Billi Evans's (billimissourirealtor) Blog

  Think back to your own days in high school. Every high school has that one school that they have to beat. The school, that if you go 0-9 in football but beat that one school the season is saved! Unfortunately over the last few years many high school rivalries have turned ugly and it has almost...

I've worked with lots of builders who do just that; build homes. They try to turn a litlle profit and move on. Of course ther's nothing wrong with that, luckily for me I'm currently working with a builder who has put both his inspiration and perspiration into one of my current listings. For years...

They don't make them like that any more. I just finished the novel Half Broke Horses, the follow up true-life novel by Jeannette Walls, the author of the wonderful Glass Castles. If you haven't read them, you owe it to yourself to do so. Without retelling her grandmother's Lily Casey Smith life's...

I just finished the novel Half Broke Horses, the follow up true-life novel by Jeannette Walls, the author of the wonderful Glass Castles. If you haven't read them, you owe it to yourself to do so. Without retelling her grandmother's Lily Casey Smith life's story, I came away inspired by what a st...

If you haven't seen the movie (and I haven't found many who have) you won't understand. But I don't want to become a "Black Swan" of real estate. Don't get me wrong. I like being successful. I like helping people find the right house. I like living a prosperous life and I like sleeping at night ...

I remember an old song by the Beach Boys that asked the question, "Wouldn't it be nice?" I have a few of my own: Wouldn't it be nice if my 12 year old son would always think his mom was cool? It was just about this age that his older brother stopped thinking so. Wouldn't be nice if other agents a...

    As licensed agents, we all understand the importance of buyers being organized when starting the ever direction-changing journey of buying a house. "Where to start?"  buyers often ask themselves. Should I spend time on the local MLS looking at properties? Should I interview real estate agents...

Almost time for bed, but before I turn off my computer I wanted to ask the Active Rain community if they've been as busy as I have been the last week? I spent today showing property to two new sets of clients as I also did on Saturday. And the week leading up to this weekend was also spent showin...

One of my New Year's resolutions was to get back into the habit of blogging on Active Rain. I had become a pretty active member during the summer and early fall, but got so busy at work and with my kids that my blogging dropped off. Now I'm just wondering if other agents might share any resolutio...

Remember when we were kids and the local weather man was predicting snow? Just the anticipation of an unscheduled day away from school was enough to excite us. Well, last night the excitement came for my twelve year old when the names of area schools started crawling across the bottom of our tele...