A new foreclosure has come through and it is priced RIGHT this time. How would you like to have a ranch style 3 bedroom 2 bath house for $24.07 per square foot? It has brick exterior, fireplace, large laundry room and fenced back yard. Price is $39,900! Things that will have to be done is repl
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01/31/2009
A few days ago I wrote a blog about the Mayfair Hotel in Searcy Arkansas and how it was very near a park that had healing waters. This old postcard shows that park at about that era, I'd think. The spring was covered with this circular pavilion or gazebo and it was within easy walking distance
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01/30/2009
Ever heard the old saying that the way to a girl's heart is through her stomach? I know, I know, it is supposed to say the way to a MAN'S heart is through his stomach. I walked in the house today at 4:30 after closing a house, my first this year, and smelled something divine. The table was set
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01/28/2009
You can't say that this is not a creative name for a motel! Rip Van Winkle slept for 20 years and woke up and found everything different! Wikipedia says, The story of Rip Van Winkle is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. Rip Van Winkle, a villager of Dutch descent,
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01/27/2009
A few months ago I wrote about one of remaining two full-service filling stations in Searcy Arkansas. I confessed that it is my one luxury that I will not give up until they are gone. I sit in my car and they pamper me by cleaning my windshield, checking my tires, and whatever else I request. Y
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01/26/2009
The old Mayfair Hotel in Searcy Arkansas was majestic. It was near a park that had healing spring water, a railroad dropped people off close-by and it was a popular hotel. This old postcard shows how great it was. I drove by today and snapped a present day shot of it from the front and from th
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01/25/2009
At least three times last week as I was working at the computer email came through to me saying there had been showings on my listings. When I logged in it showed the property had been shown just minutes before the notification came to me. I knew they were being shown but didn't expect to be no
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01/25/2009
Lots of Searcy readers have been commenting on old Searcy Arkansas and the things they used to do, the places they visited, and the way the streets were laid out. One of the readers, Harold Gene Sullivan, sent me this photo with some landmarks already labeled! Look at all the old trees and the
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01/24/2009
I've been married to a car dealer for more years that I can count. He was one we could depend on. If something was wrong with the car I'd call up and ask him what was wrong and he'd diagnose it over the phone. We've had kids call from California asking for the free vehicle diagnosis. They've
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01/22/2009
I was just asittin' there playing in the rain when an email popped up. It said that Johnny S______ wanted to be my friend on Facebook. Oh, yes!! That's Johnny from way back when I taught school and he stayed at my house a lot and was best friends with my son and I hadn't heard from him in about
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01/21/2009