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Nashville TN is an exciting city with many things to do. There are many restaurants, several colleges and universities, and sports. Sports include professional football (Titans), hockey (Predators), and baseball (Nashville Sounds). A special niche is seniors who want to downsize. We can talk to you confidentially and share knowledge and ideas on how to proceed. We have a network of cleaners, painters, gardeners, and handy people. We never rush our clients to make a decision, as we work on your schedule, not ours. We can refer you to private lenders, mortgage lenders, and other vendors in the area. And, of course, we never accept a fee for the referral to a vendor or lender. Even though vendors come highly recommended to us, or we have had personal experience with their work, you should always interview them and get other references and come to your own comfort level with them before contracting.

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2011 

The property list below are new listings, and believed to be foreclosures. Click here to search for more detailed information on these properties. Then call us, John and Sarah Rummage of American Realty Resources if you are interested in previewing the interior of the home or making an offer, and...
05/31/2011
For a couple of years we have wanted to subscribe to weekly food deliveries from Avalon Acres Farms.  This year we finally did it, and are very pleased. The photo is part of the food we got yesterday. I had already shared with a family member.Since we are empty nesters, we get a small box with 1/...
05/23/2011
The bill, is sponsored by Republican Rep. Jimmy Matlock of Lenoir City TN.  Matlock said the measure would reduce the amount of technical information required in the notices, reducing the average newspaper notice by 25 percent. Notices would also have to run twice instead of the current requireme...
05/18/2011
There are investors, potential buyers, who make really low ball, verbal offers on listings. And they say they have cash and can close quickly. A motivated seller might initially decide to at least have discourse on a verbal offer. Of course, we all know that a verbal offer is nothing, really. It...
05/18/2011
You may not want to buy the first foreclosure property you see. Check out several, many even. See if you can find out how long the utilities have been off. Sometimes the power companies are helpful in this. If they have been off a couple of years, was the house winterized immediately thereafter, ...
05/18/2011
Filing for bankruptcy, or being in foreclosure does not stop the accumulation of homeowner's condo association fees, according to an article in The Tennessean paper today. Some Middle Tenessee flood victims, whose condos were flooded and made unlivable, saw no other option than to file for bankru...
05/17/2011
Are you seeing a lot of home offices as you show properties? I am, and I have found that most buyers want space for a home office. Reality is that there are many home offices, even among Realtors, where in the real estate world at least 90% of buyers start their home search online, rather than dr...
05/17/2011
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Yes, sellers, have your Realtor use a showing service.  American Realty Resources, in Nashville TN uses Centralized Showing Center to set up showings on our listings, make sure showings don't overlap, and keep a record of who is going and out of the home. Each time I call to set up a showing, the...
05/17/2011
We got our first order of food from Avalon Acres last Sunday. And what a treat! Strawberries, eggs, pork chops, goat milk, lettuce, broccoli, green onions, bok choi, etc., were in our box. Later in the season there will be tomatos, squash, and other summer vegetables. You can still register and s...
05/14/2011
In the winter months, everybody's grass is dead. If someone leaves their home, the grass stays the same. If you drive by the home only occasionally, you might not notice anything unusual.   In the early spring, grass starts to grow fast, and some homeowners just can't get to it quickly enough so ...
05/13/2011
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Nashville TN is an exciting city with many things to do. There are many restaurants, several colleges and universities, and sports. Sports include professional football (Titans), hockey (Predators), and baseball (Nashville Sounds). A special niche is seniors who want to downsize. We can talk to you confidentially and share knowledge and ideas on how to proceed. We have a network of cleaners, painters, gardeners, and handy people. We never rush our clients to make a decision, as we work on your schedule, not ours. We can refer you to private lenders, mortgage lenders, and other vendors in the area. And, of course, we never accept a fee for the referral to a vendor or lender. Even though vendors come highly recommended to us, or we have had personal experience with their work, you should always interview them and get other references and come to your own comfort level with them before contracting.