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Yahoo
26-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
How people are preparing their homes for Masters and the remainder of the year post-Helene
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – With the Azaleas blooming, you know it's close to Masters week. And while some are preparing as much as possible, others are still dealing with the remaining hurricane damage. It's an issue many throughout the CSRA have faced over the past six months. One family who typically rents for the Masters shares how it has impacted them all 52 weeks out of the year. Ann Mcrae and her family have lived in this home in this neighborhood for the past 33 years. 'This year it'll be a little different because we won't be able to rent, and we knew this quite– immediately after the storm…' The leftover damage from the storm, it has forced her family to live in just certain parts of Mcrae's home. 'We lost a master bedroom, and we lost a full bathroom upstairs, we lost our deck, and most of our–we have a screen porch– all of that was damaged. And we had about six or seven trees on the house, two through the house…' The Mcrae's are not the only ones, who rent their homes each year, experiencing damage. Local rental home companies have homeowners who needed to put in extra work into their Masters home preps. 'It's definitely been busy, crunch time,' Corporate Quarters' Director of Operations and Events Kelly Starr said. And with one week away, Corporate Quarters' Kelly Starr says homes are as prepared as possible to welcome Masters Patrons. 'Homeowners are definitely feeling some pressure to get everything done and for their home to be beautiful and comfortable for Masters.' 'It would be fun to see the activity going on in the neighborhood, the comings and goings. Seeing if anybody famous happens to rent around and, so anyway, it will be interesting and we'll be able to go to the tournament,' Mcrae said. Still, Mcrae says her and her family are blessed because they know it could be a lot worse. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
06-02-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Companies speak out about Masters Home Rentals
COLUMBIA COUNTY, G.A. (WJBF)- We're just two months away from the week golfers and patrons look forward to most– the Masters. But in what shape has hurricane Helene left local rental homes in? With just 10 weeks to the Masters Tournament, local rental home companies are dotting all their I's and crossing all their Tee's of all thing's debris clean up. 'It will look a little different– the landscaping, the homes won't have a lot of trees…' Corporate Quarters Director of Operations and Events Kelly Starr said. While the hurricane has left the CSRA with severe through several parts, Corporate Quarter's Director of Operations and Events, Kelly Starr says what her properties have experienced is nothing that can't be fixed. 'Luckily a lot of our homeowners were spared, their homes may have some exterior damage, but a lot of them were very very lucky.' Starr explains crews are actively working as quickly as possible under a 10-week deadline. 'Some homeowners are desperately waiting on debris to be picked up, I know the contractors have been working overtime to try to get our city back to normalcy but there's still a lot of homeowners that have damage to their roofs that have tarps over them. So, the patrons and clients are just gonna have to be patient and know that the Masters are still going on, the homeowners are doing the best they can to get the homes ready but it will look different this year.' Starr tells me these rental homes have become home away from home for many of her clients. 'When the Hurricane hit, our clients called and said is Augusta okay, are the homeowners okay, are their homes okay, are their homes gonna be ready for Masters. Thankfully they've had some time but everybody– the big question is when are the roads gonna be cleaned up…' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
