Most everyone that lives in Barrow County or Dacula has traveled hwy 316 during peak traffic hours. And if you have you know this can frustrating to say the least. Heck, I've been known to cut a few people off and throw around the ol' middle finger a few times myself. (that was pre-medication of course).
So you've probably noticed the construction that's been going on since November around the area of Hwy 20 and Collins Hill Rd in Lawrenceville. GDOT has been touting the new interchange for years and I'm hoping it relieves most of the backup in that area. I was wondering over the weekend as I'm driving through that stretch how they will reconfigure the roads. Will Hwy 20 pass over or under 316 and how will Collins Hill be routed? Does it really matter as long as they remove the lights? No, no it doesn't!!
I found this information on the GDOT website and thought it might be good to pass along. Although there's no drawing or rendering, it does explain how the roads will be reconfigured. It seems like they will combine the two interchanges into one. Personally I can't see how this will work but I'm not an engineer either.
Check out this link for the explanation Hwy 316 interchange
Here's the first paragraph: On November 15, 2011 Georgia DOT began a 2.2 mile project to extend limited
access along SR 316 in Gwinnett County. Crews will reconstruct the first two
signalized intersections (Collins Hill Road and State Route 20) into one
interchange serving both roads.
As a Realtor and someone that lives on the 316 side of Dacula, I'm hoping this will open up this side of town to more prospective buyers. It might also help property values as well because I've been told more than once by a potential buyer they want to stay away from Hwy 316. If the traffic backup is a non-issue, this will benefit values in the long term.
If you're considering buying or selling in Barrow County or Dacula, please CALL ME TODAY! I
www.SteveSellsGwinnett.com Steve Rider, CDPE Realtor with Keller Williams Lanier Partners in Braselton Georgia. Covering Barrow, Jackson, Gwinnett and Hall Counties in Northeast Georgia. If you're looking for real estate in Gwinnett County please contact me at 404 663 7063 or steverider1@gmail.com.
Gwinnett Real Estate Reverb | Keeping you informed of the real estate trends in Gwinnett County Georgia
Monday, April 23, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Traditional Sales Outpacing Short Sales in Barrow County
Who would've thunk it? Traditional resales number more than short sales? Yeah right Steve, you must be reading the chart backwards. But it's true for Barrow County which includes Winder, Auburn, Bethlehem and Statham for the month of March 2012. Here are the numbers....
207 closed transactions in March in Barrow County
Traditional/NC 46/207 22%
Inventory is down an average of 30% in Gwinnett, Jackson, Hall and Barrow counties. This means it's a great time to list your home if you have a desire to sell. Less inventory means buyers are competing for your home. You could have multiple offers if it's priced correctly.
If you want specific numbers for your neighborhood, call or email me and I'll be happy to send them!
www.SteveSellsGwinnett.com Steve Rider, CDPE Realtor with Keller Williams Lanier Partners in Braselton Georgia. Covering Barrow, Jackson, Gwinnett and Hall Counties in Northeast Georgia. If you're looking for real estate in Gwinnett County please contact me at 404 663 7063 or steverider1@gmail.com
207 closed transactions in March in Barrow County
Foreclosures 144/207 70%
Short Sales 17/207 8%
Traditional/NC 46/207 22%
Inventory is down an average of 30% in Gwinnett, Jackson, Hall and Barrow counties. This means it's a great time to list your home if you have a desire to sell. Less inventory means buyers are competing for your home. You could have multiple offers if it's priced correctly.
If you want specific numbers for your neighborhood, call or email me and I'll be happy to send them!
www.SteveSellsGwinnett.com Steve Rider, CDPE Realtor with Keller Williams Lanier Partners in Braselton Georgia. Covering Barrow, Jackson, Gwinnett and Hall Counties in Northeast Georgia. If you're looking for real estate in Gwinnett County please contact me at 404 663 7063 or steverider1@gmail.com
Monday, April 9, 2012
Dacula Neighborhood | Apalachee Farms
You can waste a lot of time on YouTube......you can also find some useful videos as well. Especially if you're looking for a home. I've seen so many slide shows and virtual tours on YouTube and they're boring and didn't keep my attention for more than 10 seconds.
So I decided to make an actual video of one of my listings and the amenities in the subdivision. If you're relocating from another area, watching this will give you a much better feel than a virtual tour. Not to mention you get to hear a soothing narration.....it's me by the way. If you don't want to hear me then just turn the sound off and watch the video.
