Cynthia Evans

From an early age, I was a frustrated “Peeping Tom.” Whenever I was in the car at night, riding through a neighborhood, I was always interested in looking through lighted windows just to see what was inside those inviting–looking houses. Now after 32 years as a “legitimate” real estate agent, I’ve been in thousands and thousands of houses and sometimes even still, I’m completely amazed at what people do. I bought my first old house in East Nashville in 1980 and decided that was a good time to go ahead and get my license. We bought a transitional Victorian built around 1900, approximately 4000 square feet, which was, at the time, divided into a “crack house” triplex. We paid $39,950. That same crack house later became the mayoral mansion when the then-current owner, Bill Purcell, was elected in 1999. Now, in 2013, the house is worth well over seven hundred thousand dollars. Things ...