Like it's not enough that Texas is getting a bad rap about all the cheating on the standardized tests, but now the FBI has come to town to investigate DISD and their credit card use. About a month ago, DISD found out that some of their employees were using the district credit cards for personal
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07/31/2006
This past year, many people griped and moaned about the new registration tags for our cars. They're were much bigger than the previous years and they had this awful, cloudy, almost clear boarder with the Texas Flag in the middle... It was huge and it obstructs some view out the front window.So,
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07/31/2006
It was announced yesterday that eHomeshowings.com has been bought by CSS, Centralized Showing Services. It was inevitable. EHS was never as big as CSS. I used CSS when I was with a previous broker, so when I had to sign up with EHS, a much smaller company, I was disappointed. I love being abl
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07/28/2006
I truly believe there is a reason for everything... the latest event that happened to fuel this theory more is that I met my grandmother for the first time in almost 18 years and I have to thank real estate for that.If I wasn't in real estate, I would have had no reason to be at the title company
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07/28/2006
I just wanted to remind everyone about National Night Out on August 1. It's coming up pretty quick. This is a great way to meet your neighbors and create new friendships. I've only been in my neighborhood for about 10 months, so I'm definitely looking forward to meeting new people.I really wan
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07/28/2006
Big Town Mall in Mesquite started demolision, but it was just a procedure as the mall has been dead for years. Me? I say, "Where the heck is Big Town? I've never heard of it!" I've been here for 22 years and never heard of Big Town Mall.It was the first in the Southwest to be fully enclosed an
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07/26/2006
Money Magazine did their usual rankings for this year and four Dallas areas made the top 100 list for the best places to live: Carrollton, Denton, Plano, and Richardson. Not to be biased, but i moved to Richardson 22 years ago and currently still reside here, so I could have told you Richardson w
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07/25/2006
Verbal contracts are not held up in a Real Estate transaction. Everything must be in writing. All terms of everything must be discussed. I love it when an out of town buyer tells me to just call up the listing agent and ask if such and such price is ok. I'm like, we need more than just a pric
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07/25/2006
I always thought DFW was in the top 10 of largest metropolotan areas, but I guess I was wrong. People always think Ft Worth is larger than it really is, but it's actually a small fraction of the metroplex, whereas Dallas holds well over the majority of the population. Granted, Ft Worth had the
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07/23/2006
Can you believe the price of gas these days?? We just hit an all-time high of $3.015 across the country. The high we beat was set in September of 2005 and it was at $3.0117.I've been asked many times if the price of gas is going to change my business and I keep saying no. However, I did give a
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07/23/2006
