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Consumer Stories

Real Talk Real Estate: New Home Communities

Are you looking for a “new” new home in 2022? Buyers love to buy new homes and I completely understand the lure. When you buy a new home, you start fresh with a home warranty from your builder and manufacturers warranties on all the home appliances and major components. Traditionally the only things not covered are cosmetic issues. New home communities in the CSRA offer open house style viewing usually on Saturday and Sunday so you can go check out different communities, floor plans and builders while you are in

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Consumer Stories

Real Talk Real Estate: Investing

Paul Myers, founder of Myers House Buyers is one of the pre-eminent experts in Real Estate Investing (REI). His innovative system is helping sellers, realtors, investors and his company plan for huge growth in 2022. Take notes. Professor Myers is in session to teach you the ABC’s of REI!

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Consumer Stories

Home Depot changes longtime military discount plan

    Home Depot has several CSRA locations, and was looking for a way to get more support from retirees at Fort Gordon and other bases in Georgia and elsewhere. Mike Petchenik reports that the Atlanta based DIY retailer is extending its military discount.  

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Medical

Local gym to launch new Columbia County location in January

Editor’s Note: As 2022 begins, ABD wanted to provide an update on a story we brought you in June about Endurance Fitness. A CSRA fitness center is very close to opening a second location in Evans just in time for people to begin pursuing their New Year’s resolutions. Cliff and Amanda Jennings – owners of Endurance Fitness – currently operate a gym at 125 Merovan Drive in North Augusta. The Evans location is at 4099 Riverwatch Parkway near the Old Evans Road intersection (see photo above). In the previous story,

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Consumer Stories

Faith Friday Year-In-Review: Looking Back to Look Forward

Editor’s Note: We did not publish on Friday and rather than wait until Friday January 7th, ABD is sharing Monique Williams’ Year-In-Review on this first weekday of 2022. Those who embrace biblical principles as a way of life know God is the same yesterday, today and forever.  They also know Him to occasionally “do a new thing” (Isaiah 43:19). In fact, there are over a dozen Bible verses about new things. Launching Faith Friday was a new venture for me. In the wake of a challenging time in my professional

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Successorized: Inflation

Mike Frazier, one of the leaders of Peak Talent Capital Solutions in Augusta, came up with a new twist on the term “inflation” as it relates to employees. Here is this edition of “Successorized”

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Consumer Stories

Thanking the Hospitality Industry

IHOP North Augusta – Holiday Today’s writing will be a little different. Maybe we’ll call it the holiday episode. It’s probably one of my favorites, but also the one I’m most hesitant to put out in the world. That’s because as a general rule, I believe that generosity is best served anonymously. That said, this Christmas season I had the great chance to spread some kindness, and now I hope the sentiment spreads to you. We’ve heard over and over how hard the past year has been for those people

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Consumer Stories

Local husband-wife team launch unique Evans business

2020 was a hard year for most, but for Jon and Laura McCauley, it was especially difficult. Jon – a chemical engineer – lost his son in a car accident and decided it was time for a career change. He and his wife, Laura – a proposal writer for a large technology company – opened a PostalAnnex store (see photo above) at 5121 Washington Road, Suite 2 in the Riverwood Town Center on Monday, Nov. 15. Opening the store “was a long process,” says Laura. “We were very excited when

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