With less than a week until tax day and it is still snowing! What gives?

There is a lot of good things going on right now, the market feels great, things are happening and sales are on pace with last year, the number of pending homes in Genesee County is strong, prices seem to be relatively stable...good news.

As my job has me traveling accross the country I am finding it is now cool to be from the Flint Real Estate Market, the rest of the world is finally catching up to what we have lived for the last two years! It is great to see what is happening in other areas regarding revitalization and growth, it gives so much hope for what can happen here if we all care enough to get on the same page. I am not being negative saying this, but when we (Genesee County as a group) admit there is a small problem and take accountability for what is going on the speed of the recovery will be amazing. There are a lot of smart people in the Flint area, when people start rewarding that great things will happen. Until that happens we will see them move on, to other places.

It amazes me that people complain about the local area, yet spend there money somewhere else! Or spend their money with an organization that sends it out of the area! I am not being militant in the old sledge hammer a Honda way most of us grew up with, I am talking about supporting local restaurants, businesses and people. Make suggestions that will help the establishment serve you better so that you will come back. This sounds really simple, but you know how many people I hear say "the service was slow & my meat was tough" I ask did you speak to someone so they can improve your experience? "NO".

I have been trying to find people to help ChangingStreets.com on some community projects (and offering to pay them well) the responce is zero. Unreal. Same people complain there is not what we are trying to build in our area! I am trying to get people to think and act.

ok enough new subject.

Is the sub-prime loan mess as bad as they say? Yes. But we have been in the middle of it for years, we will not see as much of the problem as areas they will right about in the paper or on 60 Minutes.