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	Subjects for your hallway conversations The week's most popular industry news: Real Estate See the Latest Headlines »   Real Estate Cash Is King in Today's Distressed Marketplace - dsnews.com For many homebuyers, mortgage financing is hard to come by these days as lenders have tightened up credit requirements to safeguard against a repeat of the housing crisis brought on by lax lending practices that put people into... 94 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Naples Rises From Florida Housing Swamp as Wealthy Buyers Return to Market - bloomberg.com Joshua Bahoff bought a three- bedroom luxury condominium in Naples, Florida, in December for $235,000, about one-third of the price that the seller paid near the height of the U.S. housing boom. 76 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Young Home Buyers Will Lead Housing Market Recovery, Says NAHB - rismedia.com Generation X—young families and adults ages 31 to 45—are likely to lead the home-buying recovery as it gets underway, according to real estate experts who spoke at an educational webinar produced... 90 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share NAR floats $40 dues hike for political campaigns - inman.com Group says Supreme Court ruling upped ante for 'soft money' campaigns. The National Association of Realtors is considering a hike in member dues by $40 a year in 2012 and 2013, with the goal of raising nearly $80 million in... 70 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Shadow Inventory May Deplete Quicker In Hardest Hit States - dsnews.com A recent report by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) shows reveals interesting information regarding the foreclosure inventory of the hardest hit states. It is pretty well known that Arizona, Nevada, California, and... 51 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share   See the Latest Headlines » Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. © 2011, LinkedIn Corporation

Lots going on in Marble Falls!

Wow lots going on this week!  Our Building Association of the Highland Lakes had a mixer/networking opportunity Tuesday night. Our new business cards and brochures for our new location came in on Tuesday , just in time!  Great pizza, and cold drinks, were enjoyed by all, and the event was well attended.

On the store front,  our new Marble Falls location is finally coming together.  Our son Matt put the finishing touches on our book racks and we have all our fabric books finally hung. Travis put the back storage room in order on Wednesday, along with our new slipper chairs and bench with the great Couture Covers, slipcovers that we can change with the seasons!YAY!  Spring now says, soft green, yellow and blue geometric pattern on a beige background for the chairs, and an ivory microfiber cover on the bench affords us ample seating now.Come fall, we can easily change, and very inexpensively.  Next, for some tables... still looking..

Got our new sign permit today, and ordered the sign for the building.  Lettering on the windows, so everyone can find us!  Love being right downtown, looking forward to walking around to all locals and meeting and greeting.  As soon as our new window covering samples arrive, we will be scheduling our open house/ribbon cutting.

Still looking for our next "refresh" project...The last two that we did are still on the market, and been showing lots...Spring is in the air...

Happy First Day of Spring!!

Today is the first day of spring, and it has been a long cold winter in Texas.

We are almost settled in to our new Marble Falls store.  This week, we got the last of the fabric books hung up, and our new administrative assistant helped put the finishing touches on the window covering samples, and we ordered some new chairs, custom drapery and couture covers for existing chairs.

We went to Austin yesterday, and found some great bookcases for the rest of our samples in the showroom, and look forward to getting our internet permanently hooked up tomorrow, Monday.  We will be ready for our grand opening and ribbon cutting very soon,  Just in time for the bluebonnets, I bet!!

Now, we are looking for our next home improvement project, looked at a few in Marble Falls today.

Stay tuned....

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	Some news to make your day go better The week's most popular industry news: Real Estate   Real Estate Double-digit rent rise is coming to the housing market. - money.cnn.com Renters are coming back to the housing market, and they'll force rents much higher. 266 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-What Buyers Want in Homes Today - realtor.org Buyers have a long list of what they are looking for in homes. Bankrate.com highlights a few of their top home shopping desires. 126 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share House Votes to Rescind $1B in Neighborhood Stabilization Grants - dsnews.com The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to pull the plug on HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) and rescind $1 billion in grant money that has not yet been awarded. The NSP Termination Act (H.R. 861)... 55 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share California Realtors launch agent ratings pilot program | Inman News - inman.com MLSListings Inc. working with third-party vendor to collect client feedback. The California Association of Realtors is getting behind the concept of agent ratings and reviews, sponsoring a pilot program with a multiple ... 54 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share New home construction falls to second-lowest level on record - msnbc.msn.com Builders broke ground last month on the fewest homes in nearly two years, a reflection of declines in home prices and low demand that has made it difficult for them to compete. 39 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share   Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. © 2011, LinkedIn Corporation

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	Reading material to go with your coffee break The week's most popular industry news: Real Estate   Real Estate Research Firm Says U.S. Housing Has Never Been This Undervalued - dsnews.com The continuing depreciation of residential property values at the end of last year has made housing look more undervalued relative to income than ever before, according to analysts at the research firm Capital Economics. Based... 143 shares  ·  Read full story Foreclosure filings plunge 27% compared to last February - Mar. 10, 2011 - money.cnn.com The good news: Foreclosures are down. The bad? They may go up. 146 shares  ·  Read full story Press Release - Keller Williams Realty Climbs to Second-Largest Real Estate Franchise in United States - kw.com Keller Williams Realty is making news. Track our real estate industry leading growth. Read press releases and news on kw.com. 123 shares  ·  Read full story Filing for bankruptcy could save your home - msnbc.msn.com By the time the foreclosure notice arrives, most struggling homeowners figure they are out of options. But there is one more step, often overlooked but sometimes effective: bankruptcy. 87 shares  ·  Read full story Foreclosure Activity Sinks to Three-Year Low - dsnews.com New data from RealtyTrac shows that foreclosure filings nationwide dropped 14 percent between January and February, as overall activity last month sunk to its lowest level since February of 2008. RealtyTrac says total... 79 shares  ·  Read full story   Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. © 2011, LinkedIn Corporation

March 1 is finally here!

Well, it is March 1st, and we are moved.  At least, everything from the Marble Falls store is in one place.  Our Hunter Douglas displays, the Interceramic and the Mohawk and DalTile displays are in order. Now, where to put all those fabric books?? Everytime I move them, I am amazed at how many we have! Downsize? Maybe, don;t know yet 

The new location on Main Street will be very visible, we already had three walk in visitors today! Friends,, but so glad to see them.  Son Matt comes tomorrow night to help us with the finishing touches for the store, as well as the Firestone house.  I better get a good nights sleep!  More later......Photos to follow,,,,,