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Atlanta Georgia Real Estate

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I have some friends that live in the Atlanta Georgia area and they’re going to be buying their first house soon. They emailed me with a url to an Atlanta Area Real Estate company to show me the listings for the houses they are interested in.

While I was on the site I noticed how easy it was to navigate through the site. If I was searching for a home in the Atlanta area I could look up listings by selecting the city or County that I hoped to live in. You can also select the various features that you want – like two bathrooms, and the style of home.

There are a number of facts about the Atlanta Georgia area on the Norcross Georgia Real Estate site. It looks like there are quite a few very nice homes in the listings. I really liked one of the ones my friends are interested in, and the price seems to be good for the size of the house. The company is family owned, and my friends have been happy with their agent and the company as a whole so far.

I can’t wait to see which house they end up buying.





Peer to peer loan system

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I just came across an interesting idea. A company called Zopa has come up with an innovative investment and lending idea.

rel=”nofollow”Zopa stands for Zone of Possible Agreement. What is that? Well, it’s a peer to peer investment or loan system. It’s network of people who borrow or lend money to each other. Sounds interesting doesn’t it? If it works that would mean that you’d be cutting out the bank and all it’s charges for paperwork, and administration.

Members can borrow from one and other or make online investments. I was looking at their rates for borrowing money and at this time a personal loan’s interest rate is only 5.2%. That sounds pretty good to me.

Zopa is operating in the UK at this time but it will launch in the US shortly. I think it’s worth taking a better look at this company and what it offers.

My Stalker

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My little old lady neighbor is at it again.

We took our window air-conditioners out about two weeks ago. When the living room / dining room air-conditioner was in the window Sofie couldn’t see me if I was sitting at my desktop computer. Now that that air-conditioner has been taken out and put away she has a clear view of me from her dining room window.

It’s an even clearer view when she moves her curtains aside and stands in her window staring at me.

I’ve taken to waving at her when I see her. She backs quickly away from her windows and the curtains close again. LOL Sofie- If you can see me, I can see you too!

If Chris and I are going out she’s often in her front window looking out or on her front porch. She always asks where we are going. Unfortunately my husband often tells her the truth – and often the truth is we are going to yet another doctors appointment for me. If she hears I’m going to the doctor she gets all worried and often gets teary. Why on earth does my husband tell her where we are going when he knows it makes her cry? Anyway, my doctors appointments are usually just routine appointments, it doesn’t mean I’m deathly ill just because I’m seeing a doctor.

If she hasn’t seen me sitting at my desktop computer she’ll often come to our back window and knock on it. She scares the crap out me every time she does this. I’m just never expecting a knock on the back window even though I should be by now since she does this every second or third day.

She’s nice little ol’ lady, and I know she’s lonely and that she worries about me, but her devotions really creeps me out.

Does anyone else have any overly friendly or overly nosy neighbors?

Garden Sabotage

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My crazy little old lady neighbor is at it again!

I think she’s been trying to kill my garden piece by piece.

This year she’s attacking the little plot at the end of our shared driveway. She’s putting cement crumbles on it.

Her son did a lousy repair job on a hole in her walkway last year where she was convinced a mouse was living. Needless to say, after some cold weather the whole thing is a crumbling mess and she keeps throwing the chunks in my garden.

Now she’s putting all the little green keys from our other neighbors huge maple tree into this tiny garden bed. I found about two feet worth of maple keys there today. It was really fun getting them out from around the two roses that grow there.

Is it garden envy? Senility? Dementia? I don’t know, but I do know she’s really starting to tick me off. Remember my garden scraps post about here? And the stalking? Uh huh.

Almost switched my cell phone provider

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I’m a little upset with my cell phone provider right now. I’m supposed to have a package that includes a certain number of text messages that I can send and I think a ridiculously high number of text messages that I can receive free of charge. Unfortunately every time I send a text message or receive one I seem to get charged, and it’s not like I’m texting companies that do charge a fee for a text message. No, I’m trying to text some friends.

On top of that we’ve pretty much told anyone that is calling us long distance not to leave a message on the cell phone. We get extra roaming charges on the call when we check the message. We even get roaming charges if someone from out of town happens to be in our city and they call our cell phone with their cell phone. They are in the same city that we are in and we get roaming charges.

I’ve called my cell phone provider about this and they’ve told me that the text messages are included in my package and that I shouldn’t be getting charged for them. Fine, I end the call and the next time I text someone I notice a text message charge on my bill. Same with the roaming charges. They can’t give me a reasonable explanation.

I ended up calling them again yesterday about these problems. I finally pulled out the big guns even though it made my stomach Churn a bit to do it. I threatened to switch providers. That got some results. You see I’m a good customer – my bills are always paid on time and I get my cable, digital channels, internet and cell phone services from them. They took me seriously and gave me a small refund for all the roaming charges I’ve been getting and they’re going to try to fix my problem with text messaging.

Finally!

Have you had problems with any of your service providers? Cable, cell, internet or any others? What did you do about it?

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