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by Miranda Loehle
The Glynn County Rotary is hosting the 9th Annual Red Hot Chili Cookoff on March 5th in the Pier Village. The cook off starts at 11:00 am and goes until the chili runs out! If anyone would like to buy tickets, Miranda Loehle has some available.
Advance tickets are $5 each. Day of tickets will be $8… so, buy early and save $3 for something else fun! Checks can be made to the Marshes of Glynn Rotary Club. This is always a great event and the Chili is always delicious.
Submitted by Alice Barlow.
On February 25, 2010 the Golden Isles Arts and Humanities Association presents a unique evening of music of the 1920s performed by popular local band The O’Reallys. With readings of the voices of the decade, a special show for The Big Read: Coastal Georgia Reads The Great Gatsby. 8pm at the historic Ritz Theatre. For ticket information, visit www.goldenislesarts.org or call 912-262-6934.
Submitted by Alice Barlow
The third in The Coastal Symphony of Georgia 2010-2011 season series, Italy – Land of the Grand Opera, features Operatic works selected by the guest artist and conductor.
Monday, February 21, 2011 at 8:00 pm at the Glynn Academy Memorial Auditorium
Music will include works by Rossini, Mascagni, Tchaikovsky, and Verdi.
Guest artist, Kimberly Gelbwasser, soprano, from Long Island, NY, teaches applied voice and vocal pedagogy at the University of North Florida. She earned her M.M in vocal performance at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (CCM) and received a B.M. from Northwestern University. Her operatic roles include Susanna in Lenozze di Figaro, Adele in Die Fledermaus, and Despina in Cosi fan tutte. Her concert repertoire includes Brahms’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Respighi’s Laud to the Nativity, Vivaldi’s Gloria, and Mednelsshohn’s Elijah. During the summer of 2009, she received a Mercer Scholarship from CCM as well as a scholarship from the Universita per Stranieri to study Italian at the University for Foreigners in Perugia, Italy.
Submitted by Alice Barlow.
February 15: Peter Fletcher, guitar: 7:30 pm at the St. Simons Presbyterian Church. Admission is free. Hosted by Island Concert Association
If you haven’t bought your tickets yet for the Red Dress Ball, now is the time! Tickets can still be purchased online for $50 or at the door with check or cash only. Ticket price includes admission, entertainment, hors d’uvre and drinks.
This years ball starts at 8:00 PM and is at the A.W. Jones Heritage Center (at the St. Simons Lighthouse). Entertainment will be provided by Spike at the Beach and hors d’?uvre will be provided by Straton Hall. This years event will honor two heart disease survivors, Sheila Gleaser and Carla Cate. There is also a silent auction featuring a variety of items donated from local businesses, so don’t forget your checkbook!
Black tie optional.
Tickets can still be purchased online at http://www.brunswickjwc.org. An email will be sent to you verifying receipt and the tickets will be left at will call for you to pick up the evening of the Ball.
Housing, A Universal Desire
Because shelter is one of the most basic of all human needs, housing is a singularly unique product, a commodity that is universally desirable. The owner of real estate has the use and enjoyment of an asset, which not only meets a basic need, but which also has the potential to appreciate over time. Therefore, whether purchased as a primary or vacation residence, real estate has both emotional and investment appeal. While a stock certificate may appreciate in value, it’s not very useful! Real estate is so useful that consumers who don’t own housing are willing to pay rent for occupancy. Therefore, housing is one of the few assets capable of producing an income to offset the costs of ownership.
State of the Housing Market- Hoping!
The current real estate market is a “hoping” market. Buyers are hoping for lower prices and sellers are hoping for another seller’s market.
Hope is not a strategy!
A successful strategy is based on fact. Here is a fact… housing is more affordable now than anytime in the last 12 years. While prices have rolled back to pre-2000 levels, interest rates were last this low during the 1950’s. According to Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist of the National Association of REALTORS, “the monthly mortgage payment for a median-priced home, purchased with FHA-insured financing, is $1,150, down from $1,658 in 2006.” The current real estate market consists of, to borrow a phrase from the movies, a “perfect storm” of conditions favorable to purchasers.
Confidence in the Market- Own in the Right Location
Like politics, real estate transactions are local. Market confidence is based on the substance, and future prospects, of the local economy; a growing economy is a positive influence on the future value of real estate. Today’s purchaser acquires a home at the best possible value and a useful, long-term asset, which, in the right location, becomes a better value over time.
A successful strategy for owning real estate is location, location, and timing.
