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FE3H Characters Ranked

My opinions of all the main characters in FE3H ranked from worst to best in my opinion. These are MY opinions! Spoilers ahead, obviously.

*NOTES*

This does not include any of the DLC characters. This also does not include the following characters since they have limited dialog / appearances within the game: Gwendal, Pallardo, Duke Aegir, Anna, Lambert, Ionious, Metodey, Kostas, Holst, Macuil, and Indech. Any other characters who are only mentioned by name are also not included. And Byleth is also not on this list due to being the player’s character.

Everyone else included in this list has a few interactions or mentions in multiple ending paths so they’re fair game. Not having a lot of interactions is not going to affect placement that much so don’t be surprised if some major characters wind up low on the list…

*The PIT*

Aka the worst of the worst. The characters I would throw into the void.

#54 – Leonie

I absolutely hate this character so much. Her personality is so flat and grating that she drives me up a wall. Her character can be summed up in two words “loves Jeralt” – that’s it. Just about everything about Leonie revolves around impressing Jeralt or being like Jeralt or doing this because of Jeralt ect. I don’t care if she’s useful as a playable character – every time she opens her mouth I cringe. Her support which is only available after Jeralt dies in which she berates you for “not appreciating him enough” is just the epitomny of selfishness. Then PTS she basically turns herself into a second Jeralt, replicting his outfit as best she can and giving herself his title “the blade breaker” and adds a 2. Excuse you, but is ANYONE can call themseleves that it’s Byleth, aka Jeralt’s child, not YOU. But she doesn’t care and does it anyway...

#53 – Rodrigue

Oh boy this is going to be a very unpopular opinion but in terms of a character, Rodrigue is kind shit. Rodrigue earns this spot for being the shittiest living parent in the game. His eldest son Glenn dies and his comment on that is how “he died like a true knight”. His first emotional response is pride not remorse. He never mentions how much he loved him or how he misses him: just how proud he was of him… And this pisses off poor Felix. Felix whom gets left ALONE after this happens because Rodrigue decides he’s got to be Dimitri’s mentor / guardian. So he basically straight up abandons his grieving 13 year old son to be the new father figure of the prince. Dimitri was more important to him that his own child. We can all see what the impact of this was on Felix through the game. And then, in Azure Sky, when Rodrigue joins you as a “mentor” character, he lacks all balls. Dimitri is going crazy and acting like a psychopath and Rodrigue doesn’t even really try to do anything about that – he just stands aside and comments on how he’s “changed”. I mean FRICK MAN – your were his guardian, his mentor. TALK TO HIM! But NOOOOOOO! So yeah, Rodrigue sucks!

#52 – Lord Lonato

Speaking of shit parents, here’s another for you! Yes, Lonato was kind enough to allow Ashe and his siblings to live with him, which is the oddest decision ever considering this came about after Lonato caught Ashe sneaking into his castle to steal from him. “I’ll just adopt this thief child”. Despite that act of kindness, he also chose to not tell Ashe the truth about what happened to his son Christophe; that Christophe was not involve with the Duscar incident but rather had been a part of a plot to try and kill Rhea. Lonato could not bring himself to believe that his son was wrong or had done anything wrong. Despite the fact that his son had decided, for whatever reason, to try and kill someone, Lonato thought that this was okay. He then sacrificed himself for the sake of trying to avenge his true son instead of continuing to care for the children he’d taken in. He basically took Ashe & his siblings in, giving them security for the first time in years, then chooses to follow his only wrong beliefs and thus put Ashe & his siblings back into the world again. He gave them 7 years of security and this just went “oh well, you’re on your own again”.

#51 – Gilbert /  Gustave

And rounding out the “shit parents” section of the list, we have the father that literally abandons his daughter and wife due to own depression. He’s totally alive and out there but just can’t bring himself to give a crap about either or write them any letters. Nope, he’s caught up in his head that he wasn’t there during the tragedy of Duscar, of how he “should have arrived sooner”. I mean, really? It is in now way his fault just because he’s a knight. He wasn’t supposed to be there and he’s got guilt that he wasn’t there? Seriously man?! And then when he finally does reunite with Annette all he does is push her away. Instead of letting Annette decide whatever she wants to be around him again, he chooses for her and denies her attempts to reconnect with him. Yeah, shit father…

*The Bottom of the Barrel*

These characters are bad. They’re not absolute utter garbage like the PIT characters, but they still are awful.

#50 – Dimitri

Yeah, I don’t like Dimitri. What is there to like about this guy? He was traumatized as a teenage when his dad was killed in-front of him and that changed him into a survival-guilt ridden bloodthirsty killer? Jeez, it honestly feels like someone tried to ft a whole bunch of tropes into one cohesive character and failed massively. The whole “brooding” phase in Azure Sky where he’s basically a tantrum throwing 5 year old only makes him worse. Also, I still don’t understand WHY he immediately jumped to the whole “Edelgard is the one who killed my parents” conclusion. The entire Duscar incident had nothing to do with Edelgard, unless Dimitri thinks a teenager with no power could do that. And, if he’s blaming the Empire, why does that extend to Edelgard who was just a princess at the time? I could see if something like the FE was present and that’s why he went crazy after Edelgard but I’m pretty sure the FE didn’t exist back then… so WTF? This is like “my parents were killed by a drunk driver. Hey you, unrelated person who just learned to drive this year, you are drunk therefore I HATE YOU – you killed my parents!” Really, no. NO.

#49 – Acheron

He has a minor role only but you fight him twice and you can get some background from Lorenz. He’s annoying and I guess he’s designed to be so. I don’t like him much. But he’s not as annoying as Dimitri.

#48 – Cyril

Oh Cyril. He’s such an annoying character. He’s a more toned down version of Leonie with his obsession with Rhea. He’s a bit of a jerk during his support conversations and he’s dismissive of his homeland. I think his supports with Seteth best show what Cyril’s all about: he’s devoting himself to repaying Rhea without thought for anything else, even his own future. He has no ambitions and no desires….how can a character be so bland?

#47 – Hannerman

And the obsessive one. ‘Obsession with Crests’ is just the only phrase you need to describe Hannerman. While I can understand why Hannerman as a character wants to research crests, the way he goes about it is just wrong. He hounds Lysithia w/o realizing why she’s avoiding his questions until she basically has to spell out WHY she’s uncomfortable with talking about it. He’s been hounding Seteth for 21 years about his crest and Flayn’s too. 21 fricking years of bothering someone and he can’t understand the answer “no”.

#46 – Arundel

Yeah, he’s a piece of shit but at least he’s interesting. He’s Edelgard’s uncle and yet he basically allowed her to be experimented on. Why? Who knows? He’s associated with TWSITD but why? Power? Conquest? He’s mysterious. His personality “suddenly changed” leaving the option open that he was replaced and the Arundel that exists now is a fake. He’s intriguing but he’s still a piece of crap.

#45 – Dedue

Oh Dedue. I feel like Dedue is stuck playing the “victim” card but without looking for sympathy. He’s from Duscar so everyone looks down on him...and Dedue just takes it. He doesn’t try to defend himself or say that just because he’s from Duscar doesn’t mean he’s evil. He does nothing to try and change anyone’s opinions – he’s content to just sit and take it. But then he talks about wanting to have the world move past the tragedy….so which is it Dedue? In order to have it change, you need to actually DO SOMETHING!!!!

#44 – Thales

The weakest character of the main three. The game tells you almost nothing about Thales...and then you go and read the wiki and find out he’s Arundel….yeah mind telling us that game?! So he’s higher than Arundel.

#43 – Nemesis

Another evil character with no personality or real background. Why did he start his rampage? Was he manipulated or just evil? Who knows….

#42 – Judith

Judith has such a small role unless you’re playing VW. And in VW she’s a bit of a bitch who treats Claude as a misbehaving child even after he proves himself again and again.

#41 – Nader

AKA the Alymrian general you meet briefly in VW and in CF. He’s in for less than a few minutes and he appears to be jolly/happy and has the rep of being an undefeated general. I guess he’s alright. But with no real role I can’t bring myself to feel anything for him

#40 – Annette

When I first played I was on the fence with Annette. I sorta liked her determination and her drive to reunite her family. But then her singing started...and oh boy do I hate her singing. So many of her supports center around that annoying singing! Just STOP already, please! Also WTF is that blue “tab” in her PTS redesign that’s right on her butt? It’s the only one...

#39 – Ferdinand

Ferdinand’s personality is just...annoying. From his meme’d battle line to his constant talk of “being a noble” he just grates my nerves. And why does he act like this? Because his father is not and he’s trying to not be like his father and be a “good person”….

*The Low-End*

These characters are “eh” characters. They’re aren’t too good or too bad...but they lean more towards bad than good.

#38 – Kronya / Monica

This was an interesting idea. I just wish she had been more involved or usable. Like if you’re playing BE house, she becomes a playable member. Something to endear her a bit more other than “this other random character you rescued who acts suspiciously”. Let’s face it, we all knew something was up with her. And then she’s killed off so easily and quickly...

#37 – Cornelia

Okay, she’s a bit interesting and a manipulator. They weren’t afraid to give her an “ugly face”. She’s a schemer and not afraid to flaunt her assets to give her an advantage.

#36 – Alois

Eh. Alois. Loves jokes, very loyal. I guess he’s alright but he’s not spectacular and some of the jokes and just so so so so so so bad.

#35 – Ashe

Ashe is another character that I think lacked development. I mean he just gained a slight bit of confidence and purpose but he’s not one for much change. His personality over all is a bit bland: he likes stories about knights and is worried about his siblings. Oh and he used to be a thief.

#34 – Jeritza

Bland because he’s meant to be bland. His other personality is typical “killer knight”. What saves Jeritza is his support conversations where you get background and you realize why he’s the way he is.

*The Middle Ground*

These characters are right in the middle. Not great but not awful.

#33 – Ladislava

In every ending except CF, you only get to see her once but in CF you can chat with her and learn more about her. She’s the head of Edelgard’s person guard and its heavily implied she had next to nothing before this appointment. She’s fully loyal to Edelgard, even willing to die for her cause.

#32 – Flame Emperor

I listed this character separate since FE is an enigma. I actually liked the design of the FE and the whole mystery surrounding them.

#31 – Manuela

I’m...ambivalent about Manuela. She’s a drunken whiner at time and other time she turns into something sweet and reliable. She’s so worried about her age but she’s NOT that old. It’s a bit trope-y though...to have an older character all concerned about her age.

#30 – Jeralt

Jeralt’s a good dad character albeit a flawed one too. It’s a shame they didn’t give him any support conversations to flesh him out more. As it is most of what we learn about Jeralt comes from others.

#29 – Sothis

I don’t hate Sothis like most. She’s a bit bratty, yes but look at from her way – she’s got no memories, no recollections, and has found herself somehow stuck with this person. She tries to help out Byleth best she can, even if it sometimes leads to near disaster.

#28 – Gatekeeper

A nice wholesome character who always wants to help out and be useful. He’s a nice guy but suffers from lack of characterization.

#27 – Mercedes

First off, I dislike the “breathy” quality of her voice. She’s a very nice girl and very kind...but that’s about all there is to Mercedes...

#26 – Raphael

Ah, the big guy who loves to eat. He’s overprotective but not too overprotective of his little sister. He’s strong, interested in his muscles, and in getting stronger but it’s because he’s shouldering the responsible of taking care of his sister. Still he’s a bit trope-y.

#25 – Lindhardt

Lindhardt make up your dang mind! He talks about wanting to study crests but when he’s offered by two separate people to do just that he complains about how he’s being “tied down”. Really? His laziness and sleepiness also gets tired after a while.

#24 – Ignatz

Ignatz is a character who shows a lot of growth and goes from having no confidence in what he wants to do to finding his path. However Ignatz remains a pushover who gives in to whatever anyone advises even when he knows its wrong. It takes a long, long, long time for Ignatz to learn to have any say in himself...which is why he’s down here.

#23 – Solon

The most developed of the three main TWSITD characters. I feel his reveal as Tomas was ruined by the poorly executed Monica / Kronya earlier. However he was unexpected. Who expects the librarian? It would have been better if they didn’t have him as “suspect” in the whole Flayn is missing part through.

#22 – Randolph

You only really get to know Randolph in CF although he’s got a minor part in AS where we see that he truly cares for his sister and how he feels he must do this, even if he risks dying. In CF, we get to learn more about Randolph. He’s actually a step-uncle to Caspar through his mother marrying into the family. He has no power or clout so everything he earns is done by action. It’s a shame they killed him off so early.

#21 – Caspar

Caspar is a good character in several ways. He’s not depressed about not being the heir to his house and is motivated to find his own way. He knows he’s flawed and in his supports he tries to change only to learn that he’s better off following his own path. It’s his boisterous yelling and charging headfirst into danger is what I don’t like about him.

*The High Side*

These are characters I like. They’re not the best but I like them and can understand them.

#20 – Hilda

Ah Hilda. Hilda’s one of those characters that surprise you. Hilda starts off being this lazy character who doesn’t want to battle and doesn’t want to do chores. Not because she can’t do them, but just because she’s lazy. You see her trying to get out of things in her supports only to either feel guilty or wind up helping someone learn something. But I think where Hilda shines is in VW where she acts as Claude’s “advisor” and some of Claude’s best plans come from suggestions from Hilda. By then she’s come into her own. I also enjoy Hilda’s C support with Seteth greatly where he just lists all the excuses she’s given flat out as Hilda gets more and more nervous.

#19 – Claude

Claude made it up here due to his unprediacbility. Some of his plots/schemes are downright hillarious. Claude is unashamed of who he is and where he comes from – he knows who he is and who he wants to become. And, in a game riddled with characters who struggle with that very issues, Claude’s a bit of a breath of fresh air.

#18 – Fleche

Ah Fleche. She’s a very minor character but she’s got such an impact on the story in AM – this is what path we’re going to discuss. We first meet Fleche when she’s talking with Randolph, her brother, right before Randolph heads out on a mission that will ultimately end with his death. Instead of doing the typical thing for a young girl which is to cry, Fleche goes ‘nah’ and decides to take revenge. She disguises herself as a “maiden” and goes to try and join the Kingdom Army; she’s allowed to by Dimitri. Fleche bides her time and waits until after a big battle and then straight up goes and tries to murder Dimitri. She actually stabs him once and barely fails in her task of killing him. Against Dimitri, one of the strongest characters... a little girl.. Yeah, Fleche is kinda badass.

#17 – Miklan

Okay, so here’s another good sympathetic villain character. Miklan was born with no crest so he was looked down upon by his family. He was the first child however so his family kept him...at least until his brother Sylvain was born with a crest. Then Milan became “garbage” and useless in the eyes of his family and thus was disinherited. He lashed out against his brother multiple times. With no one on his side, Milkan became the leader of a group a bandits and began taking things he wanted, things he felt he should have had, by any means necessary. He later stole the heirloom lance from his family, intent of keeping it and its power for himself. While it’s true Miklan is not a nice person at all, more like a sadist, the reason he became that way was due the treatment of his family.

#16 – Dorothea

I am in the camp of the very few who like Dorothea’s second outfit better than her first – that dress is boss. Some of her supports are downright sweet and her interactions with Ingrid in their paralogue are just adorable. I love how we get to see so many different sides of Dorothea and how she treats each of her aquantinces with the side of herself that’s most appropiate.

#15 – Shamir

The silent Shamir. Unlike so many characters who talk and talk and talk, Shamir only speaks when necessary until she gets close to someone. Her skills are top-knotch, which is showcased in her supports. Her personality is a reflection of her work and the kind of jobs she does as well as her way of protecting herself. She’s mysterious and deadly.

#14 – Rhea

Oh Rhea. I’m often torn in the way I feel about her, going from understanding to becoming frustrated with her within the span of a single conversation. Her desire to see her mother is what drives everything she does – every single thing. She is 100% committed to trying to reach her goal, no matter the cost, and she’s been at it for almost an eon. Outside of that goal, what she’s doing she truly believes is the right thing. She’s trying to guide people towards the right path and away from conflict. She lets no one truly into her innermost thoughts, not even Seteth, and her emotions are all sequested away, so much so that when they do come out it becomes obvious. I mean, for anyone who thinks she’s nuts, let’s take a look at some of the trauma she’s gone through. Her beloved mother, whom she obviously cared for more than anything, was murdered and her body was used to make a weapon. Said weapon was then used to slaughter the vast majority of her brethern who were then in turn alos turned into weapons to be used to kill. She had to then fight the man who had killed her mother to reclaim what’s left of her body and to stop any more pointless killing. Yeah, Rhea’s had it rough.

#13 – Marianne

Ah, sweet Marianne. It was great to watch her change and grow based on her supports with the other characters. Her caring nature towards the animals, espcially the horses, was lovely – she even knows the names of a few of them (the only one to refer to the horses by name). I like how her PTS outfit reflects the changes she’s overcome – even the subtly of making her hair neater.

#12 – Catherine

Badass female knight with a legendary sword. She’s brash, not lady-like, and not afraid of anything really. The way she rushes into combat w/o a though for danger, the fact that she doesn’t try and hide her past from the person whom it affects the most, and her way of testing people. Catherine’s great.

#11 – Hubert

Juts missing the top 10 is loyal Hubert. I’ll admit I didn’t like Hubert at first but he grew on me bit by bit. Hubert’s S-Support with Byleth is like the cutest thing ever – I was not expecting it at all. This is loyalty done in a good way.

*The Summit*

The best characters in the game, IMO. These are the characters I love!

#10 – Petra

I got to admit, I like her not-perfect talking. That’s so much of Petra’s charm. Adding to that is how Petra’s always trying her best and trying to advance herself. She has modest goals she wishes to reach and doesn’t try and sell herself as better than she is. She’s always willing to learn and to help others. When there’s someone with a different opinion, Petra tries to understand why they feel the weay they feel and to try and find common ground.

#9 – Lysithia

Oh poor girl. Lysithia struggles with others seeing her as a child or too childish due to the fact that she’s younger than most of the students. She’s incredibly intellegent and throws herself into her studies. Both of these things lead to others teasing her, either playfully or actually. Instead of taking it stride, this ‘teasing’ causes her temper to show and erupt. She can’t tell them WHY she’s trying so hard, why she’s so desperate to achieve cause that would reveal her secret. She’s burrying all this hurt and anger deep inside that she can’t talk about because can understand what she went through (except perhaps Edelgard). And even though she knows she’s going to likely die soon, she’s not focused on her own life: she’s doing all she’s doing to try and help her family...

#8 – Sylvain

Sylvain quickly became one of my favorite blue lion boys. At first glance he looks like this degenerate womanizer...and then you learn abut him and why Sylvain is why he is. His father views him as a studhorse and that his crest is the only good thing about him; his father literally cannot see Sylvain as an actual person, just a way to further the family. Having a father like this and a brother who hates him for having been born with a crest has greatly shaped Sylvain. In order to have some semblence of himself, Sylvain began to act out, to do ANYTHING and EVERYTHING he could to not be what he was supposed to be. His father wanted a noble son; Sylvain did everything he could to not be that. This got him into trouble again and again but Sylvain didn’t care. Sylvain is willing to do things that make others look down upon him if it helps him try and escape from his life...

#7 – Bernadetta

Aw, Bernie. Bernie’s such a good girl. Based on what she went through, it’s amazing she’s even sane. Her father’s idea of parenting was tying her to a chair and forcing her to remain quiet and submissive for hours, to “teach her to be a good wife” which is the reason she turned into such a nervous wreck of shut-in. He resorted to beating to near death a boy she made friends with because he was a commoner, which terrified Bernie into not wanting to make friends at all. Bernie’s mom seemed to have a little sense and smuggled her out but this is only AFTER she allows this stuff to go on for years – YEARS. Bernie’s had years of psycological trama inflicted on her and then she gets thrust into a school surrounded by people whom she has to interact with. The poor thing. It’s a testament to her professors and friends to see how far Bernie has come; to watch her change and grow as she slowly comes around to adjusting to normality.

