DALLAS' FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH KNOWS ALOT ABOUT THE CHURCH BUSINESS - 01/30/10 10:09 PM
For at least fifty years, I have studied and sometimes marveled at the way different businesses approach and attempt to solve similar problems.
And one of the oldest kinds of businesses is churches and synagogues.  The fundamental business plan for all of them is this:  We will give you a place and a staff where you will find and get spiritual guidance among others who seeking that as well.
But contrary to most businesses, churches and synagogues don't require a fee for a person to participate in their services.  All are expected to make appropriate contributions, however, contributions that are conscious driven.
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TIP TOP ROOFERS ARE TIP TOP! - 01/28/10 09:10 PM

TRAVIS VIDAURRI & SCOTT FORREST
TIP TOP ROOFINGDallas - Fort Worth
817 829-1992
 
It was the last week or so of August.  The skies in Ft. Worth were clear, it wasn't overly hot or humid, and I was enjoying sitting in the porch swing on the big front gallery. 
My clients were strolling through the home they had under contract, looking one more time at this and that.  I was their Buyer's Broker.
In a few minutes the couple who owned and were selling the home joined me.  He was a law enforcement officer with bunches of degrees; she … (9 comments)

GAME OF LIFE: A BEGINNER'S HANDBOOK by Jerry L. Vaughn, Sr. - 01/23/10 09:40 PM
The Game of Life:  Beginner's Handbook.  It's a pocket size book that's about forty pages long, and it was written by my friend of more than half-century, Jerry L. Vaughn, Sr.
<<<====JERRY L. VAUGHN, SR.
In the Preface, Jerry makes a profound petition:
"It is my fondest desire that this book will become required reading and discussion for all high school and college students.
"As a book focused upon relationships, particularly those relationships that have been so divisive in the world of education, the roles and ethical relationships, described should qualify this as a primer for any student or person.  Yes, anyone with a … (2 comments)

Dallas New Home Starts Rose About 10% - 01/20/10 10:52 PM
The Dallas Morning News has researched and reported that new home sales ended the last quarter of 2009 at a 10% rise.  There is a nonsense statement, though:  "...the first increase in annual start rate since second quarter 2006...." Here they are comparing apples and oranges.
Nevertheless, the report is interesting.
DALLAS (Dallas Morning News) - Home starts in Dallas-Fort Worth jumped almost 10 percent in fourth quarter 2009, the first increase in the annual start rate since second quarter 2006, according to Residential Strategies.
Builders started 3,615 homes in the last three months of 2009, compared with 3,200 starts in … (4 comments)

CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL - 01/15/10 07:35 AM
Cynthia Mitchell passed away just after Christmas at her home at The Woodlands.  She was 87 and had suffered from the ravages of Alzheimer's disease for about ten years.
Her funeral was held at Trinity Episcopal Church in Galveston, the church she and her family had attended fifty years earlier when they lived on the Island.  Her ten children were there to celebrate her life as was her husband, George Mitchell, 90.  And the church was packed with friends. 
Another lifelong friend, Trish Clason, sent me one of the printed programs and told me about the service.
The program shows that … (4 comments)

15 (PLUS 5 MORE) RANDOM THOUGHTS.... - 01/14/10 10:12 PM

My friend, Ruthie Evans Lacquement sent me these.  Not only are they true, but they are original.
<<---- Robert and Ruthie Lacquement

Random Thoughts for the Day:
1. I think part of a best friend's job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How the heck are you supposed to fold a fitted … (7 comments)

A Cloak and Dagger Story About a Realtor's Ethics - 01/13/10 09:15 PM
It seems to me that it was last year, maybe the year before, that a well-respected Dallas magazine with a big circulation wrote a story about a Dallas well-known husband-wife real estate team.
The couple was famous for marketing the multi-million dollar homes, and had been for a number of years, so the editors opined this story should be on the cover and would bring lots of interest.
It seems that in addition to listing and selling big homes, the husband also had allegedly been marketing investment partnerships. 
The article said that things had gone bad for his investors, people claimed they had lost money, … (28 comments)

