Melissa Collins Realtor

07/31/2026

🌾 Just Listed in Corvallis, MT! 🌾

Your Montana dream starts here. This beautiful 3.5-acre parcel on Sutherland Lane offers the perfect blend of space, scenery, and opportunity.

✨ Light covenants
💧 Water rights included
✅ Septic approval in place
🏔️ Phenomenal Bitterroot Mountain views

🌿 Build the home you've been dreaming about
Whether you're ready to build now or invest for the future, this property is one you won't want to miss.

📍 TBD Sutherland Lane, Corvallis, MT 59828
💲 $355,000
💻 MLS 30075851

📲 Reach out for more information or to schedule a tour

07/08/2026

🏡 **OPEN HOUSE** 🏡

Come tour this stunning home in the heart of the Bitterroot Valley!

📍 **543 Diamond 3rd, Corvallis, MT 59828**
🗓️ **Sunday, July 12**
⏰ **11:00 AM – 1:00 PM**
💲 **Offered at $1,199,000**

Don't miss the opportunity to explore this beautiful property and see everything it has to offer. Whether you're searching for your forever home or simply curious about the local market, we'd love to welcome you!

Stop by, take a tour, and let's talk real estate. See you Sunday!

06/21/2026

Happy Father's Day to all the amazing dads 💙 we sure do love them around here

06/15/2026

What a beautiful and busy month it's been so far!

This one definitely had its ups and downs- appraisal issues, lending issues, flood plain issues- but we persisted and got it to the closing table.
Couldn't have gotten this handled without and Susan Jensen. ⚡️

06/15/2026

MONTANA MONDAY 🏔️

🦖 Montana's Claim to Dinosaur Fame 🦖

Did you know the first official Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton was discovered right here in Montana?

In 1902, legendary fossil hunter Barnum Brown unearthed the remains of what would become one of the most famous dinosaurs in history in Montana's Hell Creek Formation while working for the American Museum of Natural History.

Just three years later, in 1905, Henry Fairfield Osborn formally described and named the species Tyrannosaurus rex—meaning "Tyrant Lizard King."

More than a century later, Montana remains one of the world's most important places for dinosaur discoveries, with fossils continuing to reveal secrets from the age of dinosaurs.

📍 Montana: Home of the King of the Dinosaurs

06/02/2026

Back with another 🏔️

Montanans have seen it on Highway Patrol patches, patrol cars, and countless pieces of Montana memorabilia—but what does **3-7-77** actually mean?

The truth is, nobody knows for sure.

One theory traces it back to the Montana Vigilantes of the 1870s and 1880s, a citizen group that helped protect Virginia City and Bannack from outlaws and lawlessness. The numbers were allegedly painted on a criminal's tent or cabin as a warning to leave town.

Another popular legend claims the numbers represent the dimensions of a grave: **3 feet wide, 7 feet long, and 77 inches deep**.

Others believe it was a message that an outlaw needed to purchase a **$3 ticket** on the next **7:00 a.m. stagecoach** for the **77-mile journey from Helena to Butte**—or leave the territory.

Whatever its true origin, **3-7-77** has become one of Montana's most recognizable symbols and has proudly appeared on Montana Highway Patrol patches and vehicles since the 1950s.

What's your favorite theory behind Montana's most famous numbers? 👇

05/18/2026

It's y'all 🏔️

Did you know that during the last Ice Age, a massive sheet of ice — nearly 20 miles wide — became lodged in the Idaho panhandle, blocking the Clark Fork River and creating glacial Lake Missoula. 🌊

At its peak, the lake reached an astonishing 4,250 feet above sea level — more than 1,000 feet higher than present-day Missoula. Eventually, the immense pressure caused the ice dam to fail, unleashing one of the most catastrophic floods in Earth’s history.

The landscape of western Montana still carries the marks of this incredible event today. ⛰️

05/18/2026

✨Something exciting is happening in Victor ✨

Bitterroot People's Market....

Victor Parks Board is happy to announce, we heard the need for the Market, and we are happy to comply! Our FIRST Market will be June 4th, in Victor Park. The hours it will be open are from 4pm-7pm. The Market will run every Thursday through the end of September, with the exception of August 6th, due to set up for Victor Days.

The Market will be open to:
Home-Baked
Home-Grown (includes flowers, vegetables, & meat)
Handmade Crafts
Hand Crafted items
This includes Authors of the Bitterroot and Artisans of the Bitterroot.
Also includes 501C who are doing fundraising.

You must reside in the Bitterroot to sell at the Market.

We're looking forward to seeing YOU June 4th in Victor Park!

If you would like to be a vendor, please message us and we will send you information to become a vendor.