Whether you are moving to Bedford County or are currently an area resident looking for a new home in Middle Tennessee, you should know that the Bedford County School System will strive to educate your children proficiently. Beautiful homes are listed for sale in Shelbyville that would make an excellent new home for you and your family. There will be many homes to choose from that suit your needs and all you have to do is to call an experienced real estate agent, like Todd Taylor. He can be reached at 615-785-3563.

Bedford County is a great place to raise a family and they have an outstanding school system with 13 schools, an adult learning center and a vocational annex. The school system has a staff of over 900 employees to educate your children quite capably. There is also an alternative learning program for students that may need extra educational attention, as well as a superior magnet school for academically gifted students. About 20 miles from Shelbyville, in Moore County, the Motlow Community College is located for higher learning possibilities.

When you have found your new home in Bedford County, it will be time to gather school supplies for your children to enroll into an area school. If you are new to the Shelbyville area and have an exceptionally high achieving child, they may be eligible to enroll into the Thomas Magnet School. There are various enrollment criteria to meet for the children and parents. Also, report cards, records of attendance, work samples and a teacher recommendation will also be necessary. There will need to be an advanced achievement level in reading and math, along with a proficiency in either social studies or science. New students enrolling for the first time will also be responsible for bringing in their immunization records, social security card, physical exam report and their birth certificate.

Clarksville, known as “Gateway to the New South”, is the fifth largest city in Tennessee and was incorporated in 1785. Clarksville was named for General George Rogers Clark, a Revolutionary War hero and the brother of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Clarksville homes enjoy a convenient city location with old-fashioned southern charm.

Clarksville was founded on the Cumberland River. During the 1820s, steamboats carried oats, tobacco, soy beans and cotton downstream to the Ohio River then up to Pittsburgh or to the Mississippi River or New Orleans. Clarksville became the largest market for dark-fired tobacco used in smokeless products.

The Fort Campbell Military Reservation is located just northwest of Clarksville. Clarksville homes are right near the Roxy Theater, a backdrop for countless films, music videos, photo shoots, television commercial and documentaries. The music video for the Grammy-award winning song “All I Wanna Do” by Sheryl Crow was filmed in front of the Roxy.

Major corporate employers in Clarksville include Fort Campbell, American Standard, Premiumwear, Inc. and Vulcan Corporation. In 2001, Forbes Magazine voted Clarksville the 90^th Best City for Business and Careers. Your Clarksville home is also near Austin Peay State University, Governor’s Square Mall and Historic Collinsville, a village restoration showing the living conditions of early European and African American settlers. With low mortgage interest rates and competitive housing prices, there’s no better time than the present to shop around for your dream Clarksville home.

For under $700,000, move right into a 4 bedroom, 5 bath Clarksville home with a balcony and bath in every bedroom, custom cabinets, stone counter tops and a wet bar in a large rec room in the basement.

If your budget is closer to $550,000, check out a 5 bedroom, 3 bath, 2 partial bath Clarksville home with high gloss cherry floors, open kitchen floor plan, Florida room, 3 car garage and stocked pond on over 4 acres.

For those shopping in the $450,000 price range, you’ll fall in love with a 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath Clarksville home with front and back covered porches, gourmet kitchen, intercom, sound system and central vac. Another beautiful option in the same price category is a 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath Clarksville home near a pond and nature trails.

To find out more about gracious Clarksville homes, contact Todd Taylor at 615-785-3563.

Brentwood is a prosperous neighborhood originally founded in the 1700s. With rich soil and stately hopes, the area provided food and care for soldiers during the Civil War. When Brentwood was rediscovered during the 1920s, many original plantation homes were purchased and restored. By the 1990s, Brentwood became one of the most desirable areas in the state.

Families living in beautiful Brentwood homes enjoy access to business, shopping, parks and recreation. Fun-loving parks to visit include:

• Concord Park with walking and biking trails;

• Crockett Park with ball fields and a playground;

• Deerwood Arboretum and Nature Area on man-made lakes;

• Granny White Park with tennis and volleyball;

• Maryland Way Park with a paved path and exercise stations;

• Primm Park near a historic schoolhouse;

• Owl Creek Park with basketball court and a playground;

• Riverpark with soccer fields and a skate park; and

• Tower Park with trails, fields and the Williamson County Indoor Sports Complex.

Brentwood residents also appreciate easy access to Maryland Farms Business Park, prime office space housing several national headquarters. Gracious living is easy to find in Brentwood with easy access to all the amenities you crave.

