Hilary Meader-Realtor GRI ABR RENE with LPT Realty Texas

05/20/2026

🚨RURAL WELL OWNERS: 🚨
PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT TEXAS LEGASLTURE IS PLANNING!!!

The 2027 Draft of the Texas Water Plan makes one thing very clear:
Texas is preparing for massive future water demand and groundwater is a major target!!!
Now is your turn to stand up and have your voices heard.
The state is openly discussing:
• groundwater development
• streamlined permitting
• desalination
• aquifer storage
• AI/data center demand
• expanding infrastructure projects

They are projecting nearly $174 BILLION in future water infrastructure needs.

What does that mean for rural communities?
It means places with strong aquifers, open land, and private wells are increasingly being looked at for large-scale groundwater production and export projects.

Many people still think:
“They can’t take our water.”
But once contracts, pipelines, permits, and investors get involved, things change quickly.

RIGHT NOW the state is accepting PUBLIC COMMENT on the Draft 2027 State Water Plan and this is one of the few chances rural Texans have to get concerns officially on record.
📍 PUBLIC HEARING:
May 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Stephen F. Austin Building
1700 North Congress Ave.
Austin, Texas
(Also available virtually through Microsoft Teams)

🗣 HOW TO SPEAK UP:
• Submit written comments to the Texas Water Development Board before May 29
• Attend the public hearing in person or online
• Contact your state representatives and groundwater district officials
• Ask questions about groundwater export projects in your area
• Educate your neighbors and fellow landowners
If you care about:
• your private well
• water quality
• aquifer depletion
• agriculture
• future generations

NOW is the time to speak up.
Because once these projects are built, it’s a whole lot harder to stop them. See less

05/20/2026

The 24/7 noise, the high water usage, the electricity usage...all mostly at consumer expense. Say no!

🚨 BREAKING: Residents across parts of Texas are pushing back against plans to build massive data centers near forests, farmland, lake communities, and quiet small towns. 🌲🌾🚜
Instead of staying quiet, many Texans are choosing to fight back against developers they say are rapidly transforming open land, rural landscapes, and agricultural communities into enormous industrial server complexes.
The growing resistance is coming from residents across several Texas communities who say they do not want to see forests, rolling farmland, peaceful backroads, and scenic countryside replaced by giant warehouse-style data centers sitting just steps away from neighborhoods, schools, and local roads.
One local resident stated:
“These massive data centers do not belong in our communities.”
As data centers continue expanding across America, more Texas residents are drawing a line and refusing to back down. For many communities, this fight is becoming about far more than development — it is about protecting forests, preserving natural beauty, defending small-town identity, and deciding what kind of future they want for the places generations of families have called home. 🌾
Because in Texas, open land is not viewed as “empty space.”
To the people who live there, it is:
• family ranches and farms passed down for generations 🚜
• peaceful lake towns along Texas reservoirs 🌊
• forests stretching across East Texas and Hill Country 🌲
• quiet gravel roads and small-town communities
• dark night skies over open countryside ✨
• and the natural beauty that makes Texas feel like home.
From the farmland near Austin and Waco… to the forests of East Texas… to communities near Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and beyond — many residents say Texas’ land is worth more than endless rows of concrete, power stations, and server warehouses.
And many Texans are making it clear they are not willing to watch Texas’ natural landscapes disappear without a fight. 💀

05/13/2026

Collin County Outer Loop to Farmersville! Get to the meeting if you have a voice for it: "📌Public Meeting #2 will be held Wednesday, June 3, 2026 from 5-7 pm at Buena Vista Ranch, 9200 N. State Hwy 78, Blue Ridge, TX, 75424 AND Thursday, June 4, 2026 from 5-7 pm at Melissa United Methodist Church, 3851 McKinney St, Melissa, TX, 75454. Materials will also be posted online on June 3, 2026 at 5 pm.

Collin County is the sixth-highest populated county in Texas and a vital part of the rapidly growing Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. With a forecasted population growth of 70% from 2026 to 2050, planning for local and regional connectivity is imperative to development.

04/08/2026

Agreed heartily! That is, IF you have big reason to buy.🏡 Make sure you have the funds up front needed to close on a property 💲, and don't get too 'boujie' about the little things. Location and layout/size are the most important. ☀️

Financial expert Dave Ramsey says now is the time to act, not wait, in the spring housing market. With inventory growing and median list prices falling for five consecutive months, Ramsey says buyers who hesitate risk missing the window. "If you're buying, now is the time to get in while inventory is growing before competition and prices peak later this spring," he writes. For sellers, he advises pricing realistically from the start.

Read more: https://rltor.cm/5qY4uB

03/26/2026

✍Collin County Real Estate Key Insights from the MLS:

🗓️From 12/26/2024-now: 2 Year Comparison

⬆️Inventory Growth: Both Princeton and Melissa saw a massive increase in the number of properties listed and sold in the 2026 period compared to 2025
💲Melissa Market Shift: Melissa showed the most dramatic improvement in efficiency, with average Days on Market dropping significantly and the Sales Price vs. Original List Price percentage increasing from 86% to nearly 96%
🏡Pricing Stability: McKinney remains the most stable city in terms of pricing and property volume, maintaining a high sales-to-list ratio in both years
🔽Princeton Volume: Princeton continues to be the highest volume city in these lists, though it has seen a slight decrease in the average sold price year-over-year

03/13/2026

Spring in Texas! (Oh, except for next Wednesday)

02/14/2026

Now THIS is a compact bathroom! 🧐

02/09/2026

Home Buyers need more respect from agents.