Apalachee Farms is a neighborhood in Northeast Georgia about 50 minutes from downtown Atlanta up I85. This is a golf course community with great amenities and a strong HOA. If you need more information about this area or any other in Gwinnett County, please call or email me!
www.SteveSellsGwinnett.com Steve Rider, CDPE Realtor with Keller Williams Lanier Partners in Braselton Georgia. Covering Barrow, Jackson, Gwinnett and Hall Counties in Northeast Georgia. If you're looking for real estate in Gwinnett County please contact me at 404 663 7063 or steverider1@gmail.com.
Apalachee Farms is a neighborhood in Northeast Georgia about 50 minutes from downtown Atlanta up I85. This is a golf course community with great amenities and a strong HOA. If you need more information about this area or any other in Gwinnett County, please call or email me!
www.SteveSellsGwinnett.com Steve Rider, CDPE Realtor with Keller Williams Lanier Partners in Braselton Georgia. Covering Barrow, Jackson, Gwinnett and Hall Counties in Northeast Georgia. If you're looking for real estate in Gwinnett County please contact me at 404 663 7063 or steverider1@gmail.com.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Fannie Mae and an Extra Day!
Looking to purchase some rental property? If you have money stashed away in a coffee can in the back yard, dig it up and read this article.......
Fannie Mae has put a block of 2,490 REOs up for sale. It’s the first pilot transaction of the federal government’s Real-Estate Owned (REO) Initiative announced in August 2011, which aims to sell homes repossessed by government agencies to private investors for the purpose of turning the properties into rental units.
Read more about the program here
What will you do with your extra day? Unless you live in an area where they don't recognize daylight savings time or leap years, you will have one extra day this year. That day is tomorrow, Feb 29th. If you were lucky enough to have been born on this day, you can celebrate your birthday today, or tomorrow, or March 1st. It's your call!
If it's not your birthday, do something special anyway. It's an extra day and you don't get one every year so make sure it's productive. Remember, what you do tomorrow could impact the rest of your life!! Here's some interesting info on why we need leap years....
When is the next Leap Day?
Traditions and Superstitions on Leap Day
Leap Day Trivia
World Events during the Leap Year 2012
It takes the Earth approximately 365.242199 days – or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds (a tropical year)– to circle once around the Sun.
However, the Gregorian calendar has only 365 days in a year, so if we didn't add a day on February 29 nearly every 4 years, we would lose almost six hours off our calendar every year. After only 100 years, our calendar would be off by approximately 24 days!
The year 2000 was somewhat special as it was the first instance when the third criterion was used in most parts of the world since the transition from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar.
Information from timeanddate.com
www.SteveSellsGwinnett.com Steve Rider, CDPE Realtor with Keller Williams Lanier Partners in Braselton Georgia. Covering Barrow, Jackson, Gwinnett and Hall Counties in Northeast Georgia. If you're looking for real estate in Gwinnett County please contact me at 404 663 7063 or steverider1@gmail.com.
Fannie Mae has put a block of 2,490 REOs up for sale. It’s the first pilot transaction of the federal government’s Real-Estate Owned (REO) Initiative announced in August 2011, which aims to sell homes repossessed by government agencies to private investors for the purpose of turning the properties into rental units.
Read more about the program here
What will you do with your extra day? Unless you live in an area where they don't recognize daylight savings time or leap years, you will have one extra day this year. That day is tomorrow, Feb 29th. If you were lucky enough to have been born on this day, you can celebrate your birthday today, or tomorrow, or March 1st. It's your call!
If it's not your birthday, do something special anyway. It's an extra day and you don't get one every year so make sure it's productive. Remember, what you do tomorrow could impact the rest of your life!! Here's some interesting info on why we need leap years....
A leap year consists of 366 days, as opposed to a common year, which has 365 days.
During Leap Years, we add a Leap Day, an extra – or intercalary – day on February 29. Nearly every 4 years is a Leap Year in our modern Gregorian Calendar.When is the next Leap Day?
Traditions and Superstitions on Leap Day
Leap Day Trivia
World Events during the Leap Year 2012
Why do we need Leap Years?
Leap Years are needed to keep our calendar in alignment with the Earth's revolutions around the sun.It takes the Earth approximately 365.242199 days – or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds (a tropical year)– to circle once around the Sun.
 Note: The illustration is not to scale. |
How do we calculate Leap Years?
In the Gregorian calendar 3 criteria must be met to be a leap year:- The year is evenly divisible by 4;
- If the year can be evenly divided by 100, it is NOT a leap year, unless;
- The year is also evenly divisible by 400. Then it is a leap year.
The year 2000 was somewhat special as it was the first instance when the third criterion was used in most parts of the world since the transition from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar.
Who invented Leap Years?
