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Your best Knoxville Tennessee real estate resource center 2007-11-29 09:12:33 Over the past 12 years I’ve spent lots of time and money refining my website www.KnoxvilleMLS.com to be the best available Knoxville area real estate resource center. I’ve found through trial and error that most all prospective home buyers first want to be able to search all the homes in the area they’re interested in living [...] ...

Buying a home in Knoxville Tennessee is still a good bet. 2007-11-27 01:37:01 Alright, it’s clue time for CNN, Fox, ABC, CBS, ETC., ETC. and all the rest of the national media that is trying to paint the mythical “national real estate” market with the same brush. Truth be told, there is no such thing as any sort of national real estate market, never has been, and probably never [...] ...

10 best restaurants in Knoxville, Tennessee 2007-11-18 11:25:17 Knoxville, Tennessee is blessed with a huge selection of restaurants and most all are very, very good. However a few stand above the rest for delivering consistantly high quality food, service, and atmosphere. Here’s my picks for the best 10 non-chain restaurants in Knoxville. Number one and head and shoulders above most all Knoxville restaurants is the [...] ...

Christmas with Santa at the Knoxville Tennessee Zoo 2007-11-11 09:24:36 You may have brought your child to one of those “Breakfast with Santa” affairs at a mall or department store but I’ll bet you never did it with a real live giraffe looking over your shoulder or penquins waddling around.         Our world class Knoxville Zoo is hosting their first “Breakfast with Santa” event on Saturday, December 8th at [...] ...

Knoxville Tennessee Area Lakes 2007-11-10 09:17:06 The greater Knoxville area has been blessed with many areas of scenic beauty and recreational activity. One of the area’s most popular attractions are the 7 major lakes; all less than a 30 minute drive from downtown Knoxville. Picture perfect spot for relaxing The seven major lakes surrounding the great Knoxville area are: Fort Loudon, the closest to Knoxville; [...] ...

Big happenings in Knoxville today. 2007-11-03 09:30:36 In addition to being the University of Tennessee’s homecoming weekend ………..   …..it’s also time for Knoxville annual “Flu Shot Saturday”. Started in 1992 by local physician Dr. Charlie Barnett, Flu Shot Saturday has become an annual tradition in the Knoxville area for thousands of local residents to get a free flu shot. While the shots are technically ‘free’, [...] ...

7 reasons why your Knoxville area home will not sell 2007-10-29 08:31:49 Here’s an advance tip. None of the 7 reasons your Knoxville home will not sell have anything to do with mortgages, the sub-prime market, or the false real estate crunch CNN keeps insisting we’re all in. Back in the early 1980s mortgage interest rates were in the 18-20% range; buyers bought lots of house then [...] ...

It’s not an hour ago in Knoxville yet so…………. 2007-10-28 10:44:58 don’t turn back your clocks yet. Because of a new energy saving law Congress passed in 2005 Daylight Savings Time (DST) doesn’t officially start until 2:00 AM on November the 4th of this year. On the old DST, today would have been the day to turn back your clocks and it would have been an hour earlier [...] ...

Make sure you “Lock up” your new, Knoxville Tennessee home 2007-10-27 07:16:34 So you just closed on your new Knoxville home and the seller gave you the keys at the closing table. What’s the first thing you need to do with your new keys. I recommend throwing them away and getting all the locks in your new home re-keyed by a professional locksmith. On my website there is a section titled [...] ...

Knoxville, Tennessee homes sales….up?….down?…..find out here. 2007-10-24 14:44:27 The Knoxville Area Association of Realtors recently released their 3rd quarter 2007 Knoxville area home sales data. and the data is not bad at all, especially comparing the greater Knoxville area to many other parts of the United States. Our average sales price for a typical 3 bedroom home jumped from $169,300 in quarter 3 2006 to [...] ...

Excuse me Miss, your horse is in my swimming pool 2007-10-17 09:02:14 Reading my morning newspaper this morning and I was very surprised to see a photo of fellow Realtor Deborah Black trying to rescue one of her horses which wandered off and fell into a partially filled swimming pool near her Fountain City home. Deborah is the one in the red T shirt shivering in the pool. Personally [...] ...

Hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 2007-10-15 16:46:39 Those of us fortunate to live in the greater Knoxville, Tennessee have a unique opportunity to enjoy camping and hiking in the nearby Great Smoky Mountains National Park. There are over 800 miles of great hiking trails in the back country of the Smokies and many, many beautiful spots to enjoy. But, there is also danger. Hikers and [...] ...

New, north Knoxville condo development is going great. 2007-10-06 14:30:15 Within walking distance to the new shopping areas around the Callahan Road/Clinton Highway intersection is a great, new condo development called “Cherrybrook”. Two basic models to choose from; a 1198 square foot, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, unit with a 1 car garage and a 1398 sf, 2 bedroom, 2 bath with a 2 car garage. All [...] ...

Knox County residents fight ‘city hall’……and win! 2007-10-03 09:42:15 Or in this case, the Knox County Commission. A jury took less than 3 hours to find that the Knox County Commission violated the state’s “Open Meetings Act” also known as the Sunshine Law when they met to appoint replacements for 12 of the 19 county commissioners turned out of offices by a ruling on term [...] ...

Knoxville’s Old Gray Cemetery 2007-09-30 20:23:44 Of historic significance in the Knoxville area is the 13 acre, Old Gray Cemetery located just north of the downtown area. Founded in 1850, Old Gray Cemetery is named in honor of Thomas Gray (1716-1771), an English poet and author of “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”. This beautiful Sunday afternoon Old Gray holds it “annual [...] ...