Brandon Blogs Palatka

Imagine a world without toilet paper? It's so easy a caveman did it. Theirs nothing wrong with some pine cone to the hine bone. Perhaps you might want to search Joseph Gayetty on Ancestor.com. You could just find out your great great Uncle Joe created toilet paper back in 1857. The Golden years I would call it. Until you find out the soft goodness had came with a dose of wood splinters in it way back when. Ouch!  Quilted Northern being one of the first big names in mass producing the world's toilet paper. Palatka, Florida populary known as Paper City is home to one of the top producers of toilet paper. You're Welcome. Georgia Pacific formerly known as Hudson Paper,  officially been operating in the area for over 70 years making your paper products! It generates 80% of the revenue here in Putnam county. That's a lot of paper! Roll after roll the process to make better quality products has revolutionized over time. Just like with everything else. It's seems so simp...

Your Local REALTOR, is spilling the beans on blog #2, If you are one of the many stuck in the bumper to bumper traffic on Reid street, that only moves when the light is red. You might have noticed a slight change in scenery. Just be careful not to rubberneck too hard or else you might be prone to getting a red light ticket in the near vicinity like me. Not so fun fact, Florida generates roughly over a 100 million dollars a year for those babies too. Just when you think yearbook pictures are expensive.         In case many of you haven't noticed the sign and the bulldozers where a building once stood next to the old Winn-Dixie. Surprise. Another free-standing Dollar General is coming to Palatka! I know some of you might not be so ecstatic about it. It's not the Target with a Starbucks we hoped for. Let's face it though, our down town could use any kind of face lift it could get. Somebody call 90210.         Why do you see so ...

https://m.facebook.com/Brandon.West.Putnam.properties A Bigger, Better Burger King comes to Palatka      I'm a local Real Estate agent here in Palatka, which is a small town hosted by Putnam county located in Florida. I recently heard about the power of blogging and figured I would take a swing at it. Now bare with me, this is my first blog. Okay, I lied. It's my second blog because my draft I spent 3 hours on got deleted; my dog ate it. Can I get a lol?   So I've lived here in Palatka the majority of my life. I've always been told I have a niche at talking to people. From my perspective I just like to help people no matter what it is. I recently started my employment at Coldwell Banker Ben Bates Inc. We have at least 150 years of experience under our roof and so far I love it.   Okay, enough about me now let's get to the meaty stuff. Literally. Like a modernized Burger King coming to town. I know a burger joint ain't really the hottest topic in dev...

                       Nikos gets a New Neighbor       Your Local Realtor is dropping the ball on blog #3 Highway 19, here in Palatka is probably the most popular road here in town. It's like "The Strip" of Putnam county. Rather then it being filled with flashing lights and limousines, it's stocked with potholes and log trucks making their way to the local Paper Mill. It's the threshold of town separating the city from the sticks. And I just got exciting news that it's finally being repaved! No more driving like a bobble head for all of us! Chances are if you lived here long enough you probably ate at Nikos. If you haven't the person next to you probably has. If neither of you have, you must be allergic to pizza because they have the best in town in my opinion. If you don't like pizza the rest of their Italian menu will leave your mouth watering. I usually need a wheel barrel to carry me from...