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Health & Fitness

Dacula Neighborhood Uses Nextdoor.com Website to Spruce Up

If your neighborhood doesn't have an HOA, do what we did. Start a website and you'd be surprised how many people will want to get involved!

For those that live in a neighborhood with no HOA in place, you know it can be frustrating sometimes to get everyone to come together. Whether it be cleaning up the entrance to the subdivision or just keeping everyone aware of safety issues. With no group or governing body, most things just don't get done or passed along.

I've lived in Brookton Place in Dacula since 2000 and we don't have an association. We have 127 homes and no way to mass communicate with everyone, that is until about 3 months ago. Nextdoor.com is a free website you can set up for any neighborhood, big or small. It's very simple to use and has a message board that comes in handy.

Our neighborhood just came together and renovated the subdivision entrance signs and it was all made possible by our Nextdoor.com website. I sent out a request to see if anyone would be interested in helping contribute monetarily and physically to this project and the response was great! It was amazing how many people were thinking the same as I was about how bad our entrance looked, but didn't know how to get something started to fix it.

In a little less than a month we collected enough money to purchase the supplies needed. With a little help from several residents, we cleaned up and spruced up the entrance and it looks great!

The best thing about all this is the residents of Brookton Place now have a way to communicate with each other. Not everyone in the community has joined the site but it's growing every week. If you'd like more information about how to get your site started, just call me. I'd be glad to tell you how it works or just follow the link to get more info: https://brooktonplace.nextdoor.com/about_us/

www.SteveSellsGwinnett.com Steve Rider, CDPE Realtor with Keller Williams Lanier Partners in Braselton Georgia. Covering Barrow, Jackson, Gwinnett and Hall Counties in Northeast Georgia. If you're looking to buy or sell real estate in Gwinnett County please contact me at 404 663 7063 or steverider1@gmail.com.

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