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My favorite "cats" or past customers or fun friends. Scott and Nancy.

By Barbara S. Duncan

Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Advantage

August 23, 2008 12:36 AM

Two fun cats!

Last year I had communication from someone who wanted to move from Baltimore to the country. They decided to look at Searcy after doing extensive searches on the internet.

First trip they just looked around and went back to place their house on the market.

Then they came back with the intent to buy! Lucky me! We found them a house in a beautiful part of the country with a basement!! We don't have basements in this area. Only foolish people build houses with basements in the south. And this house with a basement wouldn't sell because it had a basement. Southerners know better.

They knew and loved basements so it was just waiting for them. They bought it, left Baltimore and settled in our area. They still come to see me. He calls me Mom and she and I go out to eat and catch up.

They stopped by a few days ago to show me their newest toy. For some reason "cats" came to mind to describe these two fun people riding around on a fun contraption. Say hello to my friends, Cowboy and Nancy!

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Karen Anne Stone

New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth Real Estate

Barbara: This makes all the sense in the world to me. All these guys are is frustrated hippies looking for a place to be themselves. It looks like you did a great job in finding them such a place. So... did you get to go for a ride in their cool yellow bike/trike ?

Now that I think about it, though, perhaps Searcy would be a great town for retiring hippies... LOL. That would include me... the former hippie junior high teacher in the 1970's. Take care...

Aug 23, 2008 12:41 AM

Karen Anne Stone

New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth Real Estate

Perhaps you could ask these guys where in Baltimore you could put a little "teaser" ad... advertising to their friends that Searcy is a retired-hippie-friendly town. It could turn into a great niche for you.

Aug 23, 2008 12:42 AM

Mike Saunders

Retired - Athens, GA

Barbara - great that you could find them a place. In this part of the south people like basements. What's the deal in Searcy?

Aug 23, 2008 12:49 AM

James Downing - Metro DC Houses Team REALTORS®, CRS, GRI, ABR,MRP, MilRes

Real Living | At Home - Washington, DC

When Looking to Buy or Sell - Make the Right Move

Did they take you for a ride on that? I want to see you riding with the cool cats! :-)

Aug 23, 2008 01:01 AM

Ron Tarvin

Residential, Investment properties, rehab projects, property management, luxury homes, new construction! - Katy, TX

Broker, Katy, Houston, Cypress 77450,77494,77095

Now that's a contradiction...a COWBOY from BALTIMORE! :)

That's the great thing about this business, isn't...all the fun and interesting (and sometimes challenging) people we get to meet!

Aug 23, 2008 01:16 AM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Karen Anne, I must see a picture of you as a hippy school teacher! I taught Junior High one year and decided it was a true battle field. Kids are so up-tight with looks and hormones and worries! I moved on to High School and it was a little better. My female friend on the bike was being taken for lunch by the husband so she didn't have on her full hippy outfit. He lives in his.

And, no, you won't catch me on that thing!

Aug 23, 2008 02:08 AM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Mike, this was a full fledged underground basement with no exit except up the stairs. We have a lot of walk-out basements but very few like this one. They have to have sump pumps run all the time and since our water table is so high, they tend to fill up with water or mold or moisture. And they smell musty all the time. Southerners have sensitive noses! LOL

I can't imagine you in Athens having full basements either. But you do?

Aug 23, 2008 02:11 AM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

James, they offered me a ride but I politely declined with a statement like, "!@$%, are you crazy! I'm not getting on that thing! " Now tell me why that formed a hyperlink?????

Aug 23, 2008 02:13 AM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Ron Tarvin's Team, actually he wasn't a cowboy when he came. I crowned him as one because he is about 6'7" tall, has a flat belly that would look wonderful with one of those huge cowboy belt buckles, wore jeans well and had terrific muscles! He could rustle cows with the best of us. BUT, he still has that Yankee accent!

P. S. I forgot to ask him if he can ride a horse........oh well......

Aug 23, 2008 02:17 AM

Gary Woltal

Keller Williams Realty - Flower Mound, TX

Assoc. Broker Realtor SFR Dallas Ft. Worth

Barbara, Cowboy and Nancy look like such fun folk. My kind of people. Glad you were able to help them. The house for them was a perfect match.

Aug 23, 2008 03:15 AM

Debi Ernst

St. Charles County, Missouri - Prudential Alliance Realtors - O'Fallon, MO

GRI, e-PRO, Broker/Sales Associate

Barbara - That's an interesting looking vehicle. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it. Did you go for a ride?

Aug 23, 2008 05:24 AM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Gary, they are fun folks! I like them a whole bunch!!

Debi, no way did I volunteer for a ride on the vehicle. They were having fun though.

Aug 23, 2008 07:47 AM

Mesa, Arizona Real Estate Mesa Arizona Realtor

Homes Arizona Real Estate LLC - Mesa, AZ

AzLadyInRed

Barbara, that looks like so much fun. Way back in the day, I rode bikes...dirt, that is. ;-)

Aug 23, 2008 05:23 PM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Terri, thanks for stopping by. I was a fraidy-cat all my life and didn't do those dangerous fun things.

Aug 24, 2008 01:00 AM

Dick Betts

TOUCHSTONE REAL ESTATE - The Villages, FL

REALTOR® The Villages, Florida

Yes I am back! Was on the road for 2 weeks straight including weekend. Doing something new, in my Top Technology Trends Class I collect business cards from agents who want to start blogging. I am sending them invitations and they are starting to blog. It's nice seeing all those points piling up!

Aug 24, 2008 04:28 AM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Good luck on that. My only points gatherer is Mary. Your inspiration wore off quickly from the others who did maybe one blog. You may have so many points you won't have to blog at all!!

Aug 24, 2008 04:56 AM

Marchel Peterson

Results Realty - Spring, TX

Spring TX Real Estate E-Pro

Barbara, I'll bet they are one of the only couples in Searcy with a contraption like that. Somehow I think they probably like being the only one with that contraption also. They do look like a fun couple. I'm sure it was an enjoyable transaction.

Aug 24, 2008 05:43 AM

Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Marchel, they bought it on ebay, I believe, and they were trying it out. Thanks for comments.

Aug 24, 2008 09:21 AM

Anonymous

The 2 fat cats, in that picture :

Great picture Barbara { ecspeically of the guy driving :} . I purchased the Trike off ebay, from a builder in Missouri who has been making them for 20 + years. I like it much better then a normal motorcycle and it steers suprisingly well. I still plan on keeping my little gas scooter that gets 100 mpg . Every hippie needs a scooter !

Special thanks to Barbara Duncan for finding our new home in Arkansas. Ive had experience with several Baltimore based realtors before moving out here, and none of them were even close to Barbaras friendly, truthful and knowledgable personality .

Sep 05, 2008 04:13 AM

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Barbara S. Duncan

RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR

GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Two Cats! Thanks for the comment and the explanation of where that weird thing came from. Thanks for the praise for my services too!!! I'm going to put that on my blog front page!

Sep 05, 2008 04:19 AM