Episode 30: Stacey Childress Shares Home-buying Tips for Military Families and First-Timers in Clarksville, Tennessee

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Nate Carver
Hey, this is your favorite mortgage. Guy Nate Carver with our favorite realtor in Clarksville, Tennessee. Stacey Childress, I would love to introduce y'all to. If y'all are looking to buy or sell a home.

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Nate Carver
Hey, I'm Nate Carver and welcome to Between Two Doors.

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Nate Carver
Hey, Stacey, how are you doing?

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Stacey Childress
Hey. Doing good. Happy Saint Patrick's day.

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Nate Carver
Happy Saint Patrick's day. We both got our green on. And, who you say? Did y'all have plans today or you work in or you going to go play a little bit or.

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Stacey Childress
A little bit of work and a little bit of play and you know all the above.

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Nate Carver
Good. Yeah. And, you know, the husband and the kids. Good for you. So, so so tell me, Stacy, what? You've been in the real estate for a number of years. When did you start? And, where did you start? And kind of tell me your journey up to where you're at in Tennessee.

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Stacey Childress
Well, this is my eighth year. And covering up Grace, you know, all of that now. Just kidding. Real estate started for me in North Carolina, and the way that I started was one of my best friends, Christina Black. She told me that I would be a great real estate agent. I was raising my kids. We're military, so I just moved to Fort Bragg.

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Stacey Childress
Didn't know anybody. Decided to go into real estate. So I started going to real estate school and steadily meeting people through real estate school. And then I started working at exit, and Rayford and, Candi Quigley was my broker, and she held my hand through everything. Everybody in that office helped me. And that's why I'm here today.

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Stacey Childress
So from North Carolina, we moved to Fort Campbell and started selling real estate here.

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Nate Carver
Did you sell in Florida, too?

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Stacey Childress
No. Oh, no. Not yet. That's my.

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Nate Carver
Okay. There you go. Let's see. Yeah. So how long you been in the Clarksville market?

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Stacey Childress
Four years.

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Nate Carver
Four years. And? And you? There's a military installation there. Would you. You have an idea roughly about how much of your business is veteran or active duty?

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Stacey Childress
Fort Campbell is who we generally serve, but can go anywhere in Tennessee. Right down to Franklin and all of all of those area, too. But, when it comes to the military, probably about 87% of our business is military.

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Nate Carver
So you do.

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Stacey Childress
A lot.

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Nate Carver
Conventional and FHA and, all you're not doing the loans, but you're helping.

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Stacey Childress
Yeah. And sometimes home.

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Nate Carver
Buyers.

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Stacey Childress
Rural. Yeah. Just depends on the area.

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Nate Carver
A lot of opportunity there too. So. Good. So tell me where let's, you move recently to a new brokerage. And that's going great for you. Couple of things. You've got listings there currently.

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Nate Carver
And you've got active buyers that you're helping look for homes also. Right. I did a little bit of homework. So did what are some in your, in your eight years, some key things that you would want either the homeowner to know that's trying to sell their home. Let's let's do that one first. Okay. Opportunities there that you would wish they knew, going into listing their home and getting it ready.

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Stacey Childress
Declutter. Go ahead and pack up what you don't need. Put it in the garage or closets. Clean up. Get ready for the move. Because you want, you know, have beautiful pictures for the internet. Get draw people in. Clean lines is what I always say before photos are taken. So countertops cleaned off, you know, only leave 1 or 2 things.

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Stacey Childress
Decorative if you have it. Oversize furniture. If you can take a piece or two out, you know, just make it, photo friendly. And then when people are coming to look through the house, it makes it easier to walk through and get an idea of where. Hey, if you have all this extra space, we could put our recliner over there, you know?

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Stacey Childress
Yeah. Or just give it more of a, open feel.

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Nate Carver
Gotcha. And how about for you?

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Stacey Childress
You know, the exterior. Get all the all the, grime off the house. And lighten it up if there's dirt and then maybe put that house properly.

