There are those days that after dealing with people, traffic and extremely challenged properties all I want to do is turn out the lights because it is time for the party to be over. Sitting in my home office, I wake up the laptop and login to see what's going on here in the rain. I start to
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10/30/2014
I feel as I am pretty lucky as I get an opportunity to work with some really great real estate agents that are all about customer service. Today, I had an opportunity to work with Franklin, TN agents Tammie and Tom White of Benchmark Realty. What really impressed me was how Tammie and Tom we
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10/28/2014
October has certainly been a goofy month when it comes to sales in the Nashville Tennessee market area. The month started off extremely slow. I don't know if sales were down due to fall break. It seems as if the area was hit with a double whammy. One week the Davidson County schools were off
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10/27/2014
"Life is about living your Dreams... Not living in them." — Unknown There've been a lot of songs, stories and quotes about dreams. I am a dreamer. To me, dreams are visions of the realities I would like to live. Accomplishing my dreams takes much more than wishing upon a star. It takes a
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10/26/2014
Well, here it is a wee bit after 4 o'clock in the morning and I have been here in the 'rain for the last hour or so commenting and consuming my morning "elixir of life". What can I say? I am a morning person and I'm one of these weird individuals that gets more done before 9 o'clock than man
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10/25/2014
On July 4 of this year I stepped into my garage and felt that familiar squish on the rug at the foot of the steps that told me my water heater had sprung a leak. Drats! I could think of better things to do on the 4 July than to change out a water heater. Thank goodness, the big box stores we
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10/24/2014
As we all know, Halloween is just around the corner and sometimes the challenge is how to incorporate marketing ideas into holidays. The solution is quite elementary, my dear Watson. Just put on your Tom Terrific thinking cap and let your fingers do the surfing through the Internet. After se
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10/23/2014
Needless to say, it's good to see that the original blog cap has been reinstated back down to 10. There was a huge quantity of crap being put out there just to be able to amass points. I will be the first to admit I put out a few of crap posts myself, mainly due to time constraints and just
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10/23/2014
As an inspector, we operate under the umbrella of being a generalist. However, we are expected to know and learn as much as we can about structures. One of the things that all inspectors are expected to know is how to analyze cracks. Dwellings are like living entities. They are constantl
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10/22/2014
I know that purchasing a property is a highly emotional period. This is the reason that home inspectors must remain 'charge neutral' in the process. If the inspector gets hyped or emotional about something that is going on with the property, it will transmit to the buyer and possibly the age
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10/22/2014