Spring TX Real Estate

Last year we had an extreme drought in the Spring-Tomball-Magnolia area which also of course affected Lake Conroe.  We keep our sailboat at Lake Conroe which is about a 35 minute drive for us.  We have a Catalina 22 with a retractable keel so keep it on dry land on the trailer.   As you can see f...

Can you imagine being at a busy airport getting ready to fly out on one of the busiest travel day of the year and all of a sudden you hear swing music over the loudspeaker and young people start dancing swing? That is what happened a few days before Thanksgiving at Denver International Airport.  ...

On this Veterans day of 11/11/11 I am writing this post to honor my Dad Harry Gifford.  My Dad was drafted in to the Army prior to Pearl Harbor and served through the entire war.  It has only been in the last few years that I have been able to get my Dad to talk about his war time experiences and...

The pictures above were taken Labor Day weekend. I was going to post them right away but then the wild fires started and after that the lake issue seemed trivial. Now that the fires are over I am back to posting about Lake Conroe. Lake Conroe is a back up water supply for Houston and with the se...

I often have people ask me what they need to do to apply for a mortgage.  George gives some great insight on getting organized to make your loan application.  What should be one of the simplest steps in purchasing a house sometimes turns into one of the biggest problems.  When I Pre-Qualify someo...

I know that PITI is sometimes hard to understand and George does a GREAT job of explaining it in language that is easy to understand!  A common assumption that is often made by those in the Mortgage Industry is that Homeowners understand what makes up their monthly mortgage payment, but in realit...

Yesterday I found myself in my car for a fairly long stretch of time waiting for a client who was running late.  Typically when that happens I bring out the cell phone and start surfing.  In this case I was out in the country and was only getting one bar on my phone so surfing was out.  I then st...

Lake Conroe Sailing Association's Thursday night races are in the middle of the season and we are still experiencing plenty of wind. Typically in the summer our winds die down and lots of races get canceled due to lack of wind.  Not so this year! The wind is the good news but the bad news is tha...

The pictures above were taken at the Augusta Pines firework display last year. My slideshow will be the only fireworks we will be seeing in Harris County this year as all firework displays in Harris and Montgomery County have been cancelled due to our severe drought. We had a nice thunderstorm t...

    Isaiah 40:28-31 New King James Version (NKJV) 28 Have you not known?       Have you not heard?       The everlasting God, the LORD,       The Creator of the ends of the earth,       Neither faints nor is weary.       His understanding is unsearchable.        29 He gives power to the weak,   ...