Roommate of the Year

All My Sons of Nashville enjoys reporting on all things moving and real estate. So here’s the latest. Apartments.com is having a Roommate of the Year Contest offering the winner a grand prize of free rent for a year and $10,000 in cash. The four runners-up will win $500 each. All you have to do to enter is make a video that illustrates what makes you the year’s best roommate. Last year’s winner, the Nashville movers found out, a student in San Antonio, composed an original rap and created an eye-catching video. His roommates have signed up to be his roommates for the next year. Entries for Roommate of the year are due on June 14th, 2010. Check out the rules and guidelines .
Entrants are asked to pick a specific category that define the type of roommate you are, from the lovable compulsive to the designer touch to the possession obsessed and more. These categories all celebrate the various aspects of being a roommate like cleaning, making sure the bills get paid, decorating, taking care of pets and more. Entries will be judged on creativity and originality. The winners will be announced on December 31.

Staging Your Home For Better Chances To Sell

So now that the economy has forced the home prices to come back down to affordable prices and mortgage interest rates are low, it’s definitely a buyer’s market. However, there are many sellers on the market as well. So it’s important that you give your home that competitive edge and showcase it in the best possible way. Realtors stage homes all the time and now you can too. All My Sons of Nashville is here to give you tips on how to stage a home like a professional would. You can paint certain walls in darker colors to make rooms look bigger and to emphasize specific areas around the home. You can purchase a few decorative accessories like matching pillows, a rug, even a framed picture to decorate your walls. An extra mirror or two that you can hang strategically can also give the illusion of more space. Of course the obvious is very important as well, like making sure the home is clean and that it smells good. Make sure the dishes are all put away, that clothing is organized in the closets because some visitors will open the closets. These tips from the Nashville movers should definitely help you sell your home and when you do don’t forget to call us for a reliable, stress-free moving day.

So Can You Move In?

All My Sons of Nashville helps you understand the basics behind applying for a mortgage, especially during these harsh economic times. If you skip to new jobs constantly, especially in various industries, you’ll be considered a high risk for the banks. Even if you have a steady income, it has to be relative to the type and amount of loan you want. If you’re self-employed, you have to be able to show that you’ve had income for at least two years and have the documents to prove all that along with tax returns of course. In order to get a mortgage so you can move into your dream home, the Nashville moving specialists remind you that you’ll have to have great payment history and great credit scores too. You have to have a history of paying on time and paying all the time. If you don’t have this type of history, even if you can get a loan, it will not be under the best terms. The type of residential property you’d like to move into also makes a difference on whether or not the banks give you a mortgage loan. Condos, log cabins, single-family homes all have different levels of risks for the banks. That risk is based on past experiences with other borrowers. We hope these tips help you in understanding what it takes to buy, own and move into a home.

Unbelievable Real Estate News

Housingwatch.com is reporting that now people are going to court to sue over virtual-property rights. The article says that people are suing over real estate that only exists in cyberworld, so it isn’t technically real, however the money used to first buy it was. According to Housingwatch.com, the Nashville movers learnt that a lawsuit was recently filed in Pittsburgh against the real company called Linden Lab, the one that created Second Life, a virtual world filled with avatars. Real people use these avatars in that world to do things like buy real estate with real money. So now the suit alleges that Linden Lab is trying to take away rights over property that doesn’t actually exist, without giving real investors back their real money. The story goes…Linden Labs got about 50,000 Second Life users to invest around $100 million to buy and develop virtual property, even charging a monthly fee likened to property taxes. Now, Linden Labs is said to be altering the contract and getting rid of the idea of ownership altogether, even taking back the real estate property.

If you’d like to move into a real house, call the local Nashville movers. We’re real movers with real moving experience. We’ll provide the very best in moving services at an affordable price. Really. The one thing you can do online though is get your real free moving quote.