Log Home Building,What to know before you decide-North Carolina

Why now is the time to build your own Log Cabin in the Mountains of North Carolina.....

With real estate values dropping, lenders tightening and home construction slowing down, why would anyone in their right mind think this is a good time to take on building a log home? Well, before you sign me up for the straitjacket, you might want to take a moment and assess what is actually happening in the custom-home markets today.

Certainly, if one is to believe the media panic these days, the sky is falling where real estate is concerned, and we will all soon lose our houses to foreclosure. Most likely there is a bit of exaggeration in the cries of the doomsday reporters, but truly the market is slowing down, and prices in many areas are dropping.

But log homes, like other custom homes, aren't subject to the same volatility as big business manufacturing little boxes made of ticky-tacky for suburbia.

Find out why, from a financial standpoint, now is the time to build.

The large size of the stone on the jacuzzi bathtub really make it stand out in this log home bathroom. The buffet style cabinet and vessel sink really make this bathroom unique.If a bathroom is your passion, PrecisionCraft Log Homes can work with you to design a log cabin that in cooperates everything you want in your log home bathroom.

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For Sale Golf Course Front Development Investment Property

Golf Course Front Development Investment Property-Western North Carolina

For Sale

Golf Course Front Development Investment Property

35+/- acres of gently rolling property fronting on the 14th fairway of a fabulous golf course located in the Cashiers/Sapphire area of North Carolina. With only a few restrictions on this property it can be developed into single-family cottages or multi-family golf units.

This property offers big views looking up and down fairway with spectacular mountain views in the backdrop. This golf course community offers a variety of amenities such as golf, wonderful club house, tennis, swimming pools, hiking and walking trails, beautiful river for excellent fly-fishing.

Paved access with water and power already to the property line. Great value at $60,000.00 per acre.

For additional information or survey please contact Rae Catanese Shatto,

Keller Williams Realty 828-226-8837

see also

Golf Course Communties (2) Golf Course Development (1) golf course homes (1) Golf Course News North Carolina (2) golf courses (7)

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Verizon High Speed Coming to Cashiers/Sapphire makes headlines

If you are planning to relocate to Western North Carolina

there are several things to consider. One is that high speed

internet has not available in all areas, however things are changing!

Verizon High Speed Coming to Cashiers/Sapphire makes headlines
January 23, 2008: 11:00 AM ESTCASHIERS, N.C., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ --

More Western North Carolina Customers Gain Access to Verizon's High Speed Internet ServiceCompany Invests $490,000 to Equip 2,600 Lines in the Cashiers, Marion and Sylva Exchanges; 750 Additional Lines to Soon Follow

Approximately 2,600 additional customers in the Cashiers area of western North Carolina can now order Verizon's High Speed Internet service for their computers at home or at work. When additional engineering is completed, scheduled for late February, 750 additional customers in the area will also be able to get High Speed Internet (formerly known as DSL).

Since June 2006, Verizon has invested nearly $1.5 million for High Speed Internet expansion in western North Carolina, broadening the service to more than 13,000 additional customers."Customers in western North Carolina have asked for more High Speed Internet, and we've listened," said Suri Surinder, Verizon's senior vice president and general manager, Southeast region. "The speed and efficiency of Verizon's broadband service often changes the way people shop, work and educate themselves.

With today's announcement, more qualifying customers in this region can enjoy the Internet world in the best way possible: through a Verizon broadband connection."Qualified customers in the following locations can now order broadband connections at up to 3 megabits per second (Mbps) downstream and up to 356 kilobits per second (Kbps) upstream: areas of the Glenville community; parts of Sapphire Valley near the Transylvania county line and the community of Holly Forest; communities around Eagle Ridge, including Trays Island, Bald Rock and Sapphire Mountain; the Marion area of Glenwood Province; parts of Sevier and Woodlawn; and the Cullowhee area of Canada. By late February, additional qualifying customers in areas of Sapphire and Grandview will also gain access to Verizon High Speed Internet.

The price for the service in western North Carolina is $29.99 per month with a one-year contract. Promotions also affect pricing. For example, customers can bundle 3.0 Mbps service with unlimited local and long-distance calling and DIRECTV for $104.99 per month (with a one-year contract) - and receive either an RCA Small Wonder digital camcorder or a $50 Best Buy gift certificate (until Feb. 3).

Double-play bundles for unlimited local and long- distance calling and High Speed Internet are also offered, as are quadruple- play deals that add Verizon Wireless service to the bundle.Consumers can get more information on service availability, pricing and features by calling 877-483-5898 or visiting Verizon.com/highspeed.

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Sperlings Demographics for Cashiers, North Carolina

Demographics news states the future job growth for Cashiers, North Carolina is 29.7% which I thought was very impressive for those lookingto relocated to our beautiful mountain community.

This will give the opportunity for buyers to move here full time, even before they retire.