#6 – Ingrid

There is something incredibly entertaining about a lady knight who loves to gorge herself on food. Loving eating food is generally a character trait you see on guys (typically big guys like Raphael) so to see it on a chick is a good change of pace. Her whole no-nonsense strict attitude is a great contrast to that. She’s not girly or into very lady-like things such as dresses or makeup or tea parties. Ingrid is a guy’s soul in a girl’s body….and she’s amazing.

#5 – Felix

If you haven’t read the entry for Rodrigue (he’s #53 on this list) go read that first. After all that shit that Felix’s gone through, it’s amazing he’s even still standing and capable. He’s stewing with anger and grief that he’s never been able to work through and it manifests as anger and his stand-off attitude. Poor freaking Felix.

#4 – Flayn

Fishy Queen. I do not get the hate for Flayn. She’s been horribly oversheleted by Seteth in his attempts to protect her so it’s left Flayn a bit naive. Flayn’s usually very cheery and happy which is a bright light in the depressing war times. She’s also a quite capable mage, mainly with healing magic but she can also learn a good bit of reason magic too. Flayn is always trying her best while trying to fit in with the others – she’s over 1000 years old, mind you! It can’t be easy trying to fit in when you don’t understand and when a vast majorirty of those years were spent asleep. She was involved in an ancient battle where she was badly injured (Seteth blames it on her being too young) and requires sleep inorder to heal. Meanwhile everyone else she knew and lived with aside from Seteth was killed. She wakes up an everything she knew and just about everyone she knew is just...gone. Not only her beloved mother but any friends she had too are just gone. It’s no wonder she fears falling asleep when this is what happened. Her obession with fish? It’s Flayn’s coping mechanism for dealing with the loss of her mother. Flayn explains on numerous occassions that she spent lots of time sitting with her mother while she fished and that fish is her favorite food due “to no small part” of this pastime. Fishing and eating fish is Flayn’s way of remembering her mother and dealing with the fact that she’s no longer with her. Flayn’s supports are just great; they all develop her personality more. With Dimitri and Dedue, Flayn’s cooking is explored. Flayn can’t cook although she tries her best. With Dedue, Flayn tries to learn to cook better. With Dimitri, Flayn expresses her disdain that no one enjoys her cookings and how this wastes food, even when she tries her best. Obviously Flayn never cooked before – her mother did most of it. Now there’s no one in her family to cook so Flayn’s trying to learn to try and follow in her mom’s footsteps. With Ignatz and Manuela, Flayn’s exploring things she never has seen or done before: the opera for Manuela and paintings with Ignatz. In Claude’s and Lindhardt’s supports, Flayn sidesteps questions about her heritage and her crests. With Sylvain, we see how Flayn grows and learns to not trust the rumors others say. In Felix’s, she’s trying to help Felix find a purpose after the war ends that still allows him to use his sword. With Raphael’s it’s Flayn who’s being helped by Raphael as she tries to “grow stronger”; she even mentions how she’s frail and how this worries Seteth. And then there’s Ferdinand’s supports where it’s clear Flayn’s been starved of physical affections aside from Seteth. And their supports, between Seteth and Flayn, are a great progression between the two...Overall, I love little Flayn.

#3 – Lorenz

I like noble boy. I will admit, I hated his schooldays haircut with a burning passion...and then man on man did he become HOT pts. Winner of the best boy glow-up. A lot of Lorenz’s character flaws are the fault of his father. His father taught him that all that is important is being nobility and Lorenz ate it up, not knowing any better. His father instilled into him how he neeed to find a wife to further the family’s influence and thus how she must be a noble. This worked so well on Lorenz to the point that he willing to even give up someone he loves if they happen to be a commoner. Lorenz spends a lot of time trying to ‘interview’ girls to find his perfect noble bride, coming off as a bit on an ass – even when he’s confronted by Byleth he refuses to believe he’s done anything wrong since this is what his father taught him to do. It takes a long time until Lorenz starts seeing that he is wrong that what his father taught him is wrong. He starts using his own head and his own eyes to determine what is instead of using the opinion blasted into him by his father. He’s always trying to help other, feeling it’s his obligation as a noble to help those around him, which is a quality that he alone seems to take seriously (despite the school being filled with nobles). He originally dislikes Claude cause he believes that Claude isn’t taking his responsibility as the next Alliance head seriously since Claude is so laid back. He eventually comes to see that, despite appearances, Claude is working on the issues and is capable. His S support with Byleth where he mentions how he has "worked tirelessly to improve" "to become a man truly worthy of (Byleth)" and then is uttely shocked if Byleth tells him he already was worthy shows how dedicated he can be. With Ignatz, he instills confidence in him, seeing talent in Ignatz for art and talking about how there is more to knighthood than combat. His poetry writing comes out with Manuela’s supports and he convinces Hilda through actions to actually throw herself into battle. But I think his best supports are with Marianne. The vast majority of her supports are the others telling her to “be more confident” or “smile more” or other such things where they give her advice on how to improve...but Lorenz is the only one who comes to see that nothing needs to change. He starts by complementing her and then commenting on how she “needs polish” only to realize he was wrong and state she is “becautiful just the way she is”, accepting her fully for who she is without looking to change a thing. He is, essentially, telling her she is perfect the way she is and she doesn’t need to change at all for him to love her...which I find just so utterly sweet.

#2 – Edelgard

Edel gets a lot of hate but I honestly love her character so much. Edelgard is a doer not someone who sits by and does nothing. Due to things outside of her (and her father’s) control, she would up the victim in an experiment, a experiment that killed all of her siblings. Edelgard alone survived although at a cost. That experience forever changed her. Gone was the child and in her place rose Lady Edelgard. Unlike Lysithia who is dealing with her similar situation by trying to provide for her family before her time runs out, Edelgard isn’t. Her goal is the destruction of the circumstances that caused the experiment as well as those who caused the experiment to happen upon her so that this cannot happen again to anyone else. Since the experiment were done to give crests and since Edelgard has obviously seen how some children are treated whent hey have / do not have one, she aims to destroy all of that. Edelgard is literally stomping her foot down and saying ‘no, this isn’t a good or fair system and I’m not going to stand around and let it continue’. She’s willing to sacrifice everything to attain this goal, even if it turns her into a monster or ends in her death. Instead of waiting for the world to change, Edelgard decides to BE the change. She knows she’s going to be responsible for the deaths of a lot of people and she clearly struggles with the idea of this but in the end she decides that if she does nothing than that number will be greater so she persists. She burries her desire for friends and for love because she can’t bring herself to trust or rely on others – her father loved her but couldn’t protect her; the nobles in her father’s court are resonsible for hurting her too. They had her trust and they betrayed it. Her heart has been broken already; I don’t think she wants to risk it breaking again by trusting someone who will betray her, by making friends who can abandon her, by falling in love with someone who doesn’t understand what she’s doing. In CF when you side with Edelgard, you get to see more of that emotion slowly come out. Think on the PTS reunions: Dimitri was in disbelief and then apathetic that Byleth was alive; Claude was slightly surprised but then glad; Edelgard though broke down. Edelgard was the only one to get so emotional over Byleth’s return – someone she had trusted whom had returned that trust wasn’t dead after all; there wasn’t another corpse to add to the pile of people she cared for. And in that final animatic where Byleth falls – she’s clearly so upset. She’s crying, clearly devistated. Devistation which turns into laughter when Byleth revives because she can’t believe it. I stand by my opinion that Crimson Flower is the canon ending for FE3H. It’s the only ending where the endings song is different; all 3 other paths have the same song “Edge of Dawn” but not CF – you get something different. Add to that that EoD is sung by Edelgard. And let’s not forget the symbolism. The game is Fire Emblem. What’s a fire emblem? Crest of Flames. Who posess this crets out of the main cast: Byleth & Edelgard. And in CF you unite. Also notice the same letters. Crimson Flower (CF) & Crest of Flames (CF). That’s not a coincidence.

#1 – Seteth

I honestly could fill pages on why I love Seteth as a character but for here I’ll try and keep it shortish. I’ll start with his supports. Seteth’s supports are all about his advice to the others and him trying to guide them. For Cyril, he’s talking about how it’s great to repay debts but it is also important to consider one’s future as well; he doesn’t want to see Cyril just waste his whole life in servitude to Rhea but rather to grow into his own. With Catherine, it’s concern over her safety, over how she throws herself into battle without care for the consequences. For Manuela, it starts with a lecture over her drinking habits but turns into something far more personal when his wife and daughter get mentioned. Outside of the paralogue, this is the only time an outside person gets to learn that Seteth even had/has a wife and daughter and it’s Manuela who gets told it, implying a deeper friendship. Hannerman’s involves his investiagtion of Seteth’s crest and how Seteth is constantly refuting him, obviously trying to protect himself and Flayn from others finding out the truth. With Leonie, he teaches her how to relax while fishing while she improves his own skills in the area. For Hilda, he’s trying to improve her work ethic first by confronting her about her excuses, and then by writing a story about her laziness...which does work somewhat as it gets her to work on illustrations. For Ingrid, he’s a voice of reason about the demands of her father and he’s the one who suggests that Ingrid simply talk to him about her issues, something which she didn’t consider. For Felix, he’s trying to help Felix realize his beliefs are holding him back and that he needs to make friends. With Bernie, he helps her build some confidence in her own skills and talents. And of course we can’t forget his interactions with Flayn where he goes from overly protective, to realizing he’s a bit too overbearing, to actual apologizing for that. Seteth acts as a conduit or a spark that helps inspire change in those around him, to wake up potential, or to see things differently. He’s strict and often seems somewhat unreasonable about rules and regulations but its obvious this is his way of trying to protect people. He’s shouldering massive guilt over the events that happened in the last war. He personally blames himself for Flayn being hurt and for his wife dying. This event spurred him on to becoming overprotective of his daughter, of the only thing he had left. Seteth is doing what he’s doing to PROTECT his child (unwilling to see her to come to harm), even if he’s going about it in the incorrect way. He has literally devoted his whole life to protecting Flayn to the point that when she gets kidnapped, he falls apart at the seams and is unable to do anything at all except despair and distress. Flayn has become his whole world and just about everything Seteth does is to protect her or help her. That kind of devotion from a father is incredible, especially in a series where most of the parents kinda suck. I also adore how he breaks the typical “paper-skinned mage” trope. Let’s face it, most of us probably thought the stern chuch advisor was likely going to be a mage – and then we get a wyvern rider with a lance. I could go on and on, but I’ll leave it here. Seteth is just the best character.

...this was 18 pages of writing.....

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R/S Games 2017: Week Three Roundup

We’re doing lighter posting on the weekends, so now is your chance to catch up on Games works!

Day 13:

Team: Sirius Title: Colours Rating: E Word Count: 8700 Summary: Today is their wedding anniversary. It’s the first time Sirius has remembered it, since Azkaban. He decides to mark the occasion. Prompt: E - "We are not the same persons this year as last; not as those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person." - W. Somerset Maugham Team: Remus Title: Nothing On Rating: T Word Count: 1600 Summary: The two-way mirrors didn't always unite James and Sirius. Before doubts and decisions came into play in the shadow of Peter's betrayal, Remus was the keeper of the other side. And maybe, the keeper of Sirius' heart. Prompt: #14 - "It's the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter." - Marlene Dietrich Team: Sirius Title: A Day Like Any Other - ART Rating: M Summary: The one where Sirius keeps receiving unwanted mail, Remus drinks a lot of tea, Peter's out on a hot date, and James is offering unwanted make overs. (Or the answer to the question of exactly how many cursed letters can you flush down the loo). Prompt: #39 - "We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” - from the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Day 14:

Team: Remus Title: The Purpose of Stonehenge Rating: M Word Count: 20,000 Summary: Follow Remus on a journey through the sacred summer solstice ceremonies in four different years, taking place at Stonehenge. 1977, when Remus and Sirius first started dating. 1982, the summer following the Potter deaths. 1992, the summer after Harry started at Hogwarts. And 1998, six weeks after the Final Battle. Read along as they both sacrifice and receive gifts from the gods. Was it worth it? You tell me. It is canon-divergent, but only where necessary. No graphic sex, but it is there, though it’s mostly skipped over. Prompt: #105 - Picture of Stonehenge at sunrise. Team: Sirius Title: Honey Rating: PG Word Count: 1500 Summary: Sirius’ reality has changed. And while he’s never needed sex to know that he loves Remus, now that they’ve done it, the world seems more concrete. Prompt: #81 - painting: "Dans Le Lit" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

Day 15:

Team: Sirius Title: A Different Man Rating: M Word Count: 2100 Summary: I had made my peace years ago with the knowledge that my Sirius was never coming back to me. Prompt: #38 - "And the wheel that broke as the cart went by. It is not a voice that is under the eaves. It is not speech, the sound we hear In this conversation, but the sound Of things and their motion: the other man, A turquoise monster moving round." - excerpt from the poem “Continual Conversations with a Silent Man” by Wallace Stevens Team: Remus Title: Aduantas Rating: T Word Count: 26,000 Summary: ADUANTAS: a feeling of loneliness or unease caused by being in new or unfamiliar surroundings. A fallen star might be everything Remus needs to turn his entire life around but tracking it down might mean biting off more than he can chew. Prompt: #4 - “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” - Douglas Adams, from the novel The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Team: Sirius Title: Temptation Rating: T Word Count: 2600 Summary: Quidditch and a prank lead to Sirius acting on his feelings for Remus. Prompt: #42 - "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde

Day 16:

Team: Remus Title: Hiraeth Rating: M Word Count: 5000 Summary: Hiraeth, noun. Welsh. A feeling of yearning to return to a place that may never have existed. An earnest desire. During the first rise of Voldemort, Remus gets into the spying game. No one told him it would be quite this difficult to lie for a living. Prompt: #13 - "A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image." - Joan Didion Team: Sirius Title: Burning Candles Rating: PG Word Count: 11,000 Summary: Being an adult isn’t anything like Sirius expected it to be, and birthday cakes with a growing number of candles on them is just a reminder that he isn’t on track. He’s not quite certain what to do about it, but sharing his worries with his friends might be a good start. Prompt: #73 - picture of a birthday cake with lit candles.

Day 17:

Team: Sirius Title: Saving Me Rating: E Word Count: 5600 Summary: "I don’t have much to do here other than think about things; what I think about the most is you. It’s always been you, Moony. What a twist on those stories, huh? I fell in love with the big, bad wolf. No princes here, just two bloody fools who couldn’t save each other.” Prompt: #2 - "Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale." - Unknown Team: Remus Title: The Magical Tale of One Man and His Dog Rating: G Word Count: 3700 Summary: Once upon a time a wizard fell through a veil and was reunited with his love. This is the tale of what happened after. A sort of bedtime story about stories, a second chance at life and happy endings. Prompt: #92 - photo of an elderly man walking a large black dog. Team: Sirius Title: Stargazing - ART Rating: G Summary: Sirius stargazing with Remus in the Gryffindor room window seat. Prompt: #19 - “A philosopher once asked, 'Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?' Pointless, really.... 'Do the stars gaze back?' Now, that's a question.” - from the movie Stardust

Day 18:

Team: Sirius Title: Seven Simple Machines Rating: M Word Count: 60,000 Summary: From Azkaban, seven machines for remembering the who, the why, and the what now. Prompt: #38 - “And the wheel that broke as the cart went by. It is not a voice that is under the eaves. It is not speech, the sound we hear In this conversation, but the sound Of things and their motion: the other man, A turquoise monster moving round.” - excerpt from the poem “Continual Conversations with a Silent Man” by Wallace Stevens

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20+ Creative Social Media Contest Ideas and Examples

A little inspiration goes a long way when it comes to brainstorming social media contest ideas.

To get your creative juices flowing, we’ve rounded up more than 20 ideas across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Snapchat—and even TikTok.

And to make things easier, we’ve sorted them by objective, from increasing engagement to generating leads.

If you’re looking for platform-specific guides, don’t fret. Check out our Facebook and Instagram contest ideas for suggestions and guidelines.(PS: before launching your social media contest be sure to make sure it doesn’t violate the platforms’ T&Cs or R&Rs.)

Now that the fine print is out of the way, let’s get to the fun stuff.

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7 Social media contest ideas to increase engagement

Turn up the likes, comments, and shares with these social media contest ideas.

1. Like and/or comment to win

The classic “like and/or comment to win” is a tried and true way to increase engagement. It can be held on just about any social platform, from LinkedIn to Instagram.

Simply create a post with an explanatory caption, include an entry deadline and simple guidelines, and voila! You can also share the post in Facebook or Instagram Stories to better spread the word.

In this example from Hallmark UK and Ireland’s Instagram account, the entry rules and deadline are clearly stated, and an on-brand image of the prize ties it all together. Hashtags like #giveaway, #freebie, #liketoenter, and #commentoenter help to amplify the contest’s reach, too.

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????W I N???? We have a Tuesday treat for you! You could win this beautiful bundle of Birthday cards???? Simply like and comment on this post for a chance to win???? The winner will be announced tomorrow, good luck???? . . . . . . #giveaway #tuesdaytreats #freebie #competition #happytuesday #tuesdaythoughts #cardbundle #liketoenter #commenttoenter #followtoenter #birthday #birthdaycards #birthdaycard #happybirthday #gift #hallmark #hallmarkuk

A post shared by Hallmark UK & Ireland (@hallmarkukandireland) on May 21, 2019 at 11:26am PDT

2. Share or RT to enter

Like and/or comment to win contests prompt engagements with your base, but by pairing the contest with a share or RT requirement, you can reach more people. If you ask followers to share to Facebook or Instagram Stories, keep in mind that you’ll only be able to confirm those shares within 24 hours.

To promote the launch of its new direct flight from Tampa to Frankfurt, German airline Lufthansa ran a two-week #Hausguest social media campaign. To enter for a chance to win houseguest essentials, all participants had to do was retweet.

3. Tag a friend

Bring ideas 1 and 2 together with a “tag a friend” entry requirement, since a tag is technically a comment and a share wrapped into one. Ideally, this approach will benefit from the ripple effect: A friend tags a friend tags a friend kind of thing.

This example from Montreal-based shoe brand asks participants to tag three friends, increasing the odds of additional tags.

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GIVEWAY ???? ????????

A post shared by L'intervalle (@lintervalle) on Apr 5, 2019 at 12:14pm PDT

Brands with big budgets may also wish to incentivize tags with double prizes. For instance, a restaurant could ask followers to tag the person they’d like to share a meal with. Another way to encourage tags is to let them count as multiple entries.

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*CLOSED*☆????????????????????????????????☆ We're teaming up with @mininatorilla to give two lucky winners a chance to win☀️summer kick-off essentials☀️Enter for a chance to win one $50 Whole Foods Market gift card plus a variety pack of three Mi Nina Tortilla chips sure to make the [unofficial] first weekend of the summer a fiesta to remember???????? To enter: 1. Like this photo 2. Follow @chicadegallo + @mininatortilla 3. Tag a friend in the comments 4. Tag more friends for more chances to win [one tag per comment] . . . This giveaway ends Monday 5/27/19 at 11:59PM EST. Winners will be selected at random and notified via Instagram message shortly after. Open to contiguous U.S. residents only. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Instagram or Whole Foods Market.

A post shared by Chica de Gallo® (@chicadegallo) on May 23, 2019 at 11:25am PDT

4. Photo caption contest

A “caption this” prompt is a fun way to encourage followers to comment on your photo and engage with your brand.

