October 13, 2008

Spring Texas Real Estate website gets a makeover

With the help of our new friend, Jim Cronin, and his colleagues at the Real Estate Tomato, our Spring Texas real estate website received a MAJOR makeover. A mere cut here and a tuck there would not do. Instead we went all the way back to the drawing board and took a clean slate approach. Based upon the feedback from our […]

October 10, 2008

Spring TX Real Estate: Market Report September 2008

What’s going on with the Spring TX real estate market? Is it good, is it bad, is it time to sell, is it time to buy? Real estate is LOCAL and its fairing better in some cities than in others. The Long Beach CA real estate market is different than the Hoboken NJ real estate market which is different than […]

October 7, 2008

Night at the Pearl Fincher Museum

Last night, Tim Novak, Executive Director of the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, hosted Prudential Gary Greene, Realtors “Night at the Museum”. Approximately 30 of my fellow Realtors and myself took advantage of a wonderful opportunity to learn about the ONLY Fine Arts Museum outside of the Houston Museum District. The Pearl Fincher Museum […]

October 5, 2008

Fall in Spring Texas

Fall in Spring Texas sounds a little weird doesn’t it? But what should I expect when my city is named after a season. I grew up in the Midwest and Fall was one of my favorite seasons. I use to marvel in the beauty of the leaves as they changed colors, I enjoyed walking in the […]

October 2, 2008

FHA minimum down payment increase postponed to January 1, 2009

If you thought you missed out on the lower minimum down payment for FHA loans, don’t worry due to a postponement you still have time. The minimum down payment for FHA loans which was scheduled to increase from 3% to 3.5% on October 1, 2008 has been postponed. The revised effective date of the increase […]

October 1, 2008

Why I love underground power lines …..

Power lines …. Above ground or underground …. it’s not something I gave a lot of thought to. That is until recently. After Hurricane IKE blew through Houston and the Spring Texas area knocking out electrical service to 93% of CenterPoint energy’s customers, I had some time in the dark to ponder power and its […]

September 27, 2008

9 things you should know about homeowners insurance

Health insurance and homeowners insurance … both are coverage we know we need but rarely take the time to understand. That is until we need it. Hurricane IKE’s recent roll through our area sent a lot of Spring Texas homeowners scurrying for their policies. Unfortunately some homeowners were taught a painful financial lesson that they won’t soon […]

September 17, 2008

A return to partial normalcy after Hurricane Ike

Around 3 am in the morning of Saturday, September 13th, I was awaken by the sound of Hurricane IKE roaring through our town of Spring Texas. I was not able to return to sleep the rest of the night as the sound of the howling of the wind and the beating of the rain kept […]

September 11, 2008

Potato Chips, Ho Hos, and Ike … oh my!!

All day today, my husband and I have been making preparations for the arrival of Hurricane Ike in Spring Texas. I am sure we are probably like a lot of other residents that wait until there’s a high probability that a Hurricane is coming our way before we prepare. Today was that day and the […]

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