JANE PIERCE, Realtor GRI, ASP615.337.4742

CRYE-LEIKE Real Estate Services615-383-2050

Suite 186, 2000 Richard Jones RoadNashville, TN 37215

TRANSITIONSJANUARY 2017

MIDDDLE TENNESSEEREAL ESTATE NEWS & NOTES

5 Things You Can Do Nowto Sell Your House This Spring

Last Month’s Hottest Selling Neighborhood

Are You a Phubber? Or a Phubbee?

Adult Education Classes

“Go West, Young Man”

JANE PIERCE, Realtor GRI, ASP615.337.4742

CRYE-LEIKE Real Estate Services615-383-2050

Suite 186, 2000 Richard Jones RoadNashville, TN 37215

1. De-ClutterWhen the cold winterwinds are blowingoutside is the perfecttime to stay inside andde-clutter. Add visualspace to your house bygetting rid of anythingyou no longer use anddon’t want to paysomeone to move to

your new home.

2. Make RepairsThe buyer of your house will have it professionallyinspected so go ahead and start making the repairs youalready know are needed. You may be able to makesome of the minor repairs yourself. For those thatrequire a professional, give me a call for a list ofhandymen, electricians, plumbers, and others.

3. PaintFreshen up your walls with a clean-up coat of paint.Painting takes time and can delay getting your house onthe market when the time is right.

4. Clean Infrequently Cleaned ItemsYou’ll need to do a thorough cleaning of your houseright before it goes on the market, but these weeksbefore the sign goes in the yard is a good time to cleansome unlikely places. Clean ceiling fans and lightfixtures, appliances, closet shelves, and kitchencabinets. Clean anything you don’t normally clean on aweekly basis.

5. Check Your Curb AppealIt may be too early to plant flowers, but you can start onitems like painting your mailbox and replacing worn outor faded house numbers, cleaning and painting porchlight fixtures, painting hand railings, or raking up leavesand tree branches from the yard.

5 THINGSYOU CAN DOIN JANUARY

TO SELLYOUR HOUSE

IN MARCH

JANE PIERCE, Realtor GRI, ASP615.337.4742

CRYE-LEIKE Real Estate Services615-383-2050

Suite 186, 2000 Richard Jones RoadNashville, TN 37215

Last Month’s Hottest Selling Nashville Neighborhood!The Nashville neighborhood with the most sales in December 2016 was The Nations (or just Nations),the area in west Nashville bordered on the north by Centennial Boulevard, on the south by I-40, onthe west by Briley Parkway, and on the east by 40th Avenue N. There’s some dispute over why thisarea is called The Nations since most of the streets are named after U.S. states, not nations.

Nineteen houses sold in The Nations this past December. The minimum list price was $309,900 for ahouse with 1,306 square feet; the maximum list price was $439,900 for 2,522 square feet. All buttwo of the houses sold were new construction. Most of the houses sold were 3 bedroom/2bathhomes, averaging 2,059 square feet. Typical lots for new homes in The Nations are small with 0.13acres being the average lot size.

If you think you’d like to live in The Nations, call me. There are currently 28 houses for sale in theneighborhood.

In Williamson County, the hot neighborhood in December was Franklin’s Ladd Park-Enderly Pointe.Twenty-one of these new construction homes sold with an average price of $432,284 and averagesize of 2,753 square feet.

Directions to Ladd Park-Enderly Pointe: From Nashville, I-65 to Exit 65, left over I-65 about ¼ mile,right on Carothers Parkway then approximately 3 miles to the Enderly Pointe entrance on the left.

JANE PIERCE, Realtor GRI, ASP615.337.4742

CRYE-LEIKE Real Estate Services615-383-2050

Suite 186, 2000 Richard Jones RoadNashville, TN 37215

There’s A New Word in Our Lexicon

Or at least it’s new to me, the word that is,not the act. Phubbing is the act of snubbingor ignoring the person or people you’re within favor of looking at your cell phone.

