I love Saturday mornings in historic downtown Franklin. The first stop is the Franklin Farmer's Market. This is a wonderful place to buy fresh produce, organic meats, baked goods, plants and flowers. Several vendors also sell specialty jams, jewelry and homemade artifacts. We can't visit the mark
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05/31/2015
Today, I previewed a lovely home for an upcoming listing. This house was built in 1992 and much of the decorating is from that period. The home was immaculate. It's obvious that the sellers love the house and have cared well for it. As a real estate agent, I want my listings to appeal to a large
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05/30/2015
Living in the South brings some interesting challenges when trying to sell your home. Especially, if you have family roots that date back to pre-Civil War times.For those of you who may not know it, a major battle of the Civil War was fought in Franklin TN on November 30, 1864. There are several
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05/29/2015
Many real estate agents in our market work the entire Metro Nashville area. This includes 10 counties and hundreds of square miles. An area much too big for our taste. We have chosen to focus our efforts on Williamson County only, with Franklin being our primary target market. After all, it's whe
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05/27/2015
This morning, I was contacted by a home buyer. They signed up on our website a few months back and have been regularly receiving new listing alerts from us. They are finally in a position to buy and wanted to connect with us to schedule a buyer's consultation.I asked how they found us and sure en
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05/26/2015
The Franklin TN housing market is RED HOT!As a matter of fact, I can't repeat this phrase often enough. If you are a Franklin home buyer, you can't spare a day to consider a purchase.On Saturday, I took out a young couple. They haven't seen many houses but want to take their time making a purchas
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05/26/2015
This morning, I was contacted by a buyer who wanted to see a Franklin TN townhome. Within a few minutes, I learned he had a single-family home to sell and hadn't been pre-approved for a mortgage. Not a good combination in our market where homes are selling in the first day. I explained it was goi
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05/24/2015
Yesterday, I interviewed with a seller to list his home. This luxury home is in a neighborhood that many agents would like to list; at a price to exceed $1.5M. The home was beautiful--magazine quality. It seems that no matter the price point, sellers are ultimately going to make their decision o
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05/16/2015
Target Marketing. Is this the first time you've heard these words? Do you know any real estate agents who are currently using "Target Marketing" to sell their listings?Target marketing either targets a certain demographic such as first-time home buyers, senior citizens or buyers vs. sellers. Or i
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05/13/2015
A few days ago I wrote a post titled Call Your Buyer's Agent for Showings. I got an email from an agent this morning who had read the post and he wanted to know why I would turn away business?Our website ranks highly in the SERPs. Many times buyers Google an address and when our site pops up, the
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05/06/2015
