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‘Willful disregard’? Two views on Fulton County’s decision to raise taxes COMMENTARY 6

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‘Exhibit art’ to evoke area’s history BY JOE EARLE

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Jeff Covell, center, oversees the installation of oak trees on Aug. 22, part of the $10 million streetscape project for Buckhead Atlanta. Read related story and see additional photos on page 2.

Blue Heron Nature Preserve grows, looks to expand trail BY JOE EARLE

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The Blue Heron Nature Preserve is adding 4 acres in an expansion that may allow it eventually to tie into a wide-spread network of trails connecting city parks. “We are very excited,” said Nancy Jones, executive director of the nonprofit preserve. The new property on Land O’Lakes Drive is contiguous to Sarah Smith Elementary School. Its location means it Nancy Jones could allow construction of walkways that would connect the preserve to other trails in the area, Jones said. “There’s just huge potential to open up all our green space around Buckhead,” Jones said. Eventually, the preserve’s trail can tie into the PATH400

trail and Atlanta’s Belt Line and connect to paths at Chastain Park, Jones said. A trail to Chastain could run along Peachtree Creek, she said. “Our vision is to expand Blue Heron well beyond our own boundaries by connecting our trails to existing ones all around us,” Jones said. She said connecting to the Sarah Smith school property “links everybody to our property.” North Buckhead Civic Association president Gordon Certain praised the notion of developing a way to walk to Chastain Park. “I am excited about having an alternative to driving to the park,” Certain said in an email. “Sometimes, with events in the park, walking is faster than driving. Plus, the walk along West Wieuca Road can be a challenge without a map to tell you which side of the road the sidewalks are.” SEE BLUE HERON, PAGE 23

Imagine walking through a Buckhead park surrounded by ghostly Civil War soldiers cut from metal. Or looking at a building through a clear plate etched with a photo of how that spot looked 50 years ago. Those are a couple of the ideas members of Buckhead Heritage are tossing around as they plan how to illustrate the community’s history. “We want people to ask, ‘What’s going on?’ ‘What’s the story here?’” said Erica Danylchak, executive director of the nonprofit group created to identify, preserve and promote Buckhead history. Buckhead Heritage has worked with consultants and a steering committee composed of other Buckhead groups and organizations since last October to draw up plans for presenting local history. The group developed five “storylines” to tell the community’s tale and mapped sites that illustrate those stories. Buckhead Heritage’s steering committee also is thinking up ways to present the sites to people who visit them. “Unconventional exhibit art, along with interpretive signage, will be used to evoke Buckhead’s history in imaginative ways in parks and urban plazas in the community,” Danylchak said. The committee has developed 10 different methods of interpreting each site, including the metal sculptures of soldiers and use of historic photographs on see-through panels. “You’d stand in a certain spot and see what it looks like now and see what historic fabric we still have,” she said. “One of the things we SEE BUCKHEAD HERITAGE, PAGE 19

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Four, 35-foot tall oak trees made their way to the heart of Buckhead for installation on Aug. 22.

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‘The Big Read’ is back The Atlanta History Center and Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System are teaming up to present The Big Read, a campaign to get adults (and kids) reading, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest. This year’s book will be “Luis Alberto Urrea’s Into the Beautiful North,” and there will be related programs in September and October including events with the author on Sept. 17 at the Atlanta History Center. In conjunction, younger readers are encouraged to participate in The Little Read with “I Love Saturdays y domingos” by Alma Flor Ada, while middle school ages can read “Esperanza Rising” by Pam Munoz Ryan. For a complete calendar of events, visit AtlantaHistoryCenter.com/BigRead.

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Editor’s note: Republican lawmakers from north Fulton County recently filed suit over a Fulton County Commission decision to raise taxes. Reporter Newspapers asked representatives of both sides to explain their positons on the lawsuit. Commission Chairman John Eaves responded to lay out the county’s position. The six state legislators and one former lawmaker who filed the suit provided a joint column explaining their rationale.

