Sara and Steve's Blog

I love Spring: The bluebonnets The birdsThe trees leafing out Now, all that's overToday, I saw the first mound of sandy-looking dirt. Ugh! if you've lived in San Antonio, Texas, you know that anything that looks like that in your grass or flower beds is a nest of fire ants.    They look small but...

This past week was quiet as so many people were out of town on Spring Break or spending their weekend watching one of the 20 games on.  We did see some weekend showings, but no written offers.  This week, we should be seeing more Buyers getting out and seeing San Antonio, Texas homes.  One facto...

It's exciting to see our Buyer's San Antonio, Texas house being built.  Last week's photos show how nicely these panel-built homes come together.  Already, you can see the form really mature as the windows are in and the sheathing and cement fiberboard siding are being installed.  Our Buyers are ...

"Picnik Show" Create a free slideshow with Picnik!   Every Friday night at about 5pm, people start gathering, with and without cars, at this San Antonio, Texas parking lot to show off their rides and socialize.  If you take Loop 1604 to Topperwein, right outside the Loop, you'll find it.  There ...

We had some beautiful sunny days this week in San Antonio, Texas. One of the things that I love about working in my Stone Oak home office is that the view of the Hornbeck Preserve in the canyon behind our house in the Peak at Promontory.  This week, as spring came roaring back it brought even mor...

One of my Buyers was just talking with me recently about decor trends here in the San Antonio area.  Of course, we have a lot of beautiful model homes here and my Buyer had asked me to photograph one of the homes that we had seen in a community north of Blanco Road and Loop 1604: Canyon Ranch Est...

Deep in the heart of Texas... OK, along almost every Hill Country highway in Texas; including those around wildflower-rich San Antonio, are the most beautiful blue wildflowers flowers that you will ever see. The Texas Bluebonnet is a type of lupen and grows rampant thorough-out much of the state ...

It is always exciting to see a new home being built for our clients.  This gorgeous residence-in-the-making is in Canyon Ranch Estates.  When complete in June 2010, it will be over 4700 square feet! You can see the big oaks on the lot and the arch-top windows that have been installed.  I can't w...

  Not far from the San Antonio, Texas intersection of Loop 1604 and Blanco Road is charming Bulverde.    It is a great community with a county feel and has some wonderful custom home neighborhoods like Glenwood.     Glenwood is a small community and has a beautiful amenity center for the neighbo...

It's Sunday night at 10:15 and I am pre-negotiating an offer for one of our Sellers. I have been working on it for hours as I want to give our Seller the most accurate data, including both up-to-the-minute Buyer and Seller closing cost estimates, and discuss a strategy for getting an offer on the...