Steve Thayer's Blog

'Tis the season - Football Season, that is!  Around my town, there are so many opportunities to catch kids from 6 - 19 working hard out on the fields.  So I've compiled a list of some of the teams you can catch playing around Castle Rock, Co.  From the "mighty mights" to the high schoolers - if y...

Castle Rock is a fairly "new" town - only 50,000 people, and most of that growth has hapened in the past 10 years.  My wife and I moved here 15 years ago - engaged to be married, we bought our first home in "The Meadows" subdivision.  Our home was a two story with a walk out basement, and 3 stair...

Seriously?  That's what I said out loud as I approached this collection of lockboxes for condos that I was showing to my buyer.   None of them were labeled.  How was I to know which one was the one I was looking for?  To not look like a total idiot in front of my client, I knelt down and took a s...

Growing up, I used to spend hours the day after my birthday, diligently hand writing "thank-you" notes to all the people that gave me presents.  I remember my mom reading over them to make sure they were "good enough" and that my handwriting was somewhat legible, then helping me address them all ...

As realtors, we run into a lot of funny, questionable, unique, interesting, debatable, and silly things in people's homes.  I love capturing a few of them on my phone when I am with buyers.  I'm sure you've experienced some of the same - look at some of these - then after you've stopped laughing ...