The Woods of SpringCreek in Richardson TX are having their next Girls Night Out on Thursday, February 7 at 6:30pm at a neighbor's house (I will not post her address to keep the crazies away). If you're interested in attending, please contact me and I'll get you the information.
At Thursday's event, each guest has been requested to bring a pair of red socks for a small gift exchange.
See you there!
Another builder is in over their heads!! Newmark's parent company in Houston, Tousa, filed Chapter 11 with "plans to fix its balance sheet."
Newmark isn't a large builder in Dallas, but they're definitely one of the larger medium builders and have 27 communities throughout Dallas and Ft Worth. When Newmark combines with one of their sister companies, they are ranked number 10 among closings in the last Chronicle 100 survey.
They had already reduced their staff down from 3200 to less than 1400... I wonder how many communities are not manned with onsite sales reps anymore. It's such a pain to have to call ahead and check to see if someone can meet you at the community instead of showing up between 10am-6pm and having someone there.
The company continues to accept new contracts and expects to close over 2500 properties already in process, so they'll be back and stronger.
It is time to make Richardson TX smoke free. It's funny that everyone is campaigning for this now, when we just voted in for Richardson to sell beer and wine. You would think that smoking goes hand in hand with beer and wine since smoking at bars is the most common place people smoke.
However, I guess many are thinking to themselves that they can't have their cake and eat it too. If they want to buy their beer and wine in Richardson, they must take it home to smoke!
Plano TX, the suburb immediately north of Richardson, went smoke free throughout the city a few months ago. Personally, I love it! We went to a bar for Karaoke, and there were no clouds of smoke... until you walked out the front door. Hopefully, this will be something that Richardson fixes, but I hate it when the place is smoke-free, but then people are allowed to smoke right at the front door so you gasp as you walk in or out... almost like when restaurants put the restrooms at the back of the restaurant or off the bar, where you have to walk through the smoking section to get there... so annoying.
Anyway, there is an electronic Petition going around, so please CLICK HERE to fill out the form. It will send you an email and you must click the link in the email in order for your signature to count, so make sure you use a valid email address.
Thank you for your help to make Richardson TX a smoke free city, and please pass along this to all your friends, family, and coworkers in Richardson!!
Here are the final numbers for the Dallas and Ft Worth areas for 2007:
Number of Sales: 80,740
% Change Year Ago: -7%
Average Price: $202,338
% Change Year Ago: +5%
Median Price: $149,900
% Change Year Ago: +1%
Active Listings: 47,668
% Change Year Ago: +7%
As you can see, the number of sales might be down, but prices are NOT down. Stop watching National News statistics because we aren't following the National trends. Buyers aren't getting 70 cents on the dollar. Prices are still very competetive as an average.
Remember, I work all of North Dallas County and Collin County including Richardson, Plano, Allen, Frisco, Carrollton, Garland, Rowlett, McKinney, etc... my car will take us anywhere you need to go!!
ARE YOU PACKED YET?!
Jason Garrett helped the Cowboys break several records and after interviewing and being offered Head Coaching job elsewhere, decided to remain with the Cowboys as the Assistant Head Coach.
This position comes at a price of about $3.5 million! Almost as much as the Head Coach.
Personally, I really like Jason Garrett. I loved him when he played for the Cowboys. I hated it when Jason got the Cowboys through the Playoffs and then they allowed Aikman to play the final game. Yes, Aikman was the starter and he was coming back from an injury, but he was out for a lot of games, and Jason deserved to play. I was very disappointed when he left the Cowboys.
I was very excited when he returned. However, to go after a Head Coaching job after just 3 years in a coaching position is a little premature. I think he needs a little more experience before taking on that job.
He did say that he definitely wants to be a Head Coach at some time, but that his home is in Dallas for now. Good choice, Jason!
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