick|Schneider . . . . . . . . . . 678-298-2100 Exceeding Expectations. One Closing at a Time www.closingsource.net

DRC Inspections and Consulting. . . . . . . . 770-794-1494 IHI Home Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404-788-2581 (see banner ad page 16) National Property Inspections . . . . . . . . . . 770-656-2209

O’Kelley & Sorohan, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-497-1880 18 offices across Georgia for your convenience www.okelleyandsorohan.com

associations

RIA Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-476-4963 (see banner ad page 16) Skyline Home Inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678-432-5464 (see banner ad page 16)

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Atlanta Board of Realtors . . . . . . . . . . . . 404-250-0051 ® Cherokee Association of Realtors . . . . . 770-591-0004

Shafritz & Dean, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404-255-8183 5 offices for your clients’ convenience www.shafritz-dean.com

home staging

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Cobb Association of Realtors . . . . . . . . . . 770-422-3900

Weissman, Nowack, Curry and Wilco, PC . 404-926-4500

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Duda Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-434-7503

DeKalb Association of Realtors . . . . . . . . 770-493-6100 ®

Empire Board of Realtists . . . . . . . . . . . . 404-755-5575 ® Metro South Assoc. of Realtors . . . . . . . . 770-477-7579

Northeast Atlanta Metro Assoc. ® of Realtors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-495-7300

insurance

basements and waterproofing Aquaguard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-419-9111

Don Johnson State Farm Insurance . . . 770-973-8545 E Cobb Good Neighbor Insurance & Financial Svc www.donjohnsoninsurance.com

financial services

investment properties

Groundbreakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678-268-3330

Bluefields Capital, LCC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678-502-5000

attorneys

Carol Clark Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404-250-3300

For advertising information, call Lawrence Cohen at 770-956-7100.

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resource directory

Realtor® resource directory management companies

photography

security systems

PEMCO Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404-995-7111

David M Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404-432-1517 Portraits, headshots, family & yearbook www.davemphotography.com

Ackerman Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-552-1111 residential, small business, commercial www.ackermansecurity.com

mortgage companies John Clemmer Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-428-1658 Metlife Home Loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404-579-7504 (see banner ad page 8)

moving and storage Atlanta Peach Movers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-270-5586 Buckhead Movers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404-603-0234 Best Move for your Bucks! www.buckheadmovers.com

plumbing

utility protection

Plumbing Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-452-8636 Your Solution to Polybutylene Plumbing www.plumbing911.com

Utilities Protection Center, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811 Know before you dig – Call 811 www.georgia811.com (see banner ad page 15)

real estate companies video productions Keller Williams Realty First Atlanta . . . . . . 404-531-5700 Reel Productions TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678-571-5728 Weichert Realtors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-800-872-7653 Marietta, Buford, Decatur and Woodstock www.weichert.com (see banner ad page 2)

renovation and new construction

virtual tours Glide Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-560-9658 Homescenes, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-594-1193

Glazer Design & Construction . . . . . . . . . . 404-683-9848

roof repairs

window services

Peachtree Roofing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-579-7663

multiple listing services Georgia MLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-493-9000 “More Prices, More Places, More Possibilities” www.gamls.com (see banner ad page 7 &9)

pest control All Exterminating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-887-2571 Skyline Pest Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678-432-5464 Sonic Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770-844-1580 (see banner ad page 6)

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