Michael Crane, Realtor - Greater Dallas Area

04/06/2022

So happy to get this one under contract for my client. In this seller’s market, persistence and knowing what it takes to get an offer to the top of the stack were key.
Now…how can I help you?

01/20/2022

Rates are climbing as predicted but took a big jump recently. Let’s talk about your timeline.

01/01/2022

Happy New Year. Call me if you’re ready to start your 2022 house hunt. 🏡

12/24/2021

12/02/2021

Compass Cares - A program that donates a portion of every sale or rental transaction to local community causes.

08/25/2021

Please VOTE! ✅ The Key Group Dallas is excited to be nominated for Best in DFW Real Estate Teams! 🙌🏡💪 Please go to www.votebestindfw.com and vote for The Key Group Dallas, Compass 🏆 We are honored & excited for this recognition and THANK YOU to our amazing clients & referral partners! We love what we do! ❤️

08/19/2021

July 2021 stats are out. Here they are for LH, Lakewood, Preston Hollow, and Northwood Hills. Let me know if you want to see stats on your neighborhood.

07/20/2021

𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏
𝐎𝐧𝐞'𝐧'𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 "𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀" 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆.

My sister loved going to summer camp at Pine Cove just outside Tyler, Texas. She went every summer. She worked there every summer during college. She met her husband there. Her kids went there, and one now works there.

I tried it once.

Once.

I preferred spending my summer days (and nights and weekends) playing baseball for the LH Wildcats - and sleeping in air conditioning. The thought of sleeping on a wooden plank, showering without door locks, and trying not to go to the bathroom from Sunday to Saturday was less than appealing. However, my sister really loved it, so one year, I gave it a try.

As luck would have it, my baseball team made it into the championship tournament that was to be held the same week I was at camp, so my parents said I just had to make it to Thursday, and they would come and pick me up early from camp so I could make it to the tournament.

Saved. Seven days of camp now down to a manageable four-and-a-half.

To celebrate my last night at camp, I decided to spend the remaining $40 of my "camp store credit" on a Snickers and Coca-Cola party for my cabin. After all, I didn't want that money to just get taken by Pine Cove without me getting anything out of it.

Now $40 (equivalent to $130 today) bought A LOT of (full-size) Snickers and Cokes back in 1980, and the 8 of us boys ate and drank every last bit that night.

My cabin loved me, and Pine Cove didn't get to keep my parents' camp store account money for nothin'. I was on top of the world!
When my parents picked me up the next morning, I couldn't wait to tell them how smart I was for not letting my camp store account go to waste. That $40 was wisely spent on an evening of Cabin 8 gluttony with candy and cokes and not just pocketed by The Camp.
..and that's when I was given this important piece of information: "Son, you realize that the camp would have returned whatever money you didn't spend at the store to us."

"Um...no. I didn't know that. Oops."

𝗜𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀

I didn't know all of the rules about how the camp store account worked, and that ended up costing us a lot of money. All I needed to do was work with someone at the camp that did know the system, and I would have made a better choice.

According to the National Association of Realtors, a whopping 91% of sellers use an agent to sell their house. On top of that, the average home sold without an agent was $77,000 less than those those that were agent-assisted.

I'm still not well-versed on the intricacies of the camp store, but if you'd like to start a conversation about buying or selling a house, I'd love to visit with you. I'll even bring you a Snickers and a Coke.

07/04/2021

Love where you live.

06/22/2021

Really love seeing how the property pics turn out after following around all night. How inviting is this!?


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