Gift Guides 2024

Are you in need of a gift for someone?You’re in the right place, I’ll be adding new guides and updating the current guides almost daily!I went absolutely overboard this year and, for the past week, I’ve been obsessed with creating new gift guides for you.When I stumbled out of my sticky, iced coffee

On the Road in Fulshear 

This week’s “windshield survey” begins in Fulshear, Texas. The town’s history can be traced to Churchill Fulshear, a member of Stephen F. Austin’s Old Three Hundred. In 1824, Churchill, received a land grant from the Mexican government to establish his plantation where he grew cotton, corn, rice, an

Quantifying Higher Mortgage Rates’ Effect on Housing Affordability

Over the past few years, historically low mortgage rates have played a major role in boosting both home sales and refinance activity in Texas. In a short time, however, those rates climbed quickly and took a big bite out of housing affordability.   Data collected by the Consumer Finance Protection B

Rugs I Love & Others I Don’t

It took me almost 20 years and 12 houses before I believed in the power of a large rug.Before that I thought rugs were just decor or just something soft. If I thought my floors were pretty then I didn’t use a rug. Or, if my floors were already soft–with carpet I also saw no need for a rug. It litera