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When: April 9, 2009 & May 15, 2009
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Where: Franklin, TN
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2661 Churchill Drive
$349,900
Welcome home to a beautiful like new custom
built home featuring extra trim and moldings, rounded corners, slate fireplace,
central vacuum system, irrigation system and many more amenities.
This home is located in the Campbell's
Station Development convenient to groceries, pharmacies and restaurants. The
local schools are only a few miles away.
The oversized master suite is on the
main level with a view of the community lake.
Another bedroom and full bath is
also on the main level.
The great room opens up to a screened in back porch.
In
the kitchen you'll find all stainless
appliances including a side by side refrigerator and a gas cooktop with
downdraft.
Upstairs is a huge bonus room that could easily accommodate
furniture as well as game tables & pool tables.
A loft provides an area for
reading or computers and overlooks the great room below.
Two more bedrooms and
a full bath are also on this level.
The sellers are offering $3000 toward the
buyer's closing cost.
For more information, please visit www.realtracs.com MLS # 832718
NEW PRICE!!!
2005 Cedarmont Drive
What a find! This one level ranch has 4 large
bedrooms a formal dining room, parlor/study, great room, Jack and Jill baths.
Enjoy breakfast in the newly redone eat-in kitchen looking over the fenced in
backyard complete with an English garden.
Many light and plumbing fixtures have
been updated in this home and all the hardwood floors have been refinished.
The
great room has a Tuscan theme with a fireplace.
The oversized master is just
off the great room and the other 3 bedrooms are zoned on the other side of the
home.
The laundry room is conveniently located near the three bedrooms on this
side of the home.
The best part of this home is the basement, it is 90%
finished with a gas fireplace, carpeting and lighting.
Most importantly this
home has a new roof that was put on in the summer of 2006. This home comes with
a one year AHS warranty.
For more info, please visit: www.realtracs.com and enter MLS#: 822277
Unbelievable Spinach Calzones
INGREDIENTS
- 1 (15 ounce) container ricotta cheese
- 2 eggs
2 tablespoons dried Italian seasoning
3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
1 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1 (10 ounce) package frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry salt and pepper to taste
1 (32 ounce) package frozen white bread dough, thawed
DIRECTIONS
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
- In a large bowl, mix together the ricotta cheese, eggs, Italian seasoning, mozzarella cheese, Parmesan cheese and spinach. Set aside.
- Divide the bread dough into 8 pieces and roll each piece out to about an 8 inch circle. Spoon about 1/2 cup of the ricotta filling onto each circle, fold over and seal the edges. Place onto a greased cookie sheet.
- Bake for 30 minutes in the preheated oven, or until nicely browned on the tops and bottoms.
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"Every Place Is the Same"--and That's Good?.
The LAT's John O'Dell reports
that Nissan workers are staying in droves as the company moves
operations to Nashville. O'Dell's report naturally highlights the
downsides of California life--including hugely expensive housing--but
it also spotlights the advantage of the much-decried "homogenization of
America."
Whatever workers' reasons for going, Nissan's 42% employee retention rate sends a message to businesses in California: The Golden State's charms aren't what they used to be....
"There is a bit of that attitude, especially at the state level, that California is just so great that no one would ever want to leave — that its natural features, creative services and the quality of its higher education system are so good they're enough to get the job done," said Greg Whitney, vice president of business development for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.
Nissan's experience argues against that conceit, he said. Typically, a company moving its headquarters 2,000 miles, especially from a major urban center to a smaller, more rural region, is fortunate to hang on to 25% to 30% of its workforce.
These days, though, California's schools are no longer among the nation's best, its infrastructure is deteriorating from a lack of funds for upkeep, and an ever-increasing population is crowding its cities and jamming its highways.
Companies usually decide to move for one reason — to save money — whereas employees have individual, often complex reasons, Whitney said.
"But the world is becoming more homogenized," he said, "and the fact that Starbucks are everywhere helps make moving a lot easier these days." ...
California employees who chose to make the move are relocating to an area that has an international airport and 19 colleges, including Vanderbilt University. It is within 700 miles of 60% of the U.S. population and is closer to Nissan operations in Canada and Mexico than is the Gardena site. ...
For single mother Johnston and her three daughters, ages 11 to 17, the move was a chance to start a new life in vastly improved surroundings.
In Torrance, her family was squeezed into a 1,064-square-foot home she rented from her mother, who has moved to Tennessee as well.
In Franklin, the family was able to trade up to a 4,000-square-foot, two-story, all-brick home with five bedrooms, four bathrooms and a quarter-acre lot. Instead of power lines and neighbors' fences, the views are of tree-covered hillsides.
And at $449,000, Johnston said, the house cost $217,000 less than what her mom received for selling the Torrance place. ...
What made the case for Hedrick, the product manager, was turning off Interstate 65 and onto the Cool Springs offramp "and realizing that you could really be anywhere USA."
"There's a great, big regional shopping mall, and most of the stores and restaurants are the same ones we see in California," he said. "Yet a few miles away you're in downtown and there's lots of local color too."
Hedrick said several visits during the winter also helped him and life partner Kevin Rogers make the decision to move to Franklin--as it turns out, to the same development as Johnston--from the Fairfax Avenue area of Los Angeles.
"We're giving up dim sum and first-run independent films, 24-hour grocery stores. There'll be no more morning coffee at the Newsroom with Robert Downey Jr. sitting at the next table, and we'll miss sunset walks along the strand in Manhattan Beach," Hedrick said.
"But we're going to a place with spectacular scenery, rivers that don't have concrete banks, much more affordable housing, a lot less traffic and pretty close proximity to a lot of major cities, like Atlanta and Chicago, that are just a few hours away by car or an hour by plane."
Home Buying & Selling
- Details stack up when it's time to sign the papers
- Home inspection a must to ferret out defects before you buy
- Put every contingency in your offer to buy home
- Clean as you go to keep house ready to show
- Make the most of an open house
- Details will tell tale of a house's maintenance
- Make sure real estate agent is on your side
- Investigate the neighborhood for appreciation, safety, fees
- Define your ideal neighborhood and focus your search
- Consider all your options when shopping for a loan
- Get finances in order before you think about buying
- Classes teach ins and outs of buying a home
- Low to moderate-income earners shouldn't automatically write off home ownership
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