STEWART TITLE CO'S TRACIE BEESON -- A CHAMPION - 01/08/10 10:44 PM

While I'm not particularly fond of the reputation, nevertheless, I have to admit that it's deserved.  You see, I'm one of the legends of Realtors among title companies. 
When I first began as a real estate broker in 1964, Henry Clark ran the mother ship of Stewart Title Co., the office in Galveston, Texas.  He and his wife were friends of my mom and dad, and I grew up and went to school with their daughter, Barbara Jean.
<<---Tracie Beeson, Stewart Title VP
So he took it as his duty to insist that I come spend time at his office … (5 comments)

The Constitution vs. Muslims - There Is No "VS." - 01/08/10 07:46 AM
 
Mark Stevens is an attorney who lives and practices in Galveston, Texas.  We've been friends for a long time.  This Guest Op-Ed was in today's issue of the Galveston County Daily News.  He's responding to a column that was written by one of the paper's reporters, Cathy Gillentine.
It's one of the most learned pieces on what the Constitution says about religious freedom and what the Koran says about Jesus.
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WE DO SHORT SALES AND PRE-FORCLOSURE WORKOUTS - 01/05/10 08:32 AM

The basis of my business education is banking and finance.  My experience began as a residential and commercial loan officer in commercial banks and later, one savings and loan association.
What was of primary importance back then was knowing how to evaluate a potential borrower's ability to meet the loan payments and to look at how he had met his past obligations.  Credit bureaus only reported historical facts about him.  They didn't assign a risk value from that data.
In my experience, anyway, making loans required the officer to put his reputation and job on the line everytime he approved … (3 comments)

DADDY'S 7 RULES FOR SECURING YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE - PART 7 - 01/05/10 08:04 AM

In the Preface of this 7-part series of blogs, I explained that my daddy was always a salaried employee, yet by following seven rules he went from being recently out of college to a millionaire-plus twenty-five years later. My mom never worked, and they fully-funded the education of their two sons. He passed away in 1980.
I suggested that with the 2010 New Year ready to begin, this would be the perfect time for each of us to initiate Daddy's 7 Rules for Securing Your Financial Future.
Here, stated again, are the rules:
Save at least 10% of your gross income Know … (4 comments)

DADDY'S 7 RULES FOR SECURING YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE -- PART 6 - 01/04/10 10:01 PM

In the Preface of this 7-part series of blogs, I explained that my daddy was always a salaried employee, yet by following seven rules he went from being recently out of college to a millionaire-plus twenty-five years later. My mom never worked, and they fully-funded the education of their two sons. He passed away in 1980.
I suggested that with the 2010 New Year ready to begin, this would be the perfect time for each of us to initiate Daddy's 7 Rules for Securing Your Financial Future.
Here, stated again, are the rules:
Save at least 10% of your gross income Know … (3 comments)

DADDY'S 7 RULES FOR SECURING YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE - PART 5 - 01/03/10 10:51 PM

In the Preface of this 7-part series of blogs, I explained that my daddy was always a salaried employee, yet by following seven rules he went from being recently out of college to a millionaire-plus twenty-five years later. My mom never worked, and they fully-funded the education of their two sons. He passed away in 1980.
I suggested that with the 2010 New Year ready to begin, this would be the perfect time for each of us to initiate Daddy's 7 Rules for Securing Your Financial Future.
Here, stated again, are the rules:
Save at least 10% of your gross income Know … (3 comments)

GALVESTON'S FAMOUS BALINESE ROOM - 01/02/10 02:02 PM
Many people know me as the chronicler of the interesting and, at times, rather dysfunctional history of Galveston, Texas, and its people. 
For a number of years, I wrote a weekly column for Galveston's paper about that history, and with the help of my producer, T.J. Aulds, did a series of on-site television pieces for News24-Houston.

All told, I wrote about 600 pieces, most never memorialized in writing prior to that, and I did about 50 or so for News-24.  From all of that, VanJus Press asked to publish an anthology of some of the columns.  It's known as BILL … (1 comments)

DADDY'S 7 RULES FOR SECURING YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE - PART 5 - 01/02/10 07:53 AM

In the Preface of this 7-part series of blogs, I explained that my daddy was always a salaried employee, yet by following seven rules he went from being recently out of college to a millionaire-plus twenty-five years later. My mom never worked, and they fully-funded the education of their two sons. He passed away in 1980.
I suggested that with the 2010 New Year ready to begin, this would be the perfect time for each of us to initiate Daddy's 7 Rules for Securing Your Financial Future.
Here, stated again, are the rules:
Save at least 10% of your gross income Know … (4 comments)

 
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