The children of Atlanta’s own Martin Luther King, Jr are entering into a court battle. Dexter King has asked a judge to force Bernice King to turn over their mother’s personal papers, including love letters central to a now-defunct $1.4 million book deal.

Martin Luther King, III and Bernice King complained that their brother Dexter King was derelict in not holding a shareholders meeting, which they said was another example of his lack of openness in handling their father’s Atlanta Homes estate.

There had been no shareholders’ meeting of the corporation since 2004, something that Dexter King blamed on the distraction caused by the deaths of his mother and sister. Judge Ural D. Glanville ordered a meeting, which was held sometime last week in the Atlanta homes of the siblings..

There was a September court hearing, Judge Glanville, who will preside over the trial in Fulton County Superior Court, also expressed some concern about Dexter’s management of Dr. King’s estate.

The Atlanta judge issued an order saying “the court is extremely troubled” in regards to what he was seeing in the initial filing by the siblings.

Dexter is the majority shareholder, and carries significant power in the corporation because he holds 80 percent of  all its shares. The judge warned all three of the siblings that any failure to comply with the Georgia Corporation Code could result in the dissolution of the corporation and that would cause some serious problems in Atlanta for the King siblings. More Atlanta homes news in each of the weekly blog posts.

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What makes Charleston SC real estate so desirable these days? It could be the hometown look as one of America’s cities with tree-lined streets of grand oaks or the pastel homes dotting the waterfront, or maybe the fact it has the 2nd most productive port in the world. It may also be the agreeable weather, with steady seasons and very mild winters that rarely witness snowfall. Of course, the answer could be in the people themselves, with their southern charm and polite manners.

Charleston is Rich in history, The city was originally founded in 1670 as Charles Towne. Early Charleston SC real estate was commissioned for military purposes. The old colonial city was instrumental in the American Revolutionary war as well as the Civil War. Nearby Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter are active tourist spots. The Old Exchange and Customs House in downtown Charleston, finished in 1771, still stands today as a historical reminder of the place where several signers of the Declaration of Independence were held in the basement dungeon. The building also hosted events for President George Washington in 1791, and was the signing of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1788.

The city as a whole attracts a considerable amount of visitors every year and has become a tourist hotspot. In addition to the opportunities in Charleston SC real estate for tourist related businesses, there are quite a few of opportunities for homebuyers wishing to buy Charleston SC real estate and relocate their families. Some of these opportunities exist in the many prime employers that have made Charleston their corporate home and providing jobs to residents.

Recent corporate moves to the area include Blackbaud, Modulant, CSS, Benefitfocus, and Google in the technology field as well as aerospace industry companies ‘Vought’ and ‘Alenia Aeronautica’, an assembly and fabrication plant for the Boeing 787. These companies have invested heavily in the area and have helped the area economy with higher wages, further making Charleston homes affordable for the working class.

Charleston also is a city of fine art, annually hosting one of the largest art festivals, the Spoleto Festival USA, a 17-day festival featuring over 100 performances by individual artists in a variety of disciplines. Another art festival is the two week MOJA festival celebrating African-American and Caribbean arts, music, and culture.

Artists from around the USA come to exhibit and sell their works at the annual Fine Art weekend held every November, attracting hundreds of art collectors and dealers to the city. Many of these artists have invested in the Charleston SC real estate market to be close to this city of culture.

History, culture, economic opportunity are all reasons to further examine the Charleston SC real estate market. If you are looking for fresh opportunities in a city as old as the nation itself, yet young and forward-looking, give the Charleston homes a serious look.

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They offer you the ability to customize your new home and choose a floor plan from hundreds of modular home specs and manufactured homes. These Clayton homes and manufactured homes that are precision built in state of the art facilities throughout the U.S. This allows for on time delivery of your Atlanta Home and eliminates weather delays and construction costs due to wastefulness. Clayton Homes has a highly engineered building system that is almost a science and certainly the future of home building. As the nation’s largest home builder, the modular home and manufactured home industry offer a very unique value for every pricepoint imaginable.

Seeking to domino the success of this trend Clayton homes just announced a partnership with a big homes contractor to create a new green, multi-family housing design. This concept will be tested and applied to the construction of six housing building at Raintree Apartments in Knoxville near the U.T. campus.  The construction estimate for completion is set for December 2009. I’m hoping to see this green concept take off and be apart of the Atlanta homes community.

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