Bartlett Homes For Sale Tidbits: Parks And Sports Facilities At Bartlett

Bartlett is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and a neighborhood outside but reliant on the Memphis metropolitan area. It was the 12th largest city in Tennessee and is the 2nd largest in Shelby County, a just one rank away from Memphis. As history mentioned, the city started as an "old" town of only 508 people at Stage Road and the railroad in 1960, the city expanded swiftly 1970s and 1980s both through new residents and through incremental expansion primarily to the east and north, to over 43,000 people today. In 2007 Money Magazine recognized the city as one of the best 100 places to live. This is why Bartlett homes for sale are preferred a lot by homebuyers today.

To maintain the quality life of the residents of this continuously growing city, its local government is doing everything to preserve the environment while modernization is taking place. The city maintains its small town spirit by providing a well balanced city environment, combining rural and industrial development, buildings and city amenities. Its residents also never fall short of open spaces and parks. Some of these parks are:

The Bartlett Grove Park and Bartlett Country Park. The Bartlett Grove Park at Santa Cruz Drive is a 5-acre wide community park with 1/2-mile of walking trail and playgrounds. Bartlett Country Park, on the other hand, has a bigger 14.63 acres of walking trail and playground. The playgrounds of these parks are preferred by children and their guardians because of their proximity to the subdivisions. Definitely, your kids will love them too, when you have one.

Bartlett Recreation Center. This activity center located at Flaherty Place offers recreational and fitness activities, services and special events of its surrounding residents and other neighboring communities. This 55,000 sq. ft. facility opened in August 2000 and features a group exercise studio, two racquetball courts, a natatorium with 8-lane competition pool, handicap-accessible facilities, spectator seating & competitive swim-meet scoreboard, a gymnasium with two full basketball courts, a 1/12-mile indoor walking track and a fully equipped strength and cardiovascular room. This center is designed for active people who values physical fitness and health.

The Bobby K. Flaherty Municipal Center. This 82-acre wide center situated near the recently redeveloped area around Appling Lake, has a new baseball field next to the famous Bartlett Recreation Center. This municipal facility offers activities for children and children-at-heart such as fireworks and fishing events for kids. Even when there is no major activity in place, the lake in the center is still utilized for catching and releasing catfish. One of the highlighted events in the Center is the Children's Fishing Fair that allows kids 12 years and younger to spend a whole day of fishing with prizes awarded in many categories.

Bartlett Blvd Soccer Park (BBSP). This sports facility is situated on the east side of Bartlett Boulevard between Stage and Yale just over the train overpass. Soccer fanatics will enjoy its two illuminated soccer fields and it several multipurpose fields. Concession areas and restrooms are also available to cater every visitor's needs.

To get maximum enjoyment during the usage of these parks as well as the rest of Bartlett Parks not mentioned in this article, every resident should observe the six pertinent ordinances related to Bartlett City Parks. Remember that parks are closed from 11:00 pm to 4:00 am, no alcoholic beverages on park property, state curfew law, prohibits golf practice, no swimming in city lakes and no motorized boats in city lakes.

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New Realtor? Why Activity Plans Are a Must

You're new to real estate sales. You have a million and one things coming at you so organization is certainly a challenge. Surely, it's easy to forget to action or follow-up on key tasks and ensure you're starting out in the best way possible.

If you're a real estate novice, there's also a good chance that you're unsure of the best way to get new clients. What effective strategies and tactics are out there, you might ask, that will help me build a loyal client base? How can I stand out from the crowd and differentiate myself and my services?

You know that you need to market yourself and the importance of real estate marketing, but you just don't know where to start. The idea of creating a marketing plan might seem daunting and if you have no experience or education in business or marketing, the concept might be clear as mud.

As a rookie REALTOR®, this is where Activity Plans will help out tremendously. A good real estate CRM system will include pre-built Activity Plans and allow you to assign these plans to groups of contacts in your database. But... What are Activity Plans and how will they help me?

An Activity Plan is a series of communications or steps that you would follow to achieve a goal. This goal could be listing a home, closing a home, marketing to a prospective buyer or seller, or nurturing contacts in your sphere of influence (SOI). Essentially, there are two different sets of plans: marketing plans and listing or closing plans.

Following pre-designed marketing plans are highly beneficial for a new REALTOR because they a) take away the uncertainty that comes with not knowing how to create an effective marketing plan and b) automate marketing communications which frees up time and ensures no key parts of the puzzle, or key elements to achieving a goal, are missed.

Many Activity Plans for marketing have built-in drip email ( drip marketing ) tied to them. These Activity Plans also come with professionally written emails. Let me give you an example. On day seven, an automatic follow-up email would go to the prospect providing them with an overview of your services. On day 37, another professionally written email would go out to the prospect providing them with information about what kind of mortgage they may be able to get. These emails are fully customizable, of course.

Activity Plans for marketing to prospects are not just a series of automatic emails though. On day 67 (let's say it's a two-year plan), your real estate CRM system would prompt you to make a phone call to the prospect to offer to help figure out what kind of mortgage they qualify for. This ensures that the personal touch is there and you have the opportunity to personally connect.

I don't want to neglect to discuss the significance of listing and closing plans in addition to marketing plans. As opposed to having drip email built into the plans, listing and closing plans are simply a series of "to-do's." A listing plan, for instance, will remind you to enter the listing on MLS, install a lockbox, schedule a virtual tour, and more. You're guided at every step of the way. As a professional new to real estate sales, I'm sure you can see how important and beneficial this is.

As a new REALTOR, you need a system in place to ensure you're staying organized, generating a steady stream of income, and making certain that nothing falls through the cracks. The sting of missing that great opportunity for a potential sale is especially painful when you're new to the business and trying to establish yourself. The system that you need in place is a real estate CRM. And it should be clear from reading this article that one of the most useful features in your real estate CRM will be Activity Plans.

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The Tax on Real Estate in Spain

The tax on ownership of real estate in Spain is known as the 'IBI' (Tax on Real Estate). It is an annual tax levied on all real estate property (flats, chalets, parking spaces etc.) and charged directly by the local council to the title-holder of the property as of January 1 of that year. The tax is calculated as a percentage of a base amount known as the 'catastral' value of the property which is the sum of the value of the land plus the construction itself. It is the local council itself that establishes these values and it should be borne in mind that they rarely reflect market value. The percentage applied to this base value will depend varies from place to place and will depend on the number of inhabitants of the particular area under the administrative control of the local council. As the tax is charged to the owner as of January 1 of the corresponding year, any change in the ownership thereafter will not affect the obligation of the original owner to pay the tax. For example therefore if A sells a property to B on March 1, it is still A who will be under the obligation to pay the entire year's tax although of course they can privately come to an agreement regarding a fairer division of the amount to pay.

This tax is levied on the ownership of all real estate property with the following exceptions:

1. Real estate held by the government or other local and provincial government bodies.
2. Motorways and other thoroughfares freely available to the public.
3. Real estate held by the Catholic Church.
4. Real estate held by other non-catholic confessions which are legally recognised by the Spanish state and with whom the state has signed a cooperation agreement to this effect.
5. Property held by the Red Cross.
6. Property held by foreign governments for the purposes of diplomatic or consular representation in line with international agreements signed to this effect.
7. Real estate held by other organisms or entities with whom Spain has signed an agreement to this effect.
8. Land and buildings belonging to railway lines.
9. Land, parks and building considered to be of historical or cultural interest.

It should be noted also that in recent years the percentage applied to the 'catastral' value has steadily increased and is likely to continue to do so bearing in mind the precarious financial situation of many of the local councils in Spain.

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