Shannon's Blog

 The new issue of Forbes magazine includes an article titled "America's Best and Worst Housing Markets.  You can read it at  http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/25/strongest-housing-markets-forbeslife-cx_mw_0125strongest.html.According to Forbes, median home prices in the metro Baton Rouge area have in...

Is a professional home inspection on new construction really necessary?  Isn't the punchlist performed by the buyer and the buyer's agent sufficient?An incident this week made me aware that the consumers (and some agents) regard punchlists and professional inspections as one in the same; I believ...

Title companies,insurance agents,lenders and on and on, these are the people we refer clients to on a daily basis.  Are those receprocial relationships for you?  Up to now it sure has not been for me.  But all of that is about to change.....Like I said in an earlier blog, I am a goal setter...a B...

Nationally the real estate outlook for 2007 is dismaying to say the least.  The outlook for Louisiana in general and Baton Rouge specifically however, is quite promising.  House Predictor(http://www.housepredictor.com/) recently released the top 10 states to watch and leading the list was Louisia...

Inspired by other Active Rainers I grabbed my trusty digital camera and headed out yesterday to take some pictures of this place I call home to post on http://www.localism.com/ .   I mentally made a list of the places that define Baton Rouge to me; L.S.U.'s stately campus, the exciting new Town C...

This is my son Jay, he is fourteen and goofy.  That really about sums him up.  He is my pride and joy, a sweet bright kid who normally spends zero seconds of the day thinking about real estate.  That is why is I was so shocked when he handed me a wonderful new marketing idea. This is how it happe...