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The task seems overwhelming – but we can get you started. Ask yourself these all-important questions, and you’ll be on your way to making your dream a reality.
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For many people, trying to figure out where they belong in a new community – often in a new state and a new stage of life – is a complex process. But it doesn’t have to be overwhelming. There are things you can do to make the hunt for a mountain home easier. And lots of guides along the way.
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Gone with the Wind's Rhett Butler may be a bit of a rogue, but he has impeccable taste. His determination to return to Charleston at the close of Margaret Mitchell's epic stems from the hope that somewhere there is "...something left in life of charm and grace."
If there is, it will be in Charleston, a well-mannered place where gentlemen working on their prize camellias tip their hats courteously to ladies walking their dogs along the cobblestone of Chalmers Street.
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For founder James Oglethorpe, 18th-century Savannah seemed ripe to turn into a New World utopia. For Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, it was a city to be spared in his march to the sea. For native-son composer Johnny Mercer, it was a lilting, lyrical muse. Quietly quirky, Savannah has been quite the history-book page-turner.
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Owning a second home isn’t just a privilege of people with lots of dollars to spare. Prospective buyers can get into the vacation or second-home market for less than $200,000 as easily as for $1 million.
And, if you are a savvy buyer with an eye toward renting your second home, you can let others help you pay for it.
Communities in the mountains of the Eastern United States have not encountered the real estate woes of overbuilt metropolitan areas, but there are more homes on the market than usual. This brings more opportunities for buyers, notes June Slusser, broker with Coldwell-Banker High Country Realty in Blue Ridge, Ga.
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Talk about an area that has it all.
That’s Tennessee’s triad - Johnson City, Kingsport and Bristol.
East Tennessee is famous for many things: It’s the birthplace of country music. Home to some of the best-preserved historical structures in the United States. And for the roar of high-powered racing engines at Bristol Motor Speedway.
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For decades, Asheville has been the hub of the Western North Carolina. Everything has revolved around it: Shopping. Fine dining. Major stage attractions and sporting events. Here, small children have delighted in the tall buildings. Here, people have traveled miles to reach the "big city." But, today Asheville is not alone. There’s plenty to savor in the satellites around it.
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Abingdon, a Virginia mountain community. is one of those rare places where you can surely... (take a deep breath) relax, enjoy the perfect inn, wander in the shadow of 200-year-old buildings, feel history, bask in the thrall of first-rate theater, roam acres of antique shops and specialty boutiques, find a plethora of fine restaurants, fine arts, an exceptional spa, and still have only touched the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The oldest town west of the Blue Ridge and chartered in 1778, it is a modern oasis where history is juxtaposed with the exact amenities discerning travelers crave.
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In the 1950s, the arrival of summer meant one thing: It was time to pack our clothes and travel to the coast for a month or more. My family’s particular destination was the South Carolina coastal community of Ocean Drive in South Carolina (now known as North Myrtle Beach), but the same scenario was played out from Virginia to Florida, as inland families dropped everything to head for the cool ocean breezes and eternal playground of the beach.
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This year marks the 30th anniversary of my first family vacation to Hilton Head.
In 1977 the lush tropical environment of Sea Pines was unlike anything I had ever experienced. Gated, controlled, restricted, planned, preserved, it was pretty much the way God and the Indians had left it.
Nature took priority over man. Bike paths, golf fairways and neighborhoods were carefully placed among the ancient live oaks. Lighting was low, signage nonexistent. All the mailboxes were a beautiful Augusta green.
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There's nothing on God's green earth more soothing, comforting or refreshing than sweet tea. That's iced tea sweetened either before, during or directly after brewing, while it's receptively hot, before being poured over mountains of ice in a big ol' glass.
Not, I repeat not, that dark, bitter stuff served up North and sweetened, if at all, after it's already frigid enough to hurt your teeth.
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