Here is the study

Population Growth:

7.7%



Median Age:

47 years



100 = national average, 110 = 10% more expensive



January Avg Temp:

34°F



July Avg Temp:

81°F



Sunny Days:

212



Precipitation Days:

134



Rainfall (inches):

73



Snowfall (inches):

0



Cashiers Demographics

Cashiers Jobs and Politics

Unemployment Rate:

3.7%



Recent Job Growth:

4.8%



Future Job Growth:

29.7%



Democrat:

47.5%



Republican:

51.8%



Independent (others):

0.6%



Schools

Blue Ridge School

PK-12

Public

2

Summit Charter School

K-8

Charter

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Quick Glance, Weather, Demographics, Jobs & Politics,Housing, and Education statistics provided by Sperling's.

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Cashiers North Carolina for Relocating to North Carolina (2)

Cashiers North Carolina Real Estate (10)



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Statistics show more people are leaving Florida

Statistics show more people are leaving Florida


TAMPA, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) -- It's after 5 p.m., but Atlas Van Lines agent Bob Glenn is still taking phone calls at his moving company, Atlantic Relocation.
Most of the quotes he's fielding these days are to destinations like Texas, North and South Carolina and Tennessee. This is great news for the Real Estate Markets in these areas.

He says it is part of a new trend where more residents are moving out of the Sunshine state than moving in. "It's the first time it's been flipped. Usually there's more people coming into Florida," Glenn notes. The times, they are a-changin'. A migration study released by Atlas Van Lines shows the reversal started in 2006. It got worse in 2007, as the company moved 7000 households out of Florida, compared to 5800 moving into the state. A big part of the problem is a real estate market in crisis, and a lack of opportunity.

"Nowadays it seems [with] the cost of homeowners insurance and property taxes, young families and seniors on fixed incomes, can't seem to afford it anymore," Glenn says.
The Atlas migration study mirror findings recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The agency says Florida slipped from the fourth fastest growing state in the country, to the 19th. It also had growth below the overall average in the south. But make no mistake, the Sunshine State is still growing by leaps and bounds, according to the same census data.

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Top Dream Towns NC (2)
Traveling to North Carolina (4)
Vacation and Second Home Mountain Communities-NC (8)


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Good News for North Carolina New Home Development

Where are the best places to invest in real estate for 2008? Continued strength and resistance to the national trends seems to be the order of the day. While we have seen some impact to segments of the market here in Raleigh, there are still segments that seem to continue to chug forward. At a recent economic summit here in Raleigh the Chief Economist for the National Home Builders Association had this to say:"Seiders projected that national home sales will hit their nadir in the current quarter, and that housing starts will begin to rise in the third quarter of this year. But, he added, the housing market in North Carolina will continue to outpace the nation's. Housing starts across the country this year should fall about 20 percent, but in North Carolina, the decline should be about half that, Seiders said.North Carolina didn't experience the "runaway housing appreciation" that occurred in markets such as Las Vegas and Florida. So now it's cushioned somewhat from the steep declines in housing prices and housing starts happening elsewhere, Seiders said.Likewise, Custer[CEO of RBC Centura, Raleigh based bank] noted that North Carolina was one of only a handful of states where housing prices appreciated 4 percent or more last year."We're very fortunate to live and be able to do business in North Carolina," he said. Click here to read full story

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Land Conservation News-Cashiers NC

Good deals for public
by Jon Ostendorff, jostendorff@citizen-times.com
published December 9, 2007 12:15 am

The government last week got a good deal on the development rights it bought with the public’s money.

In Buncombe County, the development rights for the farmland will cost an average of $1,877 an acre, well below what the land could fetch if sold. The landowners are giving up $3.7 million in value but will get a tax break.

In Jackson County this past week, Sylva town leaders placed 1,000 acres in the Fisher Creek watershed in a conservation easement. The state bought the land for $3.5 million, or an average of $3,500 an acre. The land, also known as Pinnacle Park, will be open for hiking.

In southern Jackson County, the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy announced a deal that will protect 600 acres near Cashiers that would have been a prime spot for an upscale development. The Cedar Creek deal includes creeks and streams that feed Lake Glenville and the Tuckasegee River. It also provides a buffer for the Nantahala National Forest and Panthertown Valley and a neighboring tract of 850 acres already in a conservation easement.

The price tag for the public was even better than the deals in Buncombe County. The government-funded Clean Water Management Trust Fund spent $2.4 million, or an average of $4,000 an acre. The land there appraised for $30,000 an acre. Private donors Fred and Alice Stanback, of Salisbury, gave $500,000 to complete the project.

Asheville businesswoman Laura Webb spent two years brokering the deal with the four branches of her family. They each owned 25 percent of a company that controlled the land. To make the deal work, she had to meet a minimum financial goal of some family members while keeping conservation on the table. In the end, everyone compromised to reach the agreement.

The family still controls 400 acres of the Cedar Creek tract and will sell some of that as part of its internal agreement. Deed restrictions on the land will limit housing density to protect the area. “I want other families to know that your choice is not just to sell,” she said. “There might be some other type of intermediate or compromise or creative solution to get to where you want to be.”


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