Released on: February 28, 2008, 2:19 pm

Press Release Author: Kathryn Shanaberger

Industry: Real Estate

Press Release Summary: Great Opportunity for Vacation Home Purchases in the Blue
Ridge Georgia Mountain area

Press Release Body: Great Opportunity for Vacation Home Purchases in the Blue Ridge
Georgia Mountain area

2008 holds many opportunities for buyers this year, and taking advantage of the best
buyers market in many years is a break no prospecting buyer should miss "states
owner/broker Kathryn Shanaberger of Southern Mountains Realty". There has been an
incredible increase in vacation home ownership since 2003 for Georgia's Blue Ridge
Mountain counties.

Our recent home buyers have seen savings up to 20 percent off already reduced
prices. Builders of spec homes and resale vacation homes have not been this
negotiable in many years. Forget profit, these homes are selling at cost. Blue
Ridge, GA as other surrounding towns like Hiawassee and Blairsville offer many
prospecting buyers hundreds of choices in log home sales and mountain land. Ms.
Shanaberger said one of her recent sales in Blairsville GA provided the buyer with
an award wining home at cost and the seller a 3 thousand dollar profit.

Southern Mountains Realty provides buyers the absolute best professional service
covering a large from Ellijay, GA to Murphy, NC. Licensed in Georgia and North
Carolina buyer need not look beyond this dynamic firm when it comes to that perfect
vacation home here in our southern mountain region. To view this large inventory of
homes for sale visit http://www.blueridgegarealestate.net

Location Characteristics: For folks who have not visited our incredible Appalachian
Mountain communities before, the sense of tranquility will over whelm the biggest
city dweller. Imagine, misty mornings where the Smokey\'s live up to their name. Deep
blue lakes are nestled among majestic mountains and rushing rivers. Enchanting farms
rich with flowing green valleys abundant with horses and cattle. The local flavor is
country charm and that all irresistibly home town USA feel.

As always this entire Western North Carolina and Northeast Georgia mountain
communities continue to receive positive state and national coverage by TV and
magazine publications for its quality of life and actives surrounding the southern
mountain regions. Local NC PBS coverage of nationally renowned J.C. Campbell Folk
School located in the Brasstown district of Warne, NC to Southern Living Magazine\'s
May 2007 issue on the Cherohala Skyway in Graham County, NC. Blue Ridge offers the
enchanting Blue Ridge Scenic Railroad covering miles of mountain vistas. One of
Hiawassee Georgia's amusements includes the Pioneer village. Like a walk through a
mountain town of the past, this village is complete with an old-fashioned, one room
schoolhouse, a log home with furnishings from the 1800\'s, a smoke house, a barn, and
a corn crib.

Location, location, Georgia mountain area provides Atlanta residences only a 2 hour
drive for their weekend escape. Equally, Florida buyers find the I-75 corridor a
quick and easy 5 to 8 hour trip perfect for escaping Florida's heat and hectic city
life.

Kathryn Shanaberger
Owner/Broker
Southern Mountains Realty
828-837-1554
http://www.blueridgegarealestate.net
mountains@dnet.net

Web Site: http://www.blueridgegarealestate.net/

Contact Details: Kathryn Shanaberger
Southern Mountains Realty
8 Hiwassee Street
Murphy, NC 28906
Phone: 828-837-1554
Fax: 828-837-1816
http://www.blueridgegarealestate.net
mountains@dnet.net