02/05/2026

Even for famous people, real estate sometimes is a hassle: 😄

02/05/2026

TRUTH-But still wages haven't kept up either:

I make fifty five thousand dollars a year.
On paper, that sounds grown up. Respectable. The kind of number your high school guidance counselor would nod at and say, “See, you’ll be fine.”
So explain this to me.
Why am I sleeping in my seventy five year old grandfather’s basement like a college dropout who never launched?
Rent chewed me up and spat me out.
Eighteen hundred a month for a studio so small I could cook dinner without leaving my bed. After utilities, parking, and the “city lifestyle,” my paycheck vanished before the month even started.
The rooftop bars. The late night rides home. The delivery apps. All of it felt normal at the time.
Then the math caught up.
Now it is suburban Ohio. A sofa bed older than I am. Wood panel walls that smell like cedar and old winters. The kind of quiet that makes you hear your own thoughts.
The day I moved in, I walked through the door holding a seven dollar and fifty cent iced coffee.
Grandpa Frank stared at it like I had brought contraband into the house.
“That cost five bucks?” he asked.
“Seven fifty,” I said. “It’s just a small treat.”
He lifted his chipped mug of instant coffee and looked at me over the rim.
“You don’t need treats,” he said. “You need to pay off that school debt. I drink coffee. You drink a car payment.”
Living with him feels like living with a history book that talks back.
One tiny television that buzzes like a beehive. Rabbit ears wrapped in foil. Channel 4 news every night at six.
No streaming. No passwords. No monthly charges quietly draining his account.
Meanwhile I am paying for four different services and still scrolling, still bored.
“Why you need all that?” he asked one night.
“It’s about options,” I said.
He shook his head. “Looks like paying money to stare at nothing.”
Then came the burger.
End of a brutal week at work. I was fried. I opened my phone and ordered a fancy burger and fries. Twenty eight dollars with fees and tip.
The driver pulled up like he was delivering gold.
Grandpa was sitting on the porch.
He watched the handoff like I was buying something illegal.
Inside, he scooped leftovers onto a plate. Beans. Cut up hot dogs. Something that might have once been an onion.
“That must be nice,” he muttered.
I snapped.
“It’s one burger, Frank. Everything’s expensive now. You guys had it easy. You bought this whole house on one salary.”
The room went quiet.
He set his fork down slow, careful.
“Easy?” he said.
His voice changed. Not angry. Just tired.
“I worked the mill twelve hours a day. Six days a week. Your grandma packed the same bologna sandwich every morning for twenty years. Mortgage rate was fourteen percent. Fourteen. You know what that does to a man’s stomach?”
He pointed at my phone.
“That thing cost more than my first car.”
Then he pointed at the tattoos on my arm.
“Those cost more than my first year of rent.”
He rolled up his sleeve.
Faded blue ink. Blurry numbers and an anchor.
“Navy,” he said. “Got it when I was nineteen. Didn’t pay for it. Earned it. Came with nightmares instead of a receipt.”
I did not have anything smart to say after that.
He walked to his old roll top desk. The same one I used to draw on as a kid. He dug through a stack of papers and tossed a little book at me.
A savings passbook. Edges soft from decades of hands.
I opened it.
Two hundred eighty thousand dollars.
Saved.
Factory pension. Careful spending. Years of saying no.
Canned soup. Store brands. Fixing things instead of replacing them.
He washed his plate in the sink and spoke without looking at me.
“You think I’m richer because times were easier,” he said. “Times were hard. We were just harder.”
Then he looked me straight in the eye.
“You don’t have an income problem, Alex. You got an expense problem. You’re not broke. You’re paying every month to look like you’re not.”
That sentence hit harder than any bill I have ever opened.
I stood there holding that stupid gourmet burger, suddenly not hungry.
All those little charges. Coffee. Apps. Subscriptions. Convenience. Comfort. Things I told myself I deserved.
Death by a thousand tiny swipes.
My grandfather survived oil shocks, layoffs, and interest rates that would make my generation faint.
And here I was, losing to iced coffee.
That night I canceled three subscriptions. Cooked eggs instead of ordering out. Sat next to him on that buzzing couch and watched the local news like it was 1978.
For the first time in years, my chest felt lighter.
Maybe wealth is not about what you make.
Maybe it is about what you refuse to waste.
And maybe the toughest financial advice I ever got did not come from a podcast or a finance guru.
It came from a quiet old man with instant coffee and a house he paid for the hard way.

02/05/2026

Tom Bean & W of Sherman, get ready for a big new development! Off 697 and Robertson areas!

TOM BEAN, Texas (KTEN) — A big tract of land near Tom Bean is under new ownership.