Getting out of the Woods

Dear Editor:

Times are tough economically. Edra Blixseth recently decided to sell her Rancho Mirage, California estate, which is about 10 miles from Palm Springs.

Her 249-acre spread has a waterfall, a fountain with jets whose sprays rise some 80 feet, and a 19-hole golf course on about 240 acres. The 25,000-square-foot main residence is decorated with several ceiling murals and has separate wings for guests and children. It also has a prayer room.

She is asking $75 million.

Getting $75 million will be tough because she recently filed for personal bankruptcy. Either she forgot to pray for God’s help in extricating from her plight or God turned a deaf ear to her pleas. That she forgot to pray is unlikely, given the prayer room; so I suppose God tacitly is telling her that He dislikes spendthrifts. Once she sells her estate, she can come live with me for a while. I gladly will show her how to eat on $100 a month and how to save money on her auto insurance—unless the bankruptcy court sells her car.

It already has auctioned off her furniture, antiques, and jewelry. Yes sir, times are tough.

I have a great idea to rescue the poor lass. She should invite Tiger Woods to come play a few rounds on her golf course. They could even have a Tiger Woods Invitational tournament there to celebrate his return to the game. Folks from around the globe would pay dearly to attend such a tournament. They could make a fortune just by selling the TV rights to the tournament and its surroundings.

Bill Bailey

Kingwood

A vote for Huberty

Dear Editor:

The result of the recent election for state representative District 127 clearly shows the voters’ choice is Dan Huberty to represent us in Austin. Even with three other candidates in the race Dan Huberty still took 49 percent of the total vote. He came in just 200 votes shy out of 15,000 votes cast to be the Republican nominee for office.

As stated by so many others, Dan Huberty is the President of the Humble ISD School Board and will be an advocate in resolving the financial burden Humble ISD currently faces. I had the pleasure of being in Austin last year during PTA Day at the capital. I was able to see firsthand the professionalism and consensus-building abilities he has with Texas legislatures.

Dan Huberty has a conservative business background and is a leader in business. His compassion for our neighborhoods is demonstrated in his strong community involvement in our area. Time commitment to the community appears to be missing in his opponent, whose largest accomplishment seems to be an advisory board position on a privately owned hospital?

Dan Huberty will represent us well. I ask Addie Wiseman, Dr. Martin Basaldua and their supporters to vote for Dan Huberty in the run-off on April 13.

We the voters have spoken once already on March 2 at the voting polls and we have another opportunity to speak again by voting for Dan Huberty. Please join me in supporting Dan on April 13.

Gina Remmes

Kingwood

In response to Mr. Bill Bailey’s ‘Seven Ways to Save Money’

Dear Editor:

Here’s additional  no nonsense easy to follow ways to save money.

1. If you have kids it is cheaper and practical to use the diswashing machine

2. If you have teenagers buy collision insurance

3. If you bought a Toyota lately don’t drive it until it dies

4. $100 a month budget for food? It must be puppy chow!

5. Eat real fruit, drink water rather than fruit juices

6. Don’t cancel the cable and buy an antenna if you want your spouse out of the bedroom

7. Buy the book “A Thinker’s Guide to Effective Writing” www.echomountainpress.com  and hope that the writer will spare his quill.

Betty Quirk

Kingwood

DOUBLE YOUR FEES – RECEIVE NOTHING

Dear Editor:

Our ACIA board continues to move forward to a vote for the 2,529 homes wanting residents to purchase the golf course. Asking price $2.5 million. A professional golf management company has stated $1.2 million per year to maintain. This $1.2 million is not debt you ever get paid off like a home loan. It will continue to rise forever just like your ACIA dues. As of the February meeting after months of this purchase being pushed forward, our board has no financial plan. They say our increase would be $360 per year. How do they know? There were 81 paying golf members in December of ‘09. That’s 17 percent of the 475 homes on the course. They want 2,054 people to pay for 475 to live on the beautiful course. 

They claim property values will fall like Inwood. Inwood flooded twice and over 100 homes were bought out. Hmm…  How do we compare to them?  Vote NO! 

Sandra Segraves

Atascocita