Lake Sinclair: we love it, we know it, & we sell it

There were some people along my path that helped me become the person I am today. If I talked about all them you wouldn't get to read to end of this post, but I do want to mention a few stand outs that crossed my path.First my third grade teacher, Montene Dickey.  She loved to read and she tried ...

First of all, I'm ever so grateful for the agents that do and have in the past worked for me.  I've lost some over the 25 years, some retired and moved, some passed away and some remain.  What I can say is no one ever left my company and went to work for someone else locally in real estate and th...

I try to keep a friendly tone at all times when dealing with other agents. I smile and say thank you for really stupid offers and just deal with that I have to deal with.  I have my list of pet peeves from agents who just simply do not understand tech to those who chicken scratch contracts instea...

In the summer of 1999 my daddy was diagnosed with cancer.  Until  you've heard those words you can't really know what you feel.  My daddy was lucky that it was the slowest growing cancer there is and NOT lucky that after his surgery they couldn't say "you are cancer free" because they removed all...

In April 2018 my life changed forever.  Now don't get me wrong, my life was pretty great before that.  But if you have been given a title like "Grammy" you know how special it is.  If you haven't yet, but have kids then I hope some day you will know that love and joy like I do. Cooper had a rough...

I've had agents retire over the 24 years as a broker owner and that has usually been a celebration.  I have also had agents leave and they are no longer actively licensed, but have moved on to other avenues in life from stay at home mom to builder. But this week for the 3rd time I lost one becaus...

My first "adult" job was a school bookkeeper/Principal's secretary, I am grateful to Fabian for hiring me and teaching me a lot.  I was actually still a teenager, but married and paying my own bills.  After just a year the superintendent changed and he was out for blood with the principal I worke...

Recently a past client of Lane Realty (a retired agent) listed their home with another firm.  It's a home and a neighborhood (I grew up there) that I know well.  And within a few days one of my agents wrote an offer.  We negotiated for a week or so and then had a contract.  When the inspection wa...

You know the do not call list doesn't really help.  Not terribly long ago I actually clicked to talk to a human about "your Google business listing is not up to date" just to ask them to stop calling me.  It actually slowed the calls down for a few days. When a consumer asks me to stop calling or...

I ready a post today on Facebook that a dear friend wrote who is getting ready to watch her baby girl get married day after tomorrow.  She's wondering how it got here so fast.  I remember picking out my mother of the bride dress and dress shopping with my only daughter like it was yesterday... bu...