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The primary responsibility of every elected official is to serve the interests of the citizens they represent. In turn, the citizens have the privilege to select their elected officials by casting their vote on Election Day. But when some elected officials in Fulton County consistently fail to act in the best interests of their constituents, provisions in Georgia law provide methods of relief. For too many years, Fulton County Commissioners have approved deficit budgets, spending more than $100 million in reserve funds. Hard-earned tax dollars have been spent on frivolous projects while core service delivery funding and critical infrastructure needs have been neglected. The Fulton County jail has been under a Federal Consent Decree for years due to poor management decisions, and instead of resolving this, precious financial resources have been squandered on non-essential projects such as a performing arts center, amphitheater and aviation museum. Other government buildings have become toxic work environments due to a lack of responsible maintenance. Chronic challenges in leadership have led to frequent management turnover and extended vacancies in key positions. Taxpayers should be able to expect quality service delivery, but in Fulton County, this has not been the case. Sadly, Fulton County taxpayers have been subjected to this repetitive pattern of willful disregard of fiscal constraints, and the Fulton County Commission has failed to recognize the eventual outcome of their actions – the money runs out! In 2013, we sponsored House Bill 604 as a measure to perform our responsibility to our constituents. HB 604 limits the commission’s authority to increase the property tax rate prior to January 2015, and will require the affirmative vote of a super majority of Commissioners in subsequent years to increase the millage rate. The provisions of HB 604 are based on a 1951 local constitutional amendment that applies only to Fulton County, and gives the Georgia General Assembly authority over the time and place that the Fulton County Commission may levy of ad valorem taxes. We recognized the peril of a tax increase in Fulton County, and the negative consequences that will result. A jump in property taxes – especially when property values and, therefore assessments are already increasing – will force rents to increase, prices of goods and services to be hiked, and businesses to move out of Fulton County. We cannot afford to place ourselves at a competitive disadvantage with our peer counties in economic development. The Fulton County Commission deliberately chose to violate the provisions of House Bill 604, and proceeded with steps to increase property taxes in 2014. We immediately filed a petition in Superior Court on Aug. 6 to seek preliminary and permanent injunction of this attempt. The citizens of Fulton County may rely on us to remain steadfast in our pledge to defend their interests and uphold the laws of our great state of Georgia. Reps. Jan Jones (R-Milton), Wendell Willard (R-Sandy Springs), Joe Wilkinson (R-Sandy Springs), Chuck Martin (R-Alpharetta), Harry Geisinger (R-Roswell), Lynne Riley (RJohns Creek) and former Rep. Ed Lindsey of Buckhead brought suit against the county over its tax increase.

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County: We are defending Home Rule By John Eaves Business had to keep going. Cases had to proceed in Fulton County Courts. The restaurants that we frequent had to be inspected to make sure they were safe for us to visit. Our libraries had to continue educating and informing. Emergency patients in the trauma ward at Grady had to be treated. The 911 systems sending those patients to the hospital had to keep serving us. The elections process had to continue so that everyone could exercise their right to vote. These are some of the reasons the Fulton County Commissioners passed a budget in January including a request for an increase in the property millage rate. The Board of the Commissioners took none of these moves lightly, and we understand why some are not pleased with them. Tough calls are often not popular ones. As a historic recession forced states, counties and municipalities to charge taxpayers more for services they deliver, Fulton County attempted to weather the storm without taking that measure. We were quite proud of the fact that the last countywide tax increase had been more than 20 years ago. As we asked for more of our residents we did some belt tightening of our own. We made cuts. Libraries lost hours. Seniors had to pay more for meals. Grady Memorial Hospital lost much of its county funding. Since 2008, our county workforce has been reduced by more than 500 people overall, with our temporary and part-time staﬀ cut by more than half over that period. This year alone, we trimmed $25 million from programs. Our employees didn’t see a pay raise in seven years. The median home value in Fulton County is around $200,000. If you are the owner of that average home, we are requesting about $7 more a month in property taxes. We all would prefer to keep that money in our pockets, but we also would prefer to keep those services that $7 funds. As Fulton County asks more of our taxpayers, you have asked more from us as well. The County Manager has begun an extensive restructuring of the county government. We are looking for new revenue streams and additional cost savings to make sure we are eﬃcient. We are centralizing and outsourcing services where feasible. As for the pieces of litigation filed against the county by a group of lawmakers and a separate one filed by another citizen, the county’s position is that they have no merit whatsoever. The county exercised its authority and obligations under the constitution and laws of the state of Georgia. We chose to repeal House Bill 604 not out of spite for those who passed it, but because government functions needed to be funded, and many have become more costly to provide. We want the same freedom that is given to governments from Palmetto to Alpharetta, which is the right to made our own financial decisions. A majority of seven duly elected representatives make that call on behalf of the county taxpayers that elected them. State lawmakers would balk (and have) at the federal government taking the same liberties with state law, and would never allow us to forward budgetary mandates onto any of the cities in our county. That is not good public policy and sets a dangerous precedent. It is wrongheaded, and amounts to “Big Government” overstepping its bounds, no matter what government is doing so. John Eaves is chairman of the Fulton County Commission. BH

