Here's a quick, easy way to calculate your neighborhood and your home's "walk score". Your walk score is how "walkable" your location is; that is, how quickly and easily you can walk to everyday services such as drug stores, grocery, library, restaurants, dry cleaners, etc. Visit WalkScore.com to
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06/30/2008
40 acres of blooming Daylilies makes quite a spectacular sight. This past weekend was the annual Oakes Daylily Festival in beautiful Corryton, Tennessee, a charming rural community about 15 miles east of Knoxville. My wife and I went for a visit yesterday, had a great time, bought lots of Daylili
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06/28/2008
NEWSPAPER AD REVENUE PLUNGES, SPREADING FEAR IN INDUSTRY... DEVELOPING... Tech Crunch, November, 2007 "Newspaper ad sales continue their long, sad decline, down 7.4 percent in the third quarter." New York Times, March, 2008 "Newspaper advertising revenue fell 7.9 percent in 2007, the second-worst
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06/22/2008
Oak Ridge, Tennessee is a small town about 12 miles northwest of my home. It's a small town that has done some very big things, i.e. developed and manufactured the atomic bombs that ended World War II, leaders in nuclear research, have one of the 5 fastest supercomputers in the world, and lots
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06/21/2008
Mortage interst rates surged in Knoxville & Farragut Tennessee this past week to a 9 month high of 6.42%. Some see this as a sign that the Federal Reserve has shifted it's focus from preventing a recession to controlling inflation. Lots of financial gurus predict a rise when the Fed meets again i
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06/21/2008
Yep, that's right, beginning yesterday Knoxville, Tennessee is playing host to over 16,000 motorcycles and their rider(s). The annual Honda Hoot is underway. the Hoot is an annual party for motorcycle enthusiasts from all over. However lest that many bikers in one place conjure up visions of He
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06/19/2008
Home Sales Report Beginning 05/01/2008, Ending 05/31/2008 Single-Family Unit Sales by Price Bedrooms Other Statistics Price 2- 3 4+ Condos Sold Residential Active Condos Active Totals 148 664 258 143 14,650 2,182 Average Price (in thousands $) 88.9 184.7 290.8 165.8 266.1 225.7 Median Price (in t
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06/16/2008
After receiving an email from a fellow Rainer about a recent visit she received from the AFRF fairy I thought this might be worth posting again for informational purposes. You can fight these unjust fees and you can win! You know the one; that little fairy that flies down just before you close yo
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06/13/2008
A recent article in Money magazine lists 5 new rules for today’s homebuyers. After reading the article I found that I agree with all 5 of them. New rule 1: DO NOT try to time the bottom of this market. We may be there or close already or not. In any instance it’s very unlikely you’ll hit it at th
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06/09/2008
One can only hope. I just read an article in Fortune Magazine by Shawn Tully, editor at large, who makes a compelling and logical case that oil is headed for the same fall that housing is currently experiening in many parts of the country and for the same reasons; supply and demand. "So when the
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06/07/2008
