Gayle's Blog

Oh I just have to say it early, Happy, Happy, Happy New Year all!   I want to shout it from the rooftops, roll in the snow and catch flakes with my tongue.  I wish to laugh in the fire's glow with my very best friend and feel good again.  I think that I am getting there.  I really do.  Sometimes ...

Just a very simple, concise on target article that should put things in perspective for us Realtors.  Definitely worth taking the time to read. Top Ten Things I Learned about Real Estate in 2008  10.  Not All Mortgage Companies now approve all Title        insurance companies. ****  9.   Just bec...

Good analysis of SPAM.  I never would have thought of the ways that it was this harmful and costly.  Think before you send SPAM.If folks only knew!  If the government only cared!  Inspired by Paul Henderson  this morning who published an article about one of the most hated subject of the 21st Cen...

Being a Baby Boomer, I remember 50's life.  Sure it has been idealized in movies and music, but, no doubt about it things were so much simpler back then.  It is ironic that we are just coming out of the Christmas holiday because that is where the differences seem so glaring to me; how Christmas a...

O.k guys, this has been a long 5 day stretch.  The first thing that everyone asks is "Did you have a good Christmas?"  Well, the answer is, technically yes and then I guess yes, in an unconventional way.  You see Christmas Day I spent with some AR friends and yes, it was very good.  The rest of t...

The once little town of Ooltewah Tennessee is growing in leaps and bounds as evidenced by this line of traffic and a full parking lot at the recently opened Wal-Mart.  During the real estate growth years, subdivision after subdivision was opened and sold.  With that came more banks and services....

Here is a beautiful lakefront lot on Emerald Pointe Dr. in Emerald Bay in Soddy Daisy on Lake Chickamagua.  $189,900  Way under market value. Other similar lots sell for $250,000 and up, but, this is the only waterfront available in this community.  Surrounding homes 1M+  This is a do not miss op...

I am believer.  You've got me.  I know -- things are changing and the technologically equipped will excel.  That being said I am a Baby Boomer and well, this internet thing started coming around strong in, oh, about 1990 or so.  Suffice to say that I was long since out of any kind of school.  Non...

O.K. I have had anything but a traaditional Christmas and it keeps getting stranger and stranger.  Well, what have I been doing?   TWITTERING  OMG.  It had just never made any sense to me.  I had much better things to do with my life than care what 18M other people were doing.  I am not sure what...

Here is a beautiful lakefront lot on Emerald Pointe Dr. in Emerald Bay in Soddy Daisy on Lake Chickamagua.  $189,900  Way under market value. Other similar lots sell for $250,000 and up, but, this is the only waterfront available in this community.  Surrounding homes 1M+  This is a do not miss op...