BRIAN and MARIE SPRAY - Frisco TX Realtors

All you fans of Taco Cabana have reason to be happy - there will be one opening on Preston rd near Lebanon and the Athletic Center very soon! We love going there! When we lived in Garland in the early 90s we went to one on Northwest Hwy often. Their margaritas and fajitas are delicious!!! Since we moved to Frisco in '98 there wasn't one close. We would drive all the way to McKinney to go to one there. In fact, when we moved here there weren't many restaurants at all! If you wanted fast food you had to settle for the one McDonalds at Preston and Main. Gradually they built more and more choices. I remember when Taco Bell opened several years ago, people were so excited to have a new choice that the drive through line went around the building for several days in a row. A long time staple of the area - La Hacienda - is a fantastic place to go for great mexican style food in a huge log cabin style building. Its located right on Preston rd. as well! Nowadays in Frisco you can find virtually any restaurant you can think of! For some reason though Long John Silvers/A&W on Preston rd near McDonalds closed recently. We were sorry to see them go! Some other choices we have nearby are Outback Steakhouse, Texas Land and Cattle, Macaroni Grill, Applebees, TGI, Chilis, Chipotle, Olive Garden, Red Lobster (one of Maries favorites), Spring Creek Barbecue, Randy Whites Barbecue, Dickies Barbecue, Randy's Steakhouse, and many many more!

Frisco is a beautiful city that has been blessed with great leadership and planning from the very beginning. They have created a place where you can live in nearly any price point from mid $100s to homes in the millions, work in a large number of industries including medical, engineering, high tech and more, and be entertained by many establishments to go out to for the evening, or if sports are (is?) your thing you can see the Texas Tornadoes hockey or the Frisco Roughriders Baseball or how about seeing World Cup soccer minutes from you home? Like rock music? Oz Fest was here in August at the state of the art Dr Pepper Stadium! Frisco aint no bedroom community!

UPDATE 12/27/08 - They are open!!! We're going there tonight!

Frisco is a great place to live and now that we have a Taco Cabana its even better!!!

During these strange times in our economy there seems to be a little good news occurring - gas prices have dramatically fallen in the last several weeks! It seems like just yesterday the price per barrel of crude was close to $150.00. Friday it was selling in the $64.00 range! I gassed up Friday for $2.37 a gallon! Our "friends" OPEC are becoming alarmed and decided to do something about the falling price and got together late last week to cut production in an effort to raise their prices back up. It may have backfired as even after their collusion meeting the price still went down! It appears that the markets are very well aware that there is currently not a shortage of oil (thanks in no small part to the weakening economies worldwide). Now I've noticed that for our politicians (one in particular) the energy topic seems to have disappeared! All we hear from the front runner is "Middle class - middle class - middle class - spread the wealth - fairness blah blah blah!" I haven't forgotten that we HAVE to increase our energy independence asap using an "all of the above" approach! Some say it would take 10 years to start seeing any oil from new drilling? Baloney! We put a man on the moon in 10 years - we can't drill a well and get the oil into refineries way sooner than that? Give me a break! I for one believe we can eat whatever we want, drive whatever we feel is appropriate, heat or cool our homes however we want and as a free sovereign country we shouldn't care what other countries think! Our GDP was 13.84 TRILLION in 2007, the next closest country was Japan at only 4.38 Trillion! We as a country are the most productive and most giving in the world! We cannot allow other countries push us around! Can we? Lets keep on our politicians through and after the elections to get us off foreign oil as soon as possible!!!

We are all constantly hearing bad news these days. Even the strongest among us has a hard time keeping a posiive attitude when it seems that the sky is falling. Well, the sky isn't falling! The home values here in the general Dallas area and in fact most of Texas have not experienced the "too good to be true" accelerated increases in value that many other parts of the country have - thus we haven't had the same devaluation that those problem areas around the country that we keep hearing about have seen. We still have loan programs available, insurance is available. So why aren't as many people buying or selling? Well, I constantly talk to people who start off their conversation with someting like "The market really sucks doesn't it?" Of course I begin my re education session, but the attitude damage is so widespread that its going to take a lot of work to change peoples attitudes. For my part, I've started sending more educational pieces out to my sphere, both direct mail and email. I also make sure to keep my conversation positive, you can't let yourself fall into the cynical mindset! I have heard someone say about recession - "Don't participate in it". I'm not, are you?