Megan Rakers, Realtor at HomePro Real Estate

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Megan Rakers, Realtor at HomePro Real Estate It would be my pleasure to help you buy or sell a home!

Moving to a new town where you don't know a single soul? That's its own kind of scary.We've spent years building relatio...
10/15/2026

Moving to a new town where you don't know a single soul? That's its own kind of scary.

We've spent years building relationships with trusted agents across North America, so wherever you land, someone's already waiting to help. No cold-calling strangers off the internet and hoping for the best. Someone we know personally. Someone we'd send our own family to.

Tell us where you're headed. We'll summon the introduction. 🔮

The scariest thing you'll meet while house hunting isn't the basement that smells like 1987. It's the all-cash offer tha...
10/14/2026

The scariest thing you'll meet while house hunting isn't the basement that smells like 1987. It's the all-cash offer that appears out of nowhere.

According to the National Association of REALTORS®, a record 26% of buyers paid all cash last year, the highest share ever recorded. So if you've lost a home to a ""cleaner"" offer, you weren't imagining that ghost in the machine.

Here's the good news. Live.Laugh. agents are highly skilled at helping your offer stand out and ensuring the sellers know the benefits of working with YOU, regardless of how you are financing your home.

Come prepared and the competition gets a lot less frightening. We'll help you get your armor on before you make an offer. 🕯️

Source: NAR Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers 2025

Want the real horror story of selling a house? It isn't a bad inspection. It's a listing that just... sits there. Week a...
10/13/2026

Want the real horror story of selling a house? It isn't a bad inspection. It's a listing that just... sits there. Week after week, going stale while everyone scrolls past.

Realtor.com's latest data shows nearly 1 in 5 homes on the market has already slashed its price. The thing those homes tend to have in common? They came out of the gate priced too high, then chased the market down.

Homes that linger get haunted by the price cut. Homes priced right the first time usually move before anyone starts whispering about what's wrong with them.

The fix isn't magic, it's a realistic number and a plan. We can help you land on both. 🔮

Source: Realtor.com Monthly Housing Trends Report, 2026

Long before any of us signed a closing document, this land was home to Native peoples who cared for it and belonged to i...
10/12/2026

Long before any of us signed a closing document, this land was home to Native peoples who cared for it and belonged to it.

On Indigenous Peoples' Day, we recognize the communities whose history and connection to this land runs deeper than any deed. We're in the business of home, and today is a good reminder that the idea didn't start with us.

We're grateful for the chance to learn from that, and to do right by the places we're lucky to call home.

Real talk: you probably can't name half the people on your street. We couldn't either.Only about a quarter of us know mo...
10/09/2026

Real talk: you probably can't name half the people on your street. We couldn't either.

Only about a quarter of us know most of our neighbors, and for 364 days of the year there's no natural excuse to fix that. Then Halloween shows up holding one.

Our new blog makes the case that Halloween is secretly the best neighborhood holiday there is, plus a spooky-season bucket list for turning the strangers thirty feet away into people you know by name.

Leave the porch light on!

Did you know the scariest thing lurking in your house this month probably isn't a ghost? It's your dryer vent.Here's the...
10/07/2026

Did you know the scariest thing lurking in your house this month probably isn't a ghost? It's your dryer vent.

Here's the spooky-season did-you-know: clogged dryer vents are a surprisingly common cause of house fires, and fall is prime time for lint to quietly pile up. Ten minutes clearing that vent hose is the cheapest insurance you'll buy all season. While you're back there, test the smoke detectors you've been ignoring since summer.

🏡 Thrive at Home keeps the frightening little maintenance stuff on your radar, one month at a time. 🕸️

This picture is from a leadership conference. Our three Live.Laugh. brokerage owners, notebooks out, learning about real...
09/30/2026

This picture is from a leadership conference. Our three Live.Laugh. brokerage owners, notebooks out, learning about real estate.

That's kind of the whole point of us. We are still students of this business, and we would rather share what we learn than sit on it.

So we're doing something about it. A free education series, made for regular people who own homes or want to. No jargon or pitch buried in the middle, with lots of the real stuff about how this all works.

Home isn't a transaction to us. It's where the rest of your life happens, and you deserve to understand it fully. 🏡

Every top agent we know has one thing in common, and it isn't luck.They never stopped being students. The market never s...
09/28/2026

Every top agent we know has one thing in common, and it isn't luck.
They never stopped being students. The market never sits still, and the tools change every year. The agents who thrive are the ones still learning on purpose.

Here's the problem. A lot of brokerages hand you a login and call it training, then wonder why their people plateau.

We built something different. Real coaching, systems that make sense, and a room full of people who share what's working instead of guarding it.

If you've outgrown ""figure it out yourself,"" come see what growth looks like with support behind it. 🏡✨

Today the day and the night split even, and everything tilts toward cozy.The equinox is nature's version of a fresh page...
09/22/2026

Today the day and the night split even, and everything tilts toward cozy.
The equinox is nature's version of a fresh page. The light goes soft, and the whole house starts pulling everyone back inside where the good stuff happens.

However you mark the shift, whether it's the first candle of the season or soup on the stove, we hope your home feels like the best place to land this fall. 🍂

Here's a number school never mentioned. The median homeowner in America is worth about $396,000. The median renter? Arou...
09/21/2026

Here's a number school never mentioned. The median homeowner in America is worth about $396,000. The median renter? Around $10,000.

That gap comes from the Federal Reserve's most recent Survey of Consumer Finances, and it works out to nearly 40 to 1. Often similar paychecks, wildly different balance sheets.

Most of that difference isn't luck or income. It's equity, built one payment at a time, while renters hand their housing money to someone else's mortgage.

That's the kind of power this month is about. If you've been wondering whether buying is worth it, this is worth knowing before you decide. No pressure and no pitch, we're glad to walk you through your real numbers.

Source: Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances, 2022

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