Now that we are 10 days into February, we can close the book on the tally of January’s Gatlinburg area residential sales. It generally takes a few days for all sales to get reported so to get a reliable value it is necessary to wait until the 10th of the following month. Looking back at the board of realtors sales for January it was a respectable value of 87 units. When compared to the truly atrocious month of January of 2009 January 2010 looks pretty good actually. That makes 7 consecutive months where we have been above the year ago value. With the month of February 2009 being another very easy comparison the streak looks likely to continue…