Shopkins toy brand uses this type of contest to showcase its products. You don’t need a big prize budget to run a successful social media contest, either. Simply featuring the winner in Instagram Stories was enough to prompt 45 comments in this contest, three times more than its previous post.

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Caption this, SPK fans! (Psst, best caption will be featured on on our IG Story.) Comment your captions down below! Winner announced on 22nd March on IG Story. T&Cs: https://bit.ly/2HEwCwI #CaptionThisContest #SPK11 #ShopkinsFamily #TheDiPastas #Shopkins #MiniPacks #SPKFans #ToyCollector #Collectibles #Toys

A post shared by Shopkins (@shopkins_world) on Mar 20, 2019 at 8:09am PDT

5. Create a best comment competition

Giving followers a prompt can inspire more comments. Ask them to tell you why they—or a person they nominate—deserve to win. Or ask them to come up with a name for a new product.

For a chance to win a print of this Saskia Skoric painting, participants were asked to come up with a name for it.

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!!!????????COMPETITION ????????!!! **WIN**WIN**WIN** an A3 PRINT of THIS PAINTING!!!!!! All you have to do is FOLLOW me ????????@saskiaskoricfineart ???????? and ????????LIKE ????????the post.. THEN .. in the comments, give me a NAME for THIS PAINTING as it is yet UNNAMED. The name that myself and my family think works best for the painting will be the WINNER!!!!! It’s THAT simple!!!! I shall announce the winner on 23rd February. ????~GOOD LUCK~???? . . . #texturedpainting #oilpainting #fingerpainting #saskiaskoric #saskiaskoricfineart #competition #biggiveaway #win #beawinner #followtowin #commenttowin #newcompetition #competitiontime #artcompetition #artcompetitions

A post shared by Saskia Skoric Fine Art (@saskiaskoricfineart) on Feb 9, 2019 at 1:27am PST

6. Create a play-to-win game

Over the course of one week, Chipotle kept its Instagrammers on their toes with a series of successive games intended to get people excited about the addition of queso to the menu.

On the first day, fans were asked to comment with the letters “Q-U-E-S-O” on a post in uninterrupted succession. That led to 22,000 comments and a year of free queso for the winner.

On day four, Chipotle launched a “spot the differences” game using Instagram Galleries, a game that 450 people played.

By the end of the week more than 50,000 people had participated, making The Queso Cup Chipotle’s highest engagement Instagram campaign of all time.

7. Vote to win

People love to have their say. Create a contest where a vote counts as an entry. Ask users to vote in the comment section of a post, or create an Instagram Stories poll. This is also a quick and easy way to collect feedback from your audience on something important to your business.

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⁣⁣ GIVEAWAY!⁣⁣ ⁣ Ink lovers! We need you! Help us pick our next #thINKthursday ink review from these four inks and you could WIN a sample set of all four! ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ To enter, just…⁣⁣⁣ 1. Like this photo/post.⁣⁣⁣ 2. Post your ink choice (A,B,C,D or E) in the comments.⁣⁣⁣ 3. Be sure you're following @andersonpens⁣⁣⁣ Voting begins: Now⁣⁣⁣ Voting ends: Tuesday at 5 pm CST. ⁣⁣⁣ A random winner will be selected from qualified participants and will be contacted on Wednesday. ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ This giveaway is in no way sponsored by, administered by or associated with Instagram, Inc. By entering, you confirm that you are at least 13 years of age, that you release Instagram of any responsibility, and that you agree to Instagram's terms of use.⁣⁣⁣ As with all good giveaways, this one is open to anyone and everyone, worldwide – but you need to be at least 13 years old and have an Instagram account.⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ #fpn #fpgeeks #fountainpenday #penaddict #fountainpenink #inkreview #inkophile #andersonpens #handwriting #votethINK #giveaway #vote #votetowin #inksamples #thINKthursday⁣⁣⁣ #apgiveaway #andersonpensgiveaway #ink #inks #inked

A post shared by Anderson Pens (@andersonpens) on May 6, 2019 at 8:49am PDT

Ginsoy’s new menu’s bound to leave you drooling for a WIN! Which one did you like best? Red Roast Chicken or Shanghai Beef?#Ginsoy #ExtremeChinese #votetowin

Posted by Ginsoy – Extreme Chinese on Tuesday, February 21, 2017

This type of contest can also be paired with a submission-based campaign. For instance, if you’re running a caption or photo contest, the winner can be chosen by vote.

6 social media contest ideas to increase followers

Grow your follower count with these tried and tested social media contest ideas.

1. Follow to win

The most straightforward way to broaden your audience is to require a follow for contest entry.

This contest structure is usually combined with a “like” request, too, as in this example from Riedel UK.

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Follow @RiedelUK and like this post for the chance to win a set of 6 Riedel Fatto A Mano Cabernet/Merlot glasses worth £425! Comp ends at 2pm on 22.02.19 ❤️???????????????????? #RIEDEL #myRiedel #competition #liketowin #followtowin #tagtowin #cabernet #merlot #wine #glass #fattoamano

A post shared by Riedel UK � (@riedeluk) on Feb 20, 2019 at 3:15am PST

Brookes Blooms ran a similar contest. But, instead of using a date as an entry deadline, they set a goal of 100 followers before drawing a winner.

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GIVEAWAY TIME! Not long to go now until the winner is drawn to win a Keyring & Candle of your choice! Open Australia wide! Simply follow this account and like the corresponding post on my Instagram page! (Post pictured in second photo). Winner drawn once @brookes.blooms reaches 100 followers ???? #smallbusiness #smallbusinessmelbourne #win #free #botanicalart #floralart #candle #soycandles #soycandle #likeforlikes #followtowin #likeforlikes #followforfollowback #asinglej #promiseimlovable

A post shared by Art & Gardening By Brooke (@brookes.blooms) on May 24, 2019 at 3:41am PDT

2. Follow and share to enter

There’s little point in asking your followers to follow you. The best “follow to win” contests are supported by an amplification strategy.

Ask people to follow and share your post. Or ask them to tag someone in the comments so you can reach and hopefully entice non-followers to come aboard.

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GIVEAWAY TIME ???? We are giving away one of our lunch boxes to one lucky winner! Winner will be announced on Sunday the 2nd of June! TO ENTER: •You must be following @luxury.eco •Like and share this photo •Tag as many friends as possible for multiple entries Good luck!

A post shared by LuxuryEco (@luxury.eco) on May 26, 2019 at 5:53pm PDT

3. Follow to win + influencer

Another great way to reach new potential followers is to partner with an influencer. These contests can require entrants to follow both accounts for a mutual gain, or just your company’s account.

Keep in mind that the terms you agree upon may influence the partnership cost.

Lufthansa teamed up with influencer Marissa Cox @ruerodier to reach her audience of 123K followers. Based on the post’s comments, the airline scored somewhere near 650 followers out of the promotion.

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Congratulations @lilitoohappy – you’ve won!! Please DM me your address details etc…. NOW CLOSED: COMPETITION/CONCOURS: I don’t know about you, but I have serious wanderlust at the moment, so I’ve teamed up with @lufthansa to offer one of you x2 return flights within Europe (Lufthansa destinations) To enter: – Follow @ruerodier & @lufthansa and like this post – Comment and tag your partner or friend you would like to travel with. (You must be +18 to enter & I will announce the winner on Wednesday.) Good luck/ Bonne chance! #unknownplaces #lufthansa [AD]

A post shared by Marissa Cox (@ruerodier) on Apr 14, 2019 at 9:01am PDT

4. Weekly or monthly draws

It’s easy for followers to unfollow. But accounts that run monthly contests or draw winners weekly have a better chance of earning loyalty and maintaining follower counts.

A few years back, Expedia noticed that #tbt was the fourth most popular hashtag on Instagram. Every Thursday over a 10 week period, people who shared a vacation throwback with the #ThrowMeBack tag were entered for a chance to be “thrown back” on that holiday.

Expedia featured content on its account and published winners once a week, a strategy that encouraged people to follow to see if they’d won.

In less than 10 weeks, the company nearly doubled its following on Instagram.

Our winners in action! Post your #TBT w/ #ThrowMeBack @Expedia & you could get thrown back! http://t.co/K6k9QXBDhdhttps://t.co/uJBWLbZ5ti

— Expedia (@Expedia) July 24, 2014

5. Follower milestone campaign

Brands that are on the brink of passing a follower milestone like earning that capital K or M beside a number can use the occasion to build momentum.

There are a few ways to approach one of these campaigns. The New England Patriots asked people to RT or share the hashtag #1MillionPatriots for the chance to see their name on a custom digital jersey. Unfortunately, they used a bot to select winners and things didn’t quite go as planned.

We're saying thanks to @patriots' 1million followers w/ custom digital Pats jerseys – RT for yours! #1MillionPatriots pic.twitter.com/u2SfidCb9e

— New England Patriots (@Patriots) November 13, 2014

As NBC’s Dateline approached the million “like” mark on Facebook, it launched a “One in a Million” campaign. To enter, participants had to explain why they deserved to win a special New York experience.

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Two weeks ago, we brought Kim Trimble & Denise Hunnings, two of Dateline's biggest fans and the winners of our 'One in a Million' contest, behind the scenes of Dateline NBC for two days.It was awesome.

Posted by Dateline NBC on Monday, July 21, 2014

Others, like the craft queen herself, offer to award the two-millionth follower with a price.

If you are my 2 millionth follower – I will give you an amazing Singer sewing machine! Spread the word and RT

— Martha Stewart (@MarthaStewart) February 2, 2010

6. Stage an exciting unveil

Brands can ask people to follow them, or they can give people a reason to follow them. Use a contest as an initial hook, and secure followers by creating an incentive to tune in for the results.

Foot Locker nabbed a Shorty Award for its #HorseWithHarden contest on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. For one week, fans were asked to shoot a video of their most creative basketball shots and share them with the hashtag.

Now here’s the sinker: NBA star James Harden would be recreating the best submissions on Foot Locker’s feeds in a faceoff against the Internet.

Unsurprisingly, Foot Locker’s YouTube subscriber rate skyrocketed by 300 percent.

In a battle of two heavyweights, only one could claim victory. @JHarden13 vs. The Internet. WATCH! #HorseWithHardenhttps://t.co/1AFCGFQjp9

— Foot Locker (@footlocker) October 3, 2014

Want to do something like this on a lower budget? Plan to announce the winner in a separate post.

If you put the onus on participants to claim their prize, rather than contact the winner directly, they’ll be more likely to follow for the results.

3 social media contest ideas to collect leads

Learn more about your audiences with these lead generating social media contest ideas.

1. Enter to win sweepstakes

Sometimes the most obvious solution is the best one. The old-fashioned enter-to-win sweepstakes formula still works like a charm, especially with tools like Facebook’s Instant Forms feature.

To collect email addresses for future retargeting campaigns, Asian restaurant chain P.F. Chang created a sweepstakes on Facebook and Instagram that asked people to share their email address to enter.

Backed by paid reach, the month-long contest received nearly half-a-million entries.

Automaker Opel used Instagram Stories and it’s direct-link capability to secure 1,887 contest registrations.

2. Chat to win

A chatbot can offer a more tailored experience than generic form registration.

KIA Motors Europe developed a Facebook Messenger chatbot that could ask people questions and help them enter to win a special experience. Promoted with click-to-Messenger ads, the chatbot was able to deliver 3,000 registrations.

3. Plan a social scavenger hunt

Leaving easter eggs or clues across your social media channels allows you to provide multiple call-to-actions to fill out a form.

Take medical web and mobile-learning platform Osmosis for example. Its #OsmosisQuest challenge asks followers to find answers to its contest across its social media accounts in exchange for a free month trial of Osmosis Prime.

To complete the submission, participants are also asked to share basic information, like what school they attend and what degree they’re pursuing.

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Announcing #OsmosisQuest! Running March 25–29, this interactive adventure will take you on a scavenger hunt through all the different features of the Osmosis platform. . Every entrant gets one free month of Osmosis Prime for completing the Osmosis Quest, as well as a shot at winning SIX MONTHS! . Visit the link in our bio to read the full contest rules and begin your journey. ????️???? . #osmosis #giveaway #learnmedicine #FOAMEd

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6 social media contest ideas to generate buzz

Promote a new product, takeover a social conversation, or just increase awareness and consideration.

1. Put out a call for submissions

A call for user-generated content is a surefire way to generate buzz. Especially if the call is specific, easy-to-follow, and realistic for enough followers to complete.

Before launching a new chicken burger last September, Burger King UK knew it would have to address its “checkered chicken past.” So the company asked people to share photos of themselves taking a bite out of an imaginary burger using the #BK20KBITE for a chance to be paid £20,000 to taste-test the real thing.

Other companies have encouraged people to submit photos with real products, which in turn can help to boost sales, too.

Taking a different approach, Adobe challenged its community of creators to explore the full range of Photoshop’s possibilities. After realizing many of its users were Dungeons and Dragons fans, the company put out a call for the community to create the new D&D monster.

In the end more than 2,000 creatures were shared, showing everyone what Photoshop and the Adobe community were capable of creating.

This Halloween, create a Dungeons & Dragons monster for a chance to win $5,000 & have your work immortalized as a D&D miniature. #SummonTheTerror of Undermountain at https://t.co/uflRuuYh03.

No Purchase Necessary. Ends 11/16/18. Age of Majority. Rules at https://t.co/uflRuuYh03 pic.twitter.com/Ngm2q8huFP

— Adobe Photoshop (@Photoshop) October 30, 2018

2. Create a hashtag challenge

Hashtag challenges have been around for a longtime, starting with Cinemagram and Vine, and now TikTok. Thanks to their popularity, it’s easy for companies to join in with branded hashtags that prompt users to engage and become brand ambassadors.

Guess was the first to challenge TikTok users with its #InMyDenim campaign that asked participants to create videos depicting their denim transformations. The hashtag has raked in 37.9 million views.

Wondering what TikTok is and if you should care about it? Learn more.

3. Take over an event

This is not the same as an influencer “takeover”. Frank’s RedHot scored a touchdown on Twitter this year with a #FranksSweepstakes that asked fans to help bring its “Put That S#!t on Everything!” catchphrase to life.

During the game, fans were asked to put the chili pepper emoji on every ad they saw. In other words, when a car commercial comes on, you’d tweet the pepper plus the auto emoji. Franks RedHot made use of an event that wasn’t officially “theirs”, but at which they knew lots of customers would be in attendance.

It's time! Tweet ????️ + the emoji for the category of the ad you're watching + #FranksSweepstakes, and you just might win. Not all ads quality.  Full rules and prizes here: https://t.co/8NLgQkg2bp pic.twitter.com/u6i8E6EYY6

— Frank's RedHot (@FranksRedHot) February 3, 2019

4. Use a branded filter/lens to win

Why not ask fans to create a Snap or Story with a branded filter for a chance to win a prize? Many companies, including Taco Bell, Dunkin Donuts, and HBO’s Game of Thrones have created branded filters to promote a new product or simply increase awareness.

You donut want to miss our #NationalDonutDay lens on Snapchat today 6/2! ????: dunkindonuts pic.twitter.com/wEEJjRJ4xJ

— Dunkin' (@dunkindonuts) June 2, 2017

5. Play to win a Snapchat game

We’ve all been caught in a Snappable snafu, whether you’ve been walked in on trying to catch imaginary Twizzlers in your mouth, or fulfilling some other odd objective.

With a built-in games setup, brands can use Snapchat to create video-gamified contests.

GrubHub created a Snapchat game called “Food’s Here” game that offered players $10 off their first order for winning, and $15 off if they downloaded the food delivery app.

6. Create a Pinterest Board to Win

Asking followers to create a Pinterest board can be a great way to encourage engagement with your products.

For instance, Pinners could be asked to use a travel company’s Pins to create a board depicting their dream vacation. Or home interiors companies could ask Pinners to use their products to create a board for their ideal living room.

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One-fifth of US surgeons nonetheless overusing riskier process to create kidney dialysis entry

http://tinyurl.com/y2escc4y A diagram displaying how kidney dialysis is carried out after an arteriovenous (AV) fistula surgical procedure has supplied entry to the circulatory system. A brand new Johns Hopkins Drugs examine reveals that many physicians are nonetheless performing a unique, riskier process with a prosthetic graft for gaining entry. Credit score: Nationwide Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Illnesses/Nationwide Institutes of Well being Lengthy-term hemodialysis is a lifesaver for roughly half one million sufferers in america with kidney failure (also referred to as end-stage renal illness, or ESRD) who’re both ready on or unsuitable for a kidney transplant. However earlier than the exterior equipment can take over the operate of the kidneys—filtering and cleaning wastes from the blood—a minor surgical process is required to create a steady, purposeful and reusable entry to the circulatory system, normally by way of blood vessels within the arm. Two surgical strategies for creating this “vascular entry” can be found, one overwhelmingly most well-liked at any time when attainable for its higher sturdiness, efficiency and security. Nevertheless, in a examine utilizing Medicare claims information, Johns Hopkins Drugs researchers report that one-fifth of seasoned U.S. surgeons are statistically performing the less-preferred process too typically, even when pointless, and that offering them with a peer analysis of such efficiency might result in improved practices. The findings are reported in a brand new examine within the present problem of the Journal of the American Medical Affiliation Surgical procedure. “The excellent news from our survey information is that progress has been made within the final decade towards lowering the variety of inappropriate vascular entry surgical procedures carried out in america,” says Caitlin Hicks, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of surgical procedure on the Johns Hopkins College College of Drugs and lead creator on the JAMA Surgical procedure paper. “However the numbers additionally present that we nonetheless have a methods to go to satisfy established requirements which can be already the norm in Europe and Asia,” she provides. The 2 forms of vascular entry procedures out there for prolonged hemodialysis are the arteriovenous fistula (AVF) and the AV graft (AVG). The AVF is made by connecting a vein, most frequently in a affected person’s arm, to a close-by artery. Over a interval of two to a few months, this bridge, generally known as a fistula, will increase blood movement and stress to the vein to enlarge and strengthen it. As soon as matured, the “supervein” will face up to repeated needle insertions that will collapse an untreated vessel. In distinction, the AVG makes use of a synthetic system, a plastic tube, to make the artery-vein connection. As a result of it doesn’t require maturation, the graft can be utilized inside three to 4 weeks after surgical procedure. Nevertheless, research have proven that it’s extra seemingly than an AVF to have issues with an infection and blood clots, and may have restore or substitute inside a 12 months. Moreover, based on Medicare information, the typical annual value for creating and sustaining an AVG is increased than that for an AVF—almost $73,000 per individual yearly in contrast with $60,000. Recognizing the distinct benefits of the fistula, the federal Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Companies and ESRD therapy networks throughout america created the Fistula First Breakthrough Initiative (FFBI) in 2003 to extend using AVF to 50% of all vascular entry surgical procedures carried out. When that aim was reached in 2009, the AVF over AVG customary was raised to 66% in an effort to match the 60% to 90% charges in Europe and Asia. In a bid to doc progress towards that aim, and establish “doctor traits” linked to higher-than-appropriate AVG use, Johns Hopkins Drugs researchers used Medicare fee-for-service claims information for greater than 85,000 grownup kidney failure sufferers who obtained first-time vascular entry surgical procedures between Jan. 1, 2016, and Dec. 31, 2017. They calculated an AVG fee (whole variety of vascular entry operations divided by the variety of AVG surgical procedures) for every of the two,397 physicians who carried out 10 or extra procedures—both AVF or AVG—throughout that point. Whereas the median, or midpoint, fee for the entire group was 18.2% (which means that the median fee for AVF surgical procedures was 81.8%), there have been a big variety of outliers. “We discovered that 498 physicians, roughly 21% or 1 in 5, carried out AVG surgical procedures in additional than 34% of their whole instances,” Hicks says. “Because of this they failed to satisfy the 66% or increased FFBI goal customary for AVF use.” The examine indicated that a lot of the physicians related to excessive AVG use charges—together with some who have been utilizing AVG in additional than 80% of their instances—had long-established practices (a median of 35.5 years since medical college commencement), have been positioned in a metropolitan setting and specialised in vascular surgical procedure greater than common surgical procedure. “For the reason that FFBI finest apply tips have solely been round since 2003, maybe older physicians are merely much less aware of them and have continued ‘doing enterprise as standard,'” Hicks says. “Or they might simply be seeing extra advanced instances and consider that fistula entry is much less appropriate. In both case, we consider that extra schooling and focused intervention utilizing peer-to-peer evaluations that urge a change in apply might assist deal with the issue, as a result of that strategy has labored earlier than.” One other Johns Hopkins Drugs examine not too long ago reported {that a} “Expensive Colleague” efficiency analysis letter efficiently satisfied physicians nationwide to cut back the quantity of tissue they eliminated in a standard surgical therapy for pores and skin most cancers to satisfy a professionally acknowledged benchmark of fine apply. Hicks says that the analysis crew hopes to conduct such an intervention in a future examine and doc its affect on enhancing conduct for vascular access surgical procedure. The AV fistula versus graft examine is a component of a bigger Johns Hopkins Drugs effort to develop, set up and disseminate high quality measures that may seize the appropriateness of care and assist scale back low-value care in favor of a extra patient-centered strategy. “By figuring out practices that aren’t in the very best curiosity of the affected person and offering interventions to deal with them, we might help physicians who’re outliers, and in flip, enhance the standard of take care of the lots of of sufferers each treats,” says Martin A. Makary, M.D., M.P.H., co-author of the examine, professor of surgery on the Johns Hopkins College College of Drugs and an authority on well being care high quality. “Physicians, for essentially the most half, wish to do the precise factor, and measures of appropriateness might help information them.” Excessive use of skin cancer surgery curbed with awareness effort Extra info: Caitlin W. Hicks et al, Evaluation of Use of Arteriovenous Graft vs Arteriovenous Fistula for First-time Everlasting Hemodialysis Entry, JAMA Surgical procedure (2019). DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.1736 Offered by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Quotation: One-fifth of US surgeons nonetheless overusing riskier process to create kidney dialysis entry (2019, June 13) retrieved 13 June 2019 from https://medicalxpress.com/information/2019-06-one-fifth-surgeons-overusing-riskier-procedure.html This doc is topic to copyright. Other than any honest dealing for the aim of personal examine or analysis, no half could also be reproduced with out the written permission. The content material is supplied for info functions solely. Source link

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How much car insurance coverage do I really need?

