GK’s Brier saves the day and dog in Chihuahua escape plot

Nine years ago, Sharon Brier of Greenwood King sold a Chihuahua puppy to former assistant Nicole Smith (now with Heritage Properties). When she recently agreed to re-adopt the pup it was quite the doggone experience.

Brier arranged to pick up Angel at Nicole’s mother, Arylene Crow, so her other two dogs could sniff Angel out in foreign territory. When Crow opened the door, Angel came out of hiding and ran out the door to Rice Boulevard.

While Crow chased after her, cars stopped and others joined the chase. Brier put her two dogs in the car and drove to the scene where a policeman and others were lying on the ground trying to coax Angel to come out. Brier is either a dog whisperer, or Angel remembered Brier’s voice from puppyhood because Angel responded to her and was captured.

Brier reports Angel was traumatized for three days; she finally relaxed and is part of the Brier family where her life began. Angel’s mother, Mia and adopted-in-August Bandi have formed a contented trio.

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The Federal Housing Administration announced this month it is joining the growing list of real estate institutions which no longer require the traditional “wet” (signed in ink) signatures that used to be the law of the land.

Several local companies have declared paperless office goals. The Texas Association of Realtors provides a digital signature application at no charge for all of its members. Technology is rapidly advancing the paperwork side of the business freeing, up real estate professionals to focus their time and energy on their clients.

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Grayce Maldonado, affinity account coordinator in the Relocation department for Coldwell Banker United, Realtors received a call last month from Cindy King, national director of Affinity Broker Services, inviting Maldanado to join the prestigious Affinity Coordinator’s Council. Only six representatives are selected in the entire broker network.

In her new role she will be responsible for submission of articles, training recommendations, contest suggestions and updates in the Affinity Coordinator Advisory Council Newsletter published quarterly.

Patricia Pollard, vice president of relocation for Coldwell Banker United, Realtors, said the position is particularly valuable considering the changes in the relocation marketplace and the active Houston relocation scene.

“This will bring notoriety not only to Grayce and the company, but it adds a great voice for consumers and agents using services like USAA and HES. We are so proud,” she said.

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The Doug Erdy Group of northeast Houston is expanding to The Woodlands with a second office now open on Market Street.

“We have been looking at opening a new location for the past two years in The Woodlands and the Market Street location was just perfect,” said Doug Erdy, broker/owner. Erdy will work at the new office three days a week. The Erdy Group has its primary office in Kingwood/Atascocita, in Kings Harbour.

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A quick clarification about last week’s item about a Houston Association of Realtors tweet announcing more users to har.com now are coming from mobile rather than desktop devices. The comparative numbers for January provided by HAR show listings were viewed 19,371,128 times from mobile devices and 17,628,918 from desktops.