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The House That Knew What It Was Doing

A fully renovated 1936 bungalow three minutes from downtown Tryon — with Rail Trail access, original hardwood floors, and a front porch built for mountain air. Here's why active buyers should look at this one now.


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Nadine Naujoks Nadine Naujoks

From House Hunter to House Hero: Introducing Pierre!

Pierre, a standard poodle, helps Lynne Perlmutter find the best home for her clients whether its a short-term or long-term rental, investment or forever home. We welcome Pierre to the Around Tryon Properties family!

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How Many Horses Do You Need to House?

Something we learned during the FL GA SC hurricane - horse farms around Tryon that already have good barns with stalls for lots of horses are hard to find! Within a 10 mile radius of TIEC, most farms have only 4-6 stalls. Biggest has 35, two others can hold 15 or 20. Very low number of farms to choose from - prices increasing and it's hard to find places with all the right ingredients.

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Should I Keep or Sell my Mother’s House

Around Tryon Properties has 20+ years of experience with an invaluable local support team to manage everything from sorting the cream from the clutter to installing new HVACs and furnishings, lawn maintenance and most importantly, finding the right match between people looking for temporary or long term homes around Tryon. Call us to talk about your needs and situation! We can help. We can rent your empty house! Our rentals go fast so we alway have a backlog of nice tenants waiting to find unique properties that fit their criteria.

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Preparing to Sell, Selling Your Home Nadine Naujoks Preparing to Sell, Selling Your Home Nadine Naujoks

About the House and the Furniture

Our work at Around Tryon Properties isn’t just about buying, selling or renting houses - we take on the ‘whole client’ and help with the entire process - not just the house. The stuff and the memories and the stories and the value of the stuff are much more complicated, and personal. We understand this issue can be very heavy and are happy to help shepherd our clients through the stages from just thinking about it to getting it done.

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Outsmarting the Average Bear

Living in a small town in the mountains is super beautiful and really fun, but there are a few things we’ve had to learn such as how to outsmart the average bear. Even in town (we have many acres of lush woods downtown) we have giant 6’ tall bear neighbors who walk around at night looking for trash to snack on.

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Are You Rich Yet?

These days I live in an ultra beautiful tiny town in WNC. I definitely feel rich with healthy family and a super interesting life in a beautiful peaceful place. Lots of friends and friendly real people, and no traffic. Grateful and rich just to be here.  

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