First, everybody, thanks for your patience while the website is being updated.  It's been a little challenging making the step from being a Realtor to being the Broker-Owner of this little growing company. Everything from managing IDX-link hosting systems, to negotating rates on million dollar insurance policies, yikes! But I love it.

I wanted to say first off, my first responsibility is to carry forward my long-standing mission statement of "integrity in real estate."  That is first and foremost to me at all times, to uphold the strictest of ethical standards, far beyond what is just legal, or what can be "gotten by" with.  That's one reason I'm excited and honored to be a member of the Professional Ethics and Standards Committee with the Texas Association of Realtors. 

 
The reason I wanted to write this little blog, is because as I was just adding the information on our newest agent, whom I have been friends with since we were in first grade, I realized that all four of the agents here at my company actually have at least one college degree, half of them have master's degrees. (I'm not in that half. ) And half have a broker's license. (I am in that half.)  In a time when, demographically, the typical real estate agent has only a high school diploma and three weeks of real estate education, that's pretty exciting that all the agents here are so educated, not just in real estate, but in other subjects as well.  In the state of Texas, which licenses many professions, it makes me incensed to think that Texas requires a fingernail polisher (a manicurist) to have ten times more education than a real estate agent!  Here awhile back, I wrote a letter to the editor of Realtor Magazine about that very topic, and they published it. They also implemented another idea of mine, that real estate agents be fingerprinted.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that I'm very pleased to have the association of a fine group of Realtors around.  For 50 years my dad owned his own automobile business, an automatic transmission repair shop, and he taught me how to operate a business on the golden rule, and to always hire people who are smarter than yourself. Plus, he taught me how to rebuild an alternator.  You just never know when you're going to need to know something like that!

Thanks to all of you for your continued support. ~Kim