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Nate Carver
Maximum offers. Right? Right. And cell com. You know, people more apt to make it a bid. I'll make an offer on it pretty quickly.

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Stacey Childress
Yeah, and even in this market, sometimes sight unseen. So you have people looking at pictures and you want to make sure the houses look really good, because that draws your buyers in. Yeah. Curb appeal. Make sure the outside of the home has nice landscaping. You know, take just take pride in the home as you. Well, you should, but, you know, especially when you list it.

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Nate Carver
Right. And then I'll just go ahead and plug this for you. One of the things that you do with, your listings is you're able to do, TV commercials, with your list that I'll move to, which is, if you don't know it, move to best move to taste. It takes a real estate agent's listings. So this is one reason you definitely want to list with Stacey.

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Nate Carver
If you're selling a home, is that she's able to turn your home into a commercial and advertise it nationally. Which helps get you maximum exposure.

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Stacey Childress
And money to do your.

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Nate Carver
And call me to do your loan. Yeah. Yeah. I appreciate the plug. So that's on the listing side. And then, if you're if for your borrowers that are coming into your area looking to buy a home, first time home buyers, maybe they're seasoned, homeowners looking to, to downsize. What could you what key piece of the pieces of advice do you think you wish they would know or hope they latch on to.

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Stacey Childress
Get a home inspection? Yeah, definitely get a home inspection. If you're concerned about the property lines, you know, have them come out and and measure it or ask the seller if they've had an appraisal lately, you know, to see the correct lines of the property. Or survey if it needs survey. Yeah, yeah. Plat map from say it's and you construction so that the people know what's going up in the subdivision.

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Stacey Childress
Like if they're buying a house and there's about to be four foot across the street. Be good knowledge to have.

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Nate Carver
Yeah. So, yeah, that's, that's funny, I, I just had this conversation with someone who bought a house in a little town near me. Town is growing leaps and bounds. And so there's a lot of growth in their house included. Their house was brand new. But they, they did the research on what's coming in around them.

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Nate Carver
And you know they found out that there's a shopping center on the backside of I guess their alley. It's plotted out, it's just Raleigh and right now. But they were, they were actually excited to know that because they felt like their property values would be sustained because there's big box or big retail going in here and there.

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Nate Carver
And then the convenience of it, they were just yeah walking distance. Yeah. They were like, we're walking distance from groceries now. Like well you know that's a win. So it helps to to get a little further into your community like that.

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Stacey Childress
So yeah. And just it's.

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Nate Carver
Not something people think about very often. They just see a house that they like and they don't know outside beyond the boundaries of that property what's going on.

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Stacey Childress
Yeah. And especially for a buyers coming from out of town that are overseas, you want to go and look at those houses for those buyers, smell them, feel, you know, kind of tell them how you feel about the property. And by this time you have that, relationship with your buyers that you know, what they want and what they really want.

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Stacey Childress
Before you go and look at 40, 11 houses that, you know, they don't have a Florida room and they want a Florida room. So look at the ones with Florida room or.

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Nate Carver
Right.

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Stacey Childress
You know, a sitting area or whatever they call it, wherever you're at. But yeah, you know, you don't go to Florida. You don't want to show them a house that, on a quarter acre when they want one on to.

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Nate Carver
Yeah.

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Stacey Childress
Just know what your buyers want.

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Nate Carver
It's true. They may have dogs.

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Stacey Childress
Yeah.

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Nate Carver
Big dogs, you know.

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Stacey Childress
Yep. Or smells are a big thing. Yeah.

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Nate Carver
No kidding. So eight years. Tell me, any funny, any funny stories in real estate? Things that you just blew your mind that you've experienced yet?

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Stacey Childress
Lots of funny stories. Lots of,

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Stacey Childress
Just stories that will flabbergasted you.

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Nate Carver
If you want to share, you can, but you don't have to.

