Jim Lee

No one wants to wait hours in bumper-to-bumper traffic every morning to get to work. When investigating different neighborhoods, always snoop around during rush hour traffic in addition to normal business hours to really get a feel for the traffic you will be up against.  Being close to public transportation can alleviate this problem, so also investigate other means of getting to and from work. Read Full Story

Following are the most recent batch of spam, trogan, and virus alerts sent to my email filter. Be on the lookout for them and don’t fall for any of their schemes. Your best protection is to keep your computer updated and keep your antivirus program running at all times. Please keep in mind that all the links below lead not to the virus itself but to the www.OnlyMyeMail.com alert. I thought the eBay alert one was especially clever but a fraud attempt nonetheless. Be careful out there... Read Full Story

Don’t put your Knoxville home on the market before watching these 5 tips to prepare your home for sale. Visit my Knoxville website to get more great selling tips and suggestions based on more than 30 years of experience selling homes just like yours. Read Full Story

If all that positive activity continues, then 2011 should be a good year for Knoxville sellers and buyers with both increased numbers of sales and higher average prices since the market will be more balanced with the demise of the tax credit. Read Full Story

2 of my favorite quotes from the comics; “Good Grief!” is Charlie Brown of Peanuts fame favorite saying. “We has met the enemy and he is us” is from an old comic strip called “Pogo”. Pogo was a cartoon opossum and the originator of that saying. There has been a lot of noise on the net lately about automated home valuation models along with an increase of websites offering them to both buyers and sellers of real estate. Unfortunately for those that put a lot of stock in these online... Read Full Story

Today is December 7th, 2010. 69 years ago at this time Japan was attacking our American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor Hawaii. Following is a recollection from a then young sailor that was actually there during the attack. Reposted with permission of fellow Realtor Saul Klein the son of this sailor. Read Full Story

Hindsight is always 20/20 and in November of 2011 it will be very simple to just review the past year and see what actually did happen. But since it’s now November of 2010 we will have to look to the past years and the current economic data to make a future prediction. It’s always interesting to me to revisit my past predictions and see how I did. Read Full Story

No, I’m not being facetious or implying you’re a dummy because you haven’t bought a house yet. In fact, just the opposite; waiting until now has saved you thousands of dollars more that than measly 8 grand credit a lot of your friends got when they bought earlier this year. Here’s how. Let’s take a look at the facts and mortgage market now compared to what they were then. The $8,000 federal tax credit that got everyone excited earlier this year expired at the end of April, 2010... Read Full Story

For the men and women that have so willingly served our country, the government offers a variety of programs and incentives designed to enhance their quality of life after service. Benefits for our country’s veterans range from educational assistance to job training with benefits more specifically being: Read Full Story

Near the town of Knoxville, Tennessee lies the 521,086 acre (more or less) Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A scenic mountain range that attracts over 10 million annual visitors to view the scenic beauty of the rugged mountains and beautiful pastoral valleys. A couple of strategically placed web-cams can give you up to date views of what the local weather and scenery looks like most anytime during daylight hours. I’ve seen some very beautiful scenes from looking at these webcams... Read Full Story