About Galveston County, TX

Galveston Texas and it's beautiful bay side

Galveston Island not only has a sandy beach with gorgeous beach homes, but also a bay side which features our homes on many coves and communities on canals.

Fishing and Boat enthusiasts

love our bay side and take enjoyment in their homes with boat launches and canal front views.

Many of Galveston's Bay communities, such as: Jamaica Beach, Sea Isle, Terramar, Isla Del Sol, Bay Harbor, Pirates Cove, Indian Beach, Sunset Cove and others...feature everything from a small cabin on the water to go fishing on the weekends...to large luxurious mansions featuring million dollar prices.

Galveston Island is 32 miles long and approximately 4 1/2 miles wide at it's widest point, and in many places on our far west end, you can see both the beach and bay from any vantage point. A resident can jump out of a fishing boat they just pulled into their boat house on the canal and walk over to the sandy beach for a swim.

Our Beautiful Bay side

Galveston allows for many to enjoy the tranquil fishing, boating, wildlife and serenity of an almost lake-like experience.

As I enjoy taking photographs, I often hope I can convey the beauty and versitility that Galveston Island has to offer.

Everybody can now participate in purchasing a new home! Right now...we are probably in the best buying time in the history of the real estate market. Properties and interest rates continue to be at all-time lows...AND don't forget the $8000 First-Time Homebuyers Tax Credit you'll receive, if you have a signed contract by April 30, 2010! This tax credit is also available to people who haven't owned a home for three or more years, and now there's an additional $6500 Tax Credit for people who have owned their current home for 5 or more years!

Why should you use a Realtor? If you are in the Houston or Galveston County, Texas areas...why should you email or call me at all? Because I will save you huge amounts of time and aggravation, which will save you money in the long run. I will set up a very specific home search, with exactly the criteria you give me, that will be emailed directly to you every time a new listing is put into the MLS System! I will also represent YOU in all real estate transactions. I won't be representing the Seller! If you don't have a Realtor working for and representing you...it's like going to court without an attorney...not very wise. And remember: A Buyer does not pay the Realtor's fee...Sellers do.

So please...don't hesitate to contact me with any real estate questions you may have. I am available for hire!

I'm one of those Realtors that will go out to the beach, walk over dunes and get way out in the sand to take a photo of a property.

I'm also one of those Realtors that will take other Realtors photos and fix them so they look nice, sometimes I even send them back to the Realtor so they can fix it in the MLS.

I'm also a Realtor that will go ahead and waste my time occasionally. I will waste my time and money helping someone or explaining something about Galveston Island when I know I probably won't get a sale, I just do it anyway.

I might not make as much money as possible, I'm sure I could be hard-nosed and make more...but it's not about that.

At the end of the day, if you enjoyed sharing your thoughts and helping someone understand things; If you went the extra mile out of kindness and love for the work you do...for no other reason that just to be the one person that can help someone at that split second, then it's worth it.

A lot of times in my line of work I will run across unethical people, I think we all do in any work. I guess my thoughts on this, is..just go the extra mile. Do what needs to be done. Go ahead and be there for that extra question, that time-wasting showing of property every once in a while. Think about more than the bottom line occasionally. Share your joy for all that you know about what you do for a living when you get the chance.

Like I said, I've had sand in my shoes more times than I can count simply because I want people to see a good photo of a property in all it's glory.

It's the little things, and it's the extra mile.

This is a photo of Seascape and the new Diamond Beach

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Galveston Texas and Wood Pilings on Beach Homes

I thought I'd share this story today about what I'm going through on this particular closings on a Beach Home in Galveston.

This is a VA loan.

In Texas a termite inspector is required to state that it is "conducive" to termites anytime wood is touching soil. If you have a beach home, wood pilings touch soil.

Here in Galveston, only treated wood is used on wood pilings. The exact "treatment" is CCA which contains chromium aresenic. The aresenic kills termites and the percentage of CCA to wood is .60 percent. On average, a treated wood piling will last 40 years+ without any maintenance.

Although it is standard in Galveston to meet code, standard in Texas to meet code, my job is to prove this particular home has treated pilings...so today I'll be at the City Planning Dept. getting the permit pulled on this home to hopefully prove it.

Most inspectors I talk to say that in 15 years or more they have never heard of this happening, it's like having to prove the sky is blue.

The human side to this story is that I have a young military couple buying a home with a VA loan that are stationed at Ft. Hood before moving to Galveston and I am trying to make sure they get their home but the other side has a cash back up offer waiting in the wings.

Sometimes a little common sense is needed, this would be one of those times.

I guess if anyone ever needs to know anything about wood pilings, just let me know.

I can help you out.