It probably won’t surprise you to learn that the family behind Decatur Metro has slight obsession with all things real estate. How else does one maintain a local news website for 7+ years – which is at LEAST 50% real estate and development news – and stay half sane?
We suspect you enjoy it too. OK, actually we know you do based on your click-thru rates!
But while I get excited by the big picture stuff, my wife Michelle is all about the details. Contracts, permitting, mechanical systems, interior design, etc. All that stuff I can’t keep straight.
Well, at long last she’s combined her passion and knowledge with her natural skill set and is now a REALTOR® (the National Association of Realtors requires all caps and a register mark) with Keller Williams, focusing on Decatur and the intown Atlanta neighborhoods, which we know so well and spend so much time discussing.
So the obvious thing to do is give her real estate company, 4 Walls Realty, some well-deserved love here on DM (if you visit this site semi-regularly, you may already owe her thanks for keeping me alive and providing us with occasional post topics). She will be our exclusive real estate partner and advertiser going forward. She’s also going to start contributing more real estate content to the site, adding to that already popular topic.
We’ll refine the partnership as time goes by, but that’s the plan for now. We’re both very excited to evolve our brands alongside each other over the coming months.
In the meantime, if you’re thinking about buying or selling your home or just looking for some local Atlanta/Decatur real estate information, give her a call and check out 4WallsRealty.com and her Facebook page.
Holy cannoli–has it been 7 years already since you started DM??? WOW. Time has flown!
Congratulations & best of luck to Missus DM–I know she’ll make a go of it. 😀
Thanks Cuba! Yeah, we’re actually at more like 7 1/2 years at this point. Pretty crazy, huh?
We moved here right after DM started, so it feels like as much a part of the city as any of the other “third spaces” my wife and I frequent. Congrats and best wishes for many more years covering all things Decatur.
Thank you sir!
I would have known a LOT less about Decatur if DM hadn’t been around the last 7+ years- thanks so much for sticking with it!
IMHO Decatur Metro facilitated discussions about the City and CSD that might never have been possible outside of a few narrow circles of folks in the know. (And I consider that a good thing.) But I never noticed the real estate obsession. I thought that was just a COD thing. Or most of it may be going over my head.
Well I have a COD thing too certainly. 🙂
Love you so very much DM and Dan W. You are part of the lifeblood of this community and we are extremely appreciative of all you have done.
So, DM’s pretty wife will now be generating 500+ comments real estate threads (we hope!)? :0) Best wishes to Michelle on her new venture! She’s already off to a fantastic start with the rockin’ logo! (Cool name! Love the design! Love the colors! Love the font!)
DM, sincere BIG PROPS to you for all the energy, time, and heart you’ve invested in Decatur Metro. How you do what you do has helped evolve our community in ways that couldn’t have been pulled off in any other venue. Who else could wrangle such an array of folks through thick and thin, guiding us through needed conversations and just plain silliness? You’re indeed the magic man! :0)
Thanks Deanne! Credit for the logo design goes to the folks at Lampe-Farley Communications.