Travel Nurses Love Working the Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol TN , Tri-Cities Area

Johnson City, TN is a popular location for travel nurses to work 13-26 weeks. Over the past 4 years, Dr. G. Dean Wilson (founder of Tri-State Mountain Neurology Associates) and Janine J. Wilson (Founder of A Buyer’s Best Choice Realty® and Ashley Academy) have hosted many travel nurses, in their furnished rental properties.

Some of the traveling nurses have extended their stays; others have returned to the Tri-Cities for a second or third time. And now a travel nurse has decided to move to the Tri-Cities to live and work.

When asked what drew these travel nurses to the Tri Cities, TN area, responses include: (1) the outstanding medical facilities and ease of travel between Johnson City, Kingsport, and Bristol, TN ; (2) hiking, camping, biking, and lakes surrounding the Tri-Cities TN area; (3) the beautiful mountains, with 4 distinct seasons; (4) the high quality of medical care in NE Tennessee with Mountain States Health Alliance and Wellmont Health Systems setting such high standards of care; (5) the nationally ranked Quillen College of Medicine, the new School of Pharmacy at ETSU, the new School of Public Health adding notoriety to an area conscious of it’s contributions nation-wide to training outstanding medical specialists and support personnel.

Dr. and Mrs. Wilson also provide free area tours and information packages to physicians, medical residents, nurses, students, retirees, and other individuals and families contemplating living, working or visiting the Tri-Cities area of TN.

For more information Dr. Dean Wilson and Janine Wilson can be reached at 423-737-4040, e-mailed at abuyerschoice@earthlink.net, or visited on the web at http://TNBuyerBroker.com .

Or a link to the Guest Suites and rentals: http://tnbuyerbroker.com/suites/suites.htm

East Tennessee To See Relief From TVA Rate Cuts

Although TVA is a large reason that the East Tennessee region is one of the lowest areas for cost of energy in the country, the increases over the past year have hit many pockets harder than the local population would like to see. In an effort to help the community, The Johnson City Power Board had absorbed a small portion of those rate hikes, but there still was a large percentage to swallow. Thankfully, the Tennessee Valley Authority, in light of recent figures, has cut rates back, not just once this year, but has announced a second cut in April 2009.
It is nice to see companies that not only care about the "bottom line", but can see how it may affect their customers. If the customer is having trouble, eventually they will, also.
Thanks to both organizations for your concern for your communities and markets!

Please see link below for a link to a short article with more figures:
http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=9833891

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Johnson City, TN has 2 of only 13 FREE EMBARQ phones nationally for homeless

Johnson City, TN has 2 pay phones of 13 in the United States to have free 10 minute calls offered by Embarq to families at homeless shelters…… the Salvation Army Center of Hope and the Johnson City Housing Authority, according to Sue Guinn Legg, writer for the Johnson City Press. The phones are available for homeless shelter residents to call their families or friends throughout the U.S. Johnson City (and Jonesborough TN, which is the "Oldest City in Tennessee) are located in the Tri-Cities Metro Area of Northeast TN (Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN/VA)

“Johnson City (TN) was the only city in Tennessee and one of only two cities in the Southern Appalachian region included for free service,” according to Legg. The calls began at 8:00 a.m. on Christmas Eve and will continue until 11:59 p.m. Sunday, the 28th of December.

The 11 other shelter sites are in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nevada.

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Counties in NE Tennessee, Washington and Sullivan,Tennessee’s lowest unemployment rates in November, 2008

Two Counties in NE Tennessee, Washington and Sullivan, had two of Tennessee’s lowest unemployment rates in November, 2008. And the Tri-Cities TN rate was the lowest of all Tennessee large metro areas, according to staff reports in the Johnson City Press. “The Tri-Cities’ 5.9 percent rate was a full percentage point below the state average.” The TN state average in November was 6.9 percent.

Washington and Sullivan Counties of NE Tennessee include the Tri-Cities’ largest towns, Johnson City, Kingsport, and Bristol, as well as the smaller communities of Gray, Jonesborough, Piney Flats, Blountville, Bluff City, Colonial Heights, to name a few.

