Nicholas Bellamy, Realtor

Nicholas Bellamy, Realtor Helping buyers, sellers, investors, and relocating families make confident moves across Greenville and Upstate SC and the Charlotte metro in NC/SC.

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09/11/2026

🏡 OPEN HOUSE IN SIMPSONVILLE

📍 404 Cattail Hollow Way, Simpsonville, SC 29680
📅 Saturday, September 12
⏰ 1:00–3:00 PM
💰 $539,900
🛏️ 4 bedrooms | 🛁 3.5 bathrooms
🔑 MLS #1602812

The seller is offering a substantial credit with an acceptable offer—giving the buyer the opportunity to reduce their interest rate or offset closing costs.

Located on a cul-de-sac in the Lost River community, this meticulously maintained home features:

✨ A main-level primary suite
✨ Spacious kitchen with a walk-in pantry
✨ Home office and flexible dining space
✨ Large upstairs loft
✨ Private guest or in-law suite
✨ Upstairs balcony for sunset views
✨ Screened porch and low-maintenance backyard
✨ Community pool and neighborhood amenities
✨ Convenient access to Fairview Road and I-385

Come tour the home this Saturday and see how well this floor plan works in person.

Hosted by Nicholas Bellamy

Listed by Stacie Thompson

09/10/2026

Charlotte's baseball season ends Saturday. Football starts the next afternoon, half a mile away.

The Knights play a doubleheader Saturday to close out the year at Truist Field, with fireworks after the second game. Sunday at 1:00, the Panthers open against Chicago at Bank of America Stadium. Both sit on South Mint.

If you live in Uptown or South End, that's a weekend you walk to. If you live forty minutes out, it's two separate trips and two parking decks.

That gap is the thing I spend the most time on with people relocating here. Cost per square foot is easy to compare between cities. What you can reach on foot is not, and it's usually what decides whether someone likes where they landed. 🏙️

Which Charlotte neighborhood would you tell a newcomer to walk first?

Book 15 minutes and we'll map yours.

09/10/2026

The busiest place in Greenville this weekend isn't Greenville.

The Drive's season is over, so Fluor Field sits quiet until spring. Furman's at Mercer. That leaves one home team actually playing, and they play in Mauldin.

The Triumph host Fort Wayne Saturday night at GE Vernova Park out at BridgeWay Station. Same weekend, downtown Mauldin runs a BBQ festival.

I've watched Mauldin go from the town people drove through on the way to Simpsonville into a place with its own reasons to stop. BridgeWay Station is the most ambitious mixed-use project in the Upstate, and it's finally starting to feel like a destination instead of a construction site.

Buyers comparing Simpsonville and Five Forks should have Mauldin on the list too. 🏙️

Which Upstate town do you think is next?

Two houses in the Upstate can carry the same payment and a different number of cars.That number never shows up in anybod...
09/10/2026

Two houses in the Upstate can carry the same payment and a different number of cars.

That number never shows up in anybody's budget. People compare taxes, insurance, the HOA, the commute. A year later there is a third vehicle in the driveway that was not part of any plan.

It is arithmetic, not a lecture about walkability. Near downtown Greenville or in the older part of Travelers Rest, a kid gets most places without a car and one adult can leave mid-morning and be back. Out in Five Forks or Powdersville the same day needs its own driver. Neither is the wrong answer. One of them just costs more per month than the listing suggests.

I ask about the driving before I ask about square footage.

What does your household actually drive in a normal week?

Book 15 minutes and we will map yours before you shop.

The house that buys the house you actually want is usually one you would never post about.People wait. They want the yar...
09/10/2026

The house that buys the house you actually want is usually one you would never post about.

People wait. They want the yard, the layout, the street, all of it on the first try. So they rent three more years and keep the whole plan in their head.

Here is what waiting costs, and it is not the price of the house. It is the years. Three more years of somebody else's mortgage getting paid down instead of yours, in a place like Simpsonville or Greer where an ordinary house does ordinary things and ordinary is enough.

