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Real Estate Headlines for the End of March




March is almost over and pretty soon you’ll be thinking you need to start doing something about that lawn. While you recover from an overload of college basketball craziness from this weekend, here are some real estate headlines to close out the last week of March:

Happy Independence Day!




While the calendar says July 4th, we know it truly is Independence Day. It’s a national holiday that oozes with patriotic pride and the taste of a backyard barbecue. We think of holidays at home being focused on Christmas or Thanksgiving, but for me July 4th is one of those holidays too.

Remembering Oconee Drive




As I was thinking back, it occurred to me that I purchased my home 40 years ago this year. It was 113 Oconee Drive in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The year was 1970 and I bought it (with some help from my parents) for what seemed like a huge sum of money – less than $30,000. The home was three-bedrooms and two-bathrooms, and I still remember the brick, the ranch layout, the carport and having the first place I could call my own!