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, [...]
How would you like to be able to learn how to make pottery from the man who made this one, renowned Catawba Valley Potter Kim Ellington? Yes, I said make, not buy! For the past two years Kim has been working with the Catawba Valley Community College developing a pottery school “relevant to this area’s long standing [...]
After hearing increasing levels of frustration from so many of my Lake Norman friends, neighbors and past clients who, like me, live down Brawley School Rd. in Mooresville I started seeking out concrete information about the current work and completion date. The North Carolina Department of Transportation was not helpful nor were the Facebook pages dedicated [...]
Living in Lake Norman presents some interesting challenges regarding keeping up with local news and events because the 520 miles of Lake Norman shoreline fall in 4 counties and 10 towns. Before doing research for this Lake Norman Real Estate blog post I was actually contemplating creating a Facebook page for “Breaking News” and special coupon deals [...]
Lake Norman & Charlotte’s Southern Ideal Home Show is This Weekend: August 26-28, 2011!
“Celebrate Summer. Welcome Fall.” is the theme of this year’s Southern Ideal Home Show which is being held from this Friday, August 26th – Sunday August 28th at The Park Expo and Convention Center in Charlotte. Perfectly timed just as Lake Norman area schools are back in session and right before the busy fall season [...]