Carolina Dreamin’

Premiere Edition by Douglas S. Terhune

In the Spring of 2007, I swam upstream and fought a quickly deteriorating real estate landscape by opening Carolina Plantations Real Estate in an old junk store that I renovated on Hwy 17 in Ocean Isle Beach. In 2011, our real estate team topped $13,000,000 in sales, landing us in the top 20 real estate firms in Brunswick County. We sold more real estate in Brunswick Forest & Brunswick Plantation than any other firm in 2011 and continue to be among the leaders in Sandpiper Bay, Crow Creek, Ocean Ridge, Rivers Edge, SeaScape, RiverSea, Winding River, Waterford and many more. The key to our success is our visibility visa vie our top rated website www.CarolinaPlantations.com, as we are almost always #1 on the search return for the plantations here in Brunswick County.

Since the acquisition of Plan View Design in the summer of 2008, Plan View has grown to be the #1 custom home designer in Brunswick County. We work with over a dozen local builders but most importantly, we offer our clients a service that nobody in Southeastern North Carolina can. We design your Dream Home in full color 3D, which allows you not only to see your home before you break ground but, you are an integral part of the design with your feedback. And our home designs have earned more blue ribbons than any other firm in Brunswick County.

Today we are launching a website that arose from years of working with clients considering our area for retirement and/or, for a second home. And instead of spending years attempting to write a book and chasing publishers 24/7, I have created www.TheRetirementHandbook.com – which provides you with thoughts & ideas on “How to Retire”. As you are well aware, retiring is the last major (unknown) frontier for most of us and in this age of information, I believe we have compiled something unique.

The Retirement Handbook presents you with stuff you may find useful along your path to retiring. Areas of concentration include 6 GeoCenters, Medical, Retirement Trends, Beginning Your Search, Financial Calculator and more. Retiring is a very scary word for millions of Americans as there is no school to attend or degree to be obtained. You are on your own and until now, there has not really been a road map to help guide you.

Carolina Plantations Real Estate, Plan View Design and The Retirement Handbook will show up on your pc at the beginning of each month visa vie our eNewsletter, Carolina Dreamin’. Our goal is simple –“provide you with the information you require to make a well informed decision”.

We encourage your thoughts and comments and on behalf of the best real estate sales and home design teams in Southeastern North Carolina (Pam Silberman, Nancy Boston, Christopher Columbus Creekmore, Pat Coye, Carolyn Rosenberg, Court Terhune, Haley Wilson, Daniel Stiling and myself), we wish you a continued pleasant summer. If we can ever be of assistance, we’d be honored to do so.