Mountains, Lakes & Athens Real Producers

09/04/2026

🙏 "I felt like the Lord was calling me to do this. For about six months, I kept hearing, 'Marla, go do this.' I finally listened."

For nearly two decades, Marla Moulder was a fixture at one of the real estate industry's largest brokerage firms. Twenty-two years in the business. Almost 20 as a licensed agent. A career most people would spend a lifetime building and never walk away from.

By 2025, the whisper had grown too loud to ignore. She left the security of her long-term professional home without even holding a broker's license yet, incubated her vision at a smaller brokerage, earned her broker credentials, and officially launched Georgia Dreams Realty out of Sugar Hill.

"Only by the grace of God am I here. If you asked me two years ago, I never would have imagined I wouldn't be with the large brokerage I called home for almost twenty years. It truly is a calling placed on my life to make an impact in the real estate space."

Sometimes the safest thing you can do is the thing you were called to. 🎯
Read Marla's full cover story in this month's Mountains, Lakes & Athens Real Producers, link in bio! 📖

Real Producers Magazine

09/03/2026

🔥 Our September 2026 edition is HERE, and this month we are telling two stories about what happens when you stop playing it safe and start building something that actually looks like you.

Marla Moulder (Cover Story), For nearly two decades she was a fixture at one of the real estate industry's largest brokerage firms. With 22 years in the business and almost 20 as a licensed agent, she had built a highly successful career. But by 2025, a persistent whisper grew too loud to ignore. She left the security of her long-term professional home, earned her broker credentials, and launched Georgia Dreams Realty out of Sugar Hill under a tagline that says everything: Where Home, Family, and Community Matter. Today the brokerage holds 13 real estate licenses with growth accelerating, and Marla anticipates that number will triple by the end of this year. Faith first, family second, business third.

Jennifer Kyle (Agent on Fire), Originally from Albany, Georgia, Jennifer earned her degree in Interior Design and spent more than a decade designing commercial interiors before life led her to the mountains of Northeast Georgia. She first entered real estate in 2005, stepped away in 2008 when she became pregnant with triplet boys, and returned in 2017 with deeper community roots and a renewed perspective, and that is when everything truly fell into place. Now with Mountain Sotheby's International Realty, she closed approximately $18 million across 19 transactions last year while roughly 60 to 70 percent of her business comes from repeat clients and referrals.

Two women. Two very different paths. The same conviction that this business is built on people, not production numbers. Whether you are inspired by Marla's decision to walk away from certainty and build something of her own, or Jennifer's second leap into a career that finally fit, this edition is a reminder that the right move is rarely the comfortable one.

Don't miss these incredible features, grab your copy at mountainslakesathensRP.com and get inspired today! 📖✨

Real Producers Magazine

08/27/2026

🤫 This spring, a cheat sheet of Claude "prompt codes" went viral on X and Reddit — and North Georgia agents need to know about them.

Steve Neville of MPower is back in our Technology Corner this month with one of his most practical columns yet. These aren't official features — they're shortcuts that power users discovered and started sharing, and a few of them are genuinely game-changing for real estate. The best one? /mirror — a single command that trains Claude to study your best past listing descriptions and write every new one in your exact voice, your rhythm, your style. The result sounds like you wrote it on a good day in Blue Ridge, not like it came out of a chatbot.

But that's just the start. Steve also breaks down PERSONA: — which sets Claude's expertise before it answers, so you can have a senior luxury negotiator draft your counteroffer emails — and /ghost, which takes any stiff, AI-sounding paragraph and rewrites it into something that actually reads human. All three work inside Claude at $20/mo. No new subscription. No learning curve. Type the code and go.

"That is the difference between generic AI copy and something that sounds like you wrote it on a good day."

Read the full feature in our August edition at mountainslakesathensRP.com and tag an agent who needs these codes today! 🚀

Real Producers Magazine Steven Paul Neville M-Power Solutions

08/26/2026

🤝 Meet the backbone of Mountains, Lakes & Athens Real Producers—our Preferred Partners!

These trusted local businesses don't just sponsor our magazine—they make North Georgia real estate transactions smoother, faster, and more successful for our agents and their clients every single day.

From custom home builders and mortgage brokers to home inspectors, staging pros, outdoor living experts, and social media specialists, our Preferred Partners represent the BEST in their fields. They've earned their place in our network through exceptional service, reliability, and genuine commitment to the real estate community.

When you work with MLARP agents, you gain access to this entire ecosystem of vetted professionals who understand North Georgia's unique market and are dedicated to your success.

Check out our full Preferred Partners directory in every issue and at https://www.realproducersmagazine.com/home/mountains-lakes-athens. These are the trusted experts our top agents rely on—and you can too! 🌟

Preferred Partners: Thank you for making our community stronger and our agents' jobs easier. We're proud to partner with you!

Real Producers Magazine

08/24/2026

🏡 "I love first-time homebuyers. Sometimes they have the most questions, but that's what we're here for."

Even as an award-winning agent primarily selling luxury homes over $800,000, what excites Melissa Fitzgerald most is the relationship, not the price point. A Lake Country Board of REALTORS® Top Producer in both 2024 and 2025, and a Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chairman's Circle Gold recipient, her success has never come at the expense of genuine care for her clients.

"Clients want to know you're looking out for their best interests. That's where trust begins. I believe real estate should be very relationship focused, and my clients deserve and appreciate genuine attention."

That's the kind of REALTOR® worth knowing. 🎯

Save this post — the next time you or someone you know is buying their first home, remember what it should feel like.

Real Producers Magazine

08/20/2026

08/20/2026

LET’S GO! We’ll see y’all tomorrow at the Broker Grand Opening of the Garden District at City Center! This is your chance as a local agent to tour the new residential side of Cu***ng City Center, north Georgia’s newest mixed use community. We’ll have food, great networking and work with our professional content team and receive a FREE updated headshot + personalized social media reel!!! Please see the attached flyer for details but if you’ve there anytime between 3-6pm you gotta stop by. To register use the QR code OR link in our IG profile.