Dyersburg, TN

Dyersburg, Tennessee has many fine residential contractors but one of the best is Billy Turnbo doing business as Residential Specialties. Although he also does commercial and industrial construction, his real passion is building houses.

Billy Turnbo(Residential Specialties) has been in the construction industry for over 30 years with most of that time working for Forcum Lannom Contractors here in Dyersburg.

Before Billy retired from Forcum Lannom, he started building houses part-time and was actually my partner on several residential and commercial jobs. I chose to partner with Billy Turnbo because of his professionalism and attention to detail.

A few years ago, Mr. Turnbo retired from Forcum to devote full time to building on his own. At that time, I chose to retire my contractor license and work for Billy Turnbo as his Realtor. There are not many residential contractors who devote so much time to detail and make sure everything is just right from the ground up.

Residential Specialities builds custom homes as well as speculative homes.

Because Billy Turnbo does not have an office, he can keep his overhead low and give the customer a great job at a competitive price. The pictures include Billy Turnbo, his yard sign and his current project.

This is one small business in Dyersburg that I highly recommend!

Last Saturday my father in law and I got up at 5am and drove 20 miles to Reelfoot Lake. We were going fishing but in a different kind of way.

Actually we were going yo-yoing. Do you know what that is? The little contraption looks sort of like a yo-yo but one end you tie to a tree limb and you pull out the line with hook on it to the depth you want to fish. We put worms on the hooks and set out about 40 of these yo-yos.

It was a beautiful day and we had a great time. We ended up with 7 catfish weiging an average of about 3 pounds. We got back home by noon so it was a short day on the lake. Hope you enjoy the pictures I took with my blackberry curve.

A couple of weeks ago, many professionals here in Activerain were challenged by Bob Stewart(in his blog post) to blog about a great small business in our city or town. The first company that came to mind for Dyersburg is Riggs Supply and Home Center.

Riggs is a small chain(4) located in Arkansas, Missouri and Tennessee. I am sure the Dyersburg store is their best store because of the employees and staff. Joe Woodard is the manager of the store and I believe he has been with the Dyersburg store since it came to Dyersburg in June 1981.

In one of the pictures you will see the sales counter with about 1/2 of their sales staff pictured. In the picture are Charles Snider, Sheila Forsythe and Rita Hardee.

Riggs Supply and Home Center can also be visited online at www.riggshomecenter.com. The Dyersburg Riggs Supply is located at 305 Highway 51 North Dyersburg,Tennessee 38024.

My family and I love to frequent Riggs because of the low prices and friendly sales staff. My father-in-law Carl Minton is my maintenance man for my 80 rental properties and the first place he will go for supplies is Riggs Supply. From hardware,plumbing, electrical, heating and air filters, lawn mowers and weed eaters and much much more for your home or business, this is the first place you should stop when you need any non food item.

Last Saturday my wife and I went to Riggs Supply to purchase some liquid chlorine for our pool. They have the best price for this. They only had 3 one gallon jugs in stock but promised me they would call me after more came in. Monday afternoon I got a call from Riggs stating that they got my chlorine in. On Wednesday morning my wife and I went to Riggs before work and picked up 8 cases(4 gallons in case).

I went to Riggs Supply this morning for some shower heads(again lowest price) for my apartments. I talked to Joe Woodard and asked him for permission to take some pictures and write about his store. I also told him how much I appreciate him and the employees of Riggs Supply and Home Center.

With the Lowes and Home Depots moving into cities like Dyersburg, the smaller chains like Riggs Supply are feeling the pressure. However, our Riggs Supply is still open and continues to offer the best prices and unsurpassed customer service.

About a year ago, I took my flip video camera out to Dyersburg's Lakewood community and shot some video of the lakes.

There are 5 lakes at lakewood with the largest one several acres in size. That lake connects to another lake almost as large.

I edited on Mixpo several of the videos but that platform has disappeared so now I have resubmitted 3 of those videos to Youtube and these are now available on my lakewood blog over on the right side.

Dyersburg's Lakewood is a great place to live and enjoy the outdoors. My secretary and her husband(my best friend) live in Lakewood and have my family over often to cook-out and fish.

Currently there is a fantastic buy on a foreclosure at Lakewood that is a 5 bedroom 3 bath. This home is located on one of the smaller lakes. This house is priced at $142,500.

To see other Lakewood houses for sale just click on this search Dyersburg lakewood link.

Are you moving to the Dyersburg area and need a rental? You have come to the right place. Carousel Realty and Frazier Properties have over 80 residential rental units.

We offer short term rentals and long term rentals. The agents at Carousel Realty have at their disposal the ability to get their clients into one of these rental units for a short term while they search for a home to purchase.

Perhaps you are moving to the Dyersburg Tn area for a period of 1-3 years and never plan to purchase. We also have you covered.

Although we have several rental houses that do come open occasionally, most of our availability is in our apartment complexes Laurenwood Apartments and Twin Oaks apartments. Both of these complexes are down the street from the Dyersburg hospital.

Laurenwood has (16) 2 br 1.5 ba apts complete with washer and dryer hook-ups and either balcony decks or patios.

Twin Oaks has (40)2 br 1.5 ba apts and (4)1 br 1 ba apts and all are complete with washer and dryer hook-ups and either decks or patios.

If you want to check out availability, click here or call our office at 731-285-2277.