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Forget the Terrible Twos. How about the Terrible 22s? I knew what to do with a 2-year-old, but what do I do with a 22-year-old? By the miracle of life, the 2-year-old boy who was toddling around our house — it couldn’t have been 20 years ago — has suddenly become a full grown man. He’s in that nebulous area of space and time, waffling between higher education and independent living. He’s old enough to drive, vote and serve our country, but he still doesn’t know how to load a dishwasher. It’s that age between learning how to cite your sources and learning how to scramble an egg. Some say it’s just a phase. He went through phases when he was in his terrible twos. I remember that. There were books on that. There was the colicky phase, the phase of exploration, the “my little potty” phase. And although I ran myself ragged during that time, I knew that (fall-down-and-die exhaustion aside, I can’t say it enough) this would not be the most difficult part of mothering. He still took naps. I was still bigger than he was — and continued to be, until he turned 12. Above all, I knew that the crap I dealt with then I could flush down the toilet. But the age of unflushable crap has arrived. Still, the similarities between a 2-yearold and a 22-year-old are remarkable. When he was 2, he waddled around the house half-naked, wearing nothing but his diapers. It was very cute. At 22, he lumbers around the house, with his 6-foot-tall, extremely hairy body, wearing nothing but boxers or a wet towel— never both at the same time. It’s not so cute. When he was 2, he pattered gleefully from room to room, marking his territory with squeaky toys and sippy cups. At 22, he plods from den to kitchen to bedroom, leaving a trail of stained coffee cups, half-eaten cookies and stacks of books in his wake. When he was 2, he would wake up at 3 in the morning, crying from night-

mares. At 22, he comes in at 3 in the morning. And I’m the one having nightmares. I remember when he was born, how I labored ROBIN JEAN for 26 hours MARIE CONTE until he finally came into ROBIN’S NEST the world, how my doctor presented me with him, saying, “It’s a boy! And he’s perfect!” I remember how I spent the night in the hospital, my first night as a mother, lying there with my brand new baby boy asleep on my stomach. It was the most magical night of my life. I spoke to him as he slept in his infant oblivion. I told him about the room we had waiting for him at home, lined with stuffed animals and decorated with cheery colors. I told him about the grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins and friends who couldn’t wait to meet him or see him again. I told him that his father and I were so happy to have him, about all the things we would do together, the fun we would have. Then my husband entered the room, ever the eager one, actually trying to give me lessons on breast feeding. The summer is almost over and my son will be leaving in a few days. I could say that I’ll miss his stacks of debris and barely-clothed hairy body. But I won’t. What I will miss is his company — his humor, his conversation, his incredible intelligence. So as I close the door to his train wreck of a room, I remind myself: This is all just a phase.