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A Buyer's Best Choice Realty: Johnson City/Tri-Cities TN 'safe haven' article

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Tri-Cities/East Tennessee Region) help you find your place in a beautiful environment!! And, as
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Two recent pieces of real estate news may not fit the national profile, and they don’t
mean the area’s housing industry is on easy street, but the reports from Kiplinger’s magazine and a national agency suggest the Tri-Cities market remains somewhat protected from the problems plaguing many areas of the country.

On Saturday, Kiplinger’s, a national financial monthly, tabbed the Johnson City metro area
(Washington, Carter and Unicoi counties) as one of six “Safe Havens in Real Estate.”
And Tuesday — the same day the large metro-related “Case-Shiller Index” showed continued
plunging prices in its markets, another index showed the Kingsport-Bristol metro ranking 14th best out of 291 areas nationwide for year-to-year home price appreciation through Sept. 30 at 3.93 percent. Nationwide, the figures released by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) showed, prices declined by 6.0 percent over the same period.

Kingsport-Bristol’s 14th-place showing was identical to the second-quarter placement,
though year-to-year appreciation was down from 4.75 percent. Johnson City’s latest figure, shown in an index of unranked metros, was 3.63 percent, which would place it 18th, and was an
improvement from the second-quarter gain of 2.86 percent that would have put it 58th.
The OFHEO report also showed data for the July-September quarter compared to the quarter
before, and Kingsport-Bristol remained above water in that regard with a 0.69 percent
appreciation. Six of the top 20 year-to-year markets lost value in the third quarter compared to
the April-June quarter.

The Kiplinger’s article used data from Fiserv Lending Solutions, a home-price research
company, to determine that “in certain pockets across the country, the damage has been minimal. The article lumped Johnson City in with Lancaster, Pa., Clarksville, Pittsburgh, Albuquerque and Burlington, Vt. among cities whose “local economies have kept unemployment and foreclosure rates below average.”

That piece also noted that the cities making the list measured well on the “affordability
index” that measures home prices versus family income.

Kiplinger’s lists Johnson City’s median home price at $120,000, lowest of the cities
shown, but it also puts the 12-month change in home value at negative 0.4 percent. The other
metros all had modest gains. It notes the Johnson City market is driven by East Tennessee State University and new retirees — the so-called “halfbacks” who “used to spend summer in the north and winter in the south but are now making Tennessee their home year round.”
In the OFHEO release, Tennessee also made out well as a state. It saw annual appreciation of 1.38 percent, ranking 11th, though prices showed a drop of 0.68 percent from the second quarter to the third. Several other “Mountain South” metros also placed high on the OFHEO annual appreciation list. They included Greenville, S.C. (9th), Spartanburg, S.C. (11th), Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, N.C. (17th) and Asheville, N.C. (43rd). The OFHEO numbers come from sales of existing homes and refinances.

(Excerpts from article at Johnson City Press) (For full article, visit
http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/Detail.php?Cat=HOMEPAGE&ID=65933 )

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Summer Homes Heat Up In East Tennessee! It's A Buyer's Market!

Summer has sprung, and so has the housing market in the upper east Tennessee region. In the last 2 days alone, approximately 220 new listings have come on the market! If you are a buyer, it is definitely YOUR market! Come search for new and available MLS listings for land, condos, residential homes, commercial properties in the areas listed below in "Searching For "Homes In Johnson City, TN or Tri-Cities Tennessee"; Search for free with no registration; Look up tax rates for the Tri-Cities and surrounding area counties; Check out School or Law Enforcement/Police sites in the east TN area, Learn about Exclusive Buyer's Agency and how we can serve your best interests as a Buyer. If you are local, or relocating, our agents CAN assist you! Please see our "Did you know???" posted on June 14th, 2007, below!

Exclusive Buyer Agent -vs- Buyer Agent in Real Estate

DID YOU KNOW ???

Some agents advertise as Exclusive Buyer Agents when they are NOT EBA’s, MISLEADING Consumers. The National Association of Realtors® in 1993 defined Exclusive Buyer Agency as:

“The practice of representing ONLY buyers and never sellers in a transaction. THE COMPANY NEVER LISTS A SELLER’S PROPERTY AND THUS NEVER HAS A SELLER AS A CLIENT.” NAR® Agency Choices and Challenges, 1993

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