I am paying a mortgage on a house, and am about to get married...I don't own much else.""

Need Insurance for my Daughter?

Hello, So I'm moving to the New York area and I'm currently going to court for child custody of our daughter (the case is processed in California), I have been interviewed for a couple of jobs but unfortunately they do not offer any kind of medical insurance, for now I don't get the right to have her in my household but I'm looking for advice and check what kind of tools I can use to get (free if possible) medical insurance to cover the needs that the court is demanding from me,any help or advice is gonna be hugely appreciate it""

Who gives cheap car insurance for young drivers?

Who gives cheap car insurance for young drivers?

How much does a Triple AAA insurance agent make on average?

How does Triple AAA pay their agents? Their agents don't sell Life Insurance right? What all do they sell? How does this job compare to...say a State Farm agent?

How will the insurances work out with 95 car accidents at one scene?

Just wonder because of news yesterday at California highway. I don't know about law in that state but what if it's like this in new york where I live. Ya know whoever fault will pay by their own insurance for repairs and injury for victims and a vehciles. Same for most state. How would 95 different insurance handle it? It might will have several lawsuits. With 95 cars, hard to say who started the accident and whatever if it's one person cause 95 altogther or all 95 is fault on it own. Some may not even have insurance. There would be 95 different drivers so it will be 95 different verison or story of what happening.""

Cost of insurance for 1998 Porsche Boxter?

Hi, I'm a high school student and I recently purchased my uncle's 1998 Porsche Boxter. However, I would like to know the cost of insuring this car. Please don't give me websites, I would actually like a figure without inputting a ton of information into an untrustworthy site. I'll give 10 points to the best answer. Information that may be useful: -high school student (first year of driving) -GPA: 4.0 -Drivers Ed: taken -Gender: male Thanks in advance for any helpful answers! If you don't know for sure, an estimate would be appreciated as well.""

Do you have to apply for California Training Benefits when receiving Unemployment Insurance?

I just filed for UI and received a letter in the mail about the California Training Benefits program but no where does it say I have to apply for it.

Car insurance in texas?

how much does it cost??? i hav a project where i have to buy car insurance for a Mercedes Benz 2010 C300 Sport Sedan??

I got a ticket for haveing a expired drivers licence how will this effect my insurance rates?

The only ticket given was for the expired drivers licence. does that effect the insurance? im not sure cuz it does not mean i am a bad driver. anything will help! need to know fast. and i am in wyoming if that makes any differance.

Ontario Insurance rates for a Toyota supra 1995-97 for a 16 year old male?

Hello, I am 16 years old and I am thinking about getting a Toyota supra (probably the twin turbo, but at least the v 6 ge engine) for my first car between 1995 and 97. I was wondering what kind of insurance rates I should expect? I have heard about collectors insurance being really cheap, but I dont believe that covers the liability insurance. Remember, the car is right-hand drive, a sports car, I am 16 and a male, I expect the insurance rates to be incredibly high, I just want to know an approximate number. I would appreciate some recommendations as to which broker to use or alternate suggestions! I also understand that I am too young to get collectors insurance on the car, however, I believe that, because it is a different type of insurance, my dad can put himself as the primary driver of the car to save money (he already has a car, but I believe that the insurance company would be fine with him having a summer car XD""

Question about car insurance?

k so im 16 and im about 2 get my license but im not getting my car yet but i heard that my mother would have to put me under her insurance in order for me to drive her car since im a minor or something like that is it true

What is the average insurance rate for a 19 year old in Ontario?

What is the average insurance rate for a 19 year old in Ontario?

""I will be under my parent's health insurance effective Jan 1, 2011 - will my baby be covered?""

my baby is due April 26, 2011. Will he be eligible to be under my parents policy with me or will I need different coverage? If so, any suggestions? I live in California.""

Can a tourist in california could get a health insurance in this state?

i'm a tourist here and 2 months pregnant i'm planning to give birth here in california.

Car insurance and the state you live in and registration?

I just moved from Richmond VA to Greensboro NC. My car insurance is in Richmond VA and and my car is registered up there. I'm only going to stay in North Carolina for about 8 months. I want to know if I can switch my car insurance to North Carolina with out having to register my car and switching my license plates over to North Carolina. Car insurance is a hell of alot high up in Richmond than here and I want to save some much needed money. Anyone know if I can make the insurance switch with out having to register my car and switching my tags over to North Carolina? Please respond with only legit answers.

Can anybody Reccomend a good online insurance company for a Cagiva Mito 125?

I have been looking around for a low insurance rate for my Cagiva Mito 125 Motorbike, does any Mito owners know of a good insurer for that bike and how much did you pay?""

Car insurance question?

I have basic liability insurance with American Family Insurance, About a week ago my boyfriend (who has a suspended license) took my car when i was sleeping, almost hit a deer and went in a ditch with my car and im pretty sure its totaled its a 97 lumina. I have a title loan on the car, will insurance pay it off?""

I'm17 and have not got my license yet but when i do how can i get cheap car insurance?

I have heard that if i buy a classic car, my insurance will be cheaper, is this true? And do you have any tips for getting it as low as possible. P.S I HAVE ASKED THIS ON THE INTERNATIONAL AND U.K SITES SO SORRY IF YOU'VE ALREADY SEEN THIS....""

""I want to purchase a nice USED car, but I want insurance from out of state? How can I get that?

I want to buy a car directly from the seller and a good running car and I want to be insured out of state. I have a few questions: 1. What is the best and cheapest insurance I can go for? 2. How can I get out of state insurance? 3. What type of used car that you highly recommend me to by?

I want the cheapest Liability only Insurance possible for my car. Which company should I go to?

I am based in MN, if it depends on the state.""

I just bought a Lamborghini does any 1 now how much insurance costs??/?

I just bought a Lamborghini does any 1 now how much insurance costs??/?

Brownwood Texas Cheap car insurance quotes zip 76801

Brownwood Texas Cheap car insurance quotes zip 76801

Do you like or dislike 21st Century auto insurance?

A long time ago, when they were named 20th Century, their rates seemed competitive. Does anyone reading this have their insurance now? What advantages do they have, that would make you choose them over other insurance companies?""

Is it okay to drive your parents car but dont have insurance yet but your parents gave permission to drive it?

Like if i was to be pulled over which I plan on not being because I drive very carefully but with cops now a days they will pull you over for no reason and just follow you and pull ...show more

Online car insurance quote?

My husband and I are looking for ways to cut back spending. We wanted to look for better car insurance rates so we looked online and got a quote that was considerably less (about 700.00 less a year) with the same deductibles and options we already have. My question is ... has anyone done this and had good luck with it? And does this to good to be true rate increase after they real you in? And what is a good company to go with?

What car will get me the cheapest insurance?

what are factors for my car that will make my insurance lower example so i know which car to get

Will full coverage car insurance cover this?

My friend was in an accident on a dirt road last night. He hit a rock sticking out of the ground that popped his tire, and the front right side of his car slide into a mountain. So the front fender, and right door is smashed pretty well. He has full coverage car insurance, and can not talk to them personally about what is covered, because they are closed until Monday. He left a voicemail with the insurance company when the accident happened. Money is tight so he is very worried about what, if not all, will be covered. Does anyone know whether this type of accident will be fully covered, or at least some of it? Thank you for your answers in advanced.""

Does anyone have the Mid-West Live insurance company of Tennessee?

An insurance agent sold this to my parents and I wish they put everything into layman's term. They bought this through a group called the Alliance for Affordable Services. They have a $5000 deductible but the policy reads like this: Hospital room/board has CoInsurance of 100% with Maximum up to $1000 per day. What is Coinsurance? Do they still have to pay something after their $5000 deductible? Thanks in advance.

How much would car insurance be on a 2004 mustang?

i just recently bought a red 2004 Mustang V-6 convertible and i was wondering how much insurance would cost ? im pretty sure its over 100 but how much ? im 16 and its my first car , no rude comments please.""

I need my teeth fixed i have no money and no insurance i live in california?

I need my teeth fixed i live in california i have no money and no insurance. My teeth are supper bad, im only 22. What should i do.........?""

Insurance company not willing to pay full value for car?

A couple of weeks ago a lady ran a red light and hit my car. Her insurance company took a week to get me a rental and two weeks later finally go look at my car and determined a total loss. The adjustor was pretty rude about the whole situation (yes I know that's their job) and started in on how my car has extensive hail damage which is not true. There were some dents from hail on the hood and trunk lid but every used car in Oklahoma has hail damage since we have had several storms over the past few years. He said that they would have paid $5900 for the car but because of the hail damage they will only pay $1250 which is ridiculous. I've done my research and the average cost of my car within 200 miles is $6000 and I have received one estimate on repairing all of the damage was $2000 yet he claims it will cost $7000. The dealership I bought the car from just sold a vehicle just like mine with hail damage for $5000. The engine and everything else on the car was perfect. When I told him all of my info he laughed at me and said oh by the way we are only paying for your rental till the 9th so you need to settle quickly, take it or leave it so I said I was calling a lawyer. I'm waiting on the lawyer to call me back but I just want to know, what should I look for to help me. I've already looked at the market in my area and have record of the prices for the same make and model. I can't take it to a body shop because the car is crushed. Any info appreciated.""

Can I get separate 6 month car insurance for 2 vehicles?

I live in Vermont want to drive ONLY my Kia Spectra May-October, and ONLY my Ford F150 from November-April. I want to save money by having an insurance policy that covers each car for these 6 month intervals vs. insuring both year-round. Do car insurance companies typically offer this kind of coverage? I would ask around, but the insurance companies are so aggressive I can NEVER call for a simple quote or answer without extreme sales pressure.""

Car insurance policy and rates question?

My girlfriend is on my car insurance policy. Recently she got in an accident and now I believe our car insurance rates will be raised. Can I drop her off my car insurance policy and have her transfer her car in my name that way both cars can be insured in my name. If I do this can she still drive her car?

21st Century Insurance ?????????????

Is 21st Century good auto insurance. I am on my dads auto insurance. I pay 250 a month for a 03 dodge durango. So I am going to be shopping around in 6 months. I have progressive auto insurance.

Can my mom carry me on her car insurance?

My mom lives in GA and has transfered her car insurance over to GA, but I live in SC and am getting my permit in SC. Can she still put me on her insurance even though I live in SC and am getting my permit in SC.""

Insurance on my boyfriend's car?

I recently got my license and haven't gotten a car yet. Since my boyfriend has two vehicles I am planning on using his car for work. He has liability on the car but I don't have any insurance and his insurance agent isn't sure if we can be on the same policy if we're not living together. Will I have to get my own insurance or is there anyway I can be covered by his policy? Please help! Any advice on the cheapest way to do this is appreciated. Thank you!

Cheapest car insurance for young drivers?

Hi I've been looking in a few insurance sites for the best possible quote for my self, Are there any insurances company's that you would recommend based on cheapest quotes ? Thanks P.s I'm 19""

Im trying to find cheap insurance for new driver in jersey. i am financing a car for the first time.?

im going to need full coverage since i am financing a 2009 scion tc. also im 19 years old.

My teenage sons car insurance premium?

i did a quote and the cheapest is 6334? how can they charge so much, his friend got a quote on a similar car for 854? any tips?""

How much (on average) would private health insurance be per month for a family of three?

male 40 y.o., female 36 y.o., and child.""

Have insurance but no maternity insurance?

We signed up for health insurance almost two years ago and was told that I would have maternity insurance after a 24 month waiting period so my husband and I were planning on trying for a baby in a few months, when I called today to check I was told that I do not have that coverage, that I would have to reapply for a different plan and then would have maternity coverage after another 24 month waiting period! I'm not sure what to do, we've already waited two years, I'm upset to learn that I'd have to wait ANOTHER two years. What do I do? (I live in Missouri)""

""What is the cheapest car insurance in los angeles, ca?""

What is the cheapest car insurance in los angeles, ca?""

Does anyone now what the insurance rates would be for a 2002 eclipse GT?

Not the exact insurance rates, obviously that varies from person to person situation to situation but would it be cheap? Expensive if you could compare it to another cars insurance rates?? Any insight is welcome thank you""

What happens if I lapse on my car insurance for a day ?

I read some forums online and it seems pretty heavy. Right now I am out of work and I am living on unemployment insurance. I can barely make payments using that. Anyway my car insurance is supposed to be cancelled this monday at 12:01A.M. standard time. I called them today to make a payment . But the local office is closed and the main office said they can't take anything less than the premium which is - $792.38. I can't pay that right now. That's out of the question. I want to be able to make the monthly payment on it so I won't get cancelled and get a lapse on my car insurance . What is a lapse and how will it affect me. because it seems like there is absolutely NO OTHER CHOICE , i have right now than to just wait for monday and call them to find out that it's cancelled and worse if they said , Since it's cancelled they can only accept the Whole Premium!! My new policy renewal date is from Oct 09 , 2010 to April 09, 2011 according to the id card But what happens if there is a lapse in my coverage? Can i be arrested or my license suspended because of this??""

How much would my insurance go up?

I'm looking at getting a coupe for my first car. Possibly a 2010 Camaro or Mustang. As of now my mom and I share her car, a Cadillac CTS. The insurance for myself is about $140 a month (I'm 16) so if I got a coupe, around how much of a jump would that make my insurance go up?""

Whats the cheapest car insurance?

im 18 and a new driver

G2 Insurance?

I'm working on getting my G2 license, but once I get it, will I have to get insurance? If I'm not driving, nobody would ever know that I don't have insurance, right? I want to have my license so that when I *can* afford insurance, I'll be able to drive.""

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Brownwood Texas Cheap car insurance quotes zip 76801

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Georgia editorial roundup

Recent editorials from Georgia newspapers:

April 14

The Augusta Chronicle says Georgia is in a good place with its legislators:

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”

There’s a campaign-style bumper sticker making the rounds nationally that says, “Any Functioning Adult, 2020.”

Sure seems that way, at least in Washington, D.C.

It appears to be a much different story in Georgia, and perhaps other states. Georgia appears quite well-run – as evidenced by a just-concluded legislative session where the main challenges were making the state better and safer and preserving its quality of life.

In fact, among the audience’s questions at a recent gubernatorial forum hosted by the Columbia County Republican Women were ones about how best to structure the state’s blend of taxes and how to capitalize on “the economic growth brought on by the film industry.”

Most of the problems cited by the 80-some in attendance were, in fact, national bugaboos, including illegal immigration, helping veterans, guns and mental health, assaults on conservative speech (highlighted by the Facebook congressional hearings the week before last) and balancing religious freedom with gay rights.

At bottom, Georgia’s chief challenges are education, transportation, immigration, health care and rural economics.

Other issues include human/sex trafficking – of which there is a vortex in the Atlanta area, but which is also spilling out into small-town Georgia due to crackdowns in Atlanta; the national opioid crisis; and concerns about Second Amendment rights.

As for “functioning adults” in leadership, we’re happy to report Georgia has more than its share. The upcoming May 22 statewide primary – for which early voting starts April 30 – is proof enough of that.

Engaged voters are currently taking the measure, as are we, of the men seeking to be the state’s next governor. The leading candidates are Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, Secretary of State Brian Kemp, state Sen. Hunter Hill and businessman Clay Tippins.

All are top-quality individuals. Cagle and Kemp obviously inhabit top-tier positions. Hill is an Army Ranger with three tours of duty under his belt. Tippins is a former Navy SEAL with international business experience.

We encourage you to visit their websites – just Google the name plus “governor” – to learn more about them. But it’s hard to see how we can go wrong – despite following a tough act in Gov. Nathan Deal.

Moreover, the just-ended legislative session – while featuring more than the usual sausage-making politics – was highly successful and absent crisis. Legislators confronted major issues such as gun violence, post-Parkland, in what one lawmaker called “a calculated, considerate way.”

In large part because Georgia is certifiably the No. 1 state in which to do business – named so in 2017 by Site Selection magazine for the fifth year in a row – revenues have made it possible for the state to fully fund its Quality Basic Education formula for what appears to be the first time since its inception in the 1980s. Recession-era austerity cuts also have been eliminated.

The state also plunked $360 million of additional funds into the Teachers Retirement System.

Meanwhile, the 2019 budget, beginning in July, includes $1.6 million for student mental health awareness training and “response and intervention training” for schools.

A new “Chief Turnaround Officer program” also has been funded to help turn around failing schools.

As for gun violence, lawmakers also took action to strengthen the state’s data base on involuntary commitments, and to punish those who supply guns to individuals who are prohibited from purchasing them.

Contrary to Groucho Marx’s wry observation about politics, Georgia is on good footing and taking steps to improve that footing.

“I just don’t know how people argue with what we’re doing in this state,” Rep. Jodi Lott said. “I can’t say enough good things about the direction of the state.”

Challenges remain, of course.

Transportation is a continuing struggle – due, again, in large part to the success the state has had in attracting business and industry.

On that front, the General Assembly passed landmark legislation that, over five years, will consolidate Atlanta-area mass transit systems into one “Atlanta-region Transit Link Authority,” or The ATL. It will coordinate and expand mass transit across 13 Atlanta-area counties – a huge and welcome step, since 60 percent of the metro area’s commuters work and live in different counties.

