Straight from the public pages of the National Association of REALTORS site, offered here without comment or explanation. You can decide what impact this will have on your ability to get a mortgage, your home’s value going forward, and your tax obligations.http://www.realtor.org/gapublic.nsf/pages/hr_3221_key_provisions?OpenDocument

We Realtors love helping people. Than “help” usually consists of marketing homes and working with home buyers. My goal is that my clients and past clients see me as a resource for all their real estate concerns and needs. With the current state of our economy, it is inevitable that some of our clients are […]

I have posted about Walk Score previously. The Walk Score Site has posted its list of most walkable cities. Of course , cities like San Francisco, New York, and Boston immediately come to mind, so it was a bit of a shock to see Memphis rated #35 among the large cities surveyed. Our ranking was […]

Mark your Calendars! With the cost of gasoline not showing any signs of a downturn, why not do a staycation in Memphis for the Labor Day weekend? Very few Memphians are aware of the world-class music and cultural festival put on Downtown every year by the Center for Southern Folklore, yet I always meet folks […]

Who, besides Marc Cohn, is Walking in Memphis? A while back, when gas was about a buck and a half cheaper a gallon, I posted about Walk Score, a nifty website (their widget can be found on this blog and my other sites) that helps you find a Walkable Neighborhood.It’s interesting to put in your […]

This is not a real estate post; it’s more on the topic of good manners and customer service. I find that more and more company automated answering services are asking me to leave messages, which, I guess is basically OK. I use VM myself. It is the ever -increasing use of the ending tag, “we […]