Eric Webster's Grand Rapids Michigan Real Estate Blog

     Yesterday Karen Webster, wrote a very timely and powerful post about the act of forgiveness and how important it is to leave your baggage behind as you enter an new year!  It was a great post, and has been very well received.  It's also some of the truest words ever written on Active Rain, o...

Both My Lovely Wife and Terry Westbrook tagged me for a MEME.  I think that I'll handle both of those tags with one post. Hopefully that will be acceptable to those who rein in MEMEville.1. Unlike my good friend, TW, I no longer play golf.  I played BADLY for many years, and finally realized that...

I just saw a preview for a new movie coming out.  Generally I don't pay a lot of attention to movie trailers, as I'm a confirmed NETFLIX guy. (That way people kicking the back of my seat and talking on their cell phones don't become a source of frustration for me)  But this one talked about a con...

I was doing some end of the year type organizing, preparing a mailing that I always send after Christmas to every client I had a closing with in that calendar year.  Thanking them again for entrusting their buying/selling process to me, wishing them well and giving them another copy of their HUD-...

I was at a holiday party last evening and ran into Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell and his wife Susan.  As we were talking, I remembered that I'd seen an article in the Grand Rapids Press that the Grand Rapids Public Schools Student Advancement Foundation  has launched a campaign to raise fun...

Tuba Chrismas began in 1974 as a tribute to the late William J. Bell who as born on Christmas day 1902.  The first performace was at New York's Rockerfeller Plaza Ice Rink.  The music was traditional Christmas music that had been arranged for Tuba and Euphonium.Our son, Jared has told us the fun ...

      We were pretty excited one Saturday as we shopped at the Rockford Farmer's Market, when we saw a beautiful new building under construction on the banks of the Rogue River in downtown Rockford MI.  We'd seen an item in the newspaper that a new restaurant was coming, and from the look of the ...

     A SE Grand Rapids standard has opened a location on the NE Side (Northland Drive between E. Beltline and Cannonsburg Road.  THE REAL FOOD CAFE- lives up to the name.     We tend to go for late breakfast/early lunch so we've not encountered much of a wait, but the word is spreading (and I'm s...

     Grand Rapids has an amazing (and growing) variety of restaurants.  From places that have the best bar burger imaginable, to the AAA Five Diamond Award winning Cygnus at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel and everything in between.     Because I've watch the transformation of dining options grow fro...