Kelli's Blog

Searching for a new smartphone
I’ve been looking a a new phone-internet access-camera-video camera-media connecting device….I guess the term smartphone is really the shortest way to say it!  I’ve had a blackberry for a few years now and have been pleased with it, but before buying another one, I want to make sure I’m getting the right product for my [...]

East Paulding?s newest gem: Stone Lake
New construction is on the rise in metro Atlanta, and SouthLife homes is at the front.  Grand opening this week is SouthLife Homes newest community of exclusive wooded homesites situated on a half-acre or more in East Paulding county.  This community features craftsman style homes with extras like a computer nook, upstairs loft and great [...]

Save the National Flood Insurance Program!
Congress left town for their spring recess without completing work on two critical programs essential to recovering real estate markets ? the National Flood Insurance Program and the Section 502 Rural Housing program. The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is vitally important to the recovering real estate market. Its authority was allowed to expire on [...]

Existing Home Sales Dip Slightly
Existing-home sales declined slightly in February, with modest gains in the Northeast and Midwest offset by softer sales in the South and West, according to the National Association of REALTORS®. Existing-home sales, which are finalized transactions that include single-family, townhomes, condominiums, and co-ops, slipped 0.6 percent nationally to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.02 million [...]

Timeblocking
If it is not on your schedule, it doesn’t exist.  Tough words that I intend to make happen this year!  We all have 24 hours in a day, and so much we need to accomplish–work, family, church.  I’m learning the only way to get it all done and still retain some semblence of sanity is [...]

Why all the construction at Corner Road and Lost Mtn?
For all of us parents who traverse this intersection each morning, we will be pleased when the new right and left turn lanes are completed.  In the meantime, let’s all remember to treat other drivers respectfully–also remember that some of us have 16 year olds in our home, and we realize these new drivers need [...]

Paulding County certified as the first County of Ethics!
Paulding County is the first county in the state to earn the voluntary ?County of Ethics? designation, joining 211 cities that have earned the “Cities of Ethics” designation. The cities of Eaton, Johns Creek, Oakwood and Sylvester were named at Mayors? Day as the most recent additions to the program, while Braselton, Cartersville, Glennville, Douglas, [...]

Been There, Done That!
This year’s KW Family Reunion was in New Orleans.  I’d never visited before and truly had a blast!   I can now say I’ve been to Bourbon Street.

Beginnings
This blog is about real estate, my life as a Realtor/Managing Broker, and life in my local community of West Cobb/Paulding County.  I’m beginning a new venture into blogging and hope this blog might even become a resource for other realtors and the agents on my team at Keller Williams Realty Across Atlanta.  My goal [...]

Welcome to Kelli Phillips?s Blog!
Welcome to Kelli Phillips’s Blog! This blog will provide you with valuable information, tips, and general insight into the real estate market in West Atlanta.