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about $500,000 – half a million dollars – in Reporter Newspapers communities? What’s a half-million-dollar house these days? “Well, it’s not what it used to be,” joked Sandy Springs Realtor Katie Brinkman, who’s been in the business a quarter century. “But people get good buys for their money, particularly in the suburbs.”

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Real estate snapshot: Single family home sales Sandy Springs: 30350 High Low Median

# BRs 7 2 5

Sq. Ft. 10,307 760 3,958

List Price $2,300,000 68,000 549,900

Sales Price $2,199,000 64,050 525,000

Days on Market 1,218 0 60

Sales Price $6,300,000 305,000 646,000

Days on Market 871 0 36

Sales Price $2,325,000 169,150 444,000

Days on Market 560 0 25

Buckhead: 30305 High Low Median

# BRs 7 2 4

Sq. Ft. 12,705 928 2,698

List Price $6,900,000 290,700 672,500

Brookhaven: 30319 High Low Median

# BRs 7 0 4

Sq. Ft. 6,811 840 2,452

List Price $2,500,000 175,000 450,000

Dunwoody: 30338 # BRs Sq. Ft. List Price Sales Price Days on Market High 6 31,873 $1,250,000 $1,160,000 567 Low 3 1,265 150,000 120,000 0 Median 4 2,889 424,950 415,375 24 This information is compiled from First Multiple Listing Service (FMLS) from January-August, 2014. This information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed, and is not a complete list of activity. Data provided by Judy Soden, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Sandy Springs office.

Real Estate Briefs Ashton Woods Homes has opened the new model home at Gramercy, its latest Dunwoody townhome community. Priced from the $400s, luxury amenities include an optional elevator, master suites, media/game rooms, decks with fire rings and built-in bars. For more visit www.ashtonwoods. com/Atlanta. Engel & Völkers Buckhead Atlanta has announced the hiring of Suzy Smith as a new real estate advisor. She brings 15 years of experience with in-depth market knowledge of the Atlanta area. Engel & Völkers also named a new senior vice president of business development, Valerie Levin, who has 25 years of real estate experience in sales, management, training and recruiting. GROUNDFLOOR, the first microlending community for real estate, has opened its headquarters at Atlanta Tech Village. This comes immediately after the company raised $1 million in seed round funding from angel investors including Michael Olander, Bruce Boehm, Mark Easley Sr. and the Inception Micro-Angel Fund. The company selected Georgia as its new home to grow its business due to the state’s progressive stance on crowdfunding policies and citizen-backed real estate development.

The map above, prepared by the Atlanta Regional Commission using demographic data from ESRI, shows areas with these median home values:

● $557,028 to $1 million in red ● $307,471 to $557, 028 in orange ● $185,560 to $307,471 in yellow ● $109,564 to $185,560 in green ● lower than $109,564 in blue For a larger version of this map, go to ReporterNewspapers.net.

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Sanctuary Tour lanta Audubon Society offers its annual Backyard Wildlife Sanctuary Tour, showcasing five sites running along an 18.6 mile route between Dunwoody, Sandy Spring, Peachtree Corners and Berkeley Lake. Tickets: $15 for AAS members; $20 for non-members. Children aged 12 and under are free when accompanied by a paying adult. Proceeds support the AAS. Go to: www.dunwoodynature.org to download a route map. Register: www.atlantaaudubon. org/order-form.

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mer may be over, but there is still plenty of time for gardening! Sarah Brodd from the UGA Cooperative Extension provides tips and tricks for a fall vegetable garden. Open to the first 30 participants. Free. For adults. Call 404-848-7140 to register. Brookhaven Branch Library, 1242 N. Druid Hills Rd., NE, Brookhaven, 30319.

