How is the rental market in the Houston area? I'm hearing a lot of questions about the market in the area lately. One in particular is how the rental market is doing in our area. I pulled some simple stats from the HOUSTON MLS for KATY TEXAS just to see what was going on and found that the number of NEW properties coming on the market almost EQUALLED the number of properties going off the market (leased properties only, not just expired or terminated listings). You can search all rental properties in the Katy, Cypress, Sugar Land and really all over Houston by clicking here. You can see the whole blog post and report on rentals in the area on the main TxChoiceRealty.com website. 
I hear a lot about the Occupy Wall Street Movement lately...in the news, in passing, on the radio. It's all over the place that a bunch of people have decided to gather and blame the big corporations of Wall Street for the ills of this great nation. Here's the really cool thing...because we have this GREAT NATION, we have the RIGHT to assemble and protest anything we want. We could even protest OXYGEN if we wanted to (pretty dumb move if you ask me, but it's been pretty dumb some of the things I've seen protested in the past!). I found an annotated photo of the demonstration and while I find it funny, I think it's so true! I commented a few days ago on Karen Fiddler's ActiveRain Blog as she prepares for a lifestyle change to as many American made products as she can, that I love her idea because of it's implementation and that those that choose to only buy American for one day or don't buy gas on a gas out day are totally missing the point and not really ACCOMPLISHING ANYTHING! See if you have the same thoughts about these Occupy Wall Street protesters (by they way, do you think any of these folks with all this cool stuff they are wearing and using have jobs or who do you think paid for a lot of it!?)
Anyway, these folks get to gather and protest...heck even Kanye West made a pop up appearance (well, he pulled up, got out of the car for a second, got back in and had the driver get him the heck away from this group of people making a statement. Guess he didn't see Taylor Swift there to try to upstage and got bored pretty quickly. I don't really KNOW who they are financed by or backed by but you know the rumors whirl and swirl...is it REALLY grassroots?
I inserted the photo large to make the annotations very easy to read! :) 
It's that time again in Katy! If the weather won't let us see that it's fall, at least we know it's fall because the Katy Rice Harvest Festival is here this weekend! The Festival is located over several blocks of downtown old Katy, between Ave D and Ave A and will be open at 10am Saturday morning, 10/8 to midnight and then again from Noon til 6:00pm on Sunday 10/9! Festival Admission
Various vendor as well as entertainment will be on hand selling and giving away items, carnival rides and games and fun for the kids as well.
Below, you'll see the price of admission and remember, this is a family event with kids under 12 being free! Fees/Admission
Adults $7.00/daily
Adults 65+ Free
Military, Law Enforcement and EMS with proper identification Free
Children 12 & under Free
I have to admit it. I fell for the big hype.
I've had an iPhone for a couple of years now and while I didn't jump on the iPhone 4, I was looking forward to the iPhone 5 that was going to be released this month.
So what did we get? Not the iPhone 5 but rather the iPhone 4S.
Apple is so GOOD at word of mouth creating a buzz...it got me this time. But it looks like it got a lot of others too as Apple dropped 5% in the market this morning. Seems I wasn't the only one that was diappointed.
So what did the iPhone release give me that I WAS expecting? Only that it will be available on SPRINT, which helps unfetter me from the shackles of ATT service! So that's a GOOD thing.
Other than that, from a USE point of view, it gave us an upgraded camera (8MP) and upgraded storage.
Yep, not a whole lot more than that....
Apple rushed this to market, it wasn't ready and as it stands, it's not even 4G.
Looks like I'll be making that move to ANDROID. Too bad the ANDROID 4G was discontinued (according to my Radio Shack rep) and now I have to deal with either Android 3D or another version of the Android without the 3D.
At least Android will be more compatible with my new CLOUD computing through GOOGLE since that's a GOOGLE operating system!
I walked into Kroger yesterday--October 3. I was going in there for a few items for the dinner menu for the night. Walked around and was greeted by CHRISTMAS! Years ago, I worked in retail, actually in a grocery store, while going to college and it seemed every year that Christmas stuff got out on the sales floor just a little earlier... This year, it made it out by the first part of October... Is this a hope that they can get a jump on holiday spending and have a great holiday shopping season or is it just such a soft economy right now that they feel they HAVE to get it out there to move their commitments on Christmas stuff? 
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