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Christmas Lights In Middle Tennessee

It’s no secret that I think Middle Tennessee is – hands down — the best place to live. It’s Norman Rockwell meets Rock Star Diaries and there is always – ALWAYS – something to do in our beautiful towns. This is never truer than at C...

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Local Real Estate Agents Step Up Safety Measures

The Tennessean | Real Estate | Wednesday, October 29, 2014 The murder of an Arkansas real estate agent during a house showing last month is prompting local professionals to rethink their own safety on the job. Benchmark Realty has issued ...

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Winterizing – Indoors

After spending a week huddled in front of our space heaters wearing fleece sweatshirts and Uggs, we finally got a small reprieve in the icy vortex of weather that has gripped a large part of the country. And certainly, those of us in Middle Ten...

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Winter Weather – 2014

Polar Vortex, I miss you. It’s November 14th and your uber-nasty brother, “Bomb Cyclone” is one-upping you by unleashing his icy wrath on most of North America. (As an aside, where do meteorologists come up with these names?!?) Here in ...

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Staging With Caren

Last week I wrote a post about the magic of staging, why clients might be reticent to hire and utilize a stager when they’re preparing their homes for sale and why I believe that staging is an excellent way to help sell a home quickly and for...

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Staging – Introduction

Let’s talk staging. But, before we get down to the nitty-gritty, please understand one thing. I’m a Realtor. I’m not a staging professional and although I can recommend a fabulous one, I don’t make a penny off the staging that my client...

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Buyer Safety

If you’ve read the blog for the past two weeks, you know that I’ve recently had safety on my mind. Originally, I’d planned this as a two-part series… one post from the perspective of Realtors and one from the perspective of home sellers...

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Client Safety

Realtor safety has been spotlighted recently (and I wrote an entire post about it last week), but I’d like to turn our attention to client safety this week. Our industry does a fine job, I think, of educating Realtors on what they should do t...

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Realtor Safety

I’m deviating from the normal tone (and the normal audience) of my blog posts and writing to my fellow Realtors today. We’ve all be rocked by the news of a colleague’s brutal assault and murder “in the line of duty.” Beverly Carter lo...

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Urban chic Franklin abode gives off cool NYC vibe

The Tennessean / Williamson AM October 1st, 2014 Chris Gero, a filmmaker and producer, often travels to Los Angeles, London and New York. He has developed an affinity for an urban, cosmopolitan lifestyle and digs; he and his wife, Virginia, ...

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