Water Impacted 3 of the 4 Homes We Owned

Water impacted 3 of the 4 homes we owned. Learn from my experiences so that you can save time and money with your home. Our first home was in Franklin, TN. Franklin is just south of Nashville. It is a great place. We lived there in the late 80s. We bought a brick rancher and…

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Chattanooga Choo Choo took Aunt Bell to New York City

Chattanooga Choo Choo took Aunt Bell to New York City. Had lunch with my Mom today downtown Chattanooga at Bluewater. We had a wonderful time talking. She remembered her visits into the city of Chattanooga as a young girl. She grew up in Sequatchie valley in a more country setting. She recalled her visits to…

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How To Rent Your Chattanooga House

How to rent your Chattanooga house. With careful minded sober thinking and fear. I attended a wedding Saturday. A young man named Todd asked me, “so … how is the real estate market?” I told him and his father-in-law my observation of the market, as I did in this blog post. He then went on…

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Seven Easy Steps To Sell Your House

Selling your house can be done in seven easy steps.  The hard part is there are 12,931 difficult and annoying things you have to do between the 7 easy ones.  Ok, so I made up the 12,931, there may be more.  Seriously though you can help yourself with these 7 following things: 1.  Emotionally move.…

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Home Life to Success to Newtown CT

Home life affects everything. Young men are responsible for mass murders. John Medina (link to wikipedia) spoke last evening in Chattanooga at Baylor School about future success of a child. The bottom line key factor he says is “Home life”. So is there a correlation in the “non-successful” mass murderers in our midst? According to…

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Who Are you? 4 Clues From Kathy Kolbe Will Help

Who are you? My DNA is generationally from Ireland. My father and his father owned and operated small businesses. I enjoy taking risks and thinking about entrepreneurial opportunities. It’s in me blood, so to speak. Although my hair is not red, I do like Guinness. That has to count for something Irish. Kathy Kolbe grew…

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Tomorrow's Thought Today – 1

Matthew 5:3 “Your’re blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule. Business thought: Comparing small town finger manwave to Like on Facebook.

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VW versus GM tour

I toured the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant last week.  Seven years ago I toured the Cadillac plant in Detroit. The two manufacturing facilities are very different.  There are several observations from the comparison. The VW plant is similar to walking into Target and the Cadillac plant is like walking into the cave at Rock City (It…

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