Jacqueline McCroy Elbert's (dje) Blog

A couple years ago, my daughter and I had a "Mother-Daughter Day" with a friend of hers and her mother.  In the course of the day we talked about this and that, where they had moved from, blah, blah, blah.  It was a lovely day.  Time spent with my daughter is always the best.  But, what I came aw...

  Just south of downtown Kansas City is the Union Station.  It was built in 1914 as a working train station.  Each year tens of thousands travelers went through that station.  During World WarII more than a million people utilized Union Station.  Within the building were businesses such as restau...

                                 Kansas City....the "City Of Fountains".   Truly beautiful.  As you drive north on Ward Parkway, early on a spring morning, the trees are budding and the flowers are blooming, you come upon the circle fountain at Meyer Boulevard...gorgeous!  The interest in fountai...

 According to David Lereah, the National Association of Realtors chief economist, home sales will remain historically high through 2007. Lereah, "We've entered a more sustainable period of home sales now, and we expect greater support for prices over time as inventory levels are eventually drawn ...

  According to CNN's Money.com, Overland Park, Kansas was rank #6 in their 10 Great American Towns.  This is a list of "places that offer big-city opportunities and amenities -- with a lot more green space and a lot less stress".The average price of a single family home is around $250,000 with th...

Until receiving an email from Kay Van Kampen I had never heard of being memed.  What a funny concept.Five things to know about me.....1. First and foremost in my life is my family. David and I have been married for almost seven years. Thomas is a senior at Creighton University majoring in Finance...

In my last post I asked the question Is Your Site Handicap Accessible?  If you are interested in making your site more handicap accessible, might I suggest 30 Days To A More Accessible Web SiteMark Pilgrim's book Dive Into Accessibility discusses first why you should make your web site accessible...

Each December 3rd there is an observance; International Day of Disabled Persons.  E-Accessibility Day, accessibility to information technologies, is this year's theme.WHO, the World Health Organization, estimates that there are around 600 million disabled people worldwide.  This represents about ...

I Love Snow Days!!Probably worse than any child, I look forward to seeing the name of my children's school scroll across the tv screen...School Closings...Then there is the downside of snow days...snowy, icy walkways.  If I could ask one thing of those selling their homes, please clear your drive...

Hello from Johnson County, Kansas!!  Third quarter market results are in.  The average sale price was $270,800; up from the second quarter of 2006's $268,300.  During the same periods, third quarter number of homes on market was down (4590) from the second quarter (4844), 2466 homes sold third qu...