The big challenge will be to get the Capital to look beyond Atlanta’s needs to the rest of ours.

And while you’d think that red-state Georgia wouldn’t have a problem with cities giving sanctuary to those who enter the country illegally, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported last fall that “three Georgia cities – Atlanta, Clarkston and Decatur – have adopted measures in favor of restricting their interactions with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”

Republican gubernatorial candidates are promising to crack down on such lawbreaking.

Still, the state of the state is pretty doggone good.

As state Rep. Barry Fleming noted in his invocation at Columbia County gubernatorial forum, all one has to do to remind oneself of that is to follow the news around the world.

Georgia is in a good place.

It’s up to informed and engaged voters to keep it there.

Online: http://www.augustachronicle.com

April 13

Marietta Daily Journal says Marsy’s Law keeps victims from being left in the dark:

Marsy Nicholas’ ex-boyfriend convinced her to come by his house after threatening to commit suicide. When she did, he was waiting with a shotgun. But he didn’t turn the gun on himself. Instead, he targeted Marsy, a senior at the University of California Santa Barbara, shooting her in the head.

After the funeral service, Marsy’s mother stopped off at a grocery store. Imagine the horror when she saw her daughter’s killer standing in the checkout line staring at her. No one had informed the grieving mother that he had been released on bail, according to the Los Angeles Times.

To prevent such horrendous scenarios from occurring, the Georgia General Assembly passed this session Senate Resolution 146, commonly known as Marsy’s Law for Georgia.

If approved when it comes in front of Georgia voters in a November referendum, Marsy’s Law would give victims of crime such constitutional rights as:

Notice of any scheduled court proceedings involving the alleged act or changes to the scheduling of such proceedings;

Notice of the arrest, release or escape of the accused;

The right not to be excluded from any scheduled court proceedings involving the alleged act;

The right upon request to be heard at any scheduled court proceedings involving the release, plea or sentencing of the accused; and

The right to be informed of his or her rights.

The legislation passed the Senate last year and was assigned to the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee, chaired by retiring state Rep. Rich Golick, R-Smyrna. There, Golick worked on it with advocates and prosecutors to come up with agreeable language. The intent of the constitutional amendment is to take the rights and protections victims have under Georgia law and enshrine them in the constitution.

“Because, of course, the statute can always be changed,” Golick said. “A constitution technically can also be changed if it passes two thirds of the House and Senate and is ratified by the people, but any kind of change in the constitution certainly has more permanence.”

The goal, Golick says, is to ensure the rights of the victims of crime are placed in the constitution while at the same time making sure those rights don’t cause the wheels of justice and court proceedings to come to a grinding halt. The court system has to keep moving, but while it’s moving, the amendment’s purpose is to afford victims of crime the right of certain notice and the right to be heard.

While these rights are already in state law, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle said they aren’t consistently applied and there’s no recourse for victims if their rights are violated. By placing the rights in the constitution, Cagle said victims will be able to go straight to the judge and demand a remedy if their rights are violated. This can be a matter of life and death, Cagle said, citing the case of Tamiko Lowry Pugh of Austell, whose former husband was arrested after beating and choking her until she passed out. He was released without her knowledge, and he showed up at a house that Pugh, a real estate agent, was showing. He beat her again, and fortunately, she escaped.

“Knowledge is power,” Golick said. “And the ability of a crime victim to know what’s happening, when it’s happening, and the ability to go ahead and be heard in conjunction with those proceedings is powerful. It is empowering for a victim. Does it guarantee a result? No. But understanding what’s happening, when it’s happening and why it’s happening is very important. If a crime victim has that ability, has that right under the state constitution to have that knowledge, very arguably a situation like that might not have occurred.”

In Cobb, District Attorney Vic Reynolds said victims of crime are notified of court dates, bond and sentencing hearings and when people get out of jail. Some district attorneys in smaller circuits, given the sheer volume of cases and limited staff, were initially concerned about being subject to a lawsuit if a notice failed to be sent out and that notice was made into a constitutional right. But Reynolds said those concerns were hammered out in Golick’s committee and he plans to vote in favor of the amendment.

In 2017, the Cobb DA’s Office Victim Witness Unit had 130,687 contacts with victims through letters, emails, phone calls and personal visits.

“We do everything humanly possible to make sure victims know. But we’re fortunate in this county: We’ve got people who can do that, and some circuits don’t. But I think the way this law is crafted right now you’ll see an overwhelming amount of support around the state, and I think you’ll see that by DAs and solicitors as well,” Reynolds said.

Reynolds believes it’s vital for those who work in the public safety field to remember one of the primary reasons for their service is for the sake of victims. Few things will affect you more than having your home robbed, your identity stolen or your body assaulted. This is why Reynolds says he’s always amazed when he sees the resilience of victims – their strength, dignity and ability to overcome what’s happened to them.

Observances commemorating victims of crime unfolded throughout the country as part of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, which spanned April 8-14.

“And so I think during this week, if we remember as public safety individuals what we’re doing, why we’re doing it and who we’re doing it for, it certainly means a great deal to us to look at these victims and feel that we’ve done everything we can do to help them in their case,” he said.

After observing National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, it’s fitting that Georgians will have the opportunity to enshrine the rights of victims in the state’s constitution this fall.

Online: https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/

April 17

The Savannah Morning News says Georgia officials owe the public answers regarding the spaceport:

As scientists and Star Trek villain Khan like to say, it is very cold in space.

The Federal Aviation Administration is proving equally frosty when it comes to the public’s concerns about a proposed spaceport on Georgia’s coast.

Spaceport Camden is planned for a former industrial property near the Cumberland Island National Seashore. The facility would cater to the growing commercial space industry and include launch and landing sites.

At issue is the potential danger to residents whose properties would be overflown by rockets blasting off from the spaceport. Inhabitants of Little Cumberland Island, located across the marsh from the site and in the projected launch path, are understandably apprehensive.

Those islanders and other members of the public were invited to meet with FAA officials last week. The agency is reviewing the project’s potential environmental impact as required prior to issuing a launch operator’s license.

Yet FAA officials on recently closed what had been advertised as a public meeting. They excluded two journalists, claiming the session was to “have an open discussion with residents … not a discussion on the record,” according to a spokeswoman.

The FAA didn’t limit attendance to residents, however. Several environmental advocates sat in, as did the Camden County government’s legal counsel.

If the FAA were a state agency, this would be a clear violation of open meetings law. Georgia’s sunshine laws limit closure except in cases that involve personnel reviews, real estate transactions or strategic planning.

The feds have more leeway. They can legally hold private sessions with specific stakeholders, as they did on April 12 – although allowing select non-residents to attend invalidates their stance.

Legal arguments aside, if the FAA wants the public to have confidence in this process, the agency should drop the cold shoulder.

Spaceport Camden is an intriguing project. The facility offers the promise of jobs and economic development in an industry, such as aerospace, that can remake a community.

Think about what Gulfstream means to Savannah. The benefits go far beyond the 10,000 well-playing jobs to investments in education and philanthropy, not to mention the fact that simply by being here the company inspires multitudes of young people to pursue engineering careers.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration did the same for Florida’s so-called Space Coast. Now, the government facility at Cape Canaveral is home to commercial space pioneers like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

Camden wants to join that orbit. But in shooting for the stars, the stakeholders should not ignore those here on Earth.

Spaceport Camden would be the only launch site in the United States that shoots rockets over an inhabited area. The inherent danger is why other spaceports are located on barrier islands, like at Cape Canaveral, Wallops Island, Virginia, Kodiak, Alaska, and one under construction near Brownsville, Texas, or in desolate areas.

Spaceport America, the first purpose-built commercial spaceport in the world, is in the New Mexico desert adjacent to an Army missile range. The Mojave Air and Space Port covers 3,300 acres in the California high desert.

Interest in developing more launch sites underscores the commercial potential. Camden is part of a new-age space race. The FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation has licensed 10 spaceports in the last 22 years and is receiving regular inquiries.

One comes from a Georgia neighbor. The Alabama Space Authority, birthed last year by that state’s legislature, is working to identify potential spaceport locations.

Spaceport Camden’s viability deserves scrutiny. The county has invested $3.5 million in the project already, and more expensive work remains, including cleanup of environmental issues spawned by the previous site user, chemical manufacturer Union Carbide.

At least one expert doubts Spaceport Camden would ever get clearance to launch a rocket because of the flight path over Little Cumberland Island, even if it were awarded a launch operator’s license. Ray Lugo, a rocket scientist with the Florida Space Institute, put it bluntly when he said of Spaceport Camden, that he didn’t understand why people would throw money away.

Camden officials and the FAA need to ask themselves the same question. Or at least show a commitment to an open dialogue, where the public is allowed to voice such concerns and journalists have the access to report on them.

Online: http://www.savannahnow.com

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School shooting survivors united by a chain of grief – and hard lessons passed on

It was five years ago that a young man invaded Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and shot and killed 20 young children and six staff members, a tragedy that indelibly scarred that small city and lives on in the collective national memory. But school shootings didn’t begin, or end, with Sandy Hook. Yahoo News looks at the aftermath of four of these tragedies and the lives they changed. In other stories, we examine how 20 years on, Jonesboro, Ark., is still traumatized by an attack carried out by two middle-school boys — and how survivors deal with the knowledge that the killers are now grown men and free from prison; at the lessons from Sandy Hook that may have helped save lives at a California school just last month; and at how the parents of a girl killed in Newtown are coping with their loss.

Holly Bailey, Dylan Stableford, Beth Greenfield and Jason Sickles contributed to this report.

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It happens soon after the shooting stops, often before the victims are buried and the crime tape is taken away, certainly while the parents and students and teachers are still numb, still reeling from their loss. Sometime during those raw, wrenching moments comes the first talk of healing.

“Faith, hope, love … healing,” read the banner at the memorial service in Jonesboro, Ark., for the five killed and 10 injured when an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old classmate pulled a fire alarm and picked off their victims as they marched out of their middle school in 1998.

“Healing Begins,” read the headline of the Denver Post the day after two students gunned down 14 classmates and a teacher, injuring 23 more, at Columbine High School in 1999. A month later, President Bill Clinton addressed thousands at a memorial service. “There has to be healing,” he said.

After 32 were killed and 23 were injured by a student on a rampage at Virginia Tech, President George W. Bush promised healing too. “Although it does not seem possible right now,” he said, “a day will come when Virginia Tech will return to normal.”

And hours after an intruder killed 20 first graders and staff members in Newtown, Conn., a school aide who’d witnessed the carnage told a television reporter: “We’re going to stick together and in time, we’re going to heal.”

A woman touches a printout of messages of support and shared grief from teenagers around the United States at a memorial for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 18, 2012. (Photo: Joshua Lott/Reuters)

Today is the fifth anniversary of that day, the fifth anniversary of that declaration. And the question thrumming beneath today’s memories and tributes is twofold: not just “Has Newtown healed?” but also “How does a community heal after this increasingly frequent kind of a loss?”

The roots of these questions are generations deep, back to a time well before Newtown, arguably before the American Revolution, when four Lenape tribe members entered the Enoch Brown schoolhouse in Pennsylvania in 1764, shooting and killing the schoolmaster, then murdering all but two of the children in the building.

And they are questions that stretch into the future, to a time well after Newtown, through the at least 104 times that shots have been fired at students and teachers since Dec. 14, 2012.

Finally, they are questions that ripple out beyond these communities, particularly as screens and cameras now bring the anguish to the nation as a whole, allowing strangers to mourn for, though not actually with, those who have suffered.

It’s not only schools where communities are ripped to shreds and left to knit the pieces back together. The lessons of the schools are also the lessons of the military bases at Fort Hood and the Washington Navy Yard, the movie theater in Aurora, Colo., the churches in Charleston, S.C., and Sutherland Springs, Texas, and the concert in Las Vegas.

But there is something singular and searing about the schools — an invasion of what is assumed to be a safe space, where the victims form a literal community, where families not only know each other, but also expect their lives to be entwined as their children grow.

And unlike many other kinds of spaces, school communities remain together, to nurse their collective wound, after the cameras have gone, after the politicians have gone to their ideological corners (“guns,” “mental health”) then departed, after the public has moved on, wearied by the seemingly constant march of death, and jaded by the gridlock and dysfunction that prevent any real change.

Nearly two dozen protesters showed up in front of the National Shooting Sports Foundation in Newtown, Conn., for a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of the Orlando mass shooting, which took place June 12, 2016. (Photo: Peter Casolino/Hartford Courant/TNS via Getty Images)

That’s when residents are left to figure out what healing means, and to navigate their way toward it. Their only real map is the cobbled-together wisdom of others who came before. It’s critically injured Jonesboro teacher Lynette Thetford receiving a letter from the mother of a girl who had been killed a few months earlier in a school shooting in West Paducah, Ky. It’s Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis getting a phone call from his Paducah counterpart, Bill Bond, who told him: “You don’t even know what you need right now. I was there. Take my number. When you need to talk, give me a call.” It’s Newtown helping Troutdale helping Marysville helping Roseburg helping Rancho Tehama helping Aztec. Together all these form a time-lapse of the healing process, each at a different point on a metaphorical journey, the totality of which extends across the nation and the decades.

Newtown is five years into this process. Have residents healed? If so, how? If not, when? And what lessons have they learned from others who’ve traveled the same increasingly familiar path?

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  A Heath High School student screams at the scene of a shooting at the school, Dec. 1, 1997, which left three students dead and five wounded. (Photo: Steve Nagy/The Paducah Sun/AP)

Just before 8 a.m. on Dec. 1, 1997, 14-year-old Michael Carneal walked into Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky., with several shotguns in his backpack. With a Ruger MK II .22-caliber pistol, he fired eight rounds at a group of classmates gathered in the lobby for the regular morning prayer circle. Three were killed. Five were wounded, one of them paralyzed by a bullet to the chest. Then, with one bullet still left in the chamber, Carneal put his weapon on the ground, slumped to the floor and told the approaching principal, Bill Bond: “Kill me, please kill me. I can’t believe I did that.”

With that, Paducah became the first name on the contemporary roll call of mass shootings at schools. The first of what would turn into an onslaught. The town that will always be 15 years ahead of Newtown in the healing process.

Survivors, family and community members attend a ribbon cutting ceremony Dec. 1, 2017, at the new location of a memorial for the victims of the Heath High School shooting. (Photo: Ryan Hermens/The Sun)

There had been a handful of others in the months beforehand — that February two had been killed and two wounded at Bethel Regional High School in Alaska; that October, three had been killed and seven wounded at Pearl High School

in Mississippi — but it was Paducah that raised the specter of a trend, a sign that something was new and very wrong.

“In my whole life, it had never crossed my mind” that someone would shoot up a school, Bond told the local NBC affiliate during an interview on the 20th anniversary earlier this month. “Now, there’s not a high school principal in the nation that … it doesn’t flick in his mind sometime every day.”

So much else that happened in Paducah would eventually become familiar pieces in the response to shootings. There were lawsuits. The parents of the victims sued the parents of the shooter, eventually settling for $42 million — money that, practically, they will never receive. Lawsuits against the manufacturers of violent and pornographic video games, movies and websites were less successful, and were eventually dismissed.

There were broken families. After 15-year-old Kayce Steger died, her parents dealt with their grief in different ways, leading them to divorce.

There was PTSD. Kayce’s mother, a nurse, could not walk into the ER of the hospital in which she works. And eventually there was the rift between those in the community who felt it was time to move on and those who felt they were being told to forget. Former students became outraged recently when they realized the memorial to their murdered classmates had been locked behind a gate rather than in a place any student could visit and reflect. Access has been restored.

There were some who forgave — most notably Missy Jenkins, who was paralyzed from the waist down that day, and who got married, had two children and is now a day treatment counselor at a nearby school. She visited her assailant in prison (he was sentenced to 25 years to life) and, she said, “I did not forgive him to make him feel better. I forgave him to make me feel better, to help me move on.”

Missy Jenkins Smith, who was shot during the Heath High School shooting in 1997 and paralyzed from the chest down, talks to her sons, Carter Smith, 7, and Logan Smith, 9, about the shooting. (Photo: Ryan Hermens/The Paducah Sun via AP)

There are others who can’t quite forgive themselves. Bond still wonders which lives he might have saved “if it had only taken eight” rather than “12 seconds” for him “to get that gun.” He stayed at Heath until the last of the survivors graduated, then crafted a career as a consultant on middle school safety. He just retired from that role, and says his last interview on the subject was the one he gave to the local news on the 20th anniversary.

He has visited 15 schools in the immediate aftermath of a shooting incident, he said, jumping on a plane sometimes within hours of the news because “I needed to go help those people. I know how bad I needed help and there wasn’t anybody who had been through it. There wasn’t anybody coming.”

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  Emergency personnel rush an unidentified injured student to an ambulance at Westside Middle School near Jonesboro, Ark., March 24, 1998. (Photo: Curt Hodges/Jonesboro Sun/AP)

The chain of grief that originated in Paducah next appeared less than 200 miles away in Jonesboro, Ark. Karen Curtner, the 35-year-old founding principal of the two-year-old Westside Middle School, knew about the shootings the year before, but still, she first thought that the wailing alarm she was responding to on the morning of March 24, 1998, was either a malfunction or a prank.

Some of her teachers already suspected it wasn’t actually a fire; someone had seen a sixth grader, Andrew Golden, pull that alarm and dash outside. But “when the fire alarm goes off, you know what the rule is,” she recalled recently in an interview with Yahoo News. “Everybody leaves.”

Everybody did. Students and teachers were gathering on the lawn when Curtner stepped out of the building and heard the next sound. “My parents, everybody I’ve ever been around, have always been hunters,” she says. “So I knew what it was.”

Karen Curtner was the principal at Westside Middle School at the time of the Jonesboro shooting. (Photo: Eric Thayer/Yahoo News)

What she means is that she knew it was the sound of rifle fire. What she didn’t yet realize, because it was so unthinkable, was that 11-year-old Golden had pulled the alarm in order to lure the entire school outside and that he and his 13-year-old schoolmate Mitchell Johnson were now standing in the woods and shooting guns they’d stolen from Golden’s grandfather.

Four students and a teacher were killed that day, and 10 others were wounded, many severely. While there was press coverage of Paducah, it was nothing like what happened in Jonesboro — the first time the satellite trucks descended in such numbers that there appeared to be more journalists than residents. At least one who said he was a journalist turned out to be a stalker — police found piles of newspapers in his car with Curtner’s photo circled in most of them.

With the press came national attention, some of it welcome (victims of the Oklahoma City bombing sent piles of teddy bears to comfort the students), much of it not. (There were threats against both staff and teachers from many, including one letter purportedly from the Unabomber, praising the shooters.) There were almost too many letters to read, but when the one from the mother of one of the girls killed in Paducah made its way to Thetford, “I remember just holding onto it and crying,” she says. Hearing “from someone that I felt actually understood what we were going through meant more than words could ever say.”

Garth Brooks contacted Curtner about performing a benefit concert, and Tiger Woods wanted to hold a golf tournament to raise money for the victims. Curtner said no to both because her focus was on getting her school “back to normal.” Like Paducah, “normal” for this community would prove to be a hazy and moving target. Marriages ended. Families moved. Lawsuits were filed.

Depression and survivors’ guilt settled like a fog. Brandi Varner later told a reporter that she’d spent much of her little sister’s funeral wishing she’d tried harder to get Britthney to skip school the day of the shooting, since they’d both stayed up so late watching the Oscars on TV the night before.  Thetford, a social studies teacher nearly killed by a bullet to her abdomen, spent much of her time thinking about her friend Shannon Wright, the one teacher who was killed. Wright was younger than Thetford; her child was younger than Thetford’s. Why did Wright die but Thetford live? Then one day Thetford found herself saying to her mother, “I don’t understand why Shannon got to die and I had to stay here.” That’s when she sought counseling.

