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Real Talk Real Estate: 5 Things Buyers Want!

With spring rapidly approaching, our big season to move is creeping up. In an effort to help you appeal to as many buyers as possible, I wanted to give you 5 things that just about every buyer wants in a home. Anyone who is planning to sell in the future, should make sure they have added these to get the most money and appeal to multiple buyers. 1. CEILING FANS You should have ceiling fans in all the bedrooms, the great room or family room, and on any covered back

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SHAWNA WOODWARD, RE/MAX REINVENTED EVANS December 10, 2021 No Comments
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Picture-perfect persistence guides woman’s vision later in life

If the mandate in Habakkuk 2, “…Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it,” was illustrated with a picture, Yolanda Rouse’s face would be front and center. The Augusta wife and mother, still keeps a handwritten note to God from over a decade ago, when she took a leap of faith to become a professional photographer. “To become skilled and knowledgeable in this field, I ask that God guide me in the right direction, for this vision I have before me,” it

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Monique Williams December 10, 2021 No Comments
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Business Lunch Review: Sports Center

Editor’s Note: Wes Hennings never met a meal he walked away from and is an opinionated eater! Each Thursday he shares the results of a business lunch he’s had with a colleague as a way to advise our business community on the good, bad and the tasty across the CSRA. He doesn’t let ABD or the restaurant know where he is going and his opinions are his own. He grades the restaurants he visits on a 1-5 scale with “5” being outstanding. We call this our “Real Business Lunch Review”.

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Wes Hennings December 9, 2021 No Comments
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$4 million expansion of iconic sporting event in CSRA

After more than 50 years, the Aiken Steeplechase has a new home that will open in time for the renewal of the races on March 26, 2022, after a two year hiatus due to Covid-19. The Steeplechase will move from it’s home at Bruce’s Field to a 140-acre facility on Aiken Steeplechase Track near the intersection of Richland Avenue and the eastern side of the Aiken Bypass in Aiken. The monetary goal of $4 million was reached with the help of hundreds of members of their association and through a

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Stephen Delaney Hale December 8, 2021 No Comments
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Local pain management practice offers relief without surgery or pills

Shelley Washington (pictured in center of top photo) knows the physical and mental struggles of living with chronic pain. Washington suffered from debilitating pain for 20 years, which is one of the reasons she enjoys working as a patient advocate at QC Kinetix – a non-invasive pain management practice that opened at 3606 Wheeler Road behind Waffle House in Augusta on Tuesday, Nov. 30. The practice is unique in that it treats chronic joint pain by using a patient’s own stem cells and plasma, which allow the body to heal

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Josh Heath December 8, 2021 No Comments
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No hire better than bad hire!

CSRA business coach Darin Myers is a stickler on making sure that you find the right person to fit your company vision, the right fit for your company. He tells ABD Publisher Neil Gordon, even if it means passing on all of the candidates you speak with.  

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Darin Myers, TAB CSRA Coach December 8, 2021 No Comments
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Medical nonprofit expands with new location in South Augusta

Business is picking up on the Southside of Augusta, after a local medical nonprofit expands by opening a new location in south Augusta. Christ Community Health, which provides medical and dental services for uninsured and underinsured residents of the CSRA, opened its third clinic at 2604 Peach Orchard Road, Suite 200 next to Barney’s Pharmacy (see photo above) on Monday, Nov. 29. “This location has easy access for thousands of our existing patients,” says Don Branum, Christ Community’s chief executive officer. “Plus, it gives us the capacity to serve new

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Josh Heath December 7, 2021 No Comments
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Corporate partners and donors help raise over $300,000 for local charity

A local printing company has donated $2,500 to a charity that raises funds for cancer research in the CSRA. Phoenix Printing Group made the donation to Paceline – a local organization that donates all funds it raises to the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University. Phoenix is one of Paceline’s many corporate partners, which also include Georgia Power, Synovus Bank, and Bristol Myers Squibb. “They’re very much a part of our mission, which is to cure cancer faster,” says Martyn Jones, the organization’s president. “They’re critical in maintaining our support

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Josh Heath December 6, 2021 No Comments
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