The second house almost never gets funded by a raise. It gets funded by the first one. I watch that step get skipped more than any other, and skipping it does not shorten the timeline. It moves it.

What is the one thing you would not compromise on in a first house?

The most expensive thing in a Charlotte offer is often the document nobody reads.Buyers get the HOA package and skim for...
09/09/2026

The most expensive thing in a Charlotte offer is often the document nobody reads.

Buyers get the HOA package and skim for the monthly dues. That is the least important number in it. The dues tell you what you pay. The rest tells you what you are allowed to do with the house.

The covenants matter more. Overnight parking. Fence height. Whether exterior color needs approval. Whether short term rental is permitted at all, which is a live question across Ballantyne and Fort Mill.

Then the money that is not the dues. What sits in reserves, and whether a special assessment has been discussed. An underfunded community is a bill waiting to arrive.

Your review window is defined and short. Read it inside that window.

What surprised you in an HOA document after you moved in?

Book 15 minutes and I will tell you what I read first.

The first question I ask on a buyer call is not what you want. It is what your Tuesday looks like.Nobody expects that on...
09/09/2026

The first question I ask on a buyer call is not what you want. It is what your Tuesday looks like.

Nobody expects that one. People come ready to recite bedrooms, bathrooms, a budget, a school district. All useful. None of it tells me whether you will still like the house in March.

Tuesday tells me. What time you leave. Whether anybody is home at four. Where you eat when nobody wants to cook, and how far you will actually drive for it. Whether weekends are for the yard or for being gone.

Half the time the answers move somebody two towns over from where they started. Simpsonville instead of Travelers Rest, or the reverse, and it has nothing to do with the house.

You do not buy Saturday. You buy roughly two hundred and sixty Tuesdays a year.

What does your Tuesday actually look like right now?

You do not have to sell before you buy. That is a preference somebody handed you, not a rule.It became gospel because it...
09/09/2026

You do not have to sell before you buy. That is a preference somebody handed you, not a rule.

It became gospel because it is the simplest version. One house at a time, no overlap, no risk. It is also why people stay in a house they outgrew four years ago. The sequence feels impossible, so they stop thinking about it.

There are four real ways through it, and which one fits depends on your equity, your income, and how much disruption you can stand. A contingent offer. A rent back from your buyer. Carrying both for a stretch. Selling first and renting in between.

Each one costs something different. Money, certainty, or a few weeks with your stuff in storage.

What is the part of moving that actually worries you most?

Book 15 minutes and we will map which sequence fits.

Nobody moving to Charlotte says the greenway is why they picked the house. It usually is.People arrive with a list. Scho...
09/08/2026

Nobody moving to Charlotte says the greenway is why they picked the house. It usually is.

People arrive with a list. Schools, commute, square footage, a number. Then they spend a Saturday in Freedom Park watching how the whole city seems to funnel through it, and the list quietly reorders itself.

The greenway network is what makes Charlotte feel smaller than it is. Dilworth and Myers Park sit on it. Plaza Midwood reaches it. Ballantyne runs its own version at a different pace.

I watch buyers make a rational decision on paper and an entirely different one after a weekend of actually being outside in a neighborhood.

That is not a flaw in the process. That is the process working.

Which part of a city has told you whether you could live there?

Book 15 minutes and we will start with how you want your Saturdays to look.

Most of my business comes from people who have never hired me.The lender who calls a buyer back on a Sunday. The inspect...
09/08/2026

Most of my business comes from people who have never hired me.

The lender who calls a buyer back on a Sunday. The inspector who takes the extra twenty minutes in the crawl space instead of writing it up vague. The paralegal who catches a misspelled name on a deed before it becomes a three week problem.

None of them owe me anything. None of them get paid for it. They send people my way because they have watched how I work when nobody was checking.

That is a strange thing to build a business on, and it is the only thing I have ever seen hold up in the Upstate. Marketing gets you found. Those people get you trusted, and one of those is much harder to buy.

Who is the person in your work who quietly makes you look good?

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