Mikey Bowler, Realtors powered by Compass

06/04/2026

Well, home is always first when doing these things 😉
Curious how the real estate market is doing? Good news — you can now (or very soon) check out a quick snapshot of the local market, broken down by parts of the metro area, on MikeyBowlerRealty.com.

Hopefully by this weekend, I’ll have the whole East Jefferson section built out. These things take time — basically me staring at spreadsheets like a raccoon digging through trash at 2 a.m. — but it’s totally worth it so y’all can see the actual data we agents see. No fluff, just the good stuff!

These are interactive maps too — just drag your mouse across the graphs and watch the real numbers pop up like neighborhood gossip. 📊

Want a custom market update for your price point, square footage, or specific area? Shoot me a message. I’ll build one for you that updates automatically.

Who else is watching the market right now? Drop a 🔥 if you’re house hunting or selling!

https://mikeybowlerrealty.com/market-data-70123/

05/25/2026

WATER AND MOISTURE IS THE ENEMY

Waterlogged and more rain days to go… couple property maintenance suggestions and being waterlogged is helpful:

Look around your front and back yard. The puddles are obviously your low spots. See if you see a way to adjust the grade for better drainage. Even if you can’t do the work yourself, take some pictures so when others can do it for you, they can see where all the low spots are.

Slope everything away from the house and towards drains. I’m starting at the storm drains and creating a low spot all the way to the storm drain.

Use this waterlogged time wisely.

04/03/2026

Well, we're movin' on up… to the Compass side! 🏠✨

The logo change is tiny, but the upgrade is massive.

Mikey Bowler Realty is now Mikey Bowler, Realtors – powered by Compass.

Why the move? Hanging my own shingle sounded cool… until I realized it came with very shallow pockets.

Compass is basically a tech company that happens to sell houses. Their tools would’ve cost me a fortune to build. But the real clincher?

I can now drop up to $15,000 on repairs, staging, or upgrades when you list with me — through Compass Concierge. No payments until closing. It just comes out of the sale proceeds.
(And yes, in Louisiana it’s basically a super-cheap HELOC… but way easier than begging a bank.)

Same boutique service you love. Just now backed by the deepest pockets (and best tech) in real estate.

Let’s sell some houses!

Who’s ready? 👀

Services: Real Estate Agent (Residential & Commercial), Professional Architectural / Real Estate Pho

01/16/2026

In the next week or so I expect that I will be able to offer home sellers a line of credit up to $25,000 to make repairs or spruce up the house before we get it to market. Such a huge help for all sellers but mostly for homes that have not been updated in 30+ years.

01/16/2026

$25,000 home equity line of credit at below 7%.

In the next week or so I’d expect we are ready to announce the availability of up to a $25,000 line of credit that can be used for home repairs in anticipation of selling it. This would be for listings Chelle or I list for sale, not for everyone.

With Chelle’s HVAC background and my overall construction experience, I’m expecting to offer project management for those “get the house ready to sell” projects. I can’t make all the details public quite yet, but expect a big advantage soo when we list your “old house” for sale soon.

01/15/2026

The Blake is looking for volunteer piano players for the memory care unit. If you can play for an hour once every week or two, it would be awesome. Let me know what days of the week and times you are regularly available. Hopefully we can get them set up with a pretty good stream.

Plenty studies show music has a very good calming and anxiety relief effect on dementia and Alzheimer’s patients, so if we can keep music there regularly, it will be a pretty good for both the pat and the caregivers there.

01/13/2026

The Blake Memory Care Unit and the New Piano

It has been a whirlwind of a topic on the piano in the past 48 hours so here is a full update. A simple “it’s free” post that turned into something of its own event. The good news is that the piano has a bright future and purpose ahead. It will be in the memory care center at the Blake playing music for those who have lost just enough of their brain function to no longer being able to be left alone, to those that have full on dementia… mostly the latter I expect.

There was a lot of interest in the piano and Roxie Bruno actually got to me second… sorry to the lady I skipped to do this. I’ll figure out how to make it up to you but you couldn’t have offered me enough money to not do this.

For those of you that have not experienced seeing dementia or Alzheimer’s up close, it’s one of the ugliest things you can witness happen to someone, and short of about a 20% chance, they will drift away by what seems like one brain cell at a time. You never know how much of them is still in there, but most of the time they have lost very little motor function other than the typical age / atrophy changes that come with aging.

The variations of the diseases differ so greatly that it’s sometimes difficult to see at first. Imagine losing just your sense of humor or just the inability to process bad news correctly… it can start so small for a year or two, nobody notices till you are down a path nobody is ready for. It’s exhausting for those around them as someone starts with a family type roommate that stays as long as they can be left alone safely… hopefully they don’t try to cook. I better not go this way because I’ll never stop cooking. Well it’s just a slow process through a vastly changing maze of memory loss maze of mazes. A new memory lost weekly. A lifelong skill suddenly lost… till they look like a healthy shell of what they were. In a lot of ways it’s the exact opposite of ALS.

A big thanks to Ian Roche for kicking off rounding up labor and the overall charitable nature of saying, “we can get this done with the three of us. Well more came to the plate too! Roxie, so glad you reached out and got this going. Claudia - can’t thank you enough for getting the muscle and equipment committed to this. Hopefully, soon this small group of mini-hero’s that have all pitched in with either genuine offers of equipment, or labor, or just encouragement, to those that are getting it done, we all get maybe a glimpse of what this does for those that have maybe one last smile or emotion left in them.

01/11/2026

Update: It has likely found a home.

Free piano in Harahan. It is in excellent condition according to the fella that tuned it for me and it has held the tune very very well.

Pickup in Harahan and it weighs about 500 lbs. so come with multiple people capable of moving it down three steps. Unfortunately, I cannot help move it down the steps at all.

01/09/2026

Find out the poll results and what is really going on these days on Monday. This is one of the more important and parts of the real estate transaction THAT CHANGES CONSTANTLY based on the financial markets... not the housing market. What you find out will change as months go by but usually in small amounts.

01/05/2026

Looking for flower pots / planters.

First photos and making a good impression in the first two seconds is so critical in the TikTok world. Doing a little prep work for Spring Listing/Selling season and I am looking for foam flower pots in all sizes. I use them for staging first photos (which are oddly really hard to do virtually or with AI).

Happy New Year everyone... and back to work we all go today.