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Bogey and The Viceroy Sunday, Sept. 14, 7 p.m. – Concerts by the

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Redheads 5K Saturday, Sept. 13, 7:30 a.m. – Run, walk or brachiate to save orangutans! Join others for the 2nd annual Run for the Redheads 5K. Dress as your favorite redhead, wear red, paint your hair red and help save the endangered orangutan. $20 pre-race; $25 race day; $10 for 1-mile Great Ape Gallop; $15 race day. Proceeds go to Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme. Start/finish at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 3003 Howell Mill Rd., Atlanta, 30327. Go to: www.active.com or www.apeconservationeffort.org to register. Questions? Email: redheadrun@apeconservationeffort.org.

Thursday, Sept. 18, 5-9 p.m. – Kingswood

United Methodist Church holds its fall “KidStuff” consignment sale. Browse through children’s fall and winter clothing, toys, books, baby equipment, and much more. All proceeds support the missions of Kingswood UMC. Open to the public on Sept. 19; no children under 10 admitted. Sale continues Friday, Sept. 19, 9 a.m.–2 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 20, 8 a.m.–1 p.m., with many items 1/2 price. Free admission and all are welcome. In the Community Life Center, 5015 Tilly Mill Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Use the North Peachtree entrance. For more information, visit: www.kingswoodumc.org/missions/ kidstuff.htm

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BY ART HUCKABEE In this Top Chef crazy restaurant town, can Aunt Bella make it? “Aunt who?” you ask. That would be former University of Georgia professor and now restaurateur, Dr. Kim Grady’s aunt, the woman who helped raise her and gave her the inspiration for Bella’s Best Organic Gourmet, a newly opened bakery restaurant tucked among the boutiques, art galleries and antique shops on Bennett Street in south Buckhead. As Kim tells the story, while working on her doctoral dissertation, she would bake nightly to relax. The next day she would bring her baked goods to class. Kim’s students were the first to urge her to consider going into the baking business. Kim reconnected with her childhood friend, now husband, Ray Grady, several years ago. Ray, a big, soft-spoken man, and Kim’s number one fan, likes to tell of the first time he sampled Kim’s baked goods. He says, “The first time I tasted (it), I cussed… It was that good.” You can tell that Ray doesn’t cuss very often. Kim and Ray began selling their allorganic vegetarian baked goods and other goodies at local farmer’s markets in Sandy Springs, Emory and Tucker. Even now, with the demands of their new restaurant, they still have a stall at each market. It was a reader who suggested that I visit Bella’s Best. They had been open just a month and a day when I stopped in with two friends for lunch. It’s a space with lots of potential and is clearly a work in progress. Ray was behind the baked goods counter. Save for him and Kim in the kitchen, we were the only

others in the place. In addition to the sweet baked goods, the savory offerings consisted of a spinach quiche, a stuffed red pepper, a vegetable pie and a pastry Kim calls “strucla” which on this day was filled with portabella mushrooms. All are individually sized so we chose to share one of each. Strucla is Kim’s pièce de résistance. Originally made by her Aunt Bella as a treat at Christmas time, this pastry has its roots in Polish baking. The dough has cream cheese in it but remains light with a firm, chewy texture. Kim fills each pastry with a variety of homemade organic fruit preserves and vegetables. The portabella strucla was excellent and with a side salad, would make the perfect lunch for those well-heeled shoppers who frequent Bennett Street. On other days a tomato basil strucla and a spinach artichoke strucla are in the offerings. The stuffed red pepper was filled with cooked grains, red onion, corn and peas. It was the perfect doneness with all of the veggies still having a brightness and toothsome crunch. The spinach quiche and the vegetable pie were also quite good. Kim uses the same dough for these as she does her strucla. The lack of a side or garnish makes it feel like you’re dining in a bakery more than a restaurant. Kim later explained that when their traffic picks up she will have the ability to include more garnishes and sides, but for now, she tries to limit her perishables. All of her baked products are made fresh each day. For dessert, we tried Kim’s signature strucla, a “classic” apricot. As Ray explains, “It has apricots, walnuts, golden

