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2012
OUR FRIENDS CHERISE & GORDON SELLEY NEED YOUR PRAYERS! Active Rain Family, our fellow bloggers Cherise & Gordon Selley who live in Colorado Springs are in a dire situation. Their home is in the neighborhood of the Flying W Ranch where hundreds of homes were lost due to the fires. I just got off o...
06/28/2012
A PIG WITH LIPSTICK ~ TALE OF THE OVERDRESSED HOUSE!Remember the Drew Carey Show? One of the characters, Mimi was larger than life! She had big hair and a ton of makeup! Where am I going with this? When showing a very high-end home yesterday, upon walking in the front door Mimi came to mind immed...
06/26/2012
THE WOODLANDS, TX ~ HOMES IN STERLING RIDGE FOR SALE The Woodlands is a very large, master-planned community that is divided into Villages which are further divided by indivdual neighborhoods. Each Village and neighborhood offers unique areas with different access to the various freeways, roadw...
06/24/2012
I EARNED A NEW CLIENT BECAUSE I ANSWERED MY PHONE ON SUNDAY When the phone rang yesterday I answered it as I always do if possible. If I do miss a call, I return it as quickly as I can. I am in this business to help my clients buy or sell real estate. We are in a very brisk market right now and...
06/24/2012
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IT'S OFFICIAL ~ WE NOW HAVE A SELLER'S MARKET! Any agent, buyer or seller in The Woodlands and Houston market can resoundingly say that the Buyer's market is dead in the water! In May we saw our numbers soaring as the switch was flipped and moving us into a Seller's market. As a result, the ...
06/20/2012
HOUSTON AREA EXPERIENCING INCREDIBLE SALES ~ MAY 2012 MARKET REPORT The Woodlands as well as the entire Houston area are on fire right now in the housing market. The numbers are in and May was truly a record breaking month. Sales are booming and the available inventory is shrinking before o...
06/19/2012
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PACKAGING YOUR HOME TO SELL! When you make the decision to place your home on the market, it is time to completely change your emotions concerning the home. What I mean by this is that you now have to look at your house as a product to sell. When you think about the dollars and marketing strate...
06/17/2012
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SUNDAY BLESSINGS ~ FATHER'S DAY BLESSINGS Here we are at the end of another week. We were pounded by strong storms here in The Woodlands. We were blessed today on Father's Day to have beautiful blue skies and perfect weather. We are very thankful that we had no trees fall into our home. I a...
06/17/2012
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HAPPY FATHERS DAY BILLY BOB! Yes, I am sure that you are wondering if really and truly my father was named Billy Bob and I have a resounding YES for you! He was not my biological father but it never felt that way to me. He stepped into my life and filled a void that was missing. Born in a dusty...
06/17/2012
CELL PHONE LOST OR BROKEN? THIS TIP KEPT ME IN BUSINESS! I am sure that all of you at one time or another have lost or damaged your cell phone or perhaps it just wasn't working correctly! When this does happen, it can cripple us as this is our life-line in this business. Yesterday my beloved ph...
06/14/2012
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