Jennifer Davis's (jensblog) Blog

In the south or at least here in Searcy Arkansas I have noticed that nutrition is not very important to most folks. Popular favorites here are deep fried cat fish, hush puppies, french fries, fried okra, fried squash, chicken fried steak, are you seeing a pattern??? fried fried fried! There is nu...

I showed a little old house today that was about 800 sq. feet and very run down. I went ahead of my clients so I could preview it and I thought as I walked through it that it was a complete disaster and should be bulldozed over!So my clients arrived, we shook hands and stepped up the rickety stai...

Throughout my life I have taken vitamins off and on but never could really tell if they were actually doing anything so after a while I would quit taking them.I think nutrition and exercise are very important and I try to make sure I get plenty of both.About 4 months ago I was introduced by my si...

Getting continuing education is an expensive and time consuming process! Obtaining my real estate licese was just the beginning. In 2007 I got my brokers license and am trying to decide which is the most important designation to obtain next. My goal is hopefully to be able to work on one each yea...

Every Wednesday morning at 8:30 am at our local board office the Realtors meet for coffee, breakfast a short meeting and then they tour listings in our area. Each week we tour properties in a different direction N, S, E, and west. I have also heard of this referred to as "caravan". Most car pool ...

The weather has been sooo rainy here in White county! We have had severe flooding in areas in Southern White Co. some of the residents have really been hit hard. I think our buyers and sellers moods are effected when it's cloudy and cold and muddy everywhere, people arent in the house shopping mo...

Wow, I'm writing a blog on Easter Sunday, I must be crazy. I went to church this morning and after I tried to go to JC Penney and a few other places but the whole town seemed to be closed except Wal Mart of course.I was really irritated at the inconvenience as I drove from store to store only to ...

One evening at our annual real estate convention I sat in the lobby of the hosting hotel and chatted with one of our local brokers from another firm in my town. He and I discussed what we think breeds success in our business. We didn't agree on all of it but I remembered when he said, "When you g...

I get soooo many people asking me to sell their home or property but don't want to list it with me. I don't get it because if they are willing to pay a commission anyway, why not get the full treatment of advertising and MLS???Most of the time I can't remember the details enough to actually ever ...

I have been amazed that the focus on the presidential campaigns has not been more on oil prices then it has been so far. The candidates have touched on it but I haven't heard any detailed plans on how to try to correct this massive problem. Has anyone heard anything from any of the candidates?I t...