Need To Hire For An Inspection In Savannah, Georgia

[Eli]

My son is about to get engaged to a Georgia peach. Her family is from Savannah. He is planning on an engagement celebration there. I’ll be there soon.

 

[Eli]

I have another son though. How old is your daughter? Lol

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

I always felt a connection to the Rebels.

Lots of folks in the South didn't support the Rebels.

https://www.history.com/news/6-unionist-strongholds-in-the-south-during-the-civil-war

 

[hastalavista]

I suppose my comment "connection to the rebels" will likely be misunderstood if/when I get nominated to the Supreme Court.

I've always been a fan of the southern life as perceived by a Californian growing up at the beach. That life as I perceived it was a slower pace, hospitality, neighbors getting together, high school football, etc., etc.

Yes, idyllic. And, it excludes the real and serious issues also associated with the south during the time I was growing up (the late 60s). Still, Mayberry had something (fantasy that it was) that many longed for.
And, wasn't that similar to JFK's Camelot?

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

a fan of the southern life as perceived

I recall going into Walton's five and dime and Sam himself might wait on you. Bentonville had a population of 5,000. When I started appraising the Bentonville population sign was 13,000+. Now it pushing 50,000 and nearby Rogers even more. Traffic is horrible and getting to Beaver Lake takes over an hour. Used to be 45 minutes. It is actually quicker to go to Grand Lake which is much further away.

I miss fox hunts where fox hounds were shown in bench trials and the evening would be spent with horn blowing contests and blue grass gospel music. I used to walk almost any section of Flint Creek with a old Pflueger baitcasting reel and black Jitterbug lure catching brown bass and google eye perch. And there were 5 swimming holes in 5 miles where anyone could swim. Today all are off limits. Town team softball, ice cream socials at the old school house. Busted the block ice up with the flat side of an axe inside a burlap bag and took turns turning the handle. Watermelons were cooled in the spring or creek. Fresh apple pie from early Transparents. Arkansas Blacks were late fall apples and Winesaps were cider apples. Evenings in summer were spent outside, not in front of a TV, someone playing a guitar or fiddle. Hide and seek.
Baling hay meant hay hauling to a loft barn where the women folk served dinner under a shade tree with fried chicken, apple pie, and gallon jugs of sweet tea. Gardening often still meant old Pet was pulling a turning plow or lister. Occasionally you might chance by a church where a buggy and horse was still the means to travel. I remember how bottle caps were thrown in front of old fuel pumps in front of country store on gravel driveways. Watching my grandad throw horseshoes with his friends in front of the city community building. Or, my other grandpa fishing with a cane pole and snaking a crappie out from a fallen tree on the river. The mail man would stop to visit a bit, a country store would make you a sandwich for $0.35. Cokes were a dime, 6 cents in the small bottles. We teenagers picked poke for 2 cents a pound in the spring, then strawberries, blackberries, or huckleberries by the quart, green bean in early June, walnuts in October. But best job around was picking apples for a quarter a bushel, a good picker could do 100 bushel a day. 7 hours usually because the packing shed would be behind. Hog killing time was after frost, salt down the pork, smoke the hams, render the lard, make fresh cracklings. You and everyone milked a cow or more and sold to Pet Milk for condensed milk. You kept the milk cans cool by sitting in a wooden barrel half buried in the ground and full of water. Walked 1/2 mile or more to a bus or until the year I started to the local school. Yep, those days are gone. Yeah, it would be hard to go back, but we enjoyed life anyway. It wasn't a bad life and no one went hungry. No one locked their doors. Strangers were welcome, orphans were taken in without question or support from a government.

 

[Joe Flacco]

I was in gulfport, MS for a year or so and it was shocking how many 16-20 year olds have babies.

 

[Peter LeQuire]

I've always been a fan of the southern life as perceived by a Californian growing up at the beach. That life as I perceived it was a slower pace, hospitality, neighbors getting together, high school football, etc., etc.

Yes, idyllic. And, it excludes the real and serious issues also associated with the south during the time I was growing up (the late 60s). Still, Mayberry had something (fantasy that it was) that many longed for.
And, wasn't that similar to JFK's Camelot?[/QU

Savannah is a neat southern town - I'd love to go for you, but it's a fur piece (that's a long way for those of you who aren't familiar with the patois).

Despite what Tom Jones sings, the old town doesn't look the same - things aren't what they used to be, but then they never were. Like most regions, "the South" is, in reality, many "Souths". Terrell describes one of the rural Souths. If you have opportunity, the forward to to James Agee's novel A Death in the Family is an evocative description of a Knoxville neighborhood as it was early in the last century, vestiges of which were part of the tapestry of my early life (reel-type push lawnmowers, for example). The region has changed and is changing, as has the character of its people.

 

[bnmappraisal]

We've previewed the unit via its on-line photos and it looks good to us.

So, I have a couple of choices:
1. Fly out there to look at a unit for 15 minutes and then sign the lease.
2. Hire someone to act as my representative to eyeball the unit, take a few photos, and give me a summary.

I'm going with #2 and I'd prefer to engage an appraiser from this forum if possible.

Just thinking out loud, Denis, and you definitely don't have to reply to this ....

Speaking of "hybrids" and such (slight dig at that topic) ... Just throwing out there that maybe the person you find to do the site inspect - maybe they could Face time or Skype the inspection with you in real time.

Again, just thinking out loud here ... Either way, I do hope it works out for you and your daughter

 

[bnmappraisal]

but it's a fur piece (that's a long way for those of you who aren't familiar with the patois).

As a Yankee, I do appreciate the follow up as I have never heard that in my life ... Fuhgedaboutit

 

[Peter LeQuire]

As a Yankee, I do appreciate the follow up as I have never heard that in my life ... Fuhgedaboutit

The only part of Florida that is in the South is a relatively small, rural portion of the Panhandle.