June Housing Numbers

I just wrote on Shak & Jill about how Fairfax County, Virginia is addressing the foreclosure problem head-on by finding budgetary money to outright buy the homes, then providing financing to new buyers who include firefighters, teachers, police, and other families.  I strongly suspect that LaVergne doesn’t have the capability of doing this, but do [...]

How “Walkable” is your neighborhood?

I found a neat site that will score how ”walkable” your neighborhood is.
To summarize, “What is Walk Score? We help people find houses and apartments in walkable neighborhoods. Walk Score shows you a map of what’s nearby and calculates a Walk Score for any property. Living in a walkable neighborhood is good for the environment and good [...]

Doody Calls & 10% Off Sale

I Love No I Hate No I Love Donuts.  We had our meeting this morning at the office and today’s speaker brought donuts and bagels.  She talked to us about how gross it is to be a buyer walking in a back yard filled with dog poop - her business is appropriately called “Doody Calls.” 
An agent [...]

Guest Column: Calculating Property Taxes

Calculating Property Taxes
By Doug Shafer, County Commissioner, District 1
In talking with Kathy, I mentioned that on the LaVergne blog and on emails I’d received, there was some misunderstanding of how to calculate property taxes.
Tennessee uses an assessed value system for property taxes.  Different types of building uses are assigned percentages of appraised value depending on [...]

Introducing Another Small Business Owner

Every now and then I have the opportunity to introduce to our community new businesses or small business owners.  Today I talked with Matthew who is starting a pressure washing business in our area.  Although I don’t personally have a home right now that needs pressure washed, I told Matthew that I’d post here about [...]

Some Real Estate Schtuff

Real estate has most definitely picked up in this rush of school’s-out, interest-rates-are-low, lots-of-houses-to-choose-from.  We’re to the point that there’s been no time to pick a This is Beautiful LaVergne winner or even post about a whole lot.  But I’m carving some time out right now to tell you about one LaV rental property and two [...]

This Street Parking Prohibition We Have

I get that LaVergne doesn’t allow parking on the street so that emergency vehicles can get through to fight fires, help at crime scenes or accidents, to rescue kitties from trees.  They have to be able to access all areas of the city to keep us all safe.  Not only do I “get” it, but [...]

LaVergne’s Housing Report

Tennessee is ranked 14th in the nation for foreclosures and we’re feeling the pain of that in LaVergne.  Two of my listings are in Lake Forest.  One is on Lake Forest Drive … though it needs a little TLC, it’s a pretty home in a fantastic location.  The other is glorious inside (clean, smells great, beautiful design) [...]

This is BEAUTIFUL LaVergne Award

This is LaVergne is pleased to announce that we have selected an April winner for the first ever “This is Beautiful LaVergne” award.  To ensure the privacy of winners, we are not publishing addresses.  We hope to reach the point in the future where people are nominated by their neighbors and we have permission to print [...]

Open House Sunday, 2-4pm

Hello LaVergne!  Just wanted to let everyone know that I’m holding an open house  tomorrow from 2-4pm at 279 Bill Stewart.  Click here to read more info about this beautiful home.   The open house is part of a parade-of-home-ish effort by The Tennessean that features “affordable homes” throughout middle Tennessee.  The newspaper made it extremely [...]