I have been an avid hunter most of my life. It is not that I enjoy shooting animals as much as it is that I love the the outdoors, wildlife, and nature in general. I help take care of a wildlife managent program on our family ranch and never realized until recently how important quality management of the deer population is in Texas.

Don't harvest enough and problems will come.

Take to many and more problems will follow.

Today was opening day of deer season in Texas and yours truly really didn't want to get out of bed to make the 30 minute drive..... so I stayed in bed later , got up drank some coffee, worked on active rain , then grabbed my lawn chair, and walked to the pasture behind our residence to wait on bambi. The walk is only 100 yards so if I wanted to go to bed so I could do so easily.

I got seated and then my pet cat walked up and started meowing...just what a great hunter needs.  Almost took up cat hunting !

Needless to say I did return home quickly wihout Bambi!

Recently while having an inspection performed on an older home , it became necessary to cut an access panel in the floor in order to examine the crawl space under the floors. Little did we know we would discov er a bandit under the home! 

 Once the contractor got a hole opened up,  he turned on a flashlight and I noticed some small kitty prints in the dirt under the home and said something to the gentleman about them.

The man looked at me with a funny look on his face and said  " No sir   those are not kitty tracks....there is something much bigger under this house!

I said politely "no you are wrong ."

He then laughed and told me to look closer so I bent down in the hole. It then was ovious that he was looking at a set of tracks that I couldn't see earlier..... And this little bandit was definitely a little bigger than a kitty! 

Every since I can remember it has been debated as to whether or not it is beneficial or detrimental..... to say that a property is a foreclosure in advertising that property.  Of course it is the client's choice on the matter and personally I have always respected that choice, and followed the client's instructions,  as one certainly should.

But nevertheless the debate goes on. My personal feeling is that is doesn't hurt and it may even help to say something in the ads. The prospective buyer is going to find out eventually one way or the other. Sometimes sellers are worried that a buyer prospect will offer less if it is a foreclosure. My personal feeling is that  a buyer is going to offer whatever he or she wants to offer, no matter what is  beingmadvertised, particularly on the first go round of the negotiation process. I believe the mere fact that the word "foreclosure" appears in an ad is not going to cause a buyer to run away either.  I feel that the opposite is true and that by saying a duck is a duck more folks will call because it is

. In  this day and age a seller of a foreclosure should seriously think hard about putting too many limoitations his representative. It is difficult enough selling a quality home that is ready to occupy immediately, much less a foreclosure that more often than not  needs substantial renovations.

If you sell foreclosures, do you recomend to sellers to advertise "FORECLOSURE" ?

Photos by   Milam F. "Trey" Thurmond, Broker, CRB, GRI, SRES.

For all your real estate needs in Bryan-College Station , and Aggieland  Texas .....including Residential, Land, Investments, Commercial and Property Management Services. Now is a great time to buy or sell or lease real estate. Call or email me today and I will get right to work to meet your real estate goals.

Serving BCS for 31 Years!

Classic Realty Associates

3600 Hwy 6 S. #100   College Station, Texas 77845

979-694-8844    trey@txcyber.com

This morning my wife and I were running a little late. Our voting place is 5 miles from our home which is 30 miles from the office. I couldn't locate my voter registration, and told myself since we were late that I would try to come back later and vote. In Texas you can vote with an alternate ID like your driver's license.  So that was the plan....even though it would mean another 60 mile round trip that I would do it anyway.

Now mind you on today's ballot in our county, there were no candidates, only amendments to the Texas Constitution, eleven to be exact. Now ....most folks don't get fired up about amendments when it comes to voting, at least as much as they do about candidates, including yours truly, but I made up my  mind to do it.

So at lunch a jumped in the truck and headed to the polls only to realize I did not have my driver's license with me either. Rats!  That would add an other 10 miles to the trip. That was it I just wouldn't vote. 

Then this little voice started saying...." Chicken"   Go vote! 

So I drove home got my license went to the polls and voted. It looked like only 58 people had voted at the station halfway through the day . I hope my extra 70 miles was worth  it for constitutional amendments.

Then I thought "What if?"    What if that one vote makes the difference?  

It could.

http://www.lonestarrally.com/html/lonestarrally.html  in Galveston, Texas!

Today we accidentally came on to what is billed to be the world's largest Halloween Part in Galveston Texas known as the LONE STAR RALLY.  We went for a day of seafood and legstretching sightseeing and walked right into the middle of one of the largest biker rallies in America. Things were never dull as there was a constant parade of bikes and interesting people. After a couple of hours we headed to the Bolivar Ferry for some fresh air.

Photos by   Milam F. "Trey" Thurmond, Broker, CRB, GRI. For all your real estate needs in Bryan-College Station ,  and Aggieland  Texas .....including Residential, Land, Investments, and Property Management Services. Now is a great time to buy or sell real estate. Call or email me today and I will get right to work to meet your real estate goals.

Serving BCS for 31 Years!

Classic Realty Associates

979-694-8844

trey@txcyber.com

Last week two underdogs surprised the world!The Texas Aggies trumped Texas Tech and Iowa State licked Nebraska. Today the 2 underdogs that whipped up on the big boys meet at Kyle field in College Station, at 2:30 pm. Why is this game important? Because both teams are going to be really fired up coming off similar victories over major teams. I expect this to be an exciting game with lots of xtra effort being put forth.  We will be there for all the action and  I hope the world recognizes that there is talent out there other than Texas and Oklahoma. Gig em Aggies!

A Sheriff's Sale  In Texas is how properties with overdue very delinquent taxes , penalties, and interest are collected by the state and then distributed to the taxing entities owed. The buyers who pursue these type sales should be knowledgeable about many facets of the sale.

Do your homework!

• A sheriff's deed comes without warranty.
• Some liens may not go away.
• There are rights of redemption , after the sheriff's sale,  by the person or entity that owned the property before the sale . The period of time varies as to whether or not the property was a homestead. They can come back within the specified time frame and buy it back for what you put in it plus 25%
• Seek legal advise and perhaps have a title search done on the property.
• Check on the mineral status, floodplain, encroachments etc
• Go find the property and view.
• Are there tenants or owners still there?
• Go see your tax office for details.
• Have money available.
• If handeled properly a Sheriff's sale can be the source of some good values.

Today the Bryan-College Station Regional Association MLS Service held its annual meeting. As part of the by laws,  this annual meeting of Designated Brokers has to be called, and the new slate of officers elected plus the business for the last year and the new budget for the new year, must be approved. This may have been the smoothest meeting I have ever been to in several decades and is really a testament to the good job that the president Joy Caldwell, and her board did over the last year. My thumbs go up to them!

As a former president I personally know that the position requires a lot of work and patience.  And many times, like most volunteer positions, it can be a thankless job. Also it can be difficult to get a quorum of brokers together at 9:00 in the morning, so for the last 2 years it has been held at 11 AM with a lunch at Christopher's a local gourmet restaurant. Food always seems to do the trick when it comes to Brokers!