Sarah's Hurricane, WV Real Estate Blog

West Virginia currently has 3.412 children in our foster care system. Mission West Virginia is a Putnam County based organization that helps find temporary and permanent homes for these children.Many of the children available for adoption are considered "special needs" children. It may be challen...

Lania DeMers asked what we considered the best of Active Rain.  She left it as kind of an open ended question, just wondering about our favorite post, not specifying whether she meant our own or someone else's.  It made me pause for just a moment, and then I realized if you want to see the best o...

Mission West Virginia is trying to help people see how many children we have in foster homes here in West Virginia.  They have made a beautiful visual demonstration in Hurricane City Park.  Please watch the Show below.  Each ribbon represents a child in need of a home.  Many children are availabl...

Hurricane, West Virginia is in for a BIG change tomorrow!  After 40 years Mayor Raymond Peak is retiring.  (Thank you again, Mayor Peak, for your service all these years!)  It's time to elect a new mayor!!With our Walmart set to open within months and the additional businesses that will ride in o...

I recently had the privilege of meeting Duke Jordan, author of "Hook, Line & Single".  Duke is a West Virginia native, Putnam County resident and works in the Charleston City Police Department's Detective Bureau.  Duke has a dream of putting West Virginia on the map, and as I'm right there with h...

I checked my mail today and thought it was an ordinary kind of day.  Then I saw an envelope I nearly passed over as junk mail.There was no stamp, in that spot was the signature of Jay Rockefeller.  The return address was United States Senate.  I worried, what have I done now???I opened it and rea...

I'm reading "A Whack on the Side of the Head" by Roger von Oech, recommended by Ed Rybczynski.  I'm going to second Ed's motion and suggest that all of you go buy this book!!  I'm having a GREAT time with it.I have a post ready for the Real Estate Shows Blog about this book, but I wanted to talk ...

Last night was Hurricane's Town Meeting.  City Council members voted down a city ordinance that would have required dog kennels built to (in my humble opinion) insanely specific standards.  It would have required:Skylights or windows so that there is light during the day.Fenced runs that are encl...

I went out of town this weekend and returned to e-mails and phone messages about the dog limit law in Hurricane.  Apparently, there has been some sort of question about it -- is it on the books or not?  I have a copy of the city ordinance and it does show a limit law of no more than two dogs per ...

Whether you are an optimist or a pessimist has a lot to do with how happy you are with your life.  Did you know that it might determine how well you do your job, too?Many of us are independent contractors and getting the job done requires that we be motivated self-starters.  After all, if we don'...