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Stacey Childress
Okay, so one time I was in North Carolina and selling a house. First time homebuyers, in an older part of North Carolina, Fayetteville payment area. So super older homes really established neighborhoods. Got the home inspector over to do a home inspection. This house had been redone. It was absolutely beautiful. They did the the natural hardwoods that were in it were a dark, shiny, just really inviting.

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Stacey Childress
They change the light fixtures and did the bathrooms, but the clawfoot tubs and stuff to make the house look the age that it was, but, updated. Nice double sided fireplace from the kitchen to the living room. Just gorgeous home. SAT up on the lot. Absolutely beautiful home. Inspector comes to do the home inspection and it's been under contract for almost two weeks.

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Stacey Childress
So a home inspector goes over to do the home inspection. The pipes underneath the house were not even fully connected. So there's water running to the road from, from the crawlspace of the home.

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Nate Carver
No.

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Stacey Childress
Yeah.

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Nate Carver
Wow.

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Stacey Childress
So did a home inspection. That one was. It blew my mind because it looks so great on the outside, but all the stuff on the inside and you didn't see if if you didn't get a home inspection, you would never know. So, yeah, it's been that. 354 5550 whatever the size of the home is, you're buying and get the home inspection.

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Nate Carver
That one was there. Did they uncover more? Did y'all go on to another property?

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Stacey Childress
We went on to another property. They didn't close on that one. But they did close on another one. That was very, very nice. Very good remodel. Everything was done correctly. And then they ended up closing, I think it was 30, 40 days later, something like that on the next home.

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Nate Carver
Yeah. Oh, I'm sure that probably had more than just plumbing issues.

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Stacey Childress
Well, they weren't even willing to do anything about that, and.

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Nate Carver
Oh, wow.

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Stacey Childress
My buyers were like, well, we're going to need that. I'm going to need that water. Get it?

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Nate Carver
You know? Yeah.

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Stacey Childress
It was nice to look at the 30 home. That's all they had.

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Nate Carver
All right, let's let's shift gears. Tell me what you loved doing outside of real estate. Clearly, you love real estate, but.

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Stacey Childress
Love real estate. I love hanging with my family. Heading to Florida for trips to see my mom and dad and, in-laws. The rest of the family, cousins, you know, all of that. And.

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Nate Carver
We're we're in Florida.

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Stacey Childress
Well, Pensacola. Navarre. Milton. Yeah.

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Nate Carver
Areas as if I didn't know.

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Stacey Childress
Yeah, yeah. Well, all through out there, you know, black. Yeah. Over the Gulf of America.

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Nate Carver
Yeah. Don't get lost.

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Stacey Childress
I think you going to get.

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Nate Carver
A new map. Yeah. Get old beach life down there. Best beaches in the world. How far are you going to drive or fly? Is that the the.

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Stacey Childress
We always drive because we take sometimes we take Fonzi, our German shepherd, who, you know, he's got his place in the back of the car. And then three kids. I even bring the husband sometimes.

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Nate Carver
Let's give him. Hey. What? So how far of a drive is it from? From from y'all's place to the seven hours. About seven hours. Okay. Yeah.

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Stacey Childress
Yeah, yeah.

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Nate Carver
The orange beach. 500 hours in Pensacola. Yeah, that's a decent. That's, you know, if you're moving to Clarksville area, look, you can go to the beach on the weekend, get a four day weekend pass.

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Stacey Childress
Sure.

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Nate Carver
Go to the beach.

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Stacey Childress
Well, we just drove to Knoxville yesterday to view a college, so.

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Nate Carver
Oh yeah. Got it. Got that's got a daughter that's getting ready to.

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Stacey Childress
To graduate and graduate.

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Nate Carver
Is. That's unbelievable. So the joke here is Stacy's my it's not joke. Stacy is my sister is fantastic realtor. So I'm trying to pretend that I don't know these facts so that I can ask these facts, but maybe we'll cut that out. So super excited.

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Stacey Childress
Whatever you have to do.

