Judith's Southwest Missouri Real Estate Blog

Gosh, Webb City is almost too big for a town feature.  It needs a multi-part city feature!  With almost 11,000 people, it's sure not tiny.  It's also contiguous with Joplin's north edge, rather than out in the country by itself. Originally agricultural land, Webb City was incorporated after the ...

Miller is a friendly town of around 800 people in the heart of Southwest Missouri. Set among rolling hills, the area is very pretty.  It's a transitional area between Ozark and prairie landscapes, so you'll see a little bit of both. With easy access and a 35 minute commute to the western edge of ...

In rural real estate here in Southwest Missouri, the term "hobby farm" is used frequently.  Some other similar but less popular terms are:  gentleman's farm, ranchette, or farmette.  Hobby farm, though, is not a definable term.  It depends on what your hobby is, right? I've seen many types of pro...

Ease on Down the Road I have fond memories of the trip my husband and I took through Missouri to decide where to purchase our new property.  For a week, we traveled around, spending one day with a Realtor in each of the areas we considered.  Each day, we saw something new and beautiful, whether i...

Considering relocation to Southwest Missouri?  Here's another great reason to come join us!  Southwest Missouri sits at a crossroads of the great U.S. highway system.  That's not very romantic, you say!  Why don't you tell us about the beautiful trees, the rolling hills, the laid-back pace of lif...

I needed a map for a blog I'm working on.  I made a google map, used google's little Link to this Page button to get the appropriate HTML code, and copied that HTML code into AR.I posted it in draft status, checked it...it looked good.Went back in to add some more text to the blog, and AR has rew...

Over the last year, I've gone through the process of relocating from Pompano Beach in ultra-urban Southeast Florida to rural Southwest Missouri outside the town of Miller.I'll be blogging occasionally about different aspects of my relocation to Southwest Missouri, for those of you who might be co...

One of my favorite things about selling Carthage real estate is the opportunity to see so many beautiful homes made from locally quarried stone.  In the 1800s and early 1900s, limestone quarries were a big part of the local economy, along with other mining and manufacturing concerns. Carthage lim...

As a real estate professional, I've been taking photos and  manipulating and loading images onto the web for a few years now.  But I never really knew what was going on when I got photos ready for the web. The thousands of internet pages on the subject of photo resolution and web optimization mad...

Yup, I've got cows.  Well, they're not my cows.  They belong to my neighbor.  Considering how far away the actual house is, it might be more accurate to say that the cows are my neighbors.  It looks like theirs is an easy life, just roaming around out there eating all day.  They're even starting ...