If you have enjoyed your vacations in your Asheville rental cabin, perhaps it's time to make the move and purchase your own home in Black Mountain. Greybeard Realty has two new listings, both conveniently located within city limits. Each of these 4-bedroom/2-bath homes can offer owners their own [...]
Greybeard Realty of Black Mountain, NC, unveiled a new website this week dedicated specifically to their rental home division. The Asheville area rentals website offers clients more search options, including allowing them to set up a favorite homes grouping so they can do a close comparison to choose the property best suited for their needs.
Setrock Creek Falls in Black Mountain
For company founder Chip Craig the new website improves the service his company has striven to provide since its inception in 1999. "We pride ourselves on being responsive to our clients, and we think this new website will give them more options and more information, which will make it even easier to choose the right rental home."
Greybeard Realty's rental staff manages more than 150 vacation rental homes in Asheville and surrounding towns, and more than 100 long-term rentals in the Asheville area. Amenity categories include pet-friendly homes, secluded homes, romantic homes, and homes with hot tubs.
Craig notes that his company just reached a milestone when they surpassed the 20,500th reservation in their rental division. A survey conducted of Greybeard's rental guests last year indicated that 99% of them would recommend the company to their friends and family. With the launching of the new website and the positive feedback from past renters, Craig predicts that the number of rental reservations will continue its steady increase.
Greybeard Realty is a full-service real estate company with 11 brokers and 6 guest service employees. For more information on Greybeard Realty contact Chip Craig at 828-669-1072.
The Sept/Oct 2010 issue of Sierra Magazine ranks 162 US colleges in its 4th annual "Coolest School" contest, and Black Mountain's own Warren Wilson College came in at #14 on this year's list. This represents a four slot rise for the school as they appeared last year at #18.
Farm Life at Warren Wilson College
The magazine ranks the colleges based on each college's responses to an 11 page questionnaire. Topics surveyed include energy supply, efficiency, food, and academics plus other categories. Warren Wilson, which the article says gets one third of its food from farms within 500 miles of campus including from its own six-acre organic garden, scored 81.8 out of 100. The number one school, Green Mountain College of Vermont, scored an 86.8.
Warren Wilson College boasts that "We are not for everyone..." and offers a unique triad approach to education: academics, work, and service. The accredited, four-year, private liberal arts college was founded in 1894 with a philosophy of sustainability. With this latest ranking, it seems that that philosophy has remained with the school for more than 100 years.
At Greybeard Realty, we pay attention to sustainability as well. We offer a complete list of green homes available in the Asheville Real Estate market. Sharon McConnaughy, our sales agent specializing in environmentally conscious homes, can help steer you toward environmentally sound homes in the Asheville area. For more information please contact her.
If you are looking for an international cultural event within a short distance from your Asheville cabin, consider taking in the 26th annual Folkmoot USA International Festival taking place in various Western North Carolina counties from July 22nd to August 1. One of only two international folk festivals in the US, Folkmoot USA, centered in Waynesville, NC, features more than 300 traditional dancers and musicians from 10 to 12 countries each year. This year's festival has 21 ticketed performances as well as 34 private and charitable performances, some held as close as Asheville. Of course, the first step is choosing the right Asheville cabin. Greybeard Realty can help you make the right decision. Choosing the right festival event is up to you.
President Obama (POTUS) and first lady Michelle Obama, completed an Asheville vacation weekend that featured a Blue Ridge Mountain hike and golfing, as well as sampling various local restaurants and visiting with Reverend Billy Graham. Their vacation included lots of scheduling and logistics to ensure that [...]
For people choosing an Asheville cabin to get away from it all we have added a new rental to our listings, one that offers the desired ambiance and the basic amenities. This Montreat home really recalls the simpler days and offers renters a chance to escape from the hubbub of today's technology. Absent are the wi-fi and the big screen TV. [...]
When the President of the United States comes to Asheville, does he rent an Asheville cabin? Not exactly. With his secret service entourage, Obama needs very large accommodations. The White House announced last week that President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will visit Asheville this weekend, April 23rd to 25th, and they plan to stay at the historic Grove Park Inn. Accompanying him on this pleasure trip in addition to his wife will be his children, Malia and Sasha, as well as his mother in law.
Obama Family Headed to Asheville
Historic Grove Park Inn opened in 1913, built from granite boulders from Sunset Mountain. The inn lobby, The Grand Hall, features two 14 foot wide fireplaces. The Grove Park has hosted ten presidents, including Obama who stayed there when he last visited Asheville in October 2008, just prior to the November election.
The Asheville Convention and Visitors Bureau notes that Asheville spends about $2.5 million annually to promote tourism in Asheville. They say that the publicity generated by a presidential visit like this one is priceless. A White House press release indicated that this is a vacation trip, with no scheduled public appearances. The Grove Park Inn issued a statement on Facebook indicating that the resort will be operating in a heightened state of security for the weekend with all persons and vehicles subject to search.
On his last visit to Asheville, Obama made a lunch stop at 12 Bones Smokehouse. If you are hoping for a glimpse of the first family, you might consider dropping in at some of the more popular spots in town. Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe comes to mind. On second thought, if you have rented your own Asheville cabin from Greybeard Realty for the weekend, you might just want to hunker down, avoid the crowds and enjoy the peaceful mountain views.
When renters contact us, they often come with their list of criteria, and often that list includes a mountain view. We recently added two mountain homes to our rental listings that meet that need, each with a different [...]
If you consider rocking on the front porch as the quintessential mountain experience, then we have two new rental homes that will interest you. Both homes, located in Montreat, have porches and rockers, and can fulfill your dream of biding time relaxing in the fresh mountain air.
Log Cabins features an authentic log [...]
Like other Asheville cabin owners, I have mixed feelings when I see that Asheville has made another top ten list. While I am reassured by these lists that I have indeed chosen to live in one of the best places on Earth, I fear that more and more people will discover what those of us who live here already know. The Asheville area is a very [...]