Lynette Thetford was wounded in the shooting at Westside Middle School. (Photo: Eric Thayer for Yahoo News)

Life changes were made. Some of those were a response to triggers — Thetford, for one, found herself crying while searching for a video to accompany a lesson on trench warfare during WW I. She decided in that moment that she had to stop teaching social studies, because so much of the curriculum was about violence.

Some were a response to grief — Britthney’s mother and stepfather divorced, because, her mother would say later, she withdrew her love from her husband for fear of ever losing someone she loved again. Older sister Brandi, in turn, went “buck-ass crazy,” as she described it to reporter David Peisner 15 years after the shooting, by which she meant she started drinking, smoking pot and having sex. She was expelled from high school, but turned into a “super-protective” parent of her two children. When her youngest child, a daughter who looked a lot like Britthney, started school, Brandi insisted she attend the smallest possible magnet school to make it easier for her to keep track of how all the other parents stored their guns.

Students of Westside School bow their heads in prayer at the burial service for teacher Shannon Wright, March 28, 1998. Wright was killed while using her body to shield students from gunfire. (Photo: John Kuntz/Reuters)

And some of the changes were a response to fear. Like Paducah, Jonesboro is unusual in that the shooters lived. Unlike Paducah, or any other place where there was a school shooting, these shooters were released on their 21st birthdays — Johnson in 2005, Golden in 2007. Johnson was soon re-imprisoned for carrying an unregistered gun, but has since been released and is living in Texas; Golden now lives in Missouri and has been married at least once. He changed his name to Drew Grant, and used that name to apply for a permit to carry a concealed weapon; he was denied after a standard fingerprint search.

This leaves many in Jonesboro afraid one or both will come back to finish the job. One teacher told BuzzFeed News that she’d gone so far as to move to a new house with a different phone number and change her appearance, including losing 100 pounds, so that she would be unrecognizable to her former student.

With so many feeling this much, it was almost inevitable that they would collide over time with those who felt it was time to move on. Thetford, for instance, gave interviews after many other victims had stopped, because, she said, she wanted to share the renewed faith in God that she had found in her near-death experience. Then one day she opened a letter accusing her of grandstanding and “enjoying the notoriety.” It warned her to “SHUT UP.”

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  Students exit Columbine High School after two gunmen went on a shooting spree, killing 15 including themselves, on April 20, 1999, in Littleton, Colo. (Photo: Steve Starr/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Karen Curtner first heard when a reporter called, asking for comment. “Oh, God, not again,” she said, turning on the television in her Westside Middle School office on April 20, 1999, to watch what was unfolding at Columbine High School, three states and 1,000 miles away.

Lynette Thetford, in turn, who had not yet stopped teaching social studies, was in her classroom that day, with its view of the playground where she’d been shot just over a year earlier. As other teachers came to warn her, they formed a circle, held hands, and began to pray.

There had been seven school shootings and 15 fatalities since the one in Jonesboro. Now this one, in Littleton, Colo., was being carried live on national TV. Two students went on a rampage through the building, killing 12 classmates, one teacher and then themselves.

Investigators tag evidence at Columbine High School. (Photo: Dennis Schroeder/Polaris)

The aftermath — the lawsuits, the failed marriages, the fights over donated money, the desire by some to just get over it already — was familiar. But Columbine caught hold of the nation’s attention like none that had come before, both because of the number of victims (at the time it was the largest school shooting in the United States) and the new 24/7 news cycle. (The Columbine graduation a month later was also carried live, by CNN.) Columbine was also the tipping point. Following Paducah, Jonesboro and others, the idea of a teenager shooting his classmates looked like a grim trend, an evil infecting America’s children. “The Monsters Next Door” read the cover of Time magazine. Newsweek asked, “Why Did They Do It?”

Gradually the spotlight dimmed, leaving the community to piece itself back together in the new shadow. Much of that fell to Frank DeAngelis, the principal of Columbine, who was still suffering the personal aftershocks of facing down the student killers. As he walked out of his office moments after the shooting began, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were marching toward him, long guns blazing. One bullet hit a glass wall directly behind DeAngelis’s head, he said in an interview with Yahoo News. Seeing the girls’ volleyball team heading up the hallway toward the shooters, DeAngelis diverted them into a nearby closet, probably saving their lives.

The lives he didn’t save haunted him, however, and through the summer, while planning for the reopening of the school (students finished the academic year in space shared with another district high school), he was also trying not to fall apart. He kept seeing the shooters coming toward him, the killers they were juxtaposed with the boys he thought he knew — middle schoolers in their soccer uniforms, missing teeth; seemingly happy seniors, high-fiving him at the prom two weeks earlier.

He spent nights alone in his basement “with a stiff drink and my golden retriever,” unable to unsee the school’s library, where most of the victims died, with FBI markers and blood still on the floor. When he managed to sleep, it was fitful, and he often woke by 3 a.m. and went to sit in the local church until dawn.

Thrice-weekly counseling and a feeling of responsibility got him through that summer. “There wasn’t a template for rebuilding a school and holding a community together,” Bond said. “Frank built that template.”

Frank DeAngelis, the principal of Columbine when the shootings occurred, photographed at the school in Dec. 2017. (Photo: Carl Bower for Yahoo News)

Bond called DeAngelis to offer his support. Thetford went to Littleton during Jonesboro’s summer break to tell residents, “It won’t ever be OK, but it will get better.”

Frank Ochberg made regular visits too. A clinical professor of psychiatry at Michigan State University and a member of the team that first formulated the PTSD diagnosis, Ochberg was developing a sad subspecialty in healing after mass shootings. The students would likely do better than the adults, he counseled, because more resources and care would inevitably be focused on them and because they are more resilient.

With advice from all corners, Columbine High School reopened in August 1999. A phalanx of parents formed a line by the entrance, welcoming the students back with a show of emotional support, and physically shielding them from the press. The library was closed, though not yet torn down and rebuilt. The walls were repainted in shades that psychologists had advised were soothing. A new aquarium was there for the same reason.

Copious attention had been paid to the fire alarms. Those alarms had wailed for the entire five hours it took police officers to rescue students from their hiding places in April, and one thing learned in Jonesboro was that the sound of any alarm, but particularly that same alarm, would trigger emotional tsunamis in those who had been there that day.

DeAngelis had spent hours in meetings with alarm companies “coming up with sounds that were different to what we had used prior.” All around the country, schools had started responding to the wave of shootings by initiating lockdown drills, but those were a fraught subject at Columbine.

The New Hope Memorial Columbine Library at Columbine High School in 2004. The original library, where a majority of students were killed, was torn down. (Photo: Ed Andrieski/AP)

“We couldn’t just say we don’t have to do drills,” DeAngelis recalled. “So we did them in baby steps.” First there was a version where teachers quietly told students to stand where they would if they were evacuating for a fire. The next step was to add the sound of the alarm only after everyone had taken their places outside the building. Eventually DeAngelis would give advance warning that there would be a fire drill the next day — some parents chose to keep their children home — and would count down on the PA system to the moment the alarm went off so it wouldn’t take anyone by surprise.

For months, then years, DeAngelis found himself trying to balance the needs of those who wanted to move on with those who could not.

“There were those who felt the sooner I stop talking about it, the sooner they could heal,” he said. “A lot of people felt that if we could just get back to doing what we were doing we will be OK. I respectfully disagreed. To think you are going to forget about what happened that day just because you go back to resuming your daily activities? It’s not going to happen.”

He pledged to stay in the job until 2002, when the last class who’d been present that day had graduated. (Eventually he expanded that pledge to any student who had been in a preschool feeder school, and didn’t retire until 2014.) As happened at Paducah, Jonesboro and others, though, his staff began to leave.

Former Columbine principal DeAngelis chats with students at the school in April 2014. (Photo: RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

“Bill Bonds warned me early on that ‘within four years 75 percent of your staff members will be gone,’” he recalled. “I said, ‘Bill, that’s not going to happen.’ What I didn’t anticipate is the impact of walking into the building each day. People who during summer break seemed to be doing well … walked back in and their blood pressure went up.” Attrition increased dramatically, and by the time DeAngelis retired, only 10 percent of the original staff was left.

Also as predicted, he said, the students did prove to be resilient. The Columbine classes of 1999 through 2002 — the students who were in the building on the day of the shooting — are still unusually close-knit, several members say.

“We get together for barbeques, we play fantasy football, most of us have kids,” Patrick Ireland, who still carries shrapnel in his brain and who had to relearn how to do practically everything, told Yahoo News. The owner of a wealth management business near Denver, his children are now 7 and 3, and “things are great,” he said. He still gets a flood of supportive texts and phone calls every April 20, “saying, ‘I’m thinking of you,’” he said. But during most ordinary days, he believes “this was one event, this was something that happened — something that we want to acknowledge and understand, but it’s not going to be the thing that defines me as a person.”

Columbine shooting victim Patrick Ireland in December 2017. (Photo: Carl Bower for Yahoo News)

DeAngelis says the class he still worries about most is the Columbine Class of 1999 — students who graduated on May 22, a month and two days after the shooting, then dispersed to college and work. “There wasn’t support for them,” he said. “The kids and staff who returned, it was tough, but we had each other. The ones who left, they would be sitting in class and the fire alarm went off and they found themselves having a meltdown and they weren’t sure why. Or they’d be doing well and five years down the line they would lose it and the help is not there.”

In the same way, he said, he worries about mass attack victims who do not have a community — those who randomly happened to be watching “Batman” in Aurora, or a concert in Las Vegas, or even working in various offices in the World Trade Center.

Visiting Virginia Tech for the first anniversary of the shooting there, he told faculty and students, “The difference for you compared with Columbine or Paducah or Jonesboro is you had kids coming from everywhere — different states, different countries — then going back there. For Columbine, the people lived in our community; we had a sense of community. At first that creates a bigger wound, but I also think it helps with the healing.”

The Columbine Memorial in Littleton, Colo. (Photo: Carl Bower for Yahoo News)

Watching the students heal helped DeAngelis too. Over time, he said, “I got to the point where when I was coming out of my office, I wasn’t seeing the gunmen coming. Instead I saw Lauren Townsend playing volleyball, I saw Isaiah Shoals high-fiving me, I saw Rachel Scott on the stage performing, I envisioned Danny Mauser and Kelly Fleming down at church. I saw these kids not dying in our school, but living in our school.”

As he started to heal, he also started making phone calls.  “You’re not going to remember anything we talk about today,” he would say when he got a shaken community leader on the line, “but please take down my number and call me if you ever need anything.”

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  Two Connecticut State Police officers accompany a class of students and two adults out of Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. (Photo: Shannon Hicks/Newtown Bee/Polaris)

As news poured forth from Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012 — 151 shots fired in five minutes; 26 dead, including 20 first graders and six of their teachers at the Sandy Hook Elementary School — Coni Sanders received a call from her mother, Linda.

William “Dave” Sanders, who was Coni’s father and Linda’s husband, was the one teacher killed at Columbine, and in the 13 years since, Linda had not moved past her grief. Still living in the home near the high school, keeping the house “like a shrine” to the day her husband left it for the last time, Linda was now sobbing and shrieking in pain.

“’It’s Christmas, it’s Christmas,’” Coni, who became a forensic psychologist working with violent offenders, remembers her mother saying. “’Those babies, those babies, those babies.’”

Said Coni: “I seriously thought I was going to lose my mom.”

A few blocks away, hours to days later, Frank DeAngelis was also “having a meltdown” during a phone call. He’d been offering a shoulder to someone in Newtown when he began shaking and sweating. He grasped the medals he’s worn around his neck since 1999 — a crucifix, the Blessed Virgin — and rubbed them rhythmically to calm down. Then he continued pacing, stroking, talking.

Coni Sanders looks at a photo of her father, William “Dave” Sanders, who was killed in the Columbine shooting. (Photo: Carl Bower for Yahoo News)

There had been 92 school shootings between Columbine and Newtown, and with each, particularly the larger and more publicized ones, those who came before watched as those who came after became part of the “club that no one wants to join,” as DeAngelis calls it.

Jonesboro sent teddy bears to the children of Newtown — more than 6,000 of them filling two 18-wheelers — just as Oklahoma City victims had done for Westside students, some of whom still had theirs 13 years later.

A three-car caravan of former students drove to Connecticut from Red Lake, Minn., because when a 16-year-old student killed 10 and injured seven at Red Lake High School in 2005, several Columbine survivors had driven out to see them.

Those with personal experiences of school violence joined with those who had not, and soon the entire country seemed to be sending stuff to Newtown. Eventually the town assessor would recruit 580 volunteers over the months to work in a donated warehouse sorting and cataloging it all: a total of 63,780 teddy bears, 636 boxes of toys, more than 2,200 boxes of school supplies and a stunning number of boxes of tissues.

President Barack Obama came, later calling Newtown the toughest day of his presidency, and telling a packed and tearful interfaith vigil, “I am very mindful that mere words cannot match the depths of your sorrow, nor can they heal your wounded hearts.”

The names of victims from the Sandy Hook shooting are attached to teddy bears, part of a memorial in Sandy Hook Village two days after the shooting. (Photo: Adrees Latif/Reuters)

Vice President Joe Biden came after that, meeting privately with grieving parents, recalling the loss of his own wife and young daughter in a car crash decades earlier. Nicole Hockley, whose son Dylan was among those killed, remembers Biden’s advice to keep a daily journal, ranking each day from one to 10, “where one is the worst and a 10 is the best.”

His message, Hockley said, was “You may never have a 10 again, but over time you’re going to see that you’re getting into the fives and the sixes and sevens, and then you’re going to go backwards again and be at the low numbers, and then you’re going to move forward again. And then that’s something useful to look back over time to say, ‘I made it through.’ ”

To the earlier waves of survivors watching from afar, everything about Newtown was familiar, but also bigger. Where Paducah turned away celebrities’ offers to help, Newtown was flooded with them: Giants receiver Victor Cruz visited the family of one little boy who had been buried in the player’s jersey; Harry Connick Jr. visited the family of another victim, whose father had played in Connick’s band. James Taylor gave a concert for family members of the dead at the local church and sang “Sweet Baby James” — to a family whose son had carried that name.

Where a few parents of earlier shootings had become crusaders — Suzann Wilson lobbied for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence after Britthney died in Jonesboro, and Tom Mauser, literally wearing the shoes of his murdered son Daniel, lobbied for local and national gun control after Columbine — Newtown raised the participation and the stakes. Obama sent Air Force One to bring families to Washington, where they walked the halls of Congress with photographs of their dead 6- and 7-year olds, lobbying for expanded background checks on firearms.

And when the measure failed, disillusionment came with a new forcefulness too. “Why wasn’t Sandy Hook the mass shooting that changed everything?” Vice News asked in a headline. Then reporter Matt Taylor answered that question: “Mass shootings are increasingly accepted — by about three quarters of us — as an essential part of American life, like fourth of July barbecues and binging on Netflix. We simply don’t see a way out, and don’t have much or any confidence that our leaders will craft one.”

Tom Mauser holds up a pair of shoes belonging to his late son, Daniel, who was killed in the Columbine shooting, during a rally at the capitol in Denver, April 11, 2000. Mauser placed the shoes with over 4,000 other pairs, representing children killed by handguns in one year. (Photo: Ed Andrieski/AP)

The frustration, layered as it was upon recent grief, turned things ugly for a while in Newtown — another way that the community followed the same path as other places, but more so. Feelings, so close to the surface, were easily shattered. As New York magazine writer Lisa Miller wrote on the first anniversary: “There were 4,000 free tickets to a July Yankees game, an amazing boon, but 4,000 is less than a fifth of the town. NASCAR memorialized the Sandy Hook victims with a special car at the Daytona 500, and the fire chief who had stayed outside Sandy Hook Elementary that morning had the honor of unveiling it, not the police chief, who had entered the school.”

Just as stuff was becoming a surrogate for sympathy, so was money. More than $20 million was sent to Newtown from around the country, divided among 70 charities, the largest of which was the $11 million collected by the United Way. There were months of arguments between the families of those killed, the families of children who had witnessed horror and escaped, and the administrators of the United Way over whether the donations had been sent to help the victims directly or to help heal the town in general.

The fighting, in turn, spurred a backlash from those who felt the families should grieve more quietly, or more tastefully, or just move on already.

“With every shooting we’ve taken this process and we’ve fast-forwarded it,” Coni Sanders said. “We do it very quickly. Columbine stayed closed for months. The bodies weren’t removed for days. In Las Vegas it was business as usual the next night.

“I think a lot of that is by design,” she continued, speaking as a psychologist as well as a victim. “People not directly affected are overwhelmed by the number of tragedies, the number of deaths. I sometimes feel guilty because when Columbine happened there was such an outpouring. They canceled sporting events — well, except for the gun show, that went on. But stores closed. There was a special post office for all the mail we were getting. There was recognition that this wasn’t just an event, it was a change in how we existed.”

People attend an open house at the new Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in July 2016. Students attended the first day of classes there on Aug. 29, 2016. (Photo: Mark Lennihan/AP)

Now communities are left relatively unmoored to navigate the aftermath on their own. Those who have been there warn that at only five years in, Newtown still has a long way to go. Dave Cullen, whose seminal book, “Columbine,” came out 10 years after that shooting, and who still keeps in close contact with many survivors, noted that “those who were going to be OK were OK by 8 years or so. But lots are still not OK.”

Anniversaries, they warn, will continue to be hard. “That first year was just a constant trying to make it through, wondering how much more could you take,” Curtner said. The second year brought the realization that time did not heal quickly, and by now, with the 20th anniversary looming in March, she said, “it’s not so much today like it was the first five years or so,” but “it never goes away. It gets better, but it never goes away.

Memories, they say, will continue to be triggered by all the senses. For Thetford it’s unseasonable warmth, because the weather that day in March when she was shot felt like May. This past February the thermometer reached 70, and she left the school where she now works and drove over to Westside, just to be there.

Nicole Hockley, founder and managing director of Sandy Hook Promise, shares a photograph of her son Dylan at a Harvest Magnet Middle School assembly in Napa, Calif., in March 2017. (Photo: Napa Valley Register via Zuma Wire)

For Coni Sanders it’s springtime noise. “One night I said to my husband ‘Oh, my God, what’s with those helicopters? Why are there so many around?’ And he said, ‘They’re always there; you just notice them in April.’”

The parents of Newtown say they are coming to understand all this — that five years is not long enough, that grieving is not binary or linear.

“There’s not going to be a point where we can put an ‘ed’ on the word ‘recover,’” said Michele Gay, mother of Josephine, who, with Alissa Parker, mother of Emilie, formed Safe and Sound: A Sandy Hook Initiative to promote safety in schools. “It’s always going to be an ‘ing,’” she said in an interview with Yahoo News. “We’re always going to be in process with this.”

Some of the most jarring reminders have been removed. The building where the shooting happened was completely torn down — after construction crews signed nondisclosure agreements that no photos of the interior or bits and pieces of the school ever be made public or sold. The $50 million, fresh-start of a structure that replaced it was opened to students in August of last year, filled with the latest in whimsy (indoor treehouses) and security features (bulletproof windows, doors that automatically lock from inside when closed).

But when you’ve lost a child, the parents have learned, everything becomes a reminder.

One night earlier this month, Mark Barden, whose son Daniel died at Newtown, was driving his daughter Natalie to her piano lesson when the Christmas lights along the route made him remember another ride to Natalie’s piano lesson, this one with Daniel along for the ride.

