CHATEAU- LAKE GARY FOR SALE! 1330 sq ft cabin with 100 feet of waterfront shoreline. $72,000

1.19 acres waterfront Lake Front for sale

2 Bedroom Cabin on 0.94 acres Waterfront Lake Front at an Incredible Low Price of $69,000 Lake Raymond Gary Southeast Oklahoma

I Want My Wrap Back From Holiday Inn.

Ok, it's like this.  Last week I stayed at the Holiday Inn on Financial Plaza in Shreveport, Louisiana.  I took a white terry cloth wrap with me for going back and forth to the pool.

On Saturday afternoon, after housekeeping had finished with my room, my wrap was missing even though I had hung it on the shower curtain bar and had put the towels in the floor so that they could see the difference.

I called the front desk that evening and some very nice gentleman said that he would go find it.  I did not hear back from him. 

On Sunday as we prepared to check out, I called the front desk again to ask about my missing apparel.  The wrap or sun-dress like cover up had not been turned in and they didn't know anything about it.  They connected me to housekeeping when I got voice mail.

When we checked out, I asked again at the front desk.  They sent me to housekeeping.  I left a description of the missing clothing, my phone number, etc.

I called back on Tuesday and asked the front desk again.  They didn't have a clue even though I talked to the same lady that I had talked to when we checked out.  She transferred me to housekeeping again and I got voice mail again.  I left a message. 

This is Thursday and I still have not heard from them.  Have you ever tried to find a phone number for customer service on the Holiday Inn Website???  Not to be had.

I want my wrap back, it was my favorite!

Holiday Inn, are you listening???

Log Home Builders - Here's A Great Tool For You!

A Dovetail Jig for Tongue and Groove Logs - Appalachian Style Logs. For 6 X 12 logs adjusts to 8 X 12 logs.

This is made by Great Northern Dovetailors

Sold new for $1800 - has been used on the construciton of 1 home.  In Excellent condition, ready to go to work.  Sure makes it easy to do the dovetailing on your lots.  Slide your logs in and cut.  They will fit like they're supposed to!

For Sale for $1200

Located in Neosho, Missouri

Call Judi Barrett for more  information at 580-212-5946

Waterfront Cabin Lake Raymond Gary 2 bed 1 bath 160 ft shore line $67,000

WATERFRONT CABIN for sale on Lake Raymond Gary.  This is situated on a nice large lot with a very gentle slope, almost flat, to the water.  Main part of the lake.

Build a boat dock, fish from the back yard.  Secluded get-away for week-ends or looking for a full time residence?

2 bedroom, 1 bath.

Pine wood interior walls,

screened in sleeping porch with laundry hook-ups on the porch.

Master bedroom and living room both open onto the screened porch.

Vaulted ceiling.

160 feet of shoreline.

Listed at $67,000

Another Exclusive Offering on Lake Raymond Gary from Integrity Real Estate Services, Judi Barrett broker - call me at 580-212-5946

The Best Place To Buy Sheets!

I have been buying sheets and bedding for some time now at  Smart Bargains.   If you enjoy quality sheets in the higher thread counts and like a good price on them, you've got to check out their site.

I've ordered from them several times.  They ship promptly and it's always right.  They also sell other things but I haven't ordered anything from them other than bedding at this point.

Integrity Real Estate Services

Grandchildren & Children = Are You Being a Good Example?

The Blessings of Grandchildren

That old saying, “If I had known how much fun grandchildren were going to be, I would have skipping having children and just had grandchildren,” has some truth in it.

I don’t think that it’s the difference in children...whether your own children...or your children’s children (grandchildren).

I really believe that it’s the difference in our perspectives as we grow a little bit older.

As I begin to enjoy the “twilight of my youth”, it becomes really clear that life is short and it goes by so quickly. I know that it will not be long before my grandchildren will be grown, because I watched it happen with their parents.

