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One of my favorite Christmas carols is "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  As we pause to celebrate Christmas amid the hustle and bustle of getting and giving "things", I feel the words of this hymn apply very well to where we find our...

There has been a price adjustment on the Pisgah Ranch.  Pisgah Ranch is a property built with bugging out and prepping in mind. Situated at the end of a private road in southwestern Buncombe County, yet only 15 minutes to the nearest grocery store, this property is...

In my prior post on pricing a prepper property, I described the impact the distance from town can have on finding an affordable survival or bugout property.  Generally the further out you go, the lower the price.  I also mentioned a follow up posting that would offer...

How does one go about pricing a prepper property?  There are many characteristics I've described in previous blog posts that make up a good bugout or prepper property.  An interesting point is that often times, the things buyers in the western North Carolina mountains...

Looking for some stocking stuffers for your prepper?  Then look no further than this list Tess Pennington has compiled on her blog site.  Lets face it, many of the items you find for sale on prepper websites can be rather expensive.  I recently had an inquiry from an...

Here at Retreat Realty, we have much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving holiday week, including the fact that in the last few days we sold one, listed another!  Through the year, we've been able to assist dozens of folks seeking the ideal western North Carolina...

Do you like your eggs fried, scrambled or hard boiled?  If you have backyard chickens, you can have them any way you like, because with a coop of egg laying hens, you have an unlimited supply.  If you're planning for a bugout property, survival property or to be off...

Growing up, I remember hearing Smoky the Bear saying "Only you can prevent forest fires".  It was quaint, but the seriousness of it was lost on a 9 year old boy who was more interested in playing with matches.  However, the current dry spell here in the mountains of...

If you saw the message "Unable to Access Account" when attempting log in to your online accounts week before last, you were like millions of others.  A concentrated Denial of Service attack was set in motion on the internet infrastructure company Dyn.  Dyn handles the...