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raisins, coconut and some hmmm, hmmm, hmmm.” It was gooey and not too sweet. We also tried a fig strucla, a ginger cookie and the pecan shortbread. All were very good with the ginger cookie packing a spicy punch. Kim emerged from the kitchen to inquire how we liked our lunch. It’s clear that she and Ray have big plans for this restaurant even talking of eventually opening a kid’s baking school and a meals-to-go section. It’s also clear that those plans are firmly rooted in values that honor family and community. Making it in the restaurant business is tough. Kim and Ray have already fielded offers to sell their products through grocery chains and other restaurants, but have resisted, fearful that they would not be able to maintain the quality and high standards that are the bedrocks of

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The storylines the group has developed, Danylchak said, show “how Buckhead has changed and evolved over time.” The goal, she said, is “to bring our history to a broad audience, to bring an awareness and appreciation for the historic resources we have left in the community and the rich stories that are part of the fabric of the community.” The program is intended to interest both Buckhead residents and tourists. “It’s for people who are here in the community,” Danylchak said. “When I travel, I go to places where I can get a sense of place. What’s their story? [Tourists] come for the wonderful shopping and the won-

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 2100 block of Peachtree Road — A rob-

bery by three men with semi-automatic guns was reported during the morning of Aug. 10 at a restaurant. The men approached from the bushes and ordered employees who were outside not to move. One man stood behind the garbage receptor door, while a second pulled the unlocked door open and a third ran inside and knocked on the manager’s door. When the manager opened the door, a man struck the manager with the butt of the gun and took money from the safe.

 3300 block of Peachtree Road NE—A pe-

destrian robbery was reported during the evening Aug. 11, after a man noticed he was being followed by another man who snatched his laptop bag, which contained a black IBM computer and an iPod. block of Shadowlawn NE—A carjacking was reported during the morning Aug. 14, when victims walking back to their car noticed two men parked in a Dodge Charger on the other side of the road. “Hey let me talk to you,” one man from the Charger called, and when the victims continued walking, both men walked up to them with guns and yelled, “Give me everything out of your pocket.”

 1900 block of Piedmont Circle NE—A

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A G G R AVAT E D A S S A U LT  3700 block of Roswell Road NE—An ag-

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 1200 block of Collier Road NW—A

commercial burglary was reported during the day Aug. 10, after an officer heard the alarm going off at a business and saw damage to the back door. The store manager arrived and said the back door was not the way he left it when he left the location.

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Piedmont Road—A commercial burglary was reported during the morning Aug. 11, when a person heard noises coming from the rear door and saw a man trying to open the door. Police saw the man had bolt cutters in his hands when they arrived, but a security officer called the store supervisor who said the man with bolt cutters was likely a locksmith because the location had problems with its rear door.

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 1100 block of West Paces Ferry Road—

Theft from a vehicle parked outside a residence was reported Aug. 11. Hand tools, a hammer drill, routers, a tool box and two 4-inch grinders were taken from the vehicle.

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Theft from a vehicle parked at a restaurant was reported during the day Aug. 12, when the driver side door handle was pried open and an IBM laptop, an iPad, wallet, Social Security card and two business credit cards were taken.

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SOLD! Masterpiece home in Brookhaven/Lynwood Park - Exquisite finishes with superior details throughout; unbelievable backyard with terrace level and putting green. Unparalleled to all else in the neighborhood. SOLD for $750,000

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There is no better time to sell. Our most recent listings have sold on average in less than 5 days for 102% of List Price. Take advantage of this hot market! Contact us for a free valuation of your home, or to be the first to know about our upcoming listings before they hit the market. 404-531-3254 or info@schiffrealtypartners.com

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PENDING SALE! Open floor plan in Brookhaven offers great natural light throughout. Excellent location-close prox. to Dresden shops/dining. Lots of upgrades! Listed for $500,000

JUST LISTED & ALREADY PENDING SALE! Fabulous Buckhead home located on a charming Intown street. Professionally updated throughout. Listed for $500,000 connect with:

Schiff Realty Partners Office: 404.531.5700 Direct: 404.531.3254 info@SchiffRealtyPartners.com www.SchiffRealtyPartners.com

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