Thirty years ago we bought a house. We had saved and scrimped and were able to put 20% down on a $40,000 house. It was our dream house, in that the house we would raise our 3 girls and a boy. It was in the neighborhood where I grew up and it was the house I always dreamed I might someday own.
The house was 100 years old then and 2400 square feet with solid oak floors (perfectly level throughout), two fire places, a summer porch, a winter porch and it sat on a treed corner lot of a street with a center parkway. We loved it there.
Then I was transfered, packed up my family, sold brand new house. My kids graduated high school so we sold that house to move into our 3 bedroom
This photo and the one above represent a 25 year span and my daughters in front of that old house
our house, moved to Tennessee and bought a and and college in Tennessee, then moved out, condo.
Why am i telling this story? It is ancient history to any first time buyers. Well here is the money part of the story. The house we paid $40,000 for in 1979 sold for $105,000 in 1994. The new house we bought in 1994 at $144,400 sold for $225,000 in 2003. Was it a better time to buy a house 20 or 30 years ago? You bet it was. The lesson here is now is definitely better than it will be 20 years from now. The first house is the hardest to buy. After that you fold your equity into the next homes.
It is like the old proverb about planting a tree... The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago, the next best time is today.
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Blog to enhance existing relationships with clients and prospects. Well that was the recent challenge from Bob Stewart. He challenged ActiveRainers to write a blog on how we are using our blog to enhance existing relationships with clients and prospects? Well, the Diane O and Friends team would like to share a couple of our tricks.
We all know that we do lots of research and digging for our clients, so why not blog about the results. Many of us sit at the computer and chant....but I have nothing to blog about" Well of course you do!. Remember that speech you gave your potential buyer on the importance of the home inspection....that's a blog topic. Or how about that CMA you just put together.
Rule of thumb if the information is important to one person there are probable others that would also love to learn more about the topic. Here are a few that we created recently:
2. When preparing a listing presentation of course we prepared stats on the neighborhood for recent sales and the trends. Here's the post that we used in July: Franklin Home Sales Top $47 million in July
3. Home Buyer Series that we present to all our homebuyers when we begin the process. We link them together in an email and also print out a hardcopy booklet.
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The Brownstones in Franklin at First and Church - Franklin TN Real Estate
These are classic Brownstone in Franklin style homes in the heart of Historic Downtown Franklin TN. If you love Franklin and the urban lifestyle in a quaint southern town, you'll love these. Enjoy the slide show below from Franklin's streets and scroll below that to the current Brownstone listings.
The current listings are below. Click on the listing for more information.
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Saturday was a great day for the Franklin's Pumpkin Fest. Kids of all ages came to enjoy the music, dancing, food, chili cook-off and costumes. The sun even made an afternoon appearance to make it a perfect day.
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A great place to have coffee with friends and some quiet time. This good humored sign says it all about why we go to enjoy a quiet cup of coffee in a coffee house.
The Good Cup is located on Hillsboro Road in the north west part of Franklin TN. If you enjoy some great coffee selections and excellent fresh treats, baked daily and locally, The Good Cup will be your place to enjoy a cup.
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Velocity in the Gulch in Nashville recently finished and selling units. Units have already begun selling and more are ready to go.
Promoting lofts from the $140's and some units have sold for as little as $133,400. There are many compelling features in this 5 story upscale condominiums not the least of which is its fantastic location in downtown Nashville's Gulch community.
Scroll through the links below or visit my site for additional information and all the Nashville area listings or callme at 615-294-3912
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Adelicia Condosin Nashvilleoffering great deals. Located on 20th Ave South in Midtown Nashville, these are high end luxury condos, and you can get some of these chic midtown homes at 75% of their original price. But if you are interested you better hurry, because of the 186 luxury condo units only the 11 are left and as of this writing 3 of those are under contract.
Scroll through the links below or visit my site for additional information and all the Nashville area listings or callme at 615-294-3912
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Terrazzo Condosgoing for auction on November 21st. the Luxury Terrazzo condo building in Nashville's Gulch will be offering these luxury condos for auction the end of next month starting the bidding at 40% to 50% of their current asking price. They will be auctioning 30 of these Terrazzo condo units in hopes to get renewed interest in this upscale community and the first for Nashville area condos. Some units which listed at $332,000 will start bidding as low as $159,000.
Scroll through the links below or visit my site for additional information and all the Nashville area listings or call me at 615-294-3912
The opinions expressed by The Activerain Network and it's members and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not reflect the opinions of Mike Nastri Keller Williams Realty - Franklin, TN neither Mike Nastri or the Keller Williams Realty Franklin office, which is independently owned and operated are responsible for the accuracy or content provided by The Community.
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Polk Place, Franklin TN, This could this be your Neighborhood
Have you been by Polk Place? Generally larger than 3000 square feet houses were built from 1995 through present. The community is mostly brick and many have private back yards that back up to the stream that runs behind the Historic CarntonPlantation.
There is a club house and pool, underground utilities, and sidewalks. Meet the friendly neighbors out walking on the pleasant evenings in the spring and summer. The residents take great pride in their gardening (Yard of the Month).
Polk Place is located in Franklin TN near the southern end of Mack Hatcher Blvd.
The opinions expressed by The Activerain Network and it's members and those providing comments are theirs alone, and do not reflect the opinions of Mike Nastri Keller Williams Realty - Franklin, TN neither Mike Nastri or the Keller Williams Realty Franklin office, which is independently owned and operated are responsible for the accuracy or content provided by The Community.
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