If your Brentwood housing budget is around $4,000,000, consider residing in an opulent French chateau with 6 bedrooms, 7 full baths and 3 partial baths. For around $2,000,000, view a Brentwood home with 5 bedrooms, 4 full baths and 3 partial baths with a unique European design on a private pond. For those looking for a lovely Brentwood home for about $1,000,000, check out a 4 bedroom, 4.5 bath Georgian with a 2-story porch, sleeping porch and study with a fireplace.

For about $750,000, consider a Brentwood home with 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, 2 partial baths, 3 fireplaces and a huge yard with mature landscaping. If your budget is closer to $700,000, check out a 4 bedroom, 4 bath Brentwood home with castle style iron doors, 2-story family room, fireplace and much more.

A fabulous lifestyle is yours when you own a luxurious Brentwood home. To find out more about alluring Brentwood homes, contact Todd Taylor at 615-785-3563.

If you’re looking to be a part of one of the fastest growing communities in Tennessee, look no further than Lavergne. The city shares a city limit with Nashville and is close to Murfreesboro. Lavergne is also home to the largest industrial park in the state.

Living in a Lavergne home means easy access to major interstates including Interstates 24, 65 and 40. Employment opportunities abound in Lavergne thanks to the recent industrial growth. Major international companies are located in Lavergne including Waldenbooks, Bridgestone, Hollywood Video and Ingram Entertainment. Other large companies in Lavergne includee Whirlpool Corporation, Thompson Machinery and Quality Industries.

Lavergne homes are also near scenic Percy Priest Lake for great day-cations. If you decide to vacation outside Tennessee or have frequent business trips, Lavergne is just two miles from Smyrna Airport and seven miles from Nashville International Airport. Enjoy easy access to shopping, restaurants and grocery stores.

Despite all the conveniences of a city, Lavergne still has a small town environment. The city property taxes are reasonable and quality education is available for all students. Universities and colleges located within 20 miles of Lavergne include MTSU, Belmont and Vanderbilt. Access to schooling, shopping, employment and gracious living make Laverge an ideal place to call home.

Inviting Lavergne homes are available in every price range. If your housing budget is around $400,000, you’ll love a stunning 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath Lavergne home with a luxurious master suite, hardwood flooring and a fabulous kitchen that opens to a hearth room. For around $350,000, check out a 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath Lavergne home with an open floor plan and tiered back deck that backs up a pond.

If your budget is closer to $300,000, appreciate the beauty of a Lavergne home with 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, an open floor plan and a bonus theater room. For around $250,000, move right into a brick Lavergne home with 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, a kitchen with peninsula bar and a 2-car garage. At under $240,000, check out a Lavergne home with a gas fireplace with logs, sun deck, hardwood floors and underground utilities.

To find out more about luxurious Lavergne homes, contact Todd Taylor at 615-785-3563.

If you’re looking to move into the fastest growing city in Tennessee, look no further than a livable, lovable Murfreesboro home. The quality of life is outstanding with plenty of housing, great schools, outstanding services, ongoing employment opportunities, regional medical facilities and a host of recreational programs.

Did you know Murfreesboro was once the capital of Tennessee? In 1811, a committee was appointed to by the Tennessee State Legislature to choose a new Rutherford County seat site. Sixty acres belonging to Captain William Lytle were chosen and the town was originally named Cannonsburgh after Williamson county politician Newton Cannon.

Lytle requested the name be changed to Murfreesboro to honor his friend, Colonel Hardy Murfree. The city was officially recognized as Murfreesboro in 1817 and named the capital of Tennessee in 1818. By 1826, Nashville regained its title as the Tennessee state capitol.

In days gone by, Murfreesboro was an agricultural community. By the middle of the 1800s, Murfreesboro housed three colleges and multiple academies, earning it the name “Athens of Tennessee”. Today the Middle Tennessee University educates more than 23,000 students.

After World War II, the economy of Murfreesboro turned from agriculture to industry and manufacturing. In the past decade, Murfreesboro enjoyed a 53.2 percent population increase. More people are realizing Murfreesboro is an affordable, enjoyable place to live. Consider a welcoming, convenient Murfreesboro home of your own.

