Raylene's College Station Real Estate Blog

The Brazos Valley Speed Demons, a local soccer team that is part of the Brazos Valley Futbol Club, recently triumphed in their tournament against the Houston teams.  The Boys played 2 hours away and the support and enthusiasms that accompanied the team was wonderful and definitely contributed to ...

My family and I were driving around East Texas looking for land this weekend, about an hour outside of College Station, when we passed by the office building of a company that tows cars. My four year old immediately started yelling "Mommy! Mommy, Look! It's Tow Mater!" Tow Mater is a character fr...

When you are ready to sell your Bryan, College Station home, and it is time to place your property on the market, the goal will be to achieve the best possible sales price and sell your property in the time-frame that best meets your needs.  We are often told when meeting other people for the fir...

Like many of you, I am a HUGE Animal lover! I see the pets who live in my home as members of my family. I was outraged when, at the closing table, the Buyer's agent told me "Raylene, you know why it took that house of yours a while to sell?" (It went UC in less than 3 weeks, so I didn't think it ...

I walked out behind my home this Sunday to find over 100 Buzzards behind my back yard with over 120 dead fish floating in the pond behind my house or scattered along the bank. See Blog All of the Fish in the pond Appear to Have Died Overnight! What the? The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries ha...

College Station Texas is a wonderful place to live with a variety of wildlife.  This toad was found in the parking lot at the Home Depot on University Drive.  Luckily, "Kermit" was rescued and taken to a heavenly pond in South College Station where he found more water and bugs and less asphalt an...

One of my clients sent me the jokes below. I don't know if the stories are true or not, but I thought they were pretty funny.  They are suppose to be true "Here's Your Sign" Events that occurred.  Hope you have fun in the Rain this work week! One Idiot of 2007 I am a medical student currently doi...

I live in a subdivision and my house backs up to 1 of 2 ponds: One pond is located on the left side of the street and the other is on the right. When I went outside this morning to feed the ducks, I noticed over 100 Buzzards out by the lake on the Left. Worried, I ran out to the water to find ove...

That is right, I am officially a Buyer! What a different position to be in! I have to say, looking for land in Texas has proven to be quite frustrating! There doesn't seem to be a good website to look for land I don't get calls back or emails returned from Realtors who have land listed I even say...

There is a big question going on right now on how to correctly price homes for sale in Bryan, College Station given the current state of the market and the economy in general. Everyone has heard that the local area here has not been hurt nearly as bad as the rest of the nation and that is 100% tr...