If you’re the person doing the phubbing,you’re a phubber. If you’re the person beingignored, you are the phubee.

We’ve all been mildly irritated when we’rephubbed while out to lunch with friends, butnow there are studies suggesting phubbing iscausing trouble in relationships, sometimeseven leading to divorce.

Professor James Roberts of Baylor Universityrecently did a study on the effect phubbinghad on the phubee.

According to Roberts, when someone isphubbed, it creates conflict and leads to low-er levels of relationship satisfaction. “Theselower levels of relationship satisfaction, inturn, led to lower levels of life satisfaction and,ultimately, higher levels of depression”, saysRoberts.

If your brain is feeling a little sluggish duringthese cold winter days, consider taking oneof the adult education classes offered byNashville Community Education, sponsoredby the Metropolitan Nashville CommunityEducation Commission.

Class offerings include languages (Italian,French, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, andGerman), Quilting, Painting, Pottery, HomeRepairs, Guitar, Kung Fu, and, in case youmissed it in college, Basket Weaving. For afull list of all the 94 classes offered, go to

www.nashville.gov/nashville-community-education

Or call 615-298-8050 for more information

There’s a minimal charge for the classesheld at several locations throughout the city.

Re-Energize Your Brain Cells!

JANE PIERCE, Realtor GRI, ASP615.337.4742

CRYE-LEIKE Real Estate Services615-383-2050

Suite 186, 2000 Richard Jones RoadNashville, TN 37215

Did You Know?

That in addition to being a licensed Realtor, I’m also an Accredited Staging Professional® and ownTennessee Staging Service. As a professional stager, I’m able to offer my real estate clients, acomplimentary staging consultation as part of my marketing package.

I also contract with other Realtors to provide stagingservices to their clients.

As one of the first professional stagers in the Nashvillearea (2002), I’ve staged everything from one-bedroomcondos to multi-million dollar homes (both occupiedand vacant).

The benefit to you as a seller in having a Realtor who isalso a professional stager is that you get the sameservice and market edge at no charge that other sellers(or their Realtors) pay hundreds or thousands of dollarsfor.

Visit www.tennesseestaging.com for more information on how staging works and the services I offer.

“I don’t mean to be nosy, but ...”

Is it OK to ask what a neighbor’s house sold for?

Absolutely! Once escrow closes, the selling price is amatter of public record, and I can tell you the sellingprice, no matter what real estate company sold thehouse.

If you’re interested in what any house sold forrecently or even years ago, give me a call. I can havethe information for you in a matter of minutes.

JANE PIERCE, Realtor GRI, ASP615.337.4742

CRYE-LEIKE Real Estate Services615-383-2050

Suite 186, 2000 Richard Jones RoadNashville, TN 37215

GO WEST YOUNG MAN*

Well, not too far west.

As Mapquest says, “if you reach a really big, really wide river, you’ve gone too far.”

If metro Nashville’s increasing home prices have you thinking you’ll be an apartment dweller forever,consider buying a home in a smaller town nearby that offers lower home prices and an easy com-mute to Nashville.

Towns to the north, south, and east of Nashville (Mt. Juliet, Brentwood/Franklin, Nolensville) are al-ready priced out of many first time buyers’ budgets.

But to the west, there’s Pegram, Kingston Springs, White Bluff, and Dickson, all still offering afford-able housing and all within easy access to I-40 into Nashville.

Call me if you’d like more information about homes for sale in these towns.

*From Wikipedia"Go West, young man" is a phrase often credited to the American author and newspaper editor Horace Greeley concern-ing America's expansion westward, related to the then-popular concept of Manifest Destiny. It was first stated by JohnBabsone Lane Soule in an 1851 editorial in the Terre Haute Express, "Go west young man, and grow up with the coun-try." Greeley later used the quote in his own editorial in 1865.