Buying
Three documents to read before you buy inside a gate in the Lowcountry
The POA budget, the master deed and the architectural review process decide what life inside a Hilton Head or Bluffton gate looks like. Ask for all three.
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Notes
What I'd tell you over coffee
The questions buyers and sellers actually ask me, answered properly — POA finances, regime fees, what a gate really costs, and how this market behaves when you live inside it rather than read about it.
I also film most of this. The video library is here.
Video consulting
Book a free 45-minute video call with me
Roughly seven in ten buyers here are moving from somewhere else, and most of them start the process from a few states away. A video call is the closest thing to walking the island together before you get on a plane. Share your screen with the listings you’ve saved and I’ll tell you what the photos aren’t showing you — which side of the gate that is, what the POA is carrying, what the regime fee covers, whether the short-term rental you’re counting on is even permitted in that community.
45 minutes, no charge, no obligation to list or buy with me. If the answer at the end is “wait a year,” that’s the answer you’ll get.
How it works
- 1Send me a note with two or three times that work for you, and what you want to cover.
- 2I reply with a video link and a confirmation — usually the same day.
- 3We talk for 45 minutes. Bring the listings, bring the questions.