Fort Mill Tega Cay Lake Wylie Real Estate

If you are thinking about moving or buying/renting a home or condo in the Fort Mill, Tega Cay, Lake Wylie, Rock Hill area and would like to search the available home or condo listings you’ve come to the right place on the internet.

Carmen Miller with Century 21 First Choice is now offering FREE, no strings attached, local property for sale or rent search. This service is available at both of Carmen Miller’s websites www.carmensmiller.com and www.homesfortmill.com.

We have just signed up with a new property search service to offer you the latest technology in the home search business. And best of all it is free for you to use.

Here is how to use this new tool, just click on the property search orange button

on the top left hand side bar or choice from one of the custom search links we have set up for you for a specific neighborhood.

If you choice to use the full property search feature just select your search area and options and click search. Next you can choice a map view or list view shown below.

The map view allows you to visually see the area and as you move your mouse pointer over the listed icons you can see summary information about each property.

A screen shot of the Map view

A screen shot of the List view

Once you narrow your search to a specific property, you can view all of the available details about the specific property as seen in the screen shot below.

On the individual listing detail page you have many bonus features available like; print a brochure, save your information, sign up to be automatically notified for new property listings, see pictures (more…)

Fort Mill schools begin August 20, 2008. Many of you have been asking questions about an update to the elementary school enrollment freeze. Here is what is mentioned on the Fort Mill School District website:

The Fort Mill School District is now reviewing its elementary attendance areas to prepare for the opening of Sugar Creek Elementary and Pleasant Knoll Elementary in 2009. The process will take into account a number of considerations including enrollment, building capacity, demographics, transportation issues, transitions between schools, keeping neighborhoods together and creating an easily understood plan. A public meeting will be held in September to unveil reassignment options.

In the July school construction update both Sugar Creek and Pleasant Knoll elementary schools under construction are still on schedule to open August 2009.

If you are looking for specific information like the school calendar, bus routes. bus schedules, registration information, contact information and more, there is a parent information page on the Fort Mill school website.

Click to go to “parent Information page“.

You can download the 2008-2009 school calendar by clicking here.

For the bus route and information page click here.

The Bus or transportation dept phone number is (803)802-1998

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Jenny Overman staff reporter with the Fort Mill Times wrote an article on August5, 2008 about how you can learn a lot about places and people on YouTube.com. Her article points out there are several videos on or about our area like Tega Cay, Fort Mill, and Indian Land.

Jenny said local residents are using YouTube to post videos for entertainment, make political statements, and business. She did a YouTube search for Tega Cay and came up with more than 15 real estate videos. Of course Carmen has all of her home for sale videos posted on YouTube so Jenny called Carmen for an interview and printed the following quote:

Carmen Miller, with Century 21 First Choice, uses YouTube to appeal to “Generation Y,” she said.
“We figured that over 80 percent of home buyers use the Internet and the big buyer pool coming in is 30 and under,” Miller said. “So we tried to think the way they think.”

By the way, Carmen hates it when I post things like this about her. With her continued success she’ll just have to put up with my blog posts about her.

Internet marketing is very important these days. The internet communicates to several age groups. We just launched two new websites to help promote our area called aboutfortmill.com and seetegacay.com. The (more…)

Tega Cay residents filled the Tega Cay council meeting room on July 24^th to participate in a special session. The topic was the proposed Hidden Harbor Marina to be located in the Lake Shore subdivision of Tega Cy.  The council voted no to the marina plan.  This would have been the second Tega Cay Marina.

So why did the council vote no? Most Lake Wylie marinas are full with waiting lists. You would think this was a good deal for Tega Cay.  As it turns out the proposed 32 slip marina must meet Duke Energy’s shoreline management rules. The marina must be a true public marina but there is a hitch. The rule further states that a bordering development can not use the marina. That means Lake Shore residents could not use the marina. Lake Shore is home for approx 40% of Tega Cay residents.

The shoreline management rule was put in place in 2006. It’s too bad Newland, the company who developed Lake Shore, or Tega Cay that took over Lake Shore after Newland left in 2005 did not apply for a marina at that time.

Most Lake Shore residents I spoke with about this issue were opposed to the rule and did not want the marina with the restrictions. Lake Shore residents would gain non-resident traffic without the marina benefit. I am not surprised that there was a large turn out for the special council meeting. Some Lake Shore residents questioned if the council would have voted no without the large Lake Shore resident turnout.  

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Hot off the press! Carmen Miller has launched a new website dedciated to information about Tega Cay. The new website is www.seetegacay.com.

What’s different about seetegacay.com versus homesfortmill.com? Seetegacay.com is dedicated to just Tega Cay. It is not focused on real estate but about Tega Cay. 

The website contains information about Tega Cay, history, news, videos, and photos. The site went live on Thursday July 31st. More information , updated photos and viseos will be added soon.

If you would like to contribute information or photos for the website please email Scott at sdmiller1o@gmail.com. Your comments and ideas are always welcome.  

The new home community called Lake Ridge located in the recently annexed Tega Cay South Carolina is beginning to take shape. Clearing began at the beginning of the year and Toll Brothers Builders has recently begun new home sales at Lake Ridge at Tega Cay.

Lake Ridge is a 435 acre 830 new home master planned development site located on Gardendale Road between Dam road and New Gray Rock Road in Tega Cay. The Lake Ride community is not on the Tega Cay peninsula but still located within walking distance to Lake Wylie.

Drake Capital LLC purchased the once called Gardendale development site from Cornerstone Development and renamed the development Lake Ridge. Drake Capital’s master plan includes a 7,000 sq ft club house, competition size pool, kiddy pool, multipurpose courts and tennis courts. The club house is estimated to be completed by Memorial Day 2009. 

Toll Brothers, a national luxury home builder, has begun their portion of the master planned development by offering single family homes located in two communities with multiple floor plans. One community is called Lake Ridge Carolinas the other Lake Ridge Executive. Toll Brothers plans to sell and build on approximately 167 home ½ acre sties planned for these two new communities within Lake Ridge.

In addition Toll Brothers is promoting the following selling points and amenities:
• Wooded Neighborhood
• Easy commute to Uptown Charlotte, South Park and Ballantyne area via I-77
• Pocket Parks
• Lake Nearby : Walking Distance to Lake Wylie and the Catawba River
• Shopping Nearby : Adjacent to the quaint Restaurants and Shops of Baxter Village
• Clubhouse : Approximately 7,000 sq.ft.
• Walking Trails : 2 Miles of Walking Trails intertwined with Pocket Parks
• Multi-Purpose Courts including basketball and tennis.
• Pools

The Carolinas portion of Lake Ridge community is offering 6 floor plans that range from 2,600 to 3,500 square feet and prices ranging form $467,000 to 509,000. The Executive portion of Lake Ridge community is offering 5 floor plans that range 2,900 to 4,500 square feet and prices range from $555,000 to $612,000. Lake Ridge is located in the Fort Mill School District.

Jeff Leforce with Drake Capital said he is in discussions with several other home builders for the remaining lots. Jeff predicts the next group of lots to be developed will be age restricted living most likely ranch homes for ages 55 and over. (more…)