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Nate Carver
It's all good. This all good? I think, So, Yeah. So if you're how far from, from the capital, Nashville.

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Stacey Childress
45 miles. 50 miles.

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Nate Carver
Oh, okay.

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Stacey Childress
Yeah. So it takes us an hour to get to Nashville.

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Nate Carver
Oh, yeah. There's plenty.

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Stacey Childress
Yeah. In 20 minutes to get to Franklin. All those really beautiful areas out there. Oh, yeah. Murfreesboro. Lebanon?

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Nate Carver
Yeah.

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Stacey Childress
You know, lots of lots of pretty places around to.

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Nate Carver
But.

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Stacey Childress
And so the.

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Nate Carver
Mountains. Yeah, it's a beautiful area up there. So those trying to think of reasons why people, you know, get excited about moving to the area. For sure. There's a lot there. You.

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Stacey Childress
Definitely. Oh yeah. We had to Nashville and have lunch and hang out and then drive home.

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Nate Carver
It's yeah.

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Stacey Childress
It's nothing.

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Nate Carver
You know, those weekend trips to go to the beach, that's that's a that's a real deal. There's, What, a long time ago when I was Uber driver and, I would be working Orange Beach, Pensacola Beach, and the other passengers where they're from, they would be from, your area of Tennessee. And there's like, oh, you trip easy weekend.

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Nate Carver
Or, you know, if you get a four day pass for a weekend or three day weekend, whatever the end, you want to get out of town, it's super easy. And yeah, yeah, straight shot. And it's not expensive to go down to the redneck Riviera.

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Stacey Childress
That's right.

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Nate Carver
As it's known.

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Stacey Childress
As LA lower Alabama.

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Nate Carver
Lower Alabama. Yeah. Let's see. So kids getting ready, one of them's getting ready to go off to college, which is super exciting because that means we're closer to retirement.

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Stacey Childress
The kids gotta fund us. And then when going to high school and one just started daycare.

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Nate Carver
Daycare? Yeah, yeah, our family's growing, a daycare, All right. What did I not ask you? Is there something I should have asked you or anything? You really want to get out there?

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Nate Carver
Well, it's like the.

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Stacey Childress
The buyers need to get pre-approved. Yeah, they do before they shop.

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Nate Carver
Yeah. If you're looking, to buy a home and want to get pre-approved, reach out to me, Nate. My contact information will be down below, and, get you pre-approved, so that you can make an effective use of your time looking at homes and state if.

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Stacey Childress
You're headed to Tennessee, I got you.

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Nate Carver
Yeah. What is the best way for a, someone looking to buy or sell a home to get Ahold of you?

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Stacey Childress
Stacy Childress, evolve real estate. My phone number is (850) 206-3223. If for some odd reason I don't answer or, you know, of course. Leave me a message. Send me a text. But you can also reach me at my office. (931) 427-0027. I think that's it. We just we just moved and and let me, let me double check just to make sure the office number 4360027.

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Stacey Childress
But always try me first. My email address is realist. Stacy c at gmail.com. And that's really, Stacy c at gmail.com also.

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Nate Carver
And I'll put those contact all that contact information either down below or up okay. Is up on the internet. It'll be out there. I'll get you tagged up on it. All right folks, if you're looking to move to Tennessee, reach out to Stacy. She loves what she does. She is an awesome human being and, great family. And it's good to see you.

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Nate Carver
Yeah. Our family is big and spread out, and so we're all over the place.

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Stacey Childress
So let's meet at the beach.

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Nate Carver
Let's meet at the beach.

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Stacey Childress
Or in Nashville or Nashville.

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Nate Carver
Yeah.

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Stacey Childress
That's right. You can come stay. I'm telling you. Clarksville. Nate.

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Nate Carver
I need to do that.

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Stacey Childress
Yeah.

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Nate Carver
All right. It's good to talk to you.

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Stacey Childress
Get Dagny to.

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Nate Carver
See These Days.

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Stacey Childress
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