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Lake Norman Real Estate: NC Sales Tax-Free Weekend is August 5-7, 2011

By Diane Aurit | Published: July 26, 2011

  North Carolina Sales Tax-Free Weekend!   Our annual sales tax holiday is almost here! Created in an effort to help families during the costly back-to-school shopping time, the “August Sales Tax Holiday provides an exemption for certain items of tangible personal property sold between 12.01 am on Friday, August 5, 2011 and 11:59 pm Sunday, [...]

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Lake Norman Real Estate: NC Sales Tax-Free Weekend is Here!

By Diane Aurit | Published: August 7, 2009

Today is a perfect day to be out on Lake Norman boating and playing, especially for our children who are on summer vacation. But, if you are smart, you will go shopping instead because today starts our North Carolina’s annual tax-free back-to-school days!  This sales tax holiday, which lasts through this Sunday, August 9th (2009), is meant [...]

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Lake Norman Parents: Tax-Free Back-to-School August 1-3rd!

By Diane Aurit | Published: July 30, 2008

  Today is a perfect day to be out on Lake Norman boating and playing, especially for our children who are on summer vacation. It’s hard to believe that another year has gone by and that this Friday – Sunday are North Carolina’s annual tax-free back-to-school days! Technically, the sales tax holiday begins at exactly [...]

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Lake Norman Real Estate: How to learn about our area schools

By Diane Aurit | Published: July 25, 2008

  Starting when I was in the sixth grade, my family was relocated across the country about every two years because of my father’s job. Every time my father brought home the news of our next move, my mom would go into major research mode. The number one priority was always the school systems and [...]

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Lake Norman Real Estate: A community is lost forever

By Diane Aurit | Published: June 2, 2008

   I knew it was coming but I still felt a pang of sadness when I saw the bright red number spray-painted on this quaint and historic landmark. As I read in the Charlotte Observer months ago: “The last home remaining from the long-ago community of Mayhewtown is about to be leveled for the widening [...]

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