Jeff Belonger is "the MAN" for mortgage info 101. Your mortgage person should be giving you the information Jeff outlines below; if not you're probably talking to the wrong mortgage person. Better yet, just call Jeff first and make sure you're getting the best mortgage advice and service possib
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01/26/2009
I've accumulated a whopping thirty cents in credits. Hmmm, this is starting to shape up like Google and Yahoo's pay per click. I was paying a few hundred bucks a month before I finally pulled the plug on them. My problem so far is that I can't seem to attribute any business to Listing Router. An
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01/18/2009
The 2008 sales figures are out from the Knoxville Area Association of Realtors. What kind of year was 2008 for us? Here are the figures. About a 31.3% drop in units sold from 2007 versus 2008. Still 11,850 is a bunch of homes. How about median sales prices for 3 bedroom homes? Looks like we're tr
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01/18/2009
This past Thursday evening was the second annual "Bloggers Night" at the Knoxville, Tennessee Symphony Orchestra (KSO). The Symphony invited up to 50 area bloggers and a companion to attend a free Symphony concert and attend a reception afterward. As a bonus the KSO performs most of their concert
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01/17/2009
While reading a reading a recent issue of Greg Swann's BloodHound Blog I noticed an article about custom yard sign, each designed especially for a specific property. For want of a better name I call them single property yard signs. Sounded like a pretty cool idea to me so I started doing some res
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01/12/2009
The real estate transactions recorded at the Knox County Registrar of Deeds office were published 2 days ago. Not surprisingly the holidays dampened real estate activity somewhat but there were 120 transactions recorded for the week. That means quite a few people in the greater Knoxville area got
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01/06/2009
Most of you probably don't know but I had a very strong background in the food industry before becoming a Realtor. I have owned restaurants, been a chef, food & beverage manager, general manager, dishwasher, busboy, and most every other restaurant position there is. In fact my very first real jo
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01/01/2009