If you haven’t looked in this Sunday’s paper, be sure to check out the Readers’ Choice Award Winner insert…Margie Stibora has been named the “Best Real Estate Agent” by the Bryan-College Station Eagle readers. Congratulations, Margie!
Archive for June, 2010
Readers’ Choice Award
Monday, June 28th, 2010Congratulations Gordon Sefcik!
Thursday, June 24th, 2010We are pleased to announce to winner of our drawing for the 32″ Samsung LCD HDTV that we held at the Texas Reds festival: Mr. Gordon Sefcik of College Station! Congratulations, Gordon. We hope you enjoy your new tv!
We are also delighted to have met so many new people from the community on Saturday. We had a lot of new faces, including many from MyBCS.com, an online forum which we sponsor. It was neat to meet people in person who we’ve only corresponded with online. It was also wonderful to catch up with past clients and friends who stopped by our booth to say hello. Visiting with each and every one of you was the best part of the festival.
We arrived at the festival at 6:30 am on Saturday morning and stayed will 10:30 pm. It was a long day, but we were all surprised by how fast the day went. The biggest challenge was staying cool, as that summer Texas heat was intense! But with the help of our Frog-Togg cool towels, an ice chest full of drinks, and tag-teaming for brief periods in the nearby air conditioned buildings, we made it. We hope that each of you enjoyed the festival just as much as we did!
Here are a few pictures from the Reds Festival:
Steak. Wine. Texas Music…and a Free HDTV!
Thursday, June 17th, 2010This weekend is the 4th annual Texas Reds Steak and Grape Festival in downtown Bryan. If you’ve attended this event before, you know it’s a blast that you don’t want to miss. If you haven’t, then make plans to attend your first Texas Reds Festival this Saturday, June 19th! Filled with music, crafts, kids activities, food and wine, this event provides fun and entertainment for the whole family.
We are proud to be hosting a booth at the Festival, where we will be conducting a drawing for a 32″ Samsung LCD HDTV (valued at $600) throughout the day on Saturday. All you have to do is stop by our booth (located on Main St. facing the stretch between Halo and the Brauhaus) and enter your name and contact info. We’ll announce the winner next week!
Be sure to stop by to enter the drawing and say howdy- we’d love to visit with you!
Texas Leading Economic Recovery
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010Houston Business Journal – As the U.S. economy expanded for a third consecutive quarter, Texas posted some of the strongest numbers in the country, according to Houston-based private equity firm SigmaBleyzer LLC.
The Texas Business Cycle Index, which tracks movements in employment and GDP, increased for the third straight month.
Texas nondurable manufacturing also grew by 2.1 percent and 1.7 percent in 2008 and 2009, versus negative 3 percent and negative 5.6 percent nationwide.
Moreover, higher oil prices supported a nearly 10 percent growth in the Texas mining industry in March 2010 compared to the same month a year before.
Unemployment remained at 8.2 percent, giving Texas the lowest rate among large states, while existing home sales in the state grew in the first quarter by 16 percent compared to the same time a year ago.
U.S. GDP grew at an annualized rate of 3.2 percent for the quarter while Texas GDP grew at about 2 percent, but didn’t drop as much compared to the rest of the nation during the lows of the recession.