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Quick Living Room Clean Up

A dear friend challenged my “quick kitchen clean up” post from last week. She wanted me to know that A: it took her a lot longer than ten minutes to clean her kitchen and that b: it still didn’t look “show ready.” Now, I love this f...

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Quick Kitchen Clean Up

I’m pretty sure that Charles Dickens knew a realtor or two back when he wrote A Tale of Two Cities.  After all, he started the tome with the infamous quote, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”  If that doesn’t per...

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Fall Home Selling – Quick Cleaning Tips Intro

A few things happened in short order last week and it got me thinking… The first is that I spent a morning (and an afternoon into early evening!) at the Department of Motor Vehicles.  I checked in online, arrived at 8:29 for an 8:30 opening...

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Women In Business | Nashville Lifestyles

Lisa Culp Taylor | Bob Parks Realty “Building a successful and personally fulfilling independent business takes years of hard work. Even after 20 years as a professional realtor, I never allow myself to become complacent. Continued educati...

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Outdoor Living

Ya’ll (hey, I am a proud Southerner, after all!)… we have been blessed with some incredible weather this summer.  Usually, we all reverse-hibernate through the hideously humid months of July and August, but this year, Mother Nature has smi...

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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?

The Tennessean Williamson Real Estate Wednesday, July 23, 2014 Here today, gone tomorrow? Thanks to a multitude of mobile corporate execs, juicy properties such as this often pop up on the local market, but they may not last In Wiliamson...

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Realtor Spotlight – Lisa Culp Taylor

The Tennessean Real Estate REALTOR SPOTLIGHT Years in business: 18 Describe the company and explain what makes it unique. How did you become involved in real estate? I understand that running a successful business – of any sort – re...

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Focal Rooms

We’ve spent the last few weeks talking about how to apply all those wonderfully hip and happening ideas you find on HGTV and Pinterest to your homes. Whether you’re listing your home for sale or making improvements for your own enjoyment, i...

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Creating Space For Privacy

“A room of one’s own…”  Virginia Wolff must have known a thing or two about modern day real estate, because today’s discriminating buyers are looking for homes with space for private endeavors.  And these aren’t just any spaces ei...

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The HGTV Effect: Creating Faux Open Floor Plans

Our mission, should we choose to accept it: transform an older home without an open floor plan into a showcase that will rival any home boasting an 18 foot vaulted ceiling living room that flows seamlessly into the kitchen and then into the bre...

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