Here's 5 secrets that will help you find the best price and terms on your new home or condo purchase. Shop for real estate listings with "Reduced" or "Price Reduced" sign riders or ads. In my long experience as a real estate broker I've observed if someone will come down on price once they will u
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10/28/2008
If more sellers wold spend a few dollars on paint they would be doing themselves the biggest favor ever. Fresh paint is the absolute best and cheapest fix up item you can do when selling. And nothing turns a buyer off quicker than a house needing a new paint job.We have always told friends, famil
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10/25/2008
Most every fall we take one of the annual color cruises on nearby Norris Lake. Operated and narrated by a ranger from Norris Dam State Park, these cruises take you places you can only access by boat. Friends of Norris Dam State Park donated this pontoon boat for park use. This past Friday wasn't
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10/25/2008
So you have your Knoxville house on the market and you’re not getting any offers or you’re thinking of selling and you have concerns about the perceived state of the so called “national real estate market. First of all relax, there is no “national real estate” market but rather a large number of
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10/21/2008
One of the best ways to calculate a trend in Knoxville housing sales is the absorption rate for that area. The absorption rates for a huge area such as Knoxville or Knox County is a pretty meaningless number. To forecast current trends more accurately you need to target into a smaller area such
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10/21/2008
Inman news and several other sources are reporting that Zillow.com has laid off 25% of it's work force or about 40 people. Rich Barton, Zillow CEO said in their company blog: "This week we are reducing our workforce by 25%. This was an incredibly painful decision for me and the leadership team, b
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10/17/2008
The Knox Country Registrar of Deeds office recorded the following real estate transactions in Knox County this past week. More than $1,000,000 2 $1,000,000 to $500,000 6 $300,000 to $500,000 21 $200,000 to $300,000 39 $150,000 to $200
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10/13/2008
www.BudURL.com is a new and way cool way to not only shorten a long URL but, keep up with click through traffic kinda like a no frill, mini version of Google Analytics. From BudURL you can either copy and paste a long URL into the "Shrink it" box to create a shorter, more manageable version or dr
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10/06/2008
Fall is great in east Tennessee with all the trees showing their spectacular yellows, reds, and orange colors. The air is cooler and more crisp, the smell of wood smoke and burning leaves is in the air. It’s also a perfect time for a little backpacking in the nearby Great Smoky Mountains National
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10/06/2008