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Joe Folsom, Real Estate Professional in Chattanooga, TN

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Joe Folsom

"The Log Home Guy- Licensed in GA, TN & AL"

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Experience:

Distributor for Barna Log Homes January 2002—present
Specializing in Design/Build services where we first capture your ideas on paper in the…

President for Modern Rustic Living January 2003—present
To Buy, Build or Sell a Log Home, call The Log Home Guy. We focus exclusively on marketing…

Specialties:

We help our clients find a lifestyle we call "Modern Rustic Living" by focusing on homes made from natural materials. This includes helping our clients ... show more

Certifications
& Awards:

Resort Property Specialist
Investment Property Specialist ... show more

Interests:

It's all about the lifestyle! Most of us Baby Boomer's have spent way too much ... show more

About:

I use to be a Business Process & Information Management Consultant for over 23 years. Specializing in knowledge management and disparate systems integration, I use to be a Business Process & Information Management Consultant for over 23 years. Specializing in knowledge management and disparate systems integration, I traveled all over the USA and North America helping organizations, companies and governments realize improved business processes, increased productivity, reduced operating costs and improved customer service by leveraging knowledge management as intellectual capital.

While earning a multiple six figure income and successful in the traditional since, I began to realize something was missing. Leaving on Mondays and returning on Fridays almost every week left little time with my family and friends. I began to realize the American dream was missing a critical component; time to enjoy the fruits of my labor. I concluded that working hard for a new car in the driveway and a house just a tad better than my neighbors was not providing the lifestyle I wanted or setting an appropriate example for my family.

Not willing to drop off the face of the earth quite yet and having been cursed with an analytical mind, I began observing my fellow travelers and noticing just how unhappy everyone was. At airports all across the country, there were people busily tapping on their fancy notebook computers, people speaking way too loudly with cell phones glued to their ears and yet others pacing around the airport terminal as if to indicate they were busy, very busy! Then there were those that always had to let everyone else know just how unhappy they were. They were the ones that always shouted at the flight attendants complaining about the delays, the food and even the weather as if to indicate they were either more important than the rest of us or we were just too stupid for not noticing how bad things were.

I began to realize the tension and frustration on the faces of my fellow travelers was more than a temporary discomfort. It was an epidemic of monumental proportions that was infecting almost everyone around me. The worst of it was that no one seemed to recognize the degree in which the epidemic had taken over or that it was spreading like wild fire from one disgruntled traveler to the next. It was at that point I decided enough was enough and I was going to do something about it!

In late 2003, I put a transition plan together I hoped would effectively inoculate myself against this epidemic. I decided a log home in the woods and a new occupation was in order. I stopped taking on new clients and began building a business selling log homes and helping other FABOE’s (Frustrated And Burned Out Executives) find balance in their lives.

In early 2005 I informed my last few business clients that I would no longer be doing IT consulting and today spends most of my time working on my newsletter entitled “On The Mountain”, writing a book which is soon to be published and telling my story of how I escaped the FABOE epidemic while also helping inoculate other FABOE’s with a new log home of their own.

Today I work with both buyers and developers all over the Southeast helping my fellow Baby Boomers find that perfect spot in the woods, on the creek or atop the highest mountain. If it's made from natural materials (log, timber or stone), we find it, sell it or build it! To learn more, please visit our web site at http://www.ModernRusticLiving.com. ... show more

Testimonials:

"Michael Woody (client)
Michael hired Joe as an expert with Logs Homes in 2006. ... show more

Listings (10) »

10 results

4 Chester Dr
$99,900

Lot/Land
65 Teludachee Trl
$44,900

Lot/Land
10 Teludachee Trl
$69,900

Lot/Land

Recent Q&A »

There is no price listed on the add! Please advise.....

Asked Mon Sep 14 2009, 09:43 by Deloris Boud… - Property Q&A in Chattanooga - 2 answers

Joe Folsom answered:

The sales price has been removed because the home has a Pending Offer on the home. Happy to provide you with alternatives. - Mon Sep 14 2009, 10:05

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