Clay Lee
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Lick Creek Park, A Rural Escape for College Station
June 19th, 2008 Categories: Buying Real Estate, Community Events, Kids, Family & Personal Stuff, Pebble Creek, Restaurants & Fun
Did you know that the City of College Station owns a single park that is 515 acres? It does, and it’s called Lick Creek Park. It’s open to the public year round and is located off of Rock Prairie Road in South College Station. If you haven’t been there yet, you are missing out on one of the coolest and FREE things to do in Bryan/College Station. Now one of the most well known park’s in the country is Central Park in New York City that has 843 acres. At 515 acres, Lick Creek isn’t that far off in comparison!
There are equestrian, bike, and pedestrian trails that run for man miles throughout the heavily wooded park. It’s comprised of some swampland which makes the terrain very interesting and a lot of fun for exploring. A lot of people take their dogs with them and go for a long walk to just enjoy nature. Some people venture off the trails and make a true hike through the unexplored wilderness! The coolest thing is when you come up on someone riding a horse! You have to have a permit to ride your horse there, and I think they even have stables available for boarding. It’s a great place to go to just get away from everything without having to drive too far. With all the trees, it’s not as hot as being in the open sun which makes it a great place to go in the summer.
Don’t waste another Saturday playing in the backyard, head over to Lick Creek Park. To get there, take Highway 6 South and exit Hwy 40/William D. Fitch Parkway. Go East on William D. Fitch Parkway past Pebble Creek to Rock Prairie Road. Turn right on Rock Prairie Road and go about a mile. You will come to the Equestrian Center first, but go a little bit further and you’ll be to the public entrance of the Park! For more information on Lick Creek Park, CLICK HERE.
For more information on Luxury Living in Bryan/College Station, feel free to email me anytime @ rclaylee@yahoo.com
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Thinking of Buying or Building? Make a Book First
June 18th, 2008 Categories: Buying Real Estate, Home Improvement & Design, Market Trends
How many times have you looked through a magazine and spotted something you would love to have in your next home? Have you ever driven by a house and taken a picture of the outside because it was exactly what you wanted? We have all done it, but how many times do we actually rip those articles out and organize them in one place?
A house book is one of the best ideas I’ve ever used to help clients decide what they really wanted in a house. If you are thinking of buying or building, how do you plan on telling your REALTOR, architect, builder, or interior designer what you want? Pictures are worth a thousand words, and having those ideas in one place makes it a snap.
To get started, you will need a large 3 ring binder, several tabbed dividers, some blank plain paper, a 3 ring hole punch, a glue stick, and some clear sleeves that fit in a binder. Label the dividers with different headings like floor-plan, kitchen, exterior, pool, master bath, home theater, audio-video, and others that suit your taste, you can always add more tabs. However, the tabs just help keep it separated. You don’t have to have them Read the rest of this entry »
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How Many Acres Makes a Ranch? Online Poll
June 17th, 2008 Categories: Buying Real Estate, Community Events, Land & Rural
Have you ever been to a ranch? Are you sure it was a ranch? Across the country, people call different sized parcels of land ranches. Dictionary.com says that a ranch is a place where livestock or crops are raised. If that is the case, a lot of people are using the wrong term when describing their land.
In Southern California where land is scare, people call parcels over 20 acres a ranch! In most of the populated parts of Texas, people usually start calling things over 200 acres a ranch. However, when you get into far west Texas, Ranches usually run in the thousands of acres. Forbes.com claimes that anything over 1,000 acres that is a ranch. Ranches are made famous by their owners like Ralph Lauren’s Double RL ranch in Telluride Colorado. At 2800 Acres, Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch in California is also one of the most well known. In Texas, we have many famous ranches like the Four Sixes Ranch which was named after it was won in a poker tournament with a hand of 4 sixes. The King Ranch in south Texas has become a style icon of ranching throughout the world. So my question is, how many acres do you consider a ranch to be?
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For more information on ranches in Texas or any other type of real estate, feel free to contact me anytime @ rclaylee@yahoo.com
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