by realtor4life | Aug 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
Facts about moving: Decluttering and purging early will save you from relocating things you don’t want or don’t need. Creating a budget and sticking to it will help keep a home search on focus. Keeping as much of the home routine in tack … bedtimes, dinner menus, etc...
by realtor4life | Aug 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
April showers might bring May flowers, but in North Texas, August heat brings school supplies, and school crossing lights. “A new school year means new beginnings, new adventures … and new challenges,” admits About.com’s Parenting Teens Resources Guide...
by realtor4life | May 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
A mere 17 days ago my middle sauntered through the security gates to baggage claim, officially completing his sophomore year of college. Three days later my youngest climbed into bed as a rising junior in high school. Barely a week more passed and my niece walked the...
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by realtor4life | May 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
What seems like forever ago, and yesterday at the same time, I often wandered the supermarket with a calculator in one had and coupons in the other, stretching each weeks’ paycheck as far as one could. Now, as retirement looms, I’m again looking at ways to extend and...
by realtor4life | May 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Join an HOA, they said! It’ll be FUN, they said! Frankly, being in an HOA is all well and good, until it’s not. I get it! “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse,” advised 18th Century Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke. Full...
by realtor4life | Apr 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Close your eyes; Allow your mind to wander. Envision walking up to heavy, iron clad doors screaming opulence. As they pull open, sparkles of light cascade around your feet from the lobby chandelier. You eye the hostess desk, attended by a gently smiling lady who...
by realtor4life | Mar 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Forty-eight hours in the life of a Realtor. Meet potential tenant at property in Irving; Discover the current tenant locked us out and won’t answer the door. Good times. Collect necessary signatures for a contract termination and release of earnest money; Talk seller...
by realtor4life | Feb 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
No one prepares you for divorce. No one prepares you for being solely responsible for both the water bill and the wall paint color selections in-between securing carpool arrangements and dinner menus. Yet, without preparedness, it gets done. You pack the school...
by realtor4life | Feb 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Sometimes, you just need an escape hatch. Kids are loud. Dogs are barking. The vacuum, or laundry, or dishes are screaming your name. And you just can’t turn the music or the zoom meeting up loud enough to ignore it. I get it! “Sometimes I feel like I have literally...
by realtor4life | Jan 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
I’ve been a Realtor for twenty-two years, though I laughingly tell people I’ve been in the biz since 1979 (stop doing math, folks). So much like the infamous tag line, “I know a thing or two because I’ve seen a thing or two” suggests … I have experience. A lot....