If your budget is around $1,000,000, a gracious Murfreesboro home awaits you. Check out a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath Spanish-style home with an open beam ceiling, stone fireplace, detached efficiency apartment with 2-car garage, storage shed and horse barn on 13.98 acres. If your budget is closer to $500,000, you will love a secluded 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath Murfreesboro ranch home with a five stall barn and over 17 acres of fenced and cross-fenced property.

For those with a budget closer to $300,000, there are plenty of attractive Murfreesboro homes to choose from. Move right into a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath Mufreesboro home with plantation shutters located on a cul de sac.

To find out more about magnificent Murfreesboro homes, contact Todd Taylor at 615-785-3563.

The winter season can welcome pests that want to stay warm and dry with you the homeowner.

Mice can enter you home through the space of a nickel, once these mice enter your home the can cause considerable damage and pose serious health risk to people and pets.  The home owner must inspect for rodent droppings in undisturbed areas of the home. 

These are common things that must be done to your home in order to keep it rodent free in the winter months.

1.  Seal cracks and holes on the outside, look closely where utilities and pipes enter you home.

2. Openings to chimneys and screen vents.

3. Keep basements, attics, and crawl spaces well vented and dry.

4.  Repair fascia, soffits and rotten roof shingles, termites are attracted to deteriated wood.

5. Replace loose mortar and weather-stripping areound basement and windows.

6. If you think that redents have entered you home, contact a professional pest control person.

Have a GREAT holiday season and please call on tnsoldhome.com can help in any area of buying and selling of any and all real estate.

Murfreesboro, TN, July 8-9, 2008 – The family home is usually the biggest (if not only) asset in most divorces. However, when dividing marital property, appraisal minus mortgage does NOT equal equity. This incomplete equation leaves your house over-valued and that works against you in divorce.  In addition to the inaccurate and unfair division of your property, you risk damaged credit, default, foreclosure or even bankruptcy without more real estate due diligence much earlier in your divorce process.

To protect your rights NOW, you need a real estate agent specializing in divorce – an Real Estate Collaborative Specialist – Divorce (RCS-D^TM REALTOR^®)

Todd Taylor, Affiliate Broker/Broker with Keller Williams – Murfreesboro completed course work to earn the RCS-D^TM designation as a Real Estate Collaborative Specialist – Divorce™.    Todd states,

As an RCS-D™ REALTOR® , Todd is professionally trained to neutralize divorce real estate as a business transaction in the best interest of the house – and each divorcing spouse.  Leading your divorce real estate team, Todd also serves as project manager working with you and your lawyers and can refer real estate and financial professionals specializing in divorce to assist with essential evidence of your house value.  Such additional evidence is needed during your divorce process, especially before any property negotiation or mediation. 

The RCS-D™ professional program is approved for continuing education credit by the Tennessee Real Estate Commission.  This course was written and taught by Kelly Lise Murray, J.D. & Wendy Wasalle.  Professor Murray earned her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School & currently teaches Legal Writing & Research at Vanderbilt Law School.  Co-Instructor Wendy Waselle has a Masters Degree in Education & created the Fix’n 2 Stay or Sell^TM   home staging program.  Professor Murray & Ms. Waselle co-created the Divorce This House™ TV series shown on ABC, Channel 2 every Friday @ 4:35pm-4:40 pm, providing FREE expert advice to divorcing homeowners.

You may contact Todd at www. todd@ tnsoldhome.com to discuss with you how you can protect one of your most valuable financial assets during the stressful time of divorce. Whether your divorce is completed, just beginning or somewhere in between, Todd can help you determine your best options now for a stronger financial future

The Taylor-Thompson team of Murfreesboro had the pleasure to help a client purchase a home in Goodletsville. This hame had only been in foreclosure for a couple of days when the Taylor-Thompson Team of Murfreesboro helped their buyer purchase  this foreclosed property. The buyer is very happy with his purchase.

This home has 3 bedrooms and 2 baths with Approx 1498 Square feet. If you are looking for Murfreesboro Real Estate or Middle Tn Real Estate contact us at todd@tnsoldhome.com. We would be honored to help! 

