tennessee: Fountain City, Knoxville’s “Norman Rockwell” neighborhood - 08/08/08 05:09 PM
One of my favorite parts of North Knoxville is the charming little community of Fountain City.
From Fountain City Lake (which the locals all call “the Duck Pond”) to Litton’s Restaurant; Fountain City has a style and charm all it’s own.
Bordered to the north by Black Oak Ridge and south … (0 comments)
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tennessee: Referral fee update - 02/08/07 06:10 PM
Apparently our recent blogging about referral fees and relocation companies have sparked some interest in the press; Inman News is doing a 3 part feature titled "Inside look at change in relocation industry", Unfortunately it's tucked away behind the members only screen so I believe you have to be a subscriber … (5 comments)
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tennessee: Why Knoxville, Tennessee is a great place to live - 01/01/07 09:15 AM
The newest 'meme' challenge is to name 5 reasons why your hometown is a great place to live and to buy a house. There are so many reasons for Knoxville it's going to be tough limiting them to just 5 but that's the format so without further ado:
You get a lot … (10 comments)
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tennessee: Top 100 real estate markets in 2007 - 12/27/06 04:36 PM
At the current Internet edition of Fortune magazine they're predicting the top 100 real estate markets for 2007.
"What will happen to the value of your home next year? We asked Moody's Economy.com and Fiserv Lending Solutions to crunch the numbers for the top 100 markets in the United States."
Nashville, Knoxville, and … (8 comments)
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tennessee: Dear Mr. FSBO, is your buyer qualified to buy??? - 12/20/06 06:39 AM
OK, so you bought a $4.95 sign at Wal-Mart, stuck it in the front yard, and right away the nicest young couple stop by and say your house is perfect for them.
"We want to buy it", they say.
"Wow, that was easy", you're no doubt thinking. You get out your Office Depot contract form, you … (27 comments)
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tennessee: Association project - 10/01/06 11:23 AM
My Association's Board of Directors is working on a member website project that should be ready to roll out live soon.
Essentially it's a portal with all of our listings, great search features for consumers, area census information, and several other cool features.
The purpose of this site is to take back … (1 comments)
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tennessee: Top places in the US to retire - 09/14/06 09:09 PM
The current issue of "Where to Retire" magaine lists “8 low cost towns with great home buys”.
Not surprisingly my city of Knoxville, Tennessee is one of them; in fact one of the few things below average around here are home prices.
The National Association of Realtors lists $143,000 as the median price … (8 comments)
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tennessee: Tennessee = "vacation" on Google - 09/14/06 08:53 PM
Using video technology Tennessee's Tourism bureau doctored some scenes from an early Elvis Presley movie and replaced the original actress riding with Elvis in a red convertable with Dolly Parton in a 'made for the www' commercial promoting tourism in Tennessee.
http://elvis.com/graceland/special/video_elvis-dolly.asp
Thanks mainly to ads like this one a Google search of … (0 comments)
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tennessee: State Association meetings & conventions; who goes??? - 09/10/06 09:16 PM
This coming October 4-7th in San Antonio, Texas the Tennessee Association of Realtors (TAR) is having their annual convention.
I'm there; plane & hotel reservations made, time scheduled, everything but packed my bags.
Now why would I give up 4 days of my time, fly halfway across the country to San … (9 comments)
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tennessee: Been visited by the "after the fact" referral fee fairy (AFRFF) lately??? - 09/09/06 02:13 PM
You know the one; that little fairy that flies down just before you close your deal, waves her magic wand, and says: "Excuse me, those are my clients, you own me a 35% (or more) referral fee for the privilege of working with them...............and oh, by the way, if you don't … (4 comments)
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tennessee: How about an economy covered bridge. - 09/04/06 01:17 PM
In horse & wagon days covered bridges were all over the eastern United States.
They were covered for two reasons; one was to protect the bridge infrastructure from decay and rot since they didn't have today's modern weatherproofing materials, and another was to keep from spooking the horses if they looked over the side … (7 comments)
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tennessee: It was football time in Tennessee today!!! - 09/02/06 08:07 PM
My Tennessee Volunteers beat 9th ranked California 35 to 18Tomorrow's headlines"Volunteer effort: Tennessee crushes CalTennessee jumped to a 35-0 lead and then put it on cruise control in Saturday's 35-18 upset of No. 9 California "I don't know where they came up with that "upset" stuff; after all it was Tennessee............................and … (3 comments)
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tennessee: It's Football Time In Tennessee!!! (nothing to do with real estate) - 09/02/06 06:12 PM
The only thing real estate related in this post is the yards. It's now half time of the California-Tennessee game. So far it's been a long afternoon for the California boys; Tennessee is leading 14 to 0. California has a pre-season ranking of 9, Tennessee is 23rd. California is having a … (0 comments)
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tennessee: My computer can beat your computer. - 08/26/06 10:45 AM
So you think your Dell XP 10,000 BLT special is pretty speedy??
If you line it up against Oak Ridge National Laboratories newly upgraded "Jaguar" supercomputer that runs at 54 teraflops, or 54 trillion mathematical calculations per second you'll get left in the dust so fast you won't even have time to blink.
Oak … (9 comments)
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tennessee: Selling your current personal residence?? You probably qualify for a big tax break. - 07/26/06 04:09 PM
If you sold your main home in 2005, you may be able to exclude from income any gain up to a limit of $250,000 ($500,000 on a joint return in most cases). If you can exclude all of the gain, you do not need to report the sale on your tax … (2 comments)
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