Savannah Real Estate

I know that you can trick or treat in apartment complexes and condos but owning a home is a different Halloween experience. It occurs to me when we are out every year on this festive holiday to dress up and ring doorbells for free candy, how important this sense of community has become to my children. They insist we visit certain neighbors, “mom, we can’t skip Mr. Bernie’s house!” The neighbors wait for my girls to show up … why? Because we have so few children in our cul-de-sac and surrounding houses. My children are adopted grandchildren and nieces for some of our neighbors. You can have this sense of community in an apartment complex surely; however, there is something about sitting on your front porch next to your jack-o-lantern and planning your trick-or-treat adventure in the neighborhood where you always celebrate this spooky holiday. My girls will grow up with a sense of permanence in this house. It will be a place where they know they can always return. You can’t do that in an apartment because apartments might sell or the rent may get too high or the landlord might throw you out! The investment in a house can settle even the spookiest creatures. It is more than financially fixing yourself to establish equity in property … sometimes it is about Mr. Bernie who saves a little extra candy for those little monsters in his life. And for those little monsters who one day can look back and remember fondly the years they went trick-or-treating in their neighborhood.

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