Benjamin Newbern - CRC Realty

🏡 CRC LISTING SPOTLIGHT 🏡

Listed by Pamela Holt Butler, Realtor, Associate Broker W/ CRC Realty, today’s featured listing is **1006 Pasadena Ave in Muscle Shoals**.

This 3-bedroom, 2-bath home offers 1,697 square feet, a formal living room, a den with fireplace and gas logs, plus a fenced backyard with a 16x32 inground pool. There is also plenty of parking, including a detached double garage, detached double carport and attached single carport.

Convenient to Muscle Shoals schools, shopping and restaurants, this one brings a lot of space and function at **$199,900**.

Ready to see it in person? Schedule your private showing today.

Benjamin Newbern - CRC Realty | 256-762-9436

1006 Pasadena Ave

📌 SAVE THIS before you price your Shoals home.

A good list price is not just a number that sounds nice. It should be based on what buyers are actually doing in your specific part of the market.

Before you decide what your home is worth, check these five things:

🏡 Recent sold homes
🏘️ Current competition
🔨 Condition and updates
📍 Location and lot details
👀 Current buyer behavior

That last one matters more than sellers often realize.

If similar homes are selling quickly, that tells one story. If similar homes are sitting, reducing or struggling to get showings, that tells another.

The goal is not to underprice your home. The goal is to price it where the market takes it seriously.

Thinking about selling in Florence, Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia, Sheffield, Killen or the surrounding Shoals area? Let’s talk through the numbers before you guess.

Benjamin Newbern - CRC Realty | 256-762-9436

🏡 This one has the space, flexibility and outdoor room buyers keep asking for.

Join me Saturday, June 13 from 10AM-12PM at 500 Plantation Drive in Killen and come tour a home designed for real life — with room for guests, hobbies, work-from-home space and everyday living.

From the main-level bedrooms, sunroom and flexible upstairs bonus space to the detached garage/workshop with upper-level storage, this one gives you options.

And the lot? 🌿 Nearly an acre in Plantation Village with a pergola, open yard space and room to enjoy it.

📍 500 Plantation Drive, Killen
📅 Saturday, June 13
⏰ 10AM-12PM

Listed by Jennifer McGee, Realtor- CRC Realty,Inc. | 256-412-1804
Hosted by Benjamin Newbern - CRC Realty | 256-762-9436

💬 Message me with questions or to schedule a private showing.

🏡 This is one you need to see in person.

Join me Saturday, June 13 from 1-3 p.m. at 181 Spry Way in Killen and come tour a home that checks the boxes inside and out.

From the open floor plan, quartz countertops, stainless appliances and gas range to the whole-house generator, tankless water heater, water softener and filtration system, this one is packed with upgrades buyers actually care about.

And the backyard? 🌿 Privacy fence, pergola, garden beds, fruit trees and room to enjoy it all.
Listed by Pamela Holt Butler, Realtor, Associate Broker W/ CRC Realty | 256-762-8756
Hosted by Benjamin Newbern - CRC Realty | 256-762-9436

💬 Message me with questions or to schedule a private showing.

The mortgage rate you see in the news is not always the rate a buyer will actually get.

That Freddie Mac number is a national benchmark. It helps track where the mortgage market is moving, but it is not a personal loan quote.

Your actual rate can depend on your credit score, down payment, loan type, lender, fees and other factors.

That is why buyers should compare more than one lender before they commit. Your bank may be convenient, but it is not automatically your best option.

Before you start shopping for homes, know your real payment range.

Benjamin Newbern - CRC Realty | 256-762-9436

In 1960, Florence hired its first female traffic enforcement officers — women brought on as meter maids to write parking tickets around the city.

They just happened to do it on motorcycles.

The first of them was Cordelia Sharp. On February 14, 1960, she sat down on CBS's What's My Line? in front of one of the largest television audiences in the country. Arlene Francis finally guessed her line: motorcycle cop.

How did the tape survive? Cordelia's half-sister once cared for a young boy whose mother worked. That boy grew up, moved to Hollywood, got into show business, and became friends with Burt Reynolds. When he found out about Cordelia's appearance, Reynolds pulled some strings to get a copy of the tape — and passed it along to the Sharp family.

That's Florence, Alabama.



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Before Florence was founded — before Alabama was even a state — the Shoals already had a settlement story.

It starts across the river, at a place the Chickasaw called Oka Kapassa: Cold Water. The spring near present-day Spring Park in Tuscumbia drew Native people, French traders, and eventually American settlers. It's the strongest candidate for the earliest known European settlement in Northwest Alabama, predating Florence by decades.

Tuscumbia's name itself came down to a single vote in 1822 — the town chose to honor a Chickasaw chief over naming itself after the first white child born there.

This is the third post in my Shoals history series. If you've been following along, this one comes before the Florence founding story — it's the part of the Shoals' past that usually gets skipped.

https://www.benjaminnewbern.com/blog/from-coldwater-to-tuscumbia-shoals-first-settlement

From Coldwater to Tuscumbia: The Shoals’ First Settlement Story — BENJAMIN NEWBERN | CRC REALTY Before Florence was founded and before Alabama became a state, the Shoals already had a settlement story centered around water, Native homelands, French traders, early roads and the spring that became Tuscumbia.