Realtor, Author & Neighbor: Battle Creek, Michigan

My board of Realtors asked me to compete in a video contest put on by one of the Continuing Education companies our board has an account with.  The contest was for a Realtor to put together a promotional video on themselves, and have it be unique and original.  Three finalists will be chosen on M...

Buying a HUD home in Battle Creek, Michigan or anywhere requires that you work with a local REALTOR® that is registered to submit HUD bids through their brokerage and HUD.  As a local REALTOR® who works with a lot of first time home buyers, as well as investors, I can tell you that HUD homes offe...

Every Spring in March and April, there is an exhibit in Grand Rapids, at the Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park featuring butterflies from around the world.  You can walk into the exhibit, and see a wide variety of butterflies of all different colors.  I wrote a prior blog post on this exhibit, an...

Last month I visited the Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan and I certainly was able to take a lot of photos for future blog posts on this place.  To date I have written the following posts about this wonderful park, in case you are interested in reading those: Butterfly ...

Life in Battle Creek, Michigan is perhaps similar to many cities around the country.  We have our own unique identity that sets us apart, and like any city, we have our ups and downs.  I have always looked at Battle Creek as being a survivor city, where many smaller communities may have failed, w...

There is quite a collection of amazing sculpture at the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  I visited there with my wife last month, and took several photos.  Some of them are tremendously large. From personal taste, I always seem to most admire the ones that ca...

Henry David Thoreau once wrote: “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” I know of nothing more apparent in our current culture than the quiet desperation many people face when they struggle with credit card debt. Putting it bluntly, credit cards...

There have been some new changes in HUD home sales in Michigan.  Last October Michaelson, Conner and Boul, commonly referred to as ‘MCB' did not have their contract with HUD renewed.  Instead, two new companies are now managing HUD properties statewide.  One is BLB Resources, and the other is Cit...

Every spring and summer, in the park across the street from my house, there are little league baseball games.  From our home you can see the baseball diamond and backstop, and one only need walk a short distance to be standing on the sidelines of the field of dreams.  I love baseball, so for me y...

May is such a fitting month for the special holiday of Mother's Day.  When I was a kid in Phoenix, Arizona, my boyscout troop always held a 'Mother's Day Breakfast' where we sold tickets for weeks in advance, and then worked our tail cooking breakfast for literally hundreds and hundreds of people...