Advertising Disclosure

Who publishes this site

This guide is published by the Peters family of businesses, led by Nicholas and Miriam Peters. The seven services listed here are our own companies, not independent recommendations. The guide has no official relationship with any Myers Park neighborhood association, Myers Park Country Club, the City of Charlotte, or Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

The Peters businesses

Peters & Associates (real estate), Peters Custom Homes (custom builder), Peters Signature Homes (spec builder), Emerald & Oak Design (interiors), Peters Audio Video (home technology), and Peters Signature Travel are owned by the same family as this guide. We list all seven on our services page, each with a short, factual description of what it does. Links to them, and to the related guides on Explore Other Places, are coordinated links between affiliated sites — not paid placements, not affiliate commissions, and not independent endorsements. We do not accept payment to feature a Peters business more prominently than its description warrants.

What this means for editorial content

Place and event profiles across the directory and events calendar are researched from public and primary sources under the standards explained on our how this guide is built page. Being affiliated with Peters & Associates or any of the other six businesses does not change how an unrelated local business, restaurant, school, or park is described. Where a Peters business is mentioned inside editorial content rather than on the dedicated services page, we say so plainly rather than presenting it as a neutral recommendation.

Third-party resources

The external resources linked across this site — government agencies, licensing boards, park and school systems, and market data sources — are unpaid. We link them because they are the primary sources behind our claims, in keeping with the sourcing approach described in our editorial standards.

Your obligations as a consumer

Regardless of who is featured here, verify contractor and broker licensure with the relevant North Carolina board, obtain written contracts, and take independent professional advice before committing money. Our disclaimer covers these limits in more detail, and our terms of use explain the basis on which this guide is offered. If you have questions about a specific disclosure, reach us through the private form on the contact page.

What this means for you, in plain language

You do not need to track which pages mention a Peters business to read this site fairly. The short version: one family owns both this editorial guide and seven local businesses, we say so on every relevant page, and the other several hundred places described in the directory are unrelated businesses researched the same way regardless of that family connection. No business, Peters-affiliated or not, pays to be featured, rated higher, or placed above another in search results or lists.

Example: how a mention would be handled

If a journal entry about renovating an older Myers Park house mentions Peters Custom Homes as one example of a local builder, that sentence will say plainly that the company is affiliated with this site's publishers, rather than presenting it as an independent recommendation drawn from research. Compare that with a mention of an unrelated general contractor, which is based only on public licensing and project information, the same as any other directory entry — see our editorial standards for how we source both kinds of claims.

No paid placements, anywhere

We do not sell sponsored listings, boosted directory positions, or paid mentions to any business, Peters-affiliated or otherwise. The only commercial relationship on this site is the family ownership disclosed here and on the services page; there is no separate advertising program to opt into or purchase.

Raising a concern

If a page reads to you as more promotional than factual, or you think a disclosure is missing where one should appear, tell us through the private form on the contact page. We would rather fix wording that undersells a disclosure than leave a reader guessing about who is behind a recommendation.