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Well it’s been a year now since moving our blog from wordpress to http://www.JohnCJones.com/Blog and we’ve just posted our 100th post there. While we miss the wordpress.com readers, the ease of access and accessibility to our customers and potential customers has really been enhanced since hosting the blog there. Our Tuesday Morning Coffee videos have [...]

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Why Would a Lender Accept a Short Sale?

“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.”
 
One of the most common misconceptions many homeowners have is that their lender is lying in wait for the perfect opportunity to jump out and take their houses from them.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  In [...]

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Rates are creeping down in the  5% vicinity for the first time this year, which in my opinion is a good thing for the Murfreesbor0 real estate market.  But is that alone, enough to deal with all the different nuances that we are facing right now? New construction has slowed down over 50% in Rutherford County and foreclosures [...]

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According to this story in the Daily News Journal, Rutherford County and its three cities (Murfreesboro, Smyrna, and LaVergne) issued to home builders just 1,177 single-family home permits from January through November, 2008, compared 2,391 issued during the same 11-month period in 2007.
 
As we see it, this news means two important things for the Rutherford [...]

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November and December are traditionally months when the real estate market slows down to a crawl.  All of the “just-looking” folks are too busy during the holidays to shop for real estate.  If someone is out looking at homes at Christmastime, normally he or she HAS to buy something right away.   In Rutherford County’s current [...]

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  I will be the first to admit that I was in a state of denial when our real estate market in Rutherford County started to shift over a year ago.  You see I started in the real estate business in 1994 and over the last 14 years I had never experienced a down market. Every [...]

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