Monthly Archives: January 2012
Don’t Overlook Foreclosures
Foreclosures (REO properties) can be a real opportunity to get a lot for your money. Of course……they can also be a black hole that you just get to keep pouring money into. That’s why I am such a big fan of having professional inspections done to make sure you know exactly what you might need to do. My job, representing only buyers, lets me be there on your side helping you make the right decision. So, if you are in the market for real estate, let Read the rest of this entry
Better Than A New Dress with Matching Shoes!
Do you remember when you were a little kid and your mother wanted to get you all dressed up for Easter? Back then it was always something stiff and scratchy…….but a new look doesn’t always have to be that way! Take a look at my newly remodeled office building! Fresh paint last week and the new awning and street sign just went up. I am stoked! Poor old building had looked a little sad, but now it is the fitting home for Buyer’s Broker, my real estate company that negotiates and protects home buyers only. Finally, someone to look out for the buyer ALL THE TIME, and a pretty office to boot. I invite you all to come in and see me….the inside is all redone too! Not only is it a nice place to work……….but I am surrounded by nice people. My new tenants sharing my space are Sarah Henery of Whole 9 Online, Web Design & Internet Marketing, Terry Faust of S.C.A.N., a foundation serving parents of special needs children, Andrea Ledbetter of Outside The Box Eduction and Bill Vernon, Tax Specialist. A great group. Come in and see us at 238 S. Jefferson Ave Suite A
Dr. Martin Luther King and “The Help”
I was born in the land of the ‘almost-white’…..Springfield MO. I suppose anyone from the Midwest who has lived outside of big cities has the same experience. Racial diversity was an unknown in our white towns. It still is in a lot of places. Even religious diversity was and is sketchy. Most of us at this time in my life gave no thought to civil rights and a lot of people I knew looked down on “negroes”, as they were referred to then (or worse). I never could figure out how you could hold this prejudice if you didn’t know any “negroes”! I was just finishing college during the 60′s and consider myself fortunate to have been a witness to the civil rights movement. I wasn’t bold enough to join in on the March on Washington, but it came right through St. Louis where I was living at the time, and I regret it still. That was back in 1963 and 1964 the Civil Rights Act passed. I was very happy for that then and I am now. It did not end man’s inhumanity to man, not in the country and not even in our neighborhoods, but it was a start.
Last fall I saw the movie The Help and I was glad for that too. I think it is important to keep having our attention drawn to the inequalities and tragedies caused by prejudice….just to remind us that we never want to go back to living like that. It was, however, a very gentle look at racial prejudice and segregation.
