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Christmas In Franklin

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in my sweet hometown of Franklin, TN (notwithstanding the 65 degree days!). Our town square is bedecked with greenery and glittery lights and a huge tree and it’s just completely magical. You ca...

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Selfie House Challenge

I have a love/hate relationship with facebook. I love to see sweet pics of my family, friends and their fur-babies, but I heartily dislike all the political stuff that seems to take over my newsfeed. Recently, though, I had half a second of f...

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Fall In Middle Tennessee

It’s all pumpkin spice lattes and gigantic yellow mums here in Middle Tennessee and I, for one, couldn’t be more excited. I love the fact that our part of the country sees four distinct seasons and I’ll go to the mat with anyone who trie...

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Selling Williamson County

It turns out that “selling” a client on a community or town or city is remarkably like selling them a home. I come armed with statistics and numbers and comparative analysis and they basically ignore all those things and make their decisio...

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Financial Fall Forecast

You know that feeling when you finish a really fantastic book and you’re in the doldrums because you actually miss fictional characters? Well, I’m experiencing a version of that since I finished the last blog series. Giving my favorite de...

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HGTV – Listed Sisters

This is the last installment in my TV real-estate reality check, so I’m especially excited that I came across a brand new show on HGTV that elicited way more thumbs up than any show I’ve seen in a long time. “Listed Sisters” has only a...

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HGTV – House Hunters

As promised, here’s my “reality busters” post about the much loved, oh-so popular HGTV show, House Hunters. This show is a cornerstone of the network’s franchise and has even produced spin-offs in the form of “House Hunters: Where are...

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HGTV Fixer Upper

I’m not gonna lie… this week almost brought me to my knees. With three brand-new listings requiring contract negotiation, photography, marketing and listing and a host of new ads that needed spiffy layouts and catchy copy, I joked to my bel...

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HGTV Love & Hate

Confession time: I have a love/hate relationship with HGTV. Given a free 24 hours, I would happily gorge on House Hunters marathons. I could watch Fixer Upper and Flip or Flop for days. Those shows, those homes, those designs and plans… fo...

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Blog Revue – Young House Love

I’d be completely remiss in this “best of blogs” series if I didn’t spend at least one week writing about Young, House, Love… they are the gold standard for DIY, home decorating and renovating. They’ve been working on their homes a...

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