Serendipitously I came across a potential solution to the feedback problem: Home Feedback.com that will automate feedback for the listing agent and make your life easier.

For a mere $19.95 a month the Home Feedback.com folks will:

• Let you set up a separate account for each of your listings on their servers.
• When a showing is scheduled you just log the showing agent's name and email into that listing's account.
• The system then takes over and sends an email to the showing agent with a short (7 multiple choice questions and 1 comment blank space
• The system sends a total of 3 emails to each showing agent until they respond.
• When they respond the system sends an email to your sellers (if you tell it to) with the questionaire filled out with a copy to you and also keeps a graph of the answers so if you get the same answer to one question, i.e. "Price too high" the sellers can see that visually and perhaps call you suggesting a price reduction.
• It (the system) also reports on unfulfilled showing feedback requests so your sellers can see where you tried multiple times to work on their behalf but that ol 'other agent' just won't cooperate.
• Another great feature is if something changes on your listing, i.e. a price reduction, you can send out a 'blast' email to everyone that's ever showed it notifying them of that change.

I signed up yesterday and have already used it on 5 showings and got one feedback form already. It's still pretty early to make any judgements about how it will work for me but I'm impressed so far.

21 day free trial if you're interested.

The Knoxville Area Association of Realtors released the February 2007 sales report yesterday.

The DOM (days on market) have increased from 91 in January to 94 in February and new listings dropped from 2,697 in January to 2,455 in February.

Knoxville area 2007 Febuary Sales Report

So less listings for sale and they're taking longer to sell. That tells me we're still in a buyer's market and it's getting stronger.

If you're in the market for a new home or investment property in the greater Knoxville Tennessee area it's a great time to buy. Interest rates are still very attractive, selection is great, and motivated sellers are making some great deals to move their homes.

Visit my website, KnoxvilleMLS.com to view all Knoxville's Realtor listings and then give me a call to talk about buying a new home or investment.

If you've always wanted to test the real estate investing waters for fun & profit it's still possible to do that successfully in the greater Knoxville, Tennessee area.

Here's a before photo of an actual northwest Knoxville house we bought in 2006 for $71,000

And here's the same house after our rehab

We sold it 3 months later for $130,000

Visit Knoxville Tennessee Real Estate Blog for the whole story and then contact me to get started investing for fun & profit.

Timely tax tips are now posed at the Knoxville Tennessee Real Estate Blog.

Did you know you may be able to sell your current home and not pay any captial gains taxes on gains up to $500,000?

Do you know how to sell your current home to yourself, create a new rental property, start depreciating that property, AND still benefit from the $500,000 capital gains exclusion?

Real all about it at: Knoxville Tennessee Real Estate Blog.