It was only yesterday when their parents, my children, were their ages. I want to keep them small but I know that’s not going to happen…life goes by quickly and they grow up whether we want it to or not.

Those first few years of life are so important in many ways. Our children are learning from us in ways that we do not even think about. That makes it extremely important that we handle the things that life brings us in ways that will be a good example to them.

It is important enough that we should stop and think about the example that we are setting because when it gets absorbed by the little ones around us, they are learning to handle those situations when they grow up.

Some things to think about: • Am I setting the correct example for my children in my attitudes and actions toward others, especially toward them, but also toward clients, customers, neighbors, check-out people at stores, other drivers on the road... , everyone?

• Am I setting the correct example in my attitude toward things? Remember these words, “Use things and love people NOT use people and love things.”

• Do I properly care for the things that I own? Not only are they learning from us about dealing with people, but they also pick up on how to take care of things that we own. The children of today will grow up to be the clients of tomorrow.  Teaching them to care for their rooms and belongings may equate into them taking good care of their home some day.

I am a Christian, so as I deal with my children, grandchildren, clients, customers, etc it is important that I think about that. We are supposed to be showing the world Christ in us.

Also as we take care of the things that God provides for us, we are being good stewards and setting that example. I am always feeling like I need to be a better example and handle things better than I do and I pray that each day I am a better person than the day before.

Ponderings for June 20, 2008

What's Your Favorite Meeting Place That Clients Can Easily Find?

June 17, 2008

"The Depot" is one place in Fort Towson, Oklahoma where everyone knows it's location.  That makes it my favorite spot to meet clients.  Yesterday, I made use of it twice.  Met a client there to cancel a contract and later in the day met clients there to show them vacant waterfront lots around Lake Raymond Gary. 

The Oklahoma Uniform Contracts are great because they provide buyers a time frame to do their inspections and if a property is not going to work for them, they can cancel the contract and get their earnest money back.  Such was the case yesterday.  This helps give buyers the confidence to make an offer on a property, knowing that they will have an inspection period. 

Met a really nice lady yesterday that became a client before the meeting was over - Listing appointment for lake property at Lake Raymond Gary.  This is going to be a property that will be looked at much, one of those that matches what I've been asked for over and over by buyers.

Lunch from The Corner Store.  If you haven't read my blog on THE place to eat in Fort Towson, "The Corner Store".  It is here.  We did carry out and took it to our lake house to enjoy our lunch and the view.  Then it started raining....just in time for my showing of vacant lots. But we donned our rain coats and looked anyway.  Great folks.  I believe that they will really enjoy living at Lake Raymond Gary.

One of our clients that bought a lot is having a new fence built and asked for some help in relocating some giant concrete blocks, so we took care of that and then headed home.  The day is never over if there are websites to be updated, so computer time came next along with phone calls to clients, giving them updates on listings and pendings.

One last chore, on the riding lawn mower and finally Finished for the day.

Ended it with the Celtics beating the Lakers!

How was your day?

Call Judi Barrett for your real estate needs in McCurtain County and Choctaw County Oklahoma.  We know the area!  580-212-5946  or email judi@integrity-realestate.net  Office is located in Idabel, Oklahoma but we travel from Haworth to Hugo for our clients.

Oklahoma Alarm Clocks Set Themselves!

We have a very unusual alarm clock at our house. 

A Red Bird. 

A real alive wild red bird.

This year since early spring, this red bird flys smack into our sun room windows.  He does it over and over until he gets tired, goes for a rest and then he's back at it again. 

It starts BEFORE daylight and then through-out the day, he will be back at it.  I don't know if he sees his reflection and is defending his territory of if he wants inside my sunroom. 

Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud.  That will wake you up.  The sun room conncects to our bedroom so that bird is my alarm clock at about 5 am every morning!

Help!  What can I do???

He is really skiddish though, when you get close as if to take a pic, he's gone!

So a pic of his relative will have to do.