Text Us
What would you do with an extra 8.5 million dollars? If you’re the insurance giant, GEICO, you’re going to invest in Katy. That’s what’s happening as GEICO puts forth plans to expand their claims operations center over the next three years. The good news is that this expansion is going to create upwards of a 1,000 new jobs.
“We’re excited about expanding our claims operations with our new Katy office,” GEICO chairman and CEO Tony Nicely said to a planning website. “We know from the experience we’ve already had in Houston that it’s a great environment for business; the workforce is excellent, and the quality of life is outstanding. We look forward to bringing more wonderful career opportunities to the people of the Greater Houston area.”
Whenever a company adds new workers, it has a trickle down affect throughout the rest of the community. If there will be a 1,000 new positions that could mean an influx of new residents. This means property values could inch up and the demand for homes increase. One way you can insure that your property values stay at a premium is to make sure you’ve got the clutter cleared out of your yards. There are plenty of homes around Katy that have the occasional “added element” when it comes to yard decorations. Typically, these are things like spare auto parts or tires stacked up by the garage, old furniture that is put out on the porch to make room inside and plenty of abandon kids’ toys. All of that stuff should be tossed out. The only problem is you can’t throw it out in the garbage pickups because they don’t fit. This is where Junk King Houston can ride in and solve all your clutter problems.
With Junk King Houston on the job, you’ll be getting a hard working two-man crew who will do all the lifting and loading. You can leave everything right where it is; just tell the JK crew what you want picked up and they’ll handle the request. Everything gets loaded on the back of the Junk King truck where it will be dumped off at a proper place. In just a few minutes, you could have your entire outside property cleared of junk but you don’t have to stop there. That same crew can work their magic in your garage, down your basement or in any other room in your home where you’ve got junk. One call to Junk King can make it all disappear. Are you ready to be junk free?
Not only are the holidays a great time for friends and family to gather together but it’s also a time when Houston municipal workers get a couple of days off. These are the hard-working folks that deliver our mail, keep our roads paved, make sure our streetlights are working and pick up our trash. It’s that last item that really adds to our standard of living. Trash pickup is also such a simple task to accomplish. The deal is we fill up our trash cans then put them on the curb and the municipal garbage collectors pick it up once a week. Although with the holiday schedule that weekly pickup is shaken up. Usually this will mean waiting an extra day for the garbage to be collected. However, there may be another byproduct of the holidays that those Houston municipal workers can’t really help with and that would be with all the large trash items.
For most people in Houston, moving day is something to get through and survive rather than a kind of day you might look forward to like Christmas. A lot of pressure can build up for a moving day. However, if you take an organized and systematic approach to the event, you should be able to come out on the other side reasonable unscathed. The big thing to remember is not to wait until the last minute for packing. Once you’ve settled on a date and have booked your movers, there is no reason why you can’t start packing up right away. Filling up a couple of boxes a day is a great way to knock out all the packing. Just think about all those things you’re not going to be using everyday (books, CDs, DVDS, seasonal clothes, etc.) and begin there.
If there is one thing you can count on with young boys is that sooner or later they are going to build some kind of fort somewhere. The urge to build a structure like that is just too irresistible, especially if they should happen to stumble upon some scraps of wood or other fort worthy building materials. Location is key for a good fort. Height offers a great advantage not only in surveying the land but also in defense. That’s why many forts are built in trees, much to the chagrin of worried moms! Depending on who is helping with the build and how many power tools are involved, a tree fort can either be a slapped together platform with a few planks nailed into the tree for a ladder or quite an elaborate affair. We’re talking Swiss Family Robinson type of tree fort structures that are more livable space than hideaway.