Real Estate Lake of the Ozarks

The Missouri Department of Conservation has an excellent website dedicated to fishing in Missouri! Not only do they tell you about the lake levels, etc, but they have a whole page telling you where to find the BIG one! Check out http://mdc.mo.gov/fish/where.htm and you can be reeling in the next championship fish for the mantle! And as always, be sure to check out Lake of the Ozarks Real Estate at www.FranCampbell.com/blog

A tax bill signed by Missouri Governor Nixon designed specifically for Lake of the Ozarks went into law in June. HB103, sponsored by several Lake Area Legislators, makes it mandatory for owners who have a dock on lakes with more than 950 miles of shoreline to display their 911 street numbers on the dock in such a manner that emergency personnel can clearly view it from the water. The mandatory posting of the 911 addresses is scheduled to begin January 1, 2010. Any person who fails to post the address will be considered guilty of an infraction of state law and will be fined. Missouri Water Patrol officers said they will work with dock owners who do not immediately post the numbers by issuing warning for first offenses. For additional information, including sign specs, please contact Bryan Vance, AmerenUE, at 573-365-9252. As always, please go to www.FranCampbell.com/blog for Lake Area Real Estate Listing!

The World's Largest on Water Family Boat Party comes to Lake of the Ozarks July 18! 2008 was great, but, this year promises to be even bigger and better! Join us at Dog Days Bar & Grill from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. for a great day of boating, coving out, jamming tunes and togetherness with family and friends. MarineMax and Sea Ray will once again be rocking the lake all afternoon with top regional bands leading up to Missouri's own "REV IT UP" high energy country girl with three hit singles and a signature green guitar - Candy Coburn. Performances leading up to Candy will include The Phins, Disco Dick, Outlaw Junkies and Change of Heart. This is a party you don't want to miss! All boaters welcome! Be sure to register today at http://www.aquapalooza.com/ . And of course while you're in town be sure to check out Lake Area Real Estate listings at www.FranCampbell.com/blog

Just because the 4 th of July is behind doesn't mean it's time to wind down the summer. As a matter of fact it means, let's get this summer started! Now is a great time for you to be looking at making a purchase at Lake of the Ozarks and Fran Campbell Team can help! Along with the great start to this season, Fran Campbell Team has very exciting news of our own! We are pleased to let you know that Billi Miller and Virginia Kirvan have merged their business with Fran Campbell Team. Both are outstanding Realtors , each with 15 years of experience in the real estate market at the Lake. Their reputation of excellent customer service, product knowledge and superior negotiating skills has brought them to the top of our industry. When you’re in town, please stop by our office and introduce yourselves to our newest Team Members. As always, please check out www.FranCampbell.com/blog for Lake Area Real Estate Listings!

Courtesy of Lake of the Ozarks Business Journal April 2009: Four Missouri developers have announced The Rose at Tan-Tar-A, a unique concierge retirement living center to be constructed at Lake of the Ozarks, specifi cally Osage Beach. Dr. Steve Cohen, a retirement center consultant for 20 years, said The Rose at Tan-Tar- A would offer affordable luxury living featuring concierge services to take the hassle out of every day life, in fact, their motto is “inconvenience is not an option.” “Normally, if you have a problem, whether it’s connecting a high defi nition television or fi xing your computer, that means time out of your life,” Cohen said. “The very wealthy have a staff for those kinds of things, but everyone else has to spend 30 minutes on the phone or a day trying to connect wires.” At The Rose, residents will simply call the on-site concierge who will solve the problem. Although incredibly convenient, the program’s “shared ownership” means that The Rose will remain affordable. ...

Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Fran Campbell Team wants to make sure that everyone living, traveling to and enjoy Lake of the Ozarks this weekend is safe. Below you will find an article about life jacket safety, and how to get your kids enthused about being safe on the Lake - Enjoy! LAKE OZARK, Mo. -- AmerenUE will once again join the Missouri State Water Patrol in promoting the importance of wearing life jackets while boating on the Lake of the Ozarks. The main focus of the project is on children, since Missouri law requires that children under the age of seven wear a life jacket when aboard a boat. The project is also intended to help educate everyone about the importance of wearing life jackets. AmerenUE has provided the Water Patrol with T-shirts bearing the message, “I got caught wearing my life jacket.” Water Patrol officers will hand out the T-shirts as a reward to children “caught” wearing their life jackets throughout the summer boating season. “This program is a good way to reco...

Memorial Day Weekend. What is it all about? Fran Campbell Team wanted to take a moment to honor the true meaning of Memorial Day. While we are thrilled that so many people enjoy their "long weekend" at Lake of the Ozarks, we also wanted to remind everyone of why we actually have this holiday. Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service. There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day. While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May 1966, it's difficult to prove conclusively the origins of the day. It is more likely that it had many separate beginnings; each of those towns and every planned or spontaneous gathering of people to honor the war dead in the 1860's tapped into the general human need to honor our dead, each contributed honorab...