OPPORTUNITY IS KNOCKING
According to real estate and investment experts we are entering a period with unprecedented investment opportunities.  Many of these will never be available again in our lifetime.  Do you hear opportunity knocking? Interestingly, even though these opportunities are available, few act upon them.

Oddly enough, when the real estate markets were booming and real [...]

Have you considered buying Real Estate in Your IRA?
Are stock market woes preventing you from building wealth in your retirement account? If so, you might be interested in a small, but growing, trend among individual retirement account owners investing their retirement funds in real estate.
How It Works
If you are interested in using tax-deferred funds to purchase [...]

Like wild geese, human ’snowbirds’ fly southward every year to avoid the travails of northern winters. Over a lifetime, this seasonal ritual becomes a welcome habit. When the day arrives for snowbirds to fly south for retirement, their determination to never shovel snow, chip ice, wear heavy clothing or defrost plumbing again compels them to [...]

In an article in the 2008-2009 edition of ELEVATIONS magazine, author Mark Brown notes that the local MLS system for the Cashiers Highlands Plateau show brisk sales activity volume for the area where Stonefly is located. He notes that in the past year, 2007, 376 homes sold with a total market value of $256M, [...]

The Nantahala National Forest, a hikers paradise, is located in Western North Carolina and extends into the Cashiers Highlands Plateau. The word “Nantahala” is a Cherokee Indian word meaning “Land of the Noonday Sun.” The name is appropriate as, in some areas of the national forest; the sun only reaches the floors of the deep [...]

An Adirondack style lodge, Blue Bear Camp is located on a parcel of land in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the Cashiers / Highlands Platau in North Carolina bordering the Nantahala National Forest with the Wild and Scenic Chattooga River running through it. The home was designed to take advantage of the spectacular waterfall and [...]