Brainerd, MN

One recent cold and snowy winter day, I drove to Willmar, Minnesota and took my State and National licensing exams. After studying for several weeks, I was ecstatic to not only pass but get 100% on the National portion. Now I have finally signed on with Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes. To all those agencies I did not choose, thank you for your time and kindness. You made the decision very difficult and I did not make this choice without considerable thought. In the end I went with what seemed to be the best fit for my staging business and my agent status.

My staging company will still continue to work with all agents and home sellers regardless of their affiliations. Perhaps you will sell some of my listings, as my plan is to have them properly prepared for the market and showing well.

To all sellers and buyers in the Brainerd Lakes area, you already know my standing in the home staging industry. Now you can benefit from my expertise all the way to closing. With a background in construction and design, I can help you visualize the potential in any property.

In this difficult market- you need a competitive edge.

Hire the staging and selling team.

Kathleen Lordbock

218-829-4664 Office

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This is the last in the series of interesting quotes to start out your New Year with some wit.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)



Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
-Ronald Reagan (1986)



I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

-Will Rogers



If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
-P.J. O'Rourke



In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-Voltaire (1764)



Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
-Pericles (430 B.C.)




No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session..
-Mark Twain (1866 )


Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-Unknown

This is the second in the series of quotes to start out your New Year with some wit.

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."

-Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress....
But then I repeat myself

-Mark Twain


I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle..
-Winston Churchill


A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
-G Gordon Liddy


Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)


Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
-Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University



Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Paul Bunyan is part of the new 2008 Holiday Village located in the Westgate Mall Brainerd/Baxter Minnesota. Paul the Doll and his big wooden chair were found on E-Bay and were created by Designer & Fabric Artist Marilyn Lee and Craftsmen Kenny Kraeplin. His creators donated him to the Paul Bunyan Scenic Byway Association.

This Paul is not small and it took 3 people to move him to the Holiday Village. He rode there in the Shores & More Realty van.

Paul will be promoting the Paul Bunyan Scenic Byway , which is a 54 mile long Nationally designated driving route, which goes through Crow Wing and Cass counties.

The Holiday Village is open now and will stay open until Christmas Eve. Come talk to Paul , see some holiday performances and check out the beautifully decorated stores,

Re$ale Design & Home Staging

photo by ~ Mykl Roventine/Flickr

The early Americans were acutely aware that all they had was given to them by the hand of God. Whether they were in times of good and plenty or suffering through hardships, drought or war - they gave thanks to God for all that He provided and for all that He was.

America's history is deeply rooted in faith in God. Many today are threatened by that faith. They want to rewrite history and downplay God as just one of many things that some people seem to take comfort in believing. After all they think there are many roads to salvation and their goodness will surely get them admitted to Heaven. God's Word says otherwise and He is neither a liar nor a deceiver.

Listen to some voices from our past:

Samuel Adams, father of the American Revolution:

"It is therefore recommended ... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor ..."—November 1, 1777 (adopted by the 13 states as the first official Thanksgiving Proclamation)

Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson, in 1779:

"[I] appoint … a day of public Thanksgiving to Almighty God … to [ask] Him that He would … pour out His Holy Spirit on all ministers of the Gospel; that He would … spread the light of Christian knowledge through the remotest corners of the earth … and that He would establish these United States upon the basis of religion and virtue."

President George Washington’s first federal Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789:

"Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.… Now, therefore, I do appoint Thursday, the 26th day of November 1789 … that we may all unite to render unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection."

President Abraham Lincoln, making Thanksgiving an annual national holiday in 1863, in the midst of the Civil War:

"No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy."