Jean Cargile's (bransonlakeside) Blog

 A New Year means a change - A New Beginning.  Well, that is what it means to me anyway.  I wish to all of you a year of health, happiness and prosperity.I have actually been anxious to put 2007 in the past and start over.  It seemed that last year was one hurdle after another.  If it wasn't heal...

Lately I have been running across things in the field that really rub me the wrong way.  Some realtors just do not help our profession keep a good name.  Some of the things that I refer to are:  placing a sign in the yard and a lockbox on the door without a listing contract, doing near nothing fo...

Last week I completed my GRI and it did give me a feeling of accomplishment.  Please let me encourage you to go for your GRI designation if you haven't already done so.  This was a well prepared and delivered course and I feel my gain of knowledge was well worth the money, time and effort.  In a ...

 Make your reservations soon for the opportunity to own property in Branson's newest luxury residential resort community.  Whisper Cove is only two miles from Branson's entertainment district and located lakeside on Table Rock.Whisper Cove boasts Branson school district, underground utilities, la...

First, we all should know the legal definition of an independent contractor is a person or business who performs services for another person under an express or implied agreement and who is not subject to the other CONTROL or right to control the manner and means of performing the services.  The ...

Is there ever just the right time to change brokers?  I have recently made a change and have really been feeling bad about the confusion and loss it causes.  There had been an offer thrown out to me and I had responded that if I did make a change it would be about two months down the line as I fe...

Recently recovering from some surgery which took me away from my real estate for awhile, I found myself looking at different lead sources.  Some were for buyers leads and some for sellers.  I ran into people who took your first $40. and you never heard another word from them.  I spent money on a ...

 Recently I decided to use the Real Estate Home Show to market a condo that had not drawn alot of traffic.  I must say I am impressed with the listing video that they run and I assume the TV slots will be equally as good.  If there are those of you who have not had the opportunity to view one of ...

I have talked some of my four footed friends. I have two Schipperkes and friends that have some as well. I thought I would include a picture of the little friend. This is a picture of Rosie she is a three year old pure breed. She belongs to my friend Russ Rosencrans The dogs name is Caladonia Tar...

 It has been brought to my attention that the link to my website did not work.  Duh, I typed in .com instead of .net as it should be.  Please try again to view the Pet Friendly site.  Thanks and I do apologize.