July 21, 2008

If you need to sell your house, let me tell you there are only 2 real-estate agents out there that can do the job and do it right.  That would be Todd Taylor and Nathan Thompson.  I am personally recommending them to every single person in Middle Tennessee who actually wants to sell their house by an agent that is hard working, personable and can get the job done.  My husband and I put our house on the market with an agent we did not know much about, except he seemed nice and could talk a good game. The sad thing was; he could not sell a good game.  So after NO results, we took our house off the market.  Nathan had called me numerous times telling me what he and Todd could do for us and how they could sell our house.   My husband and I were so impressed with his tenacity that we decided to meet with them.  We were very impressed with how prepared Todd and Nathan where on our very first meeting.  I knew they were the guys for the job and I have to tell you I was right.  They kept in constant contact with you.  Not only did I have them on my contact list in my cell phone, but they had me in their contact list too.  I am pretty sure you won’t find too many agents who do that.  After only 2 weeks on the market Todd brought a Stager to our house to give us ideas for it to show better.  He was not happy with our showing numbers and thought it would help to have her come.  I have to say that as hard as it was and I am telling you it was a hard thing to walk through; we got a contract on our house only 22 days later.  Now their funding fell through after a couple weeks, but Todd and Nathan where on it.  They stayed in constant contact with the market, other agents and our mortgage broker.  We then had a contract that carried us all the way to moving day, then boom, it all started falling apart, but Todd and Nathan didn’t.  Todd stayed on the phone for three days straight trying to get the mortgage broker for the buyers to give him an answer.  He was tireless and stood by our side through the whole thing like we where his one and only clients.  We talked 3 and 4 times a day.  He was my life line through the whole ordeal I know I could not have been sane through it all without him.  Todd and Nathan sat by our sides as we had to sign the loan papers for the new house and still had not closed on the old house.  They stood strong and kept our hopes up that thing would turn out fine.  Four days after we closed on our new house they had had enough with the mortgage broker of the buyers and put our house back on the market.  Todd and Nathan then worked rapidly and effectively to get the house back on the market and on the lips of all their real-estate friends.  They negotiated and worked out all the details to have new carpet put in the down stairs, leaving very little leg work for us, except cleaning up the house and a few touch up items.  Then they took it upon themselves to handle all the showings and not get our hopes us.  Only a short week and a half later they came to us with a contract that we closed on 3 weeks after closing on our new house with completely new buyers.  They never left our side; they went WAY, WAY above and beyond the call of duty to help us through this process.  They never abandoned us or just sat around waiting for someone to come to us.  They were absolutely amazing and if you chose them to be your real-estate agents then you have just made the smartest decisions you have ever made, because these two will not only sell your house, but they will help you find a new one and at the end, you will be able to call them friends, because you have spent so much time communicating with them, they feel like a true friend.  I am grateful every day that I choose Todd and Nathan.  I just wish all real-estate agents could be as good as them, but there not, so choose smart, choose Todd Taylor and Nathan Thompson as your real-estate agent.

Jayne Corbin

1. You don’t mind blindly investing hundreds of thousands of dollars 

That’s right, if you don’t care that you may be investing all that money in a nightmare, or the proverbial “money pit”, by all means – waive the inspection.

2. You’re OK with living in a home that you know little about

By getting a home inspection, you will not only discover problematic conditions in the home but you will also “get to know” the home.  You will learn the type of roof, siding, drive, and insulation just to name a few.

3.  An attic with moisture issues is not a big deal  

Every attic needs proper ventilation.  However, if stucco, wood boards, or attic insulation blocks the ventilation, moisture issues can develop.  I see this on countless home inspections.  The attic will be way too hot – almost like a sauna.

4. You don’t care that there is a waste leak in the crawl space

I see it in many homes – an incorrectly installed or deteriorated waste pipe from the shower, sink or toilet dumps waste right into the crawl space.  And what do these conditions add up to?  A health hazard.

5. You don’t mind that the electrical panel is a brand that is known to be defective and a potential fire hazard 

Federal Pacific and Zinsco panels are known to have been manufactured in a defective manner and can cause major problems, even fire.

6. It’s fine that the chimney flue pipe is disconnected or better yet – it’s missing

This is a fire hazard that is known to have burned many homes to the ground. Usually when I see a fireplace that looks like it has never been used, it makes me wonder why.

7.  Its not a big deal that a couple circuits in your service panel are over fused, double-tapped, charred, deteriorated, etc., etc.   

My apologies for the sarcasm, but the list does go on and on.
So, if you are purchasing a home and thinking about waiving the home inspection – think again.  You never know what may be lurking in a home. Often times the homeowner puts money toward fixing cosmetic issues but little toward fundamental systems and conditions. 
Many houses look great; a new paint job, remodeled kitchen, brand new windows and floors.  But be careful, you never know what’s hiding in the crawl space!

Written by: Brent Scott 615-481-7293

Murfreesboro TN