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Wanna Live LARGE!   The state -- TX, the place Elkins Lake in Huntsville TX.  College town, National Forest, State Park, Great Home Values, Beaty and more beauty.

Where the wild west meets metropolitan Houston.  An hour from Houston on I-45 and live IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FOREST.

Yeah, I'm biased--I live here!!!  Check out my website www.ETPropertySearch.com and www.ElkinsLakePropertySearch.com 

Here is a sunset pic from my porch--ENJOY!

Holy Cannolli--Can you imagine living in the middle of the forest--the Sam Houston National Forest-with direct access to I-45--only an hour from Houston. Small town conveniences with beauty everywhere.

Golf--I mean all the golf you care to play--156/month.  Yes, that's correct, it is NOT a typo!  2 swimming pools, lighted 24 hour acccess tennis courts, 3 stocked fishing lakes, 2 new playgrounds, hoops court, Country Club living--restaurant!  It is wonderful.  In the MIDDLE of Sam Houston National Forest.  Not figuratively, I mean literally!  Check it out!

Plus, Huntsville TX is a college town--not only that it is the home of Sam Houston State University--the fastest growing University in the state of Texas. 

And Home Values--I am glad you asked.  here is a snapshot of "Option Pending" homes in the neighborhood right now.

What is "Option Pending?"  An option pending means that the seller has committed to sell the home to a buyer for a certain price with a certain deadline. The difference between an option and a purchase contract is that the buyer isn't obligated to purchase, but merely has the option to purchase at the buyer's discretion. There is usually monetary consideration paid for the "option."

To sum it all up--The state of our union is strong--Great value, beautiful, convenient,  PLAY GOLF-Lots of it-- visit www.ElkinsLakePropertySearch.com  Search...find home! and call me--you will LOVE it here!

There are lots of things to do in Elkins Lake including fishing.  So, those of you who may have thought the title was a type of metaphor--well, it's literal.  (Except for the part about the fish being big)

Elkins Lake is nestled in the middle of the Sam Houston National Forest and it is gorgeous.

This video was taken while we were fishing on a lazy Sunday afternoon.  Sorry in advance about the squealing--turn your sound down--I was excited, what can I say.

Elkins Lake is my favorite neighborhood ever.  I have counted the number of times I have moved--the count, an embarrassing 29.  I am 46 years old and I am not running from the law, nor am I in the witness protection program.  Why so many moves?  Just life I guess.  Born in PA, undergrad in Wilkes-Barre PA, Masters in Greensboro, NC, SC, then TX and a lots of moves in between.

What does Elkins Lake have to offer?  3 private lakes (with fish--that you can catch), 2 pools, 2 playgrounds, lighted tennis courts, hoops (basketball variety) and lots of deer and other wildlife and GOLF!

And the golf is FREE!  One HOA fee and no green fees.  There's also a clubhouse and restaurant to enjoy with two (2) Happy Hours a week.  By the way, no minimum at the clubhouse restaurant per year either.  You just go cause it's good -- and there are half price drinks Tuesday and Friday for residents.

Free Golf, fishing and happy hours--I mean, do I even need to go on?  Ahhh...and here's the chair from which I blog, a glass of vino and a gorgeous view from my favorite porch in my favorite neighborhood--Elkins Lake, Huntsville TX.  Oh and have I told you about the home values?  Click here to see.

 Elkins Lake Snapshot:

 Market Snapshot 3rd Quarter 2009:

Avg Sales Price per square foot: $84.58

Average square feet: 2210

Newer Properties;  Built 2000-2009

Avg Sales Price per square foot: $101.35

Average square feet: 2178

Here's the most important part. 

1 Homeowners Association Fee:  ALL THE GOLF YOU CAN PLAY--no green fees

You read this right.  So, say you live in Houston (about an hour away)--buy a weekend place in Elkins Lake--great home values--play golf until you drop.  I'd say that makes a pretty good weekend get-away.

Check out www.ElkinsLakePropertySearch.com  Call Mari at ET Property Search--and you'll be teeing off in no time.  BTW, I love it so much, I live here!

Okay, say you LOVE golf, but you wish with all your heart it were FREE.  So, let me ask you:  If you could find a great house in a great neighborhood in a great little town a little over an hour from Houston and could play all the golf you wanted--I mean every day and then some--for free, would you be interested?

Okay, I'll tell you more.  The place is Elkins Lake in Huntsville TX.  If you have ever driven on I-45 and gotten to a bend in the road about 60 miles from downtown Houston and have seen a giant statue of Sam Houston--That's Huntsville.  You have found us.

Elkins Lake Golfing Snapshot:

I love, love, love my porch.  It is where my husband and I watch the world go by.  It's where we take our laptops and work, and where I play a lot of sudoku and maybe a glass of wine.  When we moved to Huntsville TX from west of Fort Worth, I told my husband, "what I want in Huntsville TX Real estate is a porch."  I want to sit out when it rains and not get wet.  (Moving from west of Fort Worth, I just wanted it to rain!)  I sure did get my wish.  I feel like the luckiest girl in the world--4 covered porches!  Colonial homes rock!

Where is it that you like to sit and relax?  Is it outdoors in indoors?  Do you have wildlife in your neighborhood?  We have deer.  Some people hate them because they eat the plants.  I think they are SO cute.  We live in a subdivision called Elkins Lake in Huntsville TX.  We love it!

This was so much fun.  Yesterday as my husband and I were coming home from our new Target--that's right, Huntsville TX NOW has a Target!!  We are officially BIG time.  I saw some of my clients that I helped find a home in Elkins Lake-- a gorgeous golf community in Huntsville TX.  All the golf you can play--One Homeowners fee--NO green fees!  How cool is that--Wanna know more--Call me!

Okay, back to the story.  Anyway, they were tooling down the road from the clubhouse in their cool golfcart.  Well, I didn't have their new e-mail address, so I decided we would flag them down.  So we did--in a "No Parking Anytime Zone."  That is cool in itself.  Kind of as renegade as I get.  So, we start talking.  I got their e-mail address, then I realized I didn't have their picture on my website.  Well, I just happened to be carrying a SOLD sign, my camera and my Flip Video.  Yeah, that's cool too.

We laughed so hard--people honked at us to move out of the "No Parking Zone," but we were having too much fun.  Then someone on a bike rode up and stopped to talk.  It was another client I had helped to find a home in the neighboring neighborhood.  (Is that a term?)   It was too cool.

I LOVE the people I get to meet and work with and help in this business.  I LOVE THIS BUSINESS!!!  I am having so much fun and make a living---who knew?!

Watch this video and you can see for yourself--It's short--and you'll hopefully at least smile.