My father (Skip) use to like to hunt. As a little kid and even as a young adult I really didn't understand the appeal. Skip use to bring things home and butcher them in the garage. We would end up with a freezer full of meat wrapped in white paper with hand written labels identifying the contents. What I learned later was that it wasn't the trophy Skip was after, it was the day. He loved getting up early, taking a travel trailer out to some place off the beaten path and taking a walk. The descriptions of how his weekend went were almost poetic. Seeing his breath in the cool morning air, the sunrise, the deep grass or the steep hill he climbed. It was the whole experience, the journey not the destination that mattered.
Picture of Hatchet Ranch, Colorado June 2007 We could see approx 120 miles today. This was taken from the house the buyers are interested in.
For me selling real estate is much the same way. It's the discovery of a new type of house, a new neighborhood and the buyers or sellers I'm working with. I try not to talk to much, let the people I'm with talk to me. If you listen, you can hear many unspoken things. It the experience, the senses that you find interesting when you walk onto a property. It's the give and take, it's the journey I find appealing. OK the destination is a very nice perk.
Today I took out some people who found me in the Rain. They drove for days, hauled a trailer and hunted for places to stay every night. Together we went out on the hunt. They had a list of houses they wanted to see found on the internet. But what we discovered for them was a new journey as well as a destination. A new way of life and the joy of finding something new, the life yet to come.
This was also part of our journey today. This house had approx 20 trophies on the walls.
Thanks for a great day Penny, Marshall and Bob!
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Market reports can be a little boring, but they do shed a real light on what is happening in real estate around the area. The following information is from May 1, 2004 - June 19, 2007 for all of the Pueblo Area including the Arkansas Valley. 
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Colorado has an average of 333 days of sunshine every year. Our climate is ideal for anybody who is interested in either passive or active solar in their home. This house is in Dilley Ranch in Westcliffe Colorado not far from Rosita. Notice how the house is at the base of the mountain. The house is bermed into the mountain. 
Bermed into the mountain side to help control temperature extremes. This picture is the retaining wall and the roof meeting at the back of the house / berm. The entire house has stained concrete floors for thermal or solar mass. Concrete holds heat and releases it slowly. So in the winter when the sun in low the floors absorb the heat and help keep the house at a consistant temp. 
Oriented to the south for solar gain in the winter and comfort in the summer. Today was a very warm day in the high 80's this vacant house was a comfortable 70 degrees. The large windows facing due south service multiple purpose, comfort and VIEWS!
Every Friday night in June the local Pueblo Crime Stoppers sponsors a street festival. Tonight the band was the country band 
Some of the people there tonight were Lance Hill owner, builder and general contractor from Bella Casa, 
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