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Marcy Gray Realtor, San Antonio, TX (2026)

02/14/2022

🎉 Housewarming parties are a common place when someone moves into a new house.

🎁 Below are six traditional gift ideas to consider the next time you’re invited to a housewarming party.

1. Candles

A candle lit on the first night in a new home is believed to cast out darkness. It symbolically wishes the new occupants of the new home light through even the darkest of times.

2. Bread

A long-standing tradition, giving bread as a housewarming gift symbolically blesses the home with never knowing hunger. Many traditional housewarming gift givers like to give fresh-baked bread to the new homeowners.

3. Salt And Herbs

Salt was once a valuable commodity, people used it as currency, so a gift of the seasoning symbolizes wealth as well as hospitality. A gift of other herbs delivers the same sentiment.

4. Wine

A good bottle of wine paired with a lovely wine decanter makes a great gift that says, “May you always have joy and never go thirsty.”

5. Live Houseplant

When you give someone a live houseplant, you are essentially blessing them with a home that’s always full of life. No houseplant is complete without a stunning planter, gifting a houseplant also conveys a wish of good fortune.

6. Baskets

Gift a new homeowner with a burden basket to be placed at the front door. This symbolic gift helps preserve the home’s peace and harmony by encouraging anyone who visits to leave their troubles outside.

Marcy Gray | eXp realty
[email protected] | (210) 827-9663
marcygray.exprealty.com | 664202 SABOR

Marcy Gray

01/31/2022

🐾 Do you have small children or pets in your home? What about someone with a weakened immune system?

⬇️ If so, you may want to add disinfecting your floors to your sanitizing routine. Here’s what you need to know.

1. Not Everyone Needs To Disinfect Their Floors
The best way to go about disinfecting your floors is to begin where you enter the house. Entryways are notoriously germy as that’s where everyone comes in with shoes on.

2. Use Steam To Disinfect
Steam cleaners work on almost every type of flooring, including carpeting. Make sure it reaches temperatures of at least 167ºF, which is the temperature the CDC recommends for killing most bacteria and viruses.

3. Mopping
Regular floor cleaners typically contain surfactants that loosen bacteria so it can be mopped away. After mopping with a household floor cleaner, be sure to follow up with a spray disinfectant that contains rubbing alcohol or bleach to fully disinfect the floor.

Marcy Gray | eXp realty
[email protected] | (210) 827-9663
marcygray.exprealty.com | 664202 SABOR

Marcy Gray

01/24/2022

💖 6 tips for making your home a healthier place

1. Balance social and private spots
Studies suggest that the key to happiness resides in the strong bonds we form with family and friends.

2. Have a dedicated workspace
Today’s digital world allows many of us to work from home. Unfortunately, most people who do telecommute don’t have a dedicated workspace.

3. Let natural light in
Research shows that a flood of natural light instantly improves mood and maintains good health. Adding natural light is relatively easy.

4. Heat your home properly
A home that’s heated properly can have a dramatic impact on your health and your wallet. Cold, drafty, poorly heated rooms can be uncomfortable and weaken your immune system.

5. Reduce noise levels
Too much noise can have devastating consequences on our health and wellbeing.

6. Eliminate clutter
Cutting down on clutter in every room of your home can greatly reduce stress. Implement storage space to organize belongings and get rid of things you no longer need or use.

Marcy Gray | eXp realty
[email protected] | (210) 827-9663
marcygray.exprealty.com | 664202 SABOR

Marcy Gray

01/17/2022

🌟 Thinking of remodeling your home? Here are the 10 most popular house styles and their differences, so your new addition is a smooth transition.

1. Cape Cod
These small homes are typically one story with a steep roofline, multi-pane windows, wood siding, and hardwood flooring.

2. Country-french
One story, these homes feature a steep roofline, narrow windows with paired shutters, stucco walls, and a half-timbered frame.

3. Victorian
Victorian homes usually include a steeply pitched roof, patterned shingles, a prominent front porch gable, bay windows, a full-width front porch, and an asymmetrical façade.

4. Contemporary
With lots of glass, open floor plans, low-pitched roofs with exposed roof beams, and inventive designs.

5. Mediterranean
The Mediterranean style home features a stucco or adobe façade, a low-pitched red tile roof, grillwork, and arches.

Marcy Gray | eXp realty
[email protected] | (210) 827-9663
marcygray.exprealty.com | 664202 SABOR

Marcy Gray

01/10/2022

🏘️ Real estate investing offers several avenues for making money. One such avenue is with multifamily homes.

👌 While this type of investing isn’t for everyone, there are definite advantages associated with investing in a multifamily dwelling. Here are four reasons it’s a good thing.

1. More money coming in. While multifamily homes may not be as good a return on your investment as single-family homes are, these properties almost always have a better cash flow

2. It’s more convenient. Multifamily dwellings only have one lawn, one roof, one hvac unit, etc. Everything is in one place, making it easy (and probably cheaper) to maintain the property.

