Guides

Straight answers to the questions we get asked most around Columbus, Phenix City and Fort Benning. No fluff, no gate on the reading — just what we would tell you sitting at your kitchen table.

These guides come from the questions families ask us most as a Fort Benning realtor team. If yours isn’t covered, ask us directly.

Buying

• The PCS Buyer Game Plan — your personal plan from orders to keys: budget against BAH, where to look, and the week to start touring. Free, built around your report date.
• The Weekend Guide — how to spend a house-hunting trip near Fort Benning, and a free itinerary built around your dates.
• The Home Buyer Roadmap — what buying a home around Fort Benning actually looks like, step by step, on either side of the river.
• Buying land near Columbus, GA — the nine things to verify before you write an offer on a lot.
• School zones & ratings near Fort Benning — attendance-zone maps and CCRPI ratings for every Muscogee school, plus how Harris County and Phenix City compare.
• Columbus, GA or Phenix City, AL? — what each side of the river actually costs, with the property tax math worked out.

Selling

• The Military Seller’s Playbook — ten things to do before you list when you have orders out of Fort Benning, including the VA-assumption catch most sellers miss.
• Selling a house in Columbus, GA — what this market rewards, what it punishes, and which improvements actually return.
• What is my home worth? — get a pricing strategy for your address.

Compare areas and school zones

• Harris County vs Columbus — taxes, schools, commute and price, side by side.
• Phenix City vs Smiths Station — the two Alabama sides of the river, compared.
• Columbus (Muscogee County) school zones
• Harris County school zones
• Phenix City (Russell County) school zones
• Smiths Station (Lee County) school zones

Kelsey and I are an Army family. We have PCS’d, we have sold a house under a report date, and we have made this move ourselves — so these guides are written from the inside, not from a template.