Charleston Real Estate Blog

... winds up in my spam email folder. Rather ironic I thought. Hi Howard,   I'd like to take the opportunity to introduce myself in hopes that you and I can work together and establish a business relationship in the near future. I stumbled across your contact information while searching for real estate companies in the Charleston and ...

An ask the agent question: Can I ask a question about flood zones and flood insurance? When a listing says a home in Mount Pleasant is in a flood zone does that mean that many or most of those homes will get water coming into their house? Will rivers overflow and turn backyards into swimming pools? What is the major thing to look out for with ...

With a hat tip to my friend Mike Farmer just down the coast in Savannah, Christina Laun writes about 57 useful Google tools you've never heard of. Well, actually, you probably have heard of some but likely, there are a few new tools that will look interesting and be helpful to you.

As anyone who reads my blog knows, we love gardening and are very proud of the landscaping we've done and we were horrified this past weekend to find a bunch of Japanese beetles ferociously eating the leaves from both our knock out roses and crepe myrtles. We rushed out to Lowes and bought a bunch of chemicals after reading what to do ...

June 1 marks the official beginning of hurricane season and let's hope and pray that we once again have a very non eventful season with little to no damage or loss of life. But after years of living in the Charleston area, you learn that it is important to pay attention, especially during the peak season of mid late August to mid late ...

... unofficially since the summer solstice isn't for another month. But Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial kickoff to summer in the Lowcountry and any excuse for a long holiday weekend must include Friday as well.   Photo courtesy of Flickr by Paco CT You'll know it's really summer though when the weather forecast ...

I noticed an interesting post by Seth Godin the other day and it got me thinking. Seth was talking about The Coming Backlash Over Green Marketing and apparently my favorite luggage manufacturer, Tumi, will plant trees if you buy their product."The easiest marketing promise to make is to say you'll do something green if people consume what ...

... with new geraniums on my front porch. A last look at the past ...    Longtime readers will know that I enjoy posting pictures of my garden and one of my favorites are the geraniums we've nurtured for the past 4 years. But this spring, they just became pot bound and spiny and we've had to replace them. On those few colder ...

I would say very. And it's not summer yet.  We have ceiling fans throughout our home and a funny thing happened the other day. I was getting a little stepladder out to adjust the fan in my home office to a higher rate of speed as the season started to change to warmer temperatures. And when I walked into the room, I was surprised that it ...

It's nobody's favorite day of the year again, April 15th and many people are doing all the last minute tax stuff in order to file their return. I stopped in Starbucks yesterday for a coffee and was amused to see someone taking up 2 tables and several chairs and had receipts spread out everywhere trying to make sense of ...