Real Estate Connections

I've in real estate for 7 years now and have managed to grow the business to a point where my agents are dealing with the clients that we generate probably more so than me. As the use of the internet has grown in real estate I've tried to adapt my business to meet the demands of home buyers by developing sites like www.NashvilleBuyers.com and www.NashvillesMLS.com

However, I'm still very active in the real estate world, and have clients that are just as interesting and diverse as when I first started.

Mike Reinfeldt is perhaps one of the most publicly well known clients that I have. Mike is the GM for the Tennessee Titans and he became a client when he was offered the position of GM at Tennessee by the owner Bud Adams.

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Politics and Real estate

For a long time now it has been recognized that political elections are decided by a small group of voters who are generally undecided on who they will vote for in the elections. There are the other voters that will always vote for their party and will not stray from historical alliances and these make up the core of the votes cast for each party. The ones that help push the winning party over the finish line are the floating voters who could vote for either party...or neither.

The Floating Real Estate Buyer

Real estate, and the cycle of buyers markets and sellers markets, has a very similar analogy. The term "floating" in the real estate sense refers to the home buyer that does not have to move. They maybe considering moving…

The Ashton Real Estate Group of RE/MAX Elite and SunTrust Bank

Since I started in real estate sales in March 2001, when I passed the state real estate exam, I have worked very closely with one of the countries top loan officers, Lottie McCormick.

Lottie has managed to help and guide me through the most basic of questions regarding the mortage process as well as trying to explain to me the extremely complex workings of the mortage industry!

Part of the success of the growth of The Ashton Real Estate Group with RE/MAX Elite can be attributable to working with only the best real estate partners. Now, Lottie Mcormick and the Suntrust/Home Financial Group and the Ashton Real Estate Group have joined forces to offer the most competitive mortgage products to…

As some of you may be aware, in February 2007, I managed to pick up a new client from my websites www.Nashville.com and www.NashvillesMLS.com Nothing out of the ordinary there. The site generates between 20 and 50 inquiries a day. However this lead was to have a huge impact on the development of the Ashton Real Estate Group. The inquiry was from Susan Reinfeldt who is the wife of then Assistant GM at the Seattle Seahawks NFL team Mike Reinfeldt.

Mike Reinfeldt: GM of The Tennessee Titans

I managed to end up working with Mike and Susan and assisted them in finding their home in Nashville as Mike had accepted the job as the head of the Titans organisation in Nashville. As I worked with the Reinfeldts I became aware that their daughter had leukemia…

Nashville  and The Ashton Real Estate Group

Over the last 4 years I have been the exclusive realtor for the real estate section of www.Nashville.com 

Dominance of the Internet

As the success of being the number one realtor has helped me grow my real estate team we have added more and more websites to capitalize on the growth of the real estate market in Nashville Tennessee. Thanks to the SEO techniques and web design of the guys at REW my main site www.NashvillesMLS.com has been ranking at number 1 for most of 2007 in Google for a number of the major real estate terms. In 2008 we dropped to number 2 but with all the new added content we will be back at number one soon ;)

Sites like www.NashvillesMLS.com, www.NashvilleBuyers.com,…

 Nashville Lake Homes

Old Hickory lake in Nashville Tennessee looks more like a river when you look at it on a map. Its a long winding lake and as a result has created an abundance of lakefront homes.

In the late 60's the Corp of Army Engineers decided to dam the Cumberland river and created Old Hickory lake.  As a result the newly;y created lake lots attracted the buyers with the money to build lake homes and in the 70's this tended to be the country music starts such as Jonny Cash and Roy Orbison. Unfortunately Jonny Cash's house burnt down after being bought for 2.5 million dollars by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees.

I recently sold a home two doors down for just under $2 million so the investment made by Barry Gibb will repay itself but the legend can…