Yesterday, my daughter Katie Ferreri-See, posted her 10-year-anniversary certificate for her long-time association with RE/MAX Top Realty. Yes, she's starting down the path that I took in 1975, that of a Lifetime Realtor®. She got married a few years ago to Travis See whom she met at RE/MAX Top Realty where he started working while in high school. Interestingly, they both lived in Southdown and went to the same schools, but didn't meet until they were both working at The Top! Now, they're expecting my first grandchild, Karlene Faith! (Yippee!) #excitedgrandpatobe

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I also read Kathy Kipp's post about feeling old when she booked a hotel room with her AARP discount! (Hey, why not? I like to use mine for

The Houston Association of Realtors' MLS Press Release, which was distributed yesterday, proclaimed that "the Greater Houston real estate market experienced its first sales decline in six months in July. What you know as "HAR.com" went on to say that not only the upper end was affected this time, but both upper and lowest ends of the pricing spectrum had a slowdown. In fact, they went on to report that the drop was 8.8%, year-over-year.

The good news, however, is that home sales are still up about 1% overall in year-to-date sales numbers versus last year. More good news is that RE/MAX Top Realty continues its pattern of growth and increase per agent in sales, far outselling our competitors in "per agent production." And here at The Top, we're "bullish"

Back in the 1990's, when I first moved my real estate career to Pearland, Texas, I created a "photologo" where I labeled myself "The Future of Real Estate." Of course, I weighed 401 pounds back then and my hair was black, but that's another story altogether! Now, 20 years later, I find myself in that future and leading a Top RE/MAX Real Estate firm into the growth pattern of that future! Yes, I am living the future today!

And so are you. As Billy Joel put it so many years ago, "these may not be the best of times, but they're the only times I'll ever know." So if that's the case, why not make it our personal best? We can! And we do!

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So what does the future look like today? Well, 20