Jackie and Mark Barden, seen here in 2014, lost their son, Daniel, in the Sandy Hook shooting. (Photo: Enid Alvarez/NY Daily News via Getty Images)

“We played Christmas music in the car with Natalie and Daniel, and I noticed Daniel was crying as we listened to one of the songs because it touched him so deeply,” Mark said. With a jolt he realized that what he was remembered had happened five years ago to the day, on Dec. 6, 2012, a week before Daniel would die.

Some families have moved away, but most have stayed. Daniel’s parents considered leaving. “Jackie was ready to be away from everything and anything that reminded her of the tragedy,” Barden said – but then they asked their surviving preteens, James and Natalie, if they wanted to move. “They were both like, ‘Why would we want to go anywhere else?’ Everything we know and love is here.’”

Dylan Hockley’s parents discussed leaving town too, but chose to stay, in part, to be near others who shared their grief. “I don’t think you can run away from your problems,” Nicole Hockley says. “There’s always going to be Christmas lights, there’s always going to be 12/14, and I think here, there is a fantastic network of support and a community that has felt the varying degrees of tragedy, and there’s an understanding here that can’t be found elsewhere. This is where we choose to live.”

Many also choose to do as others did for them, to pay it forward as others join their tearful club.

After 26 were killed during a Sunday church service in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Hockley tweeted a note of condolence to the families of the victims on behalf of Sandy Hook Promise. “Twenty-six might seem like an arbitrary number, until it’s your community,” she wrote. “When your son is one of the 26, the number will take on new meaning. When your wife is one of the 26, the number will take on new meaning. These aren’t just numbers — they are people.”

Painted handprints with names of teachers and students are on a playground bench at the new Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. (Photo: Mark Lennihan/AP)

And after two students were shot by an intruder posing as a student in Aztec, N.M., last week, Sandy Hook Promise reached out to those parents as well.

Near the end of that day, while police were still inside Aztec High School, Mayor Sally Burbridge released a statement: “There will be a Prayer and Candlelight Vigil this evening … in Minium Park. Please join us in beginning the healing process for our community.”

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20 Houses Under $50,000: July 2017 Edition

by Elizabeth Finkelstein (Image courtesy of Ring Real Estate)

It’s busy season for real estate, so this month’s round-up of gorgeous historical homes for sale under $50,000 is virtually dripping with beauty. I want to save them all!   (If you come across any beautiful old houses for sale for under $50,000, send them along to us at [email protected])   (Psst… We don’t personally represent any of these homes. We’ve provided a link back to the original listing in the description for each home. Click through if you’re looking for more information!).    

1  172 Atlantic St NE, Warren, OH   Source: Real Living Volpini Realty Group   $35,000   Renovated century home with beautiful hardwood floors and lovely craftsman ship on the staircase! This home is filled with character! First floor has a gas fireplace and a full bath, along with a full bath on the second floor. Outside has a 2 car garage and fenced yard. 2 porches for summer enjoyment. The way home is set up so you can have an in-law suite as well! Call today for your private showing!  

    2  304 W Jackson St, Bolivar, TN   Source: The Carter Group Realtors, LLC $19,000   Oh the stories I could tell. I was constructed in 1903 I’ve seen many families come and go since that time and it’s been years since I’ve had a new caretaker. I wish you would consider me as I still have lots of life left and can help you make many new memories. As you can see I haven’t be cared for in a while but I know you can return me to the grandeur I once possessed. Current owner may carry note while you restore me…  

        3  20 Academy St, Amsterdam, NY   Source: Coldwell Banker Prime Properties   $25,000   Bring this beautiful Victorian back to its beauty. Total rehab for next cash buyer. Current seller working on roof to complete and is finishing some ongoing cleanup. Large wrap around porch First floor is main living area with large foyer/sitting area. second and third floors are bedrooms and bathrooms. Basement has separate shop area and various other rooms. Fenced in backyard. Needs new gas heating system, hot water heater and all appliances.  

        4  331 NE Railroad St, Alapaha, GA   Source: Realtor, courtesy of Southern Traditions Realty and Development, Inc.   $32,500   One of the most attractive settings in South Georgia (2.85 acres). Turn of the century home with acreage in town. Walking distance to everything in town. Dead end street. storage building, barn, Pecan Trees, with large yard.  

        5  9401 N County Road 675 W, Gaston, IN   Source: Coldwell Banker Lunsford   $39,900   Over 4 acres!  

        6  520 Amy St, Maynard, MN   Source: Hughes Real Estate and Auction Service   $48,000   This 1920’s Arts and Craft bungalow style home features unique architectural design with square beamed ceiling in living room and dining room, Original wood work, bookcase/pillar dividers in LR/DR, Kitchen with breakfast nook. Hardwood floors throughout all rooms on main floor, Ready to be refinished to restore the luster of yesteryear. Original mosaic tile in bath, French doors to porch. Full unfinished basement, 100 Amp breaker electrical system, Some new plumbing, Newer LP Furnace, Poured Foundation,2 car detached garage, optional 2nd garage adjoining property to east at additional cost. Make this diamond in the rough your next home.  

        7  12720 Still Pond Rd, Still Pond, MD   Source: Doug Ashley Realtors LLC   $39,900   This Victorian, located in the quaint village of Still Pond, is ready for renovation! A new well and BAT(Best Available Technology) septic system was installed in 2014. Wood floors, a nice staircase and large rooms make the possibilities endless! The well and septic alone probably cost what this property is listed for. Great opportunity to own a piece of history & renovate it to today’s standards.  

        8  2613 NE Madison Ave, Peoria, IL   Source: RE/MAX Traders Unlimited   $45,000   This 2 story home offers 4 bedrooms, 1 full bath on a good size lot that is fenced in. Large front porch has been freshly painted along with fresh landscaping. Lots of natural hardwood through-out the home including built-ins and freshly stained wood flooring on the main level and upstairs bedrooms. Updates include; electrical, plumbing, hvac system, bathroom remodel and deck off back door entrance. Great start home or investment property!  

        9  327 Main St E, Marshallville, GA   Source: Coldwell Banker Robbins & Free Realty   $50,000   Sold “As-Is”. Southern living at its best! Large front porch & formal living room w/fireplace and french doors. Formal dining room w/built-in chinahutch & corner fireplace. Spacious bedrooms. Master bdrm w/fireplace & master BA has vintage tub. Original hardwood floors & raised ceilings w/custom trim and molding.  

        10  22 Littauer Pl, Gloversville, NY   Source: Copper Cove Realty   $36,096 (foreclosure)   Lots of space in this Victorian home with 4 large bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms. This home offers many unique features such as stained glass and detailed woodwork.  

        11  92 Elmer St, Bridgeton, NJ   Source: Vineland Realty Corp.   $44,900 (foreclosure)   Property is selling in it’s present as is condition, buyer is responsible for all inspections and/or certifications to close the transaction.  

        12  112 Park Pl, Waverly, NY   Source: Knolles Real Estate LLC   $39,900   Massive Victorian boasting charm and elegance, just needs some TLC to bring the shine back. Details include hardwood floors, 11 foot ceilings, open curved staircase and rear stairway as well, pocket doors, some stained glass windows, original millwork, 2 coal fireplaces, and original exterior trim along with amazing turret. Home has a modern Kitchen with appliances and large breakfast bar, 4 bedrooms, Den which could be 5th bedroom, nice lot, and new sidewalks.  

        13  410 E 8th St, Fulton, MO   Source: Wolfe Auction & Realty, LLC   $20,000   Large Victorian style home built in 1890 in need of full restoration. Original brick behind plaster walls, original millwork, hardwood flooring, tall ceilings picturesque windows this home could have you transported back in time. Purchase for the nice sized lot or to restore some Victorian charm back into Fulton!  

        14  304 Tremont St, Lincoln, IL   Source: Coldwell Banker Cornerstone   $44,000 (foreclosure)   Your eyes are not deceiving you!! This is a wonderful opportunity to purchase an iconic property that has graced this beautiful tree shaded street since 1905. Be aware plumbing and heating systems have been compromised. Original woodwork, staircase and inlaid hardwood floors are still gorgeous! This Tudor style home was well built and sturdy as they come. This is a “must see” property as pictures cannot do it justice. Huge 3 car garage and guest house on a large corner lot makes this the deal of the year. Call for an appointment today!  

        15  912 S 14th St, Saint Joseph, MO   Source: Evans Realty Team at Keller Williams St. Joseph   $44,500   Beautiful woodwork, stained glass, fireplace, formal dining room and wood floors in this 4 Bedroom, 2 Bath home. Roof is about 10-12 years old. Property rehabbed by city of St. Joseph about 15 years ago. Could be single family or easily converted to a duplex with upper level apartment. Zoned R4. With a little TLC, handy work and imagination…you would have a showcase of a house! 2 car detached garage, could be a 3 car garage by removing a fence section and adding a garage door. Appliances are negotiable.  

        16  621 May Rd, Thompson, PA   Source: Coldwell Banker Town & Country Properties   $50,000   Quaint, Historic building on 4 acres! Post and beam building built in the 1800s as stable for the Borden Farm, unique design of ceiling timbers in spoke pattern, copula above center of three bedrooms on second floor. Pellet stove remains, once used as a year round home, now only for weekend adventures on the flat partially wooded property located on quiet road close to Elk Mtn. Property would make a unique gift shop or artist studio!  

        17  1880 Roush Hill Rd, Manchester, OH   Source: Ring Real Estate   $38,900   Tons of space in this farm style house on over 4 acres! Enjoy the beautiful scenery from one of the many decks! This 3 bed 2 bath home has character and charming features throughout! The detached garage and barn offer plenty of storage! Bring a hammer and bring this home back to its full potential!  

        18  1209 N Euclid Ave, Saint Louis, MO   Source: Zillow, for sale by owner   $50,000   Rehabbed Brick three story 5 bedrooms 1.5 bathrooms with full basement and 10 foot tall ceilings. New flat roof and plumbing (vanity, toilet, Pex pipes, brass faucet fixture, deep sink and tub, new natural gas water heater), new porch, new fence, tuckpointing, electrical updates (new ceiling fan), new Hardie cement siding, and more. Original pocket doors, hardwood floors, built-in hallway cabinet, and guest entry bench. Dishwasher and electric stove included. Washer/Dryer hookups in basement. 1/4 mile from Central West End, 1 mile to Barnes Jewish Hospital, Forest Park, Metro Link and bus stations. Close to everything, including Washington University, St. Louis University, and University of Missouri. Daycare and Fountain Park across the street. Rare (2%) historic rehab not within a Conservation District (98% of city properties are) in 18th Ward so no government inspections needed to rent or occupy.  

        19  3 Third St, Eastport, ME   Source: Zillow, for sale by owner   $34,900   Great 4 bedroom cape on a very nice street with a seasonal view of the bay. Pressed tin ceilings, maple tongue and groove wood floors. Updated electric service. Poured concrete floor in the basement. (Not dirt!!) drilled well, and city water. New sewer lines to city main. Some wood rot repairs needed, needs new windows, needs work on roof. It is a very beautiful, and a very solid home, and is priced to sell. In it’s current state, it is habitable for summer only. 1000 bux worth of custom Matthews windows included in sale!! Large city lot, just under 1/4 acre. Surrounded by homes that recently sold for 189k -229k. Assessed value at 49k. Email for showing. 34,900 or best offer!! Any reasonable offer considered!  

      20  315 W Atchison St, Jefferson City, MO   Source: RE/MAX Jefferson City   $33,300   BRING YOUR HAMMER & YOUR VISION. Once home of Jefferson City’s beloved Capitol Caroling Founder; Carl Burkel AND the Founder/Owner of Burkel & Bosch Shoe Store in Historic DownTown JC; Andrew Burkel. This mysterious hilltop nearly 3000sqft mansion is steeped in some of the most amazing architecture & custom features not just romantics will fall in love with.Back 2-story addition of home was being remodeled & suffered an arson’s fire while owner was away; so will need to be salvaged. Main home is truly mesmerizing w/character & if you listen carefully you may just imagine you hear the footsteps & children’s play sounds from this home’s historic past. Home relatively livable in portions of the upstairs/main, yet in need of repair ie. NO Working kitchen or MainLvl Bath & is priced accordingly!  

      Bonus!  112 W 11th St, Concordia, KS   Source: NextHome Pro Realty   $43,000   Lots of space, character and history here! Over 1600 square feet of absolute charm available in a central location near downtown Concordia, Kansas. Lovely Victorian Eastlake style home with interesting details, large rooms, high ceilings, lots of windows and two full baths. Elegant entry off the covered porch features an open stairway and beautiful paneled wood wall with bench. The extra large living and dining room is perfect for large gatherings and would adapt well to any style. A cottage kitchen opens up directly to the back yard — perfect for the home gardener. An over-sized garage with additional off street parking fits three vehicles and is easily accessed from the alley. Upstairs laundry with newer washer and dryer makes chores convenient and the office overlooking the front yard is the perfect place to study, work or get some quiet time. Spend your summer cool as a cucumber with newer central air conditioning–and heat. Cute as a button, this home is priced to sell!  

        Bonus 2!  2 Howard Siding Ln, Abbot, ME   Source: The Folsom Realty Group   $45,000   This historic building was once a classroom in the 1900’s. This building is a little piece of Abbot’s history with lots of character and unique features. Inside it has many original details like hardwood floors and window trim. As a old schoolhouse, it would be a beautiful building restored, converted to a residential home or even turned into a place of business.  

        Bonus 3!  200 Chestnut St, Quincy, IL   Source: Coldwell Banker Americana   $27,500 (foreclosure)   Perfect opportunity to personalize this historic Home with your vision. This home has a potential of being the Grand Home that it once was with some TLC. Convenient layout with 2 bedrooms on the main floor and 1 on the second, and a potential of a 2nd bedroom as well. Full bathroom on the 2nd floor. Close to a local park. Possible discoloration exists, All parties must sign a Hold Harmless Agreement and the property will be shown by appointment only. Selling “As Is”. Property was built prior to 1978 and lead based paint potentially exists.  

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      AUTHOR ELIZABETH FINKELSTEIN

Elizabeth is the founder of CIRCA and a practicing writer, architectural historian and preservation consultant living in Nyack, NY. Elizabeth has loved historic houses for as long as she can remember, having grown up in an 1850’s Greek Revival gem that was lovingly restored by her parents. Elizabeth, her husband Ethan and their beagle Banjo remain on a relentless hunt for their perfect “Thanksgiving house.”        

from Home Decoration Ideas http://circaoldhouses.com/20-houses-under-50000-july-2017-edition/

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20 Houses Under $50,000: July 2017 Edition

by Elizabeth Finkelstein (Image courtesy of Ring Real Estate)

It’s busy season for real estate, so this month’s round-up of gorgeous historical homes for sale under $50,000 is virtually dripping with beauty. I want to save them all!   (If you come across any beautiful old houses for sale for under $50,000, send them along to us at [email protected])   (Psst… We don’t personally represent any of these homes. We’ve provided a link back to the original listing in the description for each home. Click through if you’re looking for more information!).    

1  172 Atlantic St NE, Warren, OH   Source: Real Living Volpini Realty Group   $35,000   Renovated century home with beautiful hardwood floors and lovely craftsman ship on the staircase! This home is filled with character! First floor has a gas fireplace and a full bath, along with a full bath on the second floor. Outside has a 2 car garage and fenced yard. 2 porches for summer enjoyment. The way home is set up so you can have an in-law suite as well! Call today for your private showing!  

    2  304 W Jackson St, Bolivar, TN   Source: The Carter Group Realtors, LLC $19,000   Oh the stories I could tell. I was constructed in 1903 I’ve seen many families come and go since that time and it’s been years since I’ve had a new caretaker. I wish you would consider me as I still have lots of life left and can help you make many new memories. As you can see I haven’t be cared for in a while but I know you can return me to the grandeur I once possessed. Current owner may carry note while you restore me…  

        3  20 Academy St, Amsterdam, NY   Source: Coldwell Banker Prime Properties   $25,000   Bring this beautiful Victorian back to its beauty. Total rehab for next cash buyer. Current seller working on roof to complete and is finishing some ongoing cleanup. Large wrap around porch First floor is main living area with large foyer/sitting area. second and third floors are bedrooms and bathrooms. Basement has separate shop area and various other rooms. Fenced in backyard. Needs new gas heating system, hot water heater and all appliances.  

        4  331 NE Railroad St, Alapaha, GA   Source: Realtor, courtesy of Southern Traditions Realty and Development, Inc.   $32,500   One of the most attractive settings in South Georgia (2.85 acres). Turn of the century home with acreage in town. Walking distance to everything in town. Dead end street. storage building, barn, Pecan Trees, with large yard.  

        5  9401 N County Road 675 W, Gaston, IN   Source: Coldwell Banker Lunsford   $39,900   Over 4 acres!  

        6  520 Amy St, Maynard, MN   Source: Hughes Real Estate and Auction Service   $48,000   This 1920’s Arts and Craft bungalow style home features unique architectural design with square beamed ceiling in living room and dining room, Original wood work, bookcase/pillar dividers in LR/DR, Kitchen with breakfast nook. Hardwood floors throughout all rooms on main floor, Ready to be refinished to restore the luster of yesteryear. Original mosaic tile in bath, French doors to porch. Full unfinished basement, 100 Amp breaker electrical system, Some new plumbing, Newer LP Furnace, Poured Foundation,2 car detached garage, optional 2nd garage adjoining property to east at additional cost. Make this diamond in the rough your next home.  

        7  12720 Still Pond Rd, Still Pond, MD   Source: Doug Ashley Realtors LLC   $39,900   This Victorian, located in the quaint village of Still Pond, is ready for renovation! A new well and BAT(Best Available Technology) septic system was installed in 2014. Wood floors, a nice staircase and large rooms make the possibilities endless! The well and septic alone probably cost what this property is listed for. Great opportunity to own a piece of history & renovate it to today’s standards.  

        8  2613 NE Madison Ave, Peoria, IL   Source: RE/MAX Traders Unlimited   $45,000   This 2 story home offers 4 bedrooms, 1 full bath on a good size lot that is fenced in. Large front porch has been freshly painted along with fresh landscaping. Lots of natural hardwood through-out the home including built-ins and freshly stained wood flooring on the main level and upstairs bedrooms. Updates include; electrical, plumbing, hvac system, bathroom remodel and deck off back door entrance. Great start home or investment property!  

        9  327 Main St E, Marshallville, GA   Source: Coldwell Banker Robbins & Free Realty   $50,000   Sold “As-Is”. Southern living at its best! Large front porch & formal living room w/fireplace and french doors. Formal dining room w/built-in chinahutch & corner fireplace. Spacious bedrooms. Master bdrm w/fireplace & master BA has vintage tub. Original hardwood floors & raised ceilings w/custom trim and molding.  

        10  22 Littauer Pl, Gloversville, NY   Source: Copper Cove Realty   $36,096 (foreclosure)   Lots of space in this Victorian home with 4 large bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms. This home offers many unique features such as stained glass and detailed woodwork.  

        11  92 Elmer St, Bridgeton, NJ   Source: Vineland Realty Corp.   $44,900 (foreclosure)   Property is selling in it’s present as is condition, buyer is responsible for all inspections and/or certifications to close the transaction.  

        12  112 Park Pl, Waverly, NY   Source: Knolles Real Estate LLC   $39,900   Massive Victorian boasting charm and elegance, just needs some TLC to bring the shine back. Details include hardwood floors, 11 foot ceilings, open curved staircase and rear stairway as well, pocket doors, some stained glass windows, original millwork, 2 coal fireplaces, and original exterior trim along with amazing turret. Home has a modern Kitchen with appliances and large breakfast bar, 4 bedrooms, Den which could be 5th bedroom, nice lot, and new sidewalks.  

