If you are thinking of listing your home for sale, there are some questions you should ask the Realtor you are thinking of using before you sign a listing agreement. Here are five important things you should check out ahead of time: Do you answer your phone? If an agent calls wanting informatio
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11/24/2012
I would love to have gotten some Christmas shopping done today, or to have gotten our tree put up and decorated, but there was no time for that sort of thing for me on this Black Friday. I was too busy keeping up with real estate! Today I showed four homes, wrote and submitted an offer on one
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11/23/2012
I’m sitting in the easy chair right now, finally getting to relax after two very hectic days. Yesterday I did most of my cooking for Thanksgiving dinner, cleaned the house, and had a closing. Today I finished the cooking, hosted dinner for 12 family members, cleaned up and put everything away.
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11/22/2012
Is this not the cutest little guy ever?!!! My grandson was at our house pretty late recently, and we had not yet gotten a baby bathtub to keep here for him. Since he has outgrown the bathroom sink, he had to take his bath in the kitchen. I love this little guy!
11/20/2012
Electronic signatures in real estate transactions have made life much easier for agents and their clients. With e-signatures, we can send off a contract and get it back, signed, in just a matter of minutes. No more faxing copies back and forth, no more scanning pages and pages of documents, an
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11/19/2012
The Saturday after Thanksgiving has been designated as Small Business Saturday in an effort to support local business. Here in Friendswood you can shop for Christmas, and keep your dollars in the community. There are several small businesses that I love in our friendly little town. Here are jus
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11/19/2012
We took our grandson, Maverick, on his first shopping trip to Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World in Pearland today. What a grand time he had! Maverick is big enough now to sit in the seat of the shopping cart, which he thought was loads of fun. We wheeled him around to see the giant aquarium full of
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11/17/2012
One of my favorite Friendswood stores, Friendswood Frame and Gallery, is hosting a Christmas Open House on Saturday, Dec. 1, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. They will be donating 20 percent of the proceeds from sales that day to the Hope Village Foundation. Hope Village is a non-profit, non-sectarian
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11/17/2012
The annual Delta Delta Christmas Tour of Homes will be held Sunday, Dec. 2, from 1-5 p.m. in Alvin, TX. Every year I have the privilege of working the home tour, and this year you’ll find me there again, helping to direct people through one of the beautiful homes on the tour. There are five sto
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11/16/2012
The Southeast Christian Women’s Club will hold their Christmas-themed luncheon and shopping event Thursday, Dec. 6, at Golfcrest Country Club in Pearland from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Everyone is invited to join in on the shopping fun, make some new friends, and enjoy the luncheon with area Chri
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11/16/2012