Julius Caesar introduced Leap Years in the Roman empire over 2000 years ago, but the Julian calendar had only one rule: any year evenly divisible by 4 would be a leap year. This lead to way too many leap years, but didn't get corrected until the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar more than 1500 years later.Information from timeanddate.com
www.SteveSellsGwinnett.com Steve Rider, CDPE Realtor with Keller Williams Lanier Partners in Braselton Georgia. Covering Barrow, Jackson, Gwinnett and Hall Counties in Northeast Georgia. If you're looking for real estate in Gwinnett County please contact me at 404 663 7063 or steverider1@gmail.com.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Be a Dacula Real Estate Market Expert!
You have ESPN for sports stats and updated scores. CNN or FOX News will deliver the latest news stories right to your laptop or smart phone. Domino's will deliver a fresh, hot pizza right to your door. So why shouldn't you be able to get real time, accurate Dacula and Gwinnett County real estate information when YOU want it?
You can and here's where...............wait for it....
www.gwinnetthomesforsale.info
Click on the "Market Insider" tab and enter your email address. You'll have instant access to any area you desire. If you can type in a zip code, you can get recent solds, active listings with pictures, school information, compare neighborhoods and much more. No gimmicks, no fees, no obligations. But if you want to send me a gift for being so generous, click on the contact me tab and I'll send you my address!
Why would I give this information to you for free? Because an educated consumer is easier to work with, that's why! I'm here to help so if there's anything I can do for YOU, please don't hesitate to contact me.
www.SteveSellsGwinnett.com Steve Rider, CDPE Realtor with Keller Williams Lanier Partners in Braselton Georgia. Covering Barrow, Jackson, Gwinnett and Hall Counties in Northeast Georgia. If you're looking for real estate in Gwinnett County please contact me at 404 663 7063 or steverider1@gmail.com.
You can and here's where...............wait for it....
www.gwinnetthomesforsale.info
Click on the "Market Insider" tab and enter your email address. You'll have instant access to any area you desire. If you can type in a zip code, you can get recent solds, active listings with pictures, school information, compare neighborhoods and much more. No gimmicks, no fees, no obligations. But if you want to send me a gift for being so generous, click on the contact me tab and I'll send you my address!
Why would I give this information to you for free? Because an educated consumer is easier to work with, that's why! I'm here to help so if there's anything I can do for YOU, please don't hesitate to contact me.
www.SteveSellsGwinnett.com Steve Rider, CDPE Realtor with Keller Williams Lanier Partners in Braselton Georgia. Covering Barrow, Jackson, Gwinnett and Hall Counties in Northeast Georgia. If you're looking for real estate in Gwinnett County please contact me at 404 663 7063 or steverider1@gmail.com.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
What the mortgage settlement means to you. - Feb. 9, 2012
This is an update to my post from Feb 7th. This article is the best explanation I've been able to find about the recent mortgage settlement.
What the mortgage settlement means to you. - Feb. 9, 2012
www.SteveSellsGwinnett.com Steve Rider, CDPE Realtor with Keller Williams Lanier Partners in Braselton Georgia. Covering Barrow, Jackson, Gwinnett and Hall Counties in Northeast Georgia. If you're looking for real estate in Gwinnett County please contact me at 404 663 7063 or steverider1@gmail.com.
What the mortgage settlement means to you. - Feb. 9, 2012
www.SteveSellsGwinnett.com Steve Rider, CDPE Realtor with Keller Williams Lanier Partners in Braselton Georgia. Covering Barrow, Jackson, Gwinnett and Hall Counties in Northeast Georgia. If you're looking for real estate in Gwinnett County please contact me at 404 663 7063 or steverider1@gmail.com.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Mortgage settlement involving states said to be closer - Feb. 6, 2012
More help from the government? I hope this turns out better than the HAMP situation. Click on the link below for more information about how The Fed might be helping "under water" homeowners by allowing up to $20k in relief of the principal owed.
Mortgage settlement involving states said to be closer - Feb. 6, 2012
www.SteveSellsGwinnett.com Steve Rider, CDPE Realtor with Keller Williams Lanier Partners in Braselton Georgia. Covering Barrow, Jackson, Gwinnett and Hall Counties in Northeast Georgia. If you're looking for real estate in Gwinnett County please contact me at 404 663 7063 or steverider1@gmail.com.
Mortgage settlement involving states said to be closer - Feb. 6, 2012
www.SteveSellsGwinnett.com Steve Rider, CDPE Realtor with Keller Williams Lanier Partners in Braselton Georgia. Covering Barrow, Jackson, Gwinnett and Hall Counties in Northeast Georgia. If you're looking for real estate in Gwinnett County please contact me at 404 663 7063 or steverider1@gmail.com.
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