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Managing Real Estate Broker - Jody Keating Connective Realty,LLC, Bryan/College Station,TX

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2009 

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy 250th birthday to the 9,000 year Guinness Brewery lease. Happy Birthday to you! This year marks the 250th year since Arthur Guinness signed the now famous 9,000 year lease for £45 a year for the 4 acre property where the St. James's Gate Brewery...
09/23/2009
I wanted to share with you a list that Stefan Swanepoel created on TweetML. 100 most influential people in real estate. Actually it's 2 lists so it's 200 most influential people in real estate. Well let me define that again, 200 most influential people in real estate that use Twitter. There you g...
09/23/2009
I received this in an email and it's something I had never thought about. Something to think about with all our new electronic technology.   1. GPS   Our friends had their car broken into while at a football game. Their car was parked on the green adjacent to the stadium and specially allotted to...
09/21/2009
Residential home sales for August 2009 for the Bryan/College Station and surrounding counties, saw a drop of 15% in total residential sales to 249, this resulted in a drop of more than 16% in dollar volume when compared to the same period in 2008. Not a great sign but....... The average number of...
09/19/2009
My 15 year old daughter is involved in a fundraising event at her school Bryan Collegiate High School. It is for breast cancer awareness for the month of October. They will be selling t-shirts but they need other fundraising ideas. For a variety of reasons they can't do the usual high school fund...
09/18/2009
I wanted to take the opportunity to introduce you all to cONnective cONor our Connective Realty mascot. He's our 18ft wind dancer with the moves of Michael Jackson and the grace of Fred Astaire combined. He has the smile of a tooth whitening commercial and a hair style dragged stright from the ei...
09/16/2009
I just read Randy Landis post entitled Social network overloaded? Click here http://activerain.com/blogsview/1233265/social-network-overloaded- and it made me think about what we all did before social networking and what we would do if we couldn't twitter, facebook, myspace and of course activera...
09/11/2009
Should I or shouldn't I? If I do then what? But if I don't then how? Questions, questions, questions.............       So that you don't think that I am just muttering to myself and worrying over the answers to the meaning of life, I am trying to decide on something that may not be as important ...
09/10/2009
This is the most amazing thing I've seen. It will make you think and it's also a little scary. So we think that being the nation with the highest debt per capita is okay and we can just keep running up our debts. And we think that we are a technologically advanced nation. Watch this and think ag...
09/08/2009
Why your Bryan/College Station home didn't sell. There are several reasons why a home can sit on the market for many months without so much as a nibble let alone a bite. Many homeowners like to blame the market or the agent listing the home and both of these could be very good reasons but they ar...
09/08/2009