3. Vacancies aren’t as detrimental. Tenants move out. It’s the nature of the beast, but when they leave a multifamily property, there’s always the other tenants living in the other units that continue to pay rent each month.

4. You can live in one of the apartments. Living in one of the units, you can qualify for the same types of loans you’d get when purchasing a single-family home, making it less expensive overall.

Marcy Gray | eXp realty
[email protected] | (210) 827-9663
marcygray.exprealty.com | 664202 SABOR

Marcy Gray

01/03/2022

👀 Looking to add a bit of color to your front façade without going overboard?

👇 Here are several ways to add that pop of color you so crave.

1. The Front Door
If you aren’t sure which color is best for your home’s front door, choose something from its current color palette and run with it.

2. The Shutters
Another easy way to add color without going overboard is to paint your home’s shutters.

3. The Trim
Feeling gutsy? Painting the trim on your home a bold color makes quite a statement.

4. Flowers And Flowerpots
Choose easy to care for varieties that produce plenty of bright, colorful flowers.

5. Decorative Elements
The front door is the perfect place to add a seasonal wreath that’s colorful and fun, while that bench on your front porch is just screaming for some colorful throw pillows in each corner.

Marcy Gray | eXp realty
[email protected] | (210) 827-9663
marcygray.exprealty.com | 664202 SABOR

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Marcy Gray

12/27/2021

💰 Not sure if your investment property is a good one or not?

💡 Here are three ways to tell.

Is Your Rental Property A Good Investment?

1. The rental property has a positive cash flow each month.

2. The property is in a high-demand location.

3. The property is easy to manage.

When You Should Sell An Investment Property

1. The rental property has a negative cash flow.

2. You live too far away from your rental property.

Marcy Gray | eXp realty
[email protected] | (210) 827-9663
| 664202 SABOR

Marcy Gray

12/24/2021

🌳 Choose The Perfect Tree For Your Yard

🏡 Whether you’re selling your home or plan to live in it for a long time, proper landscaping adds beauty while providing protection for your home.

What Is The Purpose Of The Trees?
Trees are beautiful, but beyond that, they also provide protection from all sorts of things. So, what is it you want your trees to do?

Consider A Tree’s Size And Lifespan
Shorter trees are great for yards with overhead power lines, but taller trees provide privacy and shade.

Know Which Trees Grow Best Where
It’s not enough to simply select a tree based on its beauty or ability to protect your home. The tree must also thrive where you plant it.

Tree Characteristics To Look For
When choosing a tree for your yard, look for the following characteristics to ensure you get a healthy one that will last for many years.

Marcy Gray | eXp realty
[email protected] | (210) 827-9663
664202 SABOR

Marcy Gray

12/23/2021

❄️ With the dreary days of winter upon us, who couldn’t use a little colorful?

🌺 Here are several colorful plants you need to brighten your home.

1. Golden fluorite
Golden fluorite can handle the drier indoor air, but it loves to be on the moist side.

2. Guacamole
The guacamole is an easy to grow plant that actually has its own cup to hold water.

3. Birkin
What makes this one so appealing, however, is the unique pinstriping on each leaf.

4. Harvest moon
It can stand the top inch of its soil to dry out, but you should never let it go completely dry.

5. Positively peridot
This plant also has a burst of burgundy splotches and red margins that tease and tantalize the senses by catching the light on tiny hair-like fibers and reflecting it back for a stunning display.

Marcy Gray | eXp realty
[email protected] | (210) 827-9663
marcygray.exprealty.com | 664202 SABOR

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Marcy Gray

12/23/2021

❄️ With the dreary days of winter upon us, who couldn’t use a little colorful?

🌺 Here are several colorful plants you need to brighten your home.

1. Golden fluorite
Golden fluorite can handle the drier indoor air, but it loves to be on the moist side.

2. Guacamole
The guacamole is an easy to grow plant that actually has its own cup to hold water.

3. Birkin
What makes this one so appealing, however, is the unique pinstriping on each leaf.

4. Harvest moon
It can stand the top inch of its soil to dry out, but you should never let it go completely dry.

5. Positively peridot
This plant also has a burst of burgundy splotches and red margins that tease and tantalize the senses by catching the light on tiny hair-like fibers and reflecting it back for a stunning display.

Marcy Gray | eXp realty
[email protected] | (210) 827-9663
| 664202 SABOR

Marcy Gray

12/20/2021

🤗 Contrary to popular belief, the toilet isn’t the germiest place in the home.

👇 Let’s explore the most bacteria-laden areas in the home and discover how to disinfect them to make your home a healthy environment.

How To Disinfect The Germiest Places In Your Home

12/13/2021

💭 If you’re thinking of investing in something, the information below will help you decide whether real estate or stocks is right for you.

Which is better? Real Estate Investing or Stock Investing The question of which is better – investing in real estate or investing in stocks – has no definite answer. It all depends on the personality, preferences, and lifestyle of the person doing the investing. In fact, it even comes down to th...

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