Ok! Let me try to begin where I left off yesterday.

My area of expertise in Real Estate is Residential Sales with a Speciality in New Construction.

I service a lot of different communities since we are a rural area - those area include, Mandeville, Covington, Abita Springs, Lacombe ( Home of the Crab Festival), Slidell, Pearl River, Bush & Sun in St. Tammany Parish.

In Tangipahoa Parish the communities are Hammond, Ponchatoula (Home of the Strawberry Festival), Bedico, Pumpkin Center, Springfield & Amite.

In Washington Parish the communities are Bogalusa (Home of the Paper Mill), Franklinton (Home to the Washington Parish Fair - The world's largest FREE Fair), Angie, Varnado, Mount Herman & others!

This area is bounded by Lake Pontchartrain to the South and the Mississippi border to the North. The I-12 & I -55 corridors runs right through the middle of our area.

Since the K thing things are a little different here. We now have more residents and business than before the K thing.

Our area had been in a housing boom with an extreme shortage long before the K thing. In 2005 when the K thing happened we did not have alot of inventory to sell to people who had lost there homes - This was the craziest time I have ever experienced in Real Estate.

You see here on the North Shore we did not have the flooding that New Orleans had - but we had extensive tree damage from high winds. We had homes that were totally destroyed from trees taking them out. There was a mad dash of people looking for homes - and they buying homes with a tree in the middle of it - because it could be repaired and was not under water. I know that sounds crazy - but it truly was happening.

For 1 month I lived in my camper with a generator - before we got our utilities back. I would get up every morning around 4am and go the office which came away unscathed (Our Corporate office and others were affected so we had lots of guests). We were thrown back in time to do our jobs because the MLS was down - our board office was flooded. So we searched a database that was outdated looking for homes for people and the phone service was extremely sketchy. To show properties in that first 30 days you drove to the home - 1. To see if it still existed 2. To see if the sellers still wanted to sell 3. What damage did the home have. I tell you this was a crazy time.

It took 6 months to get phone and internet service back to my home - so I worked alot of long hours at the office - some days I would be there as early as 6am and not leave until 10 or 11pm.

Now here we are almost 3 years later - I finally have the time to try to figure out about blogging.

So no more about the K thing. The next time I will tell a little bit more about our current market!

Have A GREAT DAY EVERYONE!

Whew Glad I got that out of my system!