College Station, TX

Should you or shouldn't you ? That is a the same question that many investors are asking themselves these days. College Station is a great place to live and work. Low unemployment rates and continued good real estate sales statistics have helped insure a local economy that is comfortable to say the least, compared to many other areas in the United States.

If you are considering procuring land for present or future development, near the city of College Station, Texas... and located in the ETJ (Extra Territorial Jurisdiction) please be sure you understand that the process is multi-level.

Both the city of College Station and Brazos County are involved in the approval process of property in the ETJ. Always allow yourself enough time in a contract to purchase land to do the due diligence and feasibility work necessary to obtain all the information needed to make logical business decisions. Additionally you may want to consider consulting woith a private engineering firm as to how the process works.

Dear readers,

Happy Monday!

I'm sharing two links, one from The Eagle here in Bryan & College Station, and the other from the Maimi Herald, regarding Black Friday sales locally and nationwide.

http://www.theeagle.com/local/Black-Friday-lures-hordes

http://www.miamiherald.com/business/nation/v-print/story/792355.html

Both articles, along with local, national and international market information can be found on my facebook page.

Monthly market information from out local Multiple Listing Services, as well as a monthly synopsis can also be found on my Website Reports.SamWhiteRealty.com.

Its a busy Monday, so that's all for now. No fancy graphics or photos. Sorry.

Blue skies,

Sam White
www.SamWhiteRealty.com

Are you ready for Christmas yet? I'm not. Not yet -

I want to hold on to Thanksgiving just a little longer. Thanksgiving is virtually a non commercial holiday and it just feels nice. It feels nice to stop and think about how wonderful our lives are even with the stock market decline, the real estate decline, wars, terrorists.... How wonderful is YOUR life? Even if you have less money, even if your real estate has declined or been foreclosed, even if.... aren't our lives really great? Mine is!

I live in a country where I can work for what I want, worship the way I want and live the way I want. I live a great house, have a great family, live in the great town of College Station, have a great job in real estate and live in the greatest country in the world! Maybe we should all stop and think about how blessed we really are.

Susan Hilton - Realtor & Sales Trainer for Century 21 Beal

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Bryan College Station introduces its third emergency room. Apparently Bryan College Station residents are prone to accident and injury. This new emergency room will be free standing, less than 10 miles from the other two emergency rooms. The project is estimated to cost around 12 million. It is being built on Hwy 6 near William Fitch. This new emergency room should take the pressure off of the overcrowded facilities in Bryan and College Station, and ultimately improve the quality of medical service in Bryan College Station. As we know, anything that creates new jobs, new development, or benefits the Bryan College Station residents, is always good for the Real Estate market! Bryan College Station continues to enjoy good times and great property value!

If you are interested buying or selling property in Bryan College Station please contact us online at www.CortiersLuxuryRealty.com or call the office at 979-985-5610.

Raylene Lewis is a top agent at Century 21 Beal in College Station Texas. A few months ago she was contacted about publishing her "interesting real estate experiences" in a book. Below are the 2 stories (TRUE STORIES) they chose.

Real estate is an interesting business. We deal with people at their bests and at their worsts! We see clean houses and houses no one should live in. We work with people who are understanding and those who are demanding. We find pets left in houses, appliances and sinks removed, wires cut, houses flooded, carpet removed, clients that lie but more often than not, we get to meet WONDERFUL people. Most of our clients are kind people who enjoy working with us to achieve their goals of either buying or selling real estate. Most of the time we not only have a real estate transaction together but we also build long term relationships and friendships.

Enjoy Raylene's stories. They are only 2 of hundreds of experiences we have on a regular basis.

Smashing Success

A story like this will probably have some considering the need for a real estate driving course and designation. Raylene was having an open house for agents on her very first listing. New to the business, she was doing her best to make the right impression both with fellow agents and her sellers

She had provided a nice lunch for the agents and was collecting business cards to hold drawings. Apparently the pull of these caravan drawings was just too much for one busy agent who, although she didn't' have time to stay for lunch or tour the property, stopped by to drop off her business card.

The agent was in an obvious hurry. She quickly parked, grabbed a business card, and hurried into the house. Depositing her card with the many other agent cards, the woman quickly retraced her steps to her car.

A few moments later, however, she came back inside. Raylene asked her what she thought of the house.

"It's great, but I think it needs a new garage door."

"Really, why?"

"Because I just drove through it!"

Experience #2

If you ever have clients get in your car with children carrying buckets, you might want to bail - literally. Texas agent Raylene Lewis had no idea why three or the four small children in this large family would be carrying small, pink plastic buckets.

She soon found out. As they began driving the day's showings, two of the kids threw up into their buckets. "The clients said they just had to have a house that day. I dropped them off at a new home community."

Susan Hilton - Realtor & Sales Trainer for Century 21 Beal

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Original Article by Susan Hilton selling College Station Real Estate