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Favorite past clients of mine in Los Lunas NM just posted these before and after pictures of their painting project to Facebook. The transformation was so dramatic that I just had to share the photos!

Wow, what an outstanding difference in both sets of photos! It just goes to show what a little color can do!

Color warms up spaces, but it can also draw the walls in and make rooms look smaller. However, if you're lucky enough to have large rooms like these you can do bold things with color without making the rooms seem too small.

I have a confession to make. All the walls in my house are white!

Maybe this will be just the thing to motivate me and my wife to add some color!

Three Bedroom Houses in Los Lunas NM

Real Estate in Bosque Farms NM

Horse Property in Los Lunas NM

Belen Teacher Made a Bad Decision

This is a continued focus on New Mexico Education. Here is a case where a young girl was put in an uncomfortable situation because of the decision of a teacher

"Ashley Lopez never showed up for her after school martial arts class, across town from La Merced Elementary, where she started 5th grade this week. Ashley went to get on board the van in the school pick-up lane, but a teacher wasn't satisfied with the permission slip. Ashley said the teacher made her get on a school bus instead - the wrong bus."

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A Promising Opportunity for 60 New Mexico Prisoners

This story has probably not received a lot of Press, but it was reported by KOB TV, my source of News and other Information and I think it warrants another look. As I have blogged about the wildfires in New Mexico in the recent past, there was something very creative taking place behind the walls of the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility in Los Lunas, New Mexico...it is called the Inmate Work Camp Program..

Essentially, the Inmate Work Camp Program provides a new career opportunity to non-violent prisoners to become firefighters. So in the recent fires, some of the personnel on the frontline fighting the various fires were actually prisoners. As was reported, there are currently 60 prisoners who have been trained to be firefighters. And there is a waiting list. Here is the story as reported on KOB TV.

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We've had an icy start to the New Year here in Bosque Farms, with single-digit temperatures. We had a bit of snow a couple of days ago, but it vanished quickly, as is usual here in NM. Now we've got lovely, sunny skies, but I'm looking out at lovely, ice-sheathed grass blades on my lawn! Husband Brian decided to turn on the sprinklers yesterday, and it was so cold that it froze as it landed, encapsulating each blade of grass individually, for our own miniature "ice storm" effects... Crunchy under the feet, for the feel of a "back east" winter here in sunny New Mexico!

Here are my Monthly Belen NM Monthly Real Estate Stats for August 2010. These are the most current, comprehensive and specific market statistics that I know of for Belen NM.

Brief Summary-Year to Date Stats

• Total sales (13) was about the same as last year.
• The average sales price stat ($115,885) was down.
• The average days on market stat (95) was down.
• The average price per square foot stat ($72) was down.

Total Sales in Belen NM

• Total sales remained stable. There were 12 sales in August 2009 and 13 sales in August 2010.

Average Sales Price in Belen NM

• The average sales price decreased from $120,458 in August of 2009 to $115,885 in August of 2010.

Average Days on the Market in Belen NM

• Average days on the market decreased significantly from 182 days in August of 2009 to 95 days in August of 2010.

Average Price per Square Foot in Belen NM

• The average price per square foot was up slightly from $68 per square foot in August 2010 to $72 per square foot in August 2010.

Summary

Please check back here for another market report next month. In the meantime, search Belen NM Houses for Sale or Bosque Farms NM Realty.