        13  410 E 8th St, Fulton, MO   Source: Wolfe Auction & Realty, LLC   $20,000   Large Victorian style home built in 1890 in need of full restoration. Original brick behind plaster walls, original millwork, hardwood flooring, tall ceilings picturesque windows this home could have you transported back in time. Purchase for the nice sized lot or to restore some Victorian charm back into Fulton!  

        14  304 Tremont St, Lincoln, IL   Source: Coldwell Banker Cornerstone   $44,000 (foreclosure)   Your eyes are not deceiving you!! This is a wonderful opportunity to purchase an iconic property that has graced this beautiful tree shaded street since 1905. Be aware plumbing and heating systems have been compromised. Original woodwork, staircase and inlaid hardwood floors are still gorgeous! This Tudor style home was well built and sturdy as they come. This is a “must see” property as pictures cannot do it justice. Huge 3 car garage and guest house on a large corner lot makes this the deal of the year. Call for an appointment today!  

        15  912 S 14th St, Saint Joseph, MO   Source: Evans Realty Team at Keller Williams St. Joseph   $44,500   Beautiful woodwork, stained glass, fireplace, formal dining room and wood floors in this 4 Bedroom, 2 Bath home. Roof is about 10-12 years old. Property rehabbed by city of St. Joseph about 15 years ago. Could be single family or easily converted to a duplex with upper level apartment. Zoned R4. With a little TLC, handy work and imagination…you would have a showcase of a house! 2 car detached garage, could be a 3 car garage by removing a fence section and adding a garage door. Appliances are negotiable.  

        16  621 May Rd, Thompson, PA   Source: Coldwell Banker Town & Country Properties   $50,000   Quaint, Historic building on 4 acres! Post and beam building built in the 1800s as stable for the Borden Farm, unique design of ceiling timbers in spoke pattern, copula above center of three bedrooms on second floor. Pellet stove remains, once used as a year round home, now only for weekend adventures on the flat partially wooded property located on quiet road close to Elk Mtn. Property would make a unique gift shop or artist studio!  

        17  1880 Roush Hill Rd, Manchester, OH   Source: Ring Real Estate   $38,900   Tons of space in this farm style house on over 4 acres! Enjoy the beautiful scenery from one of the many decks! This 3 bed 2 bath home has character and charming features throughout! The detached garage and barn offer plenty of storage! Bring a hammer and bring this home back to its full potential!  

        18  1209 N Euclid Ave, Saint Louis, MO   Source: Zillow, for sale by owner   $50,000   Rehabbed Brick three story 5 bedrooms 1.5 bathrooms with full basement and 10 foot tall ceilings. New flat roof and plumbing (vanity, toilet, Pex pipes, brass faucet fixture, deep sink and tub, new natural gas water heater), new porch, new fence, tuckpointing, electrical updates (new ceiling fan), new Hardie cement siding, and more. Original pocket doors, hardwood floors, built-in hallway cabinet, and guest entry bench. Dishwasher and electric stove included. Washer/Dryer hookups in basement. 1/4 mile from Central West End, 1 mile to Barnes Jewish Hospital, Forest Park, Metro Link and bus stations. Close to everything, including Washington University, St. Louis University, and University of Missouri. Daycare and Fountain Park across the street. Rare (2%) historic rehab not within a Conservation District (98% of city properties are) in 18th Ward so no government inspections needed to rent or occupy.  

        19  3 Third St, Eastport, ME   Source: Zillow, for sale by owner   $34,900   Great 4 bedroom cape on a very nice street with a seasonal view of the bay. Pressed tin ceilings, maple tongue and groove wood floors. Updated electric service. Poured concrete floor in the basement. (Not dirt!!) drilled well, and city water. New sewer lines to city main. Some wood rot repairs needed, needs new windows, needs work on roof. It is a very beautiful, and a very solid home, and is priced to sell. In it’s current state, it is habitable for summer only. 1000 bux worth of custom Matthews windows included in sale!! Large city lot, just under 1/4 acre. Surrounded by homes that recently sold for 189k -229k. Assessed value at 49k. Email for showing. 34,900 or best offer!! Any reasonable offer considered!  

      20  315 W Atchison St, Jefferson City, MO   Source: RE/MAX Jefferson City   $33,300   BRING YOUR HAMMER & YOUR VISION. Once home of Jefferson City’s beloved Capitol Caroling Founder; Carl Burkel AND the Founder/Owner of Burkel & Bosch Shoe Store in Historic DownTown JC; Andrew Burkel. This mysterious hilltop nearly 3000sqft mansion is steeped in some of the most amazing architecture & custom features not just romantics will fall in love with.Back 2-story addition of home was being remodeled & suffered an arson’s fire while owner was away; so will need to be salvaged. Main home is truly mesmerizing w/character & if you listen carefully you may just imagine you hear the footsteps & children’s play sounds from this home’s historic past. Home relatively livable in portions of the upstairs/main, yet in need of repair ie. NO Working kitchen or MainLvl Bath & is priced accordingly!  

      Bonus!  112 W 11th St, Concordia, KS   Source: NextHome Pro Realty   $43,000   Lots of space, character and history here! Over 1600 square feet of absolute charm available in a central location near downtown Concordia, Kansas. Lovely Victorian Eastlake style home with interesting details, large rooms, high ceilings, lots of windows and two full baths. Elegant entry off the covered porch features an open stairway and beautiful paneled wood wall with bench. The extra large living and dining room is perfect for large gatherings and would adapt well to any style. A cottage kitchen opens up directly to the back yard — perfect for the home gardener. An over-sized garage with additional off street parking fits three vehicles and is easily accessed from the alley. Upstairs laundry with newer washer and dryer makes chores convenient and the office overlooking the front yard is the perfect place to study, work or get some quiet time. Spend your summer cool as a cucumber with newer central air conditioning–and heat. Cute as a button, this home is priced to sell!  

        Bonus 2!  2 Howard Siding Ln, Abbot, ME   Source: The Folsom Realty Group   $45,000   This historic building was once a classroom in the 1900’s. This building is a little piece of Abbot’s history with lots of character and unique features. Inside it has many original details like hardwood floors and window trim. As a old schoolhouse, it would be a beautiful building restored, converted to a residential home or even turned into a place of business.  

        Bonus 3!  200 Chestnut St, Quincy, IL   Source: Coldwell Banker Americana   $27,500 (foreclosure)   Perfect opportunity to personalize this historic Home with your vision. This home has a potential of being the Grand Home that it once was with some TLC. Convenient layout with 2 bedrooms on the main floor and 1 on the second, and a potential of a 2nd bedroom as well. Full bathroom on the 2nd floor. Close to a local park. Possible discoloration exists, All parties must sign a Hold Harmless Agreement and the property will be shown by appointment only. Selling “As Is”. Property was built prior to 1978 and lead based paint potentially exists.  

          Love cheap, beautiful old houses?

  Follow CIRCA’s Instagram feed at @CheapOldHouses, on which we showcase only gorgeous historical homes for sale for under $100,000.

      AUTHOR ELIZABETH FINKELSTEIN

Elizabeth is the founder of CIRCA and a practicing writer, architectural historian and preservation consultant living in Nyack, NY. Elizabeth has loved historic houses for as long as she can remember, having grown up in an 1850’s Greek Revival gem that was lovingly restored by her parents. Elizabeth, her husband Ethan and their beagle Banjo remain on a relentless hunt for their perfect “Thanksgiving house.”        

from House Retoration Tips http://circaoldhouses.com/20-houses-under-50000-july-2017-edition/

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20 Houses Under $50,000: July 2017 Edition

by Elizabeth Finkelstein (Image courtesy of Ring Real Estate)

It’s busy season for real estate, so this month’s round-up of gorgeous historical homes for sale under $50,000 is virtually dripping with beauty. I want to save them all!   (If you come across any beautiful old houses for sale for under $50,000, send them along to us at [email protected])   (Psst… We don’t personally represent any of these homes. We’ve provided a link back to the original listing in the description for each home. Click through if you’re looking for more information!).    

1  172 Atlantic St NE, Warren, OH   Source: Real Living Volpini Realty Group   $35,000   Renovated century home with beautiful hardwood floors and lovely craftsman ship on the staircase! This home is filled with character! First floor has a gas fireplace and a full bath, along with a full bath on the second floor. Outside has a 2 car garage and fenced yard. 2 porches for summer enjoyment. The way home is set up so you can have an in-law suite as well! Call today for your private showing!  

    2  304 W Jackson St, Bolivar, TN   Source: The Carter Group Realtors, LLC $19,000   Oh the stories I could tell. I was constructed in 1903 I’ve seen many families come and go since that time and it’s been years since I’ve had a new caretaker. I wish you would consider me as I still have lots of life left and can help you make many new memories. As you can see I haven’t be cared for in a while but I know you can return me to the grandeur I once possessed. Current owner may carry note while you restore me…  

        3  20 Academy St, Amsterdam, NY   Source: Coldwell Banker Prime Properties   $25,000   Bring this beautiful Victorian back to its beauty. Total rehab for next cash buyer. Current seller working on roof to complete and is finishing some ongoing cleanup. Large wrap around porch First floor is main living area with large foyer/sitting area. second and third floors are bedrooms and bathrooms. Basement has separate shop area and various other rooms. Fenced in backyard. Needs new gas heating system, hot water heater and all appliances.  

        4  331 NE Railroad St, Alapaha, GA   Source: Realtor, courtesy of Southern Traditions Realty and Development, Inc.   $32,500   One of the most attractive settings in South Georgia (2.85 acres). Turn of the century home with acreage in town. Walking distance to everything in town. Dead end street. storage building, barn, Pecan Trees, with large yard.  

        5  9401 N County Road 675 W, Gaston, IN   Source: Coldwell Banker Lunsford   $39,900   Over 4 acres!  

        6  520 Amy St, Maynard, MN   Source: Hughes Real Estate and Auction Service   $48,000   This 1920’s Arts and Craft bungalow style home features unique architectural design with square beamed ceiling in living room and dining room, Original wood work, bookcase/pillar dividers in LR/DR, Kitchen with breakfast nook. Hardwood floors throughout all rooms on main floor, Ready to be refinished to restore the luster of yesteryear. Original mosaic tile in bath, French doors to porch. Full unfinished basement, 100 Amp breaker electrical system, Some new plumbing, Newer LP Furnace, Poured Foundation,2 car detached garage, optional 2nd garage adjoining property to east at additional cost. Make this diamond in the rough your next home.  

        7  12720 Still Pond Rd, Still Pond, MD   Source: Doug Ashley Realtors LLC   $39,900   This Victorian, located in the quaint village of Still Pond, is ready for renovation! A new well and BAT(Best Available Technology) septic system was installed in 2014. Wood floors, a nice staircase and large rooms make the possibilities endless! The well and septic alone probably cost what this property is listed for. Great opportunity to own a piece of history & renovate it to today’s standards.  

        8  2613 NE Madison Ave, Peoria, IL   Source: RE/MAX Traders Unlimited   $45,000   This 2 story home offers 4 bedrooms, 1 full bath on a good size lot that is fenced in. Large front porch has been freshly painted along with fresh landscaping. Lots of natural hardwood through-out the home including built-ins and freshly stained wood flooring on the main level and upstairs bedrooms. Updates include; electrical, plumbing, hvac system, bathroom remodel and deck off back door entrance. Great start home or investment property!  

        9  327 Main St E, Marshallville, GA   Source: Coldwell Banker Robbins & Free Realty   $50,000   Sold “As-Is”. Southern living at its best! Large front porch & formal living room w/fireplace and french doors. Formal dining room w/built-in chinahutch & corner fireplace. Spacious bedrooms. Master bdrm w/fireplace & master BA has vintage tub. Original hardwood floors & raised ceilings w/custom trim and molding.  

        10  22 Littauer Pl, Gloversville, NY   Source: Copper Cove Realty   $36,096 (foreclosure)   Lots of space in this Victorian home with 4 large bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms. This home offers many unique features such as stained glass and detailed woodwork.  

        11  92 Elmer St, Bridgeton, NJ   Source: Vineland Realty Corp.   $44,900 (foreclosure)   Property is selling in it’s present as is condition, buyer is responsible for all inspections and/or certifications to close the transaction.  

        12  112 Park Pl, Waverly, NY   Source: Knolles Real Estate LLC   $39,900   Massive Victorian boasting charm and elegance, just needs some TLC to bring the shine back. Details include hardwood floors, 11 foot ceilings, open curved staircase and rear stairway as well, pocket doors, some stained glass windows, original millwork, 2 coal fireplaces, and original exterior trim along with amazing turret. Home has a modern Kitchen with appliances and large breakfast bar, 4 bedrooms, Den which could be 5th bedroom, nice lot, and new sidewalks.  

        13  410 E 8th St, Fulton, MO   Source: Wolfe Auction & Realty, LLC   $20,000   Large Victorian style home built in 1890 in need of full restoration. Original brick behind plaster walls, original millwork, hardwood flooring, tall ceilings picturesque windows this home could have you transported back in time. Purchase for the nice sized lot or to restore some Victorian charm back into Fulton!  

        14  304 Tremont St, Lincoln, IL   Source: Coldwell Banker Cornerstone   $44,000 (foreclosure)   Your eyes are not deceiving you!! This is a wonderful opportunity to purchase an iconic property that has graced this beautiful tree shaded street since 1905. Be aware plumbing and heating systems have been compromised. Original woodwork, staircase and inlaid hardwood floors are still gorgeous! This Tudor style home was well built and sturdy as they come. This is a “must see” property as pictures cannot do it justice. Huge 3 car garage and guest house on a large corner lot makes this the deal of the year. Call for an appointment today!  

        15  912 S 14th St, Saint Joseph, MO   Source: Evans Realty Team at Keller Williams St. Joseph   $44,500   Beautiful woodwork, stained glass, fireplace, formal dining room and wood floors in this 4 Bedroom, 2 Bath home. Roof is about 10-12 years old. Property rehabbed by city of St. Joseph about 15 years ago. Could be single family or easily converted to a duplex with upper level apartment. Zoned R4. With a little TLC, handy work and imagination…you would have a showcase of a house! 2 car detached garage, could be a 3 car garage by removing a fence section and adding a garage door. Appliances are negotiable.  

        16  621 May Rd, Thompson, PA   Source: Coldwell Banker Town & Country Properties   $50,000   Quaint, Historic building on 4 acres! Post and beam building built in the 1800s as stable for the Borden Farm, unique design of ceiling timbers in spoke pattern, copula above center of three bedrooms on second floor. Pellet stove remains, once used as a year round home, now only for weekend adventures on the flat partially wooded property located on quiet road close to Elk Mtn. Property would make a unique gift shop or artist studio!  

        17  1880 Roush Hill Rd, Manchester, OH   Source: Ring Real Estate   $38,900   Tons of space in this farm style house on over 4 acres! Enjoy the beautiful scenery from one of the many decks! This 3 bed 2 bath home has character and charming features throughout! The detached garage and barn offer plenty of storage! Bring a hammer and bring this home back to its full potential!  

        18  1209 N Euclid Ave, Saint Louis, MO   Source: Zillow, for sale by owner   $50,000   Rehabbed Brick three story 5 bedrooms 1.5 bathrooms with full basement and 10 foot tall ceilings. New flat roof and plumbing (vanity, toilet, Pex pipes, brass faucet fixture, deep sink and tub, new natural gas water heater), new porch, new fence, tuckpointing, electrical updates (new ceiling fan), new Hardie cement siding, and more. Original pocket doors, hardwood floors, built-in hallway cabinet, and guest entry bench. Dishwasher and electric stove included. Washer/Dryer hookups in basement. 1/4 mile from Central West End, 1 mile to Barnes Jewish Hospital, Forest Park, Metro Link and bus stations. Close to everything, including Washington University, St. Louis University, and University of Missouri. Daycare and Fountain Park across the street. Rare (2%) historic rehab not within a Conservation District (98% of city properties are) in 18th Ward so no government inspections needed to rent or occupy.  

        19  3 Third St, Eastport, ME   Source: Zillow, for sale by owner   $34,900   Great 4 bedroom cape on a very nice street with a seasonal view of the bay. Pressed tin ceilings, maple tongue and groove wood floors. Updated electric service. Poured concrete floor in the basement. (Not dirt!!) drilled well, and city water. New sewer lines to city main. Some wood rot repairs needed, needs new windows, needs work on roof. It is a very beautiful, and a very solid home, and is priced to sell. In it’s current state, it is habitable for summer only. 1000 bux worth of custom Matthews windows included in sale!! Large city lot, just under 1/4 acre. Surrounded by homes that recently sold for 189k -229k. Assessed value at 49k. Email for showing. 34,900 or best offer!! Any reasonable offer considered!  

      20  315 W Atchison St, Jefferson City, MO   Source: RE/MAX Jefferson City   $33,300   BRING YOUR HAMMER & YOUR VISION. Once home of Jefferson City’s beloved Capitol Caroling Founder; Carl Burkel AND the Founder/Owner of Burkel & Bosch Shoe Store in Historic DownTown JC; Andrew Burkel. This mysterious hilltop nearly 3000sqft mansion is steeped in some of the most amazing architecture & custom features not just romantics will fall in love with.Back 2-story addition of home was being remodeled & suffered an arson’s fire while owner was away; so will need to be salvaged. Main home is truly mesmerizing w/character & if you listen carefully you may just imagine you hear the footsteps & children’s play sounds from this home’s historic past. Home relatively livable in portions of the upstairs/main, yet in need of repair ie. NO Working kitchen or MainLvl Bath & is priced accordingly!  

      Bonus!  112 W 11th St, Concordia, KS   Source: NextHome Pro Realty   $43,000   Lots of space, character and history here! Over 1600 square feet of absolute charm available in a central location near downtown Concordia, Kansas. Lovely Victorian Eastlake style home with interesting details, large rooms, high ceilings, lots of windows and two full baths. Elegant entry off the covered porch features an open stairway and beautiful paneled wood wall with bench. The extra large living and dining room is perfect for large gatherings and would adapt well to any style. A cottage kitchen opens up directly to the back yard — perfect for the home gardener. An over-sized garage with additional off street parking fits three vehicles and is easily accessed from the alley. Upstairs laundry with newer washer and dryer makes chores convenient and the office overlooking the front yard is the perfect place to study, work or get some quiet time. Spend your summer cool as a cucumber with newer central air conditioning–and heat. Cute as a button, this home is priced to sell!  

        Bonus 2!  2 Howard Siding Ln, Abbot, ME   Source: The Folsom Realty Group   $45,000   This historic building was once a classroom in the 1900’s. This building is a little piece of Abbot’s history with lots of character and unique features. Inside it has many original details like hardwood floors and window trim. As a old schoolhouse, it would be a beautiful building restored, converted to a residential home or even turned into a place of business.  

        Bonus 3!  200 Chestnut St, Quincy, IL   Source: Coldwell Banker Americana   $27,500 (foreclosure)   Perfect opportunity to personalize this historic Home with your vision. This home has a potential of being the Grand Home that it once was with some TLC. Convenient layout with 2 bedrooms on the main floor and 1 on the second, and a potential of a 2nd bedroom as well. Full bathroom on the 2nd floor. Close to a local park. Possible discoloration exists, All parties must sign a Hold Harmless Agreement and the property will be shown by appointment only. Selling “As Is”. Property was built prior to 1978 and lead based paint potentially exists.  

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      AUTHOR ELIZABETH FINKELSTEIN

Elizabeth is the founder of CIRCA and a practicing writer, architectural historian and preservation consultant living in Nyack, NY. Elizabeth has loved historic houses for as long as she can remember, having grown up in an 1850’s Greek Revival gem that was lovingly restored by her parents. Elizabeth, her husband Ethan and their beagle Banjo remain on a relentless hunt for their perfect “Thanksgiving house.”        

from House Retoration Tips http://circaoldhouses.com/20-houses-under-50000-july-2017-edition/