Gary Poppens's Blog

As I was driving home from an open house the call came, it was from my mother, can you come right away your father needs to go to the hospital he can't breathe. Panic was my first thought, then I asked how bad it was and determined we probably didn't need the ambulance but wasn't sure, he had thi...

Have you ever done something that after you did it you just knew it was the right thing to do? As we go through life we come upon challenges that try our patience, temper, and knowledge, but if you go back to the basics and apply those principles that you learned, or should have, things will work...

My father-in-law was a farmer who thought the only tractor was an Oliver he used them until he retired in 1979 and had a farm sale. When he had the sale the tractors he owned were an 88 and a Super 88 both of them were late forties or early fifties models which made them 30 years old and antiques...

No matter what profession you are in it seems that your patience is tested from time to time, whether you are in sales, retail, self-employed, or whatever your profession might be. In real estate we are in contact with people on a daily basis trying to make their dreams come true in a not so drea...