From the desk of ….Becky Repess

I serve on the Best Southwest Advisory Council for Brighter Tomorrows. I recently went to the annual fund raiser "Chocolate and Chic". The speaker was a well known actor, Victor Rivers (played the brother in Mask of Zoro". He came from a home where there was a tremendous amount of domestic violen...

We get so close to our clients. We watch their children grow up. We are treated like best friends or a part of their family. As Realtors, we always love to hear from them. Sometimes they bring us either new clients with new business or we do another transaction for them. I really hate to hear fro...

Texas seems to be the place for filming movies especially in rural Texas. I know several movies have been made in Waxahachie, Texas. This weekend we were down around the Austin area to hear a couple of musicians. Coming from LaGrange where we hear one musician we came upon a sign to historic down...

Cedar Hill, Texas is quite an interesting place. It is a delightful blend of past, present and future. It is situated between Dallas and Ellis counties. It is 16 miles from downtown Dallas and it is joined by Joe Pool Lake and Cedar Hill State Park to the West.Cedar Hill served as the temporary C...

I just registered for a this class. It is supposed to be a bridge between commercial and residential real estate. I have been doing more and more commercial real estate. I find it interesting plus I thought while the market is sluggish this would be another income base for us. It will broaden our...

Today I got a contact on my Active Rain site. This lady was trying to reach the attorney she had draw up a will in the early 1990's. She did a google to find him and was taken to my Active Rain page. You see under testimonies I had written one from him. She asked if I knew how to locate him. I ha...

Realtors are not always in control the situation. You know we think we can "fix" everything. So some realtors take it upon themselves to solve the problem when in fact if we had just left it alone it would have worked itself out. We need to learn to take a step back, relax and let it set for a fe...

I have been in real estate for more than 17 years. I had another first this week. The seller is my client. We got a contract a couple of weeks ago so I took their survey to the title company. The buyer's agent had a fit because part of the driveway is on the neighbor's property in the utility eas...

This has definitely been one of those days. You know one computer starts acting up, then the printer, a survey is right, and on and on. I am grateful for "one of those days" even though there has been a lot of trying things happening. Last week our town was hit by a tornado at 3:30 a.m. The day o...

  The area was first settled in 1847, making it one of the oldest communities in North Texas. A post office was established in 1881 and the settlement was named DeSoto in honor of Thomas Hernando DeSoto Stewart, a doctor dedicated to the community.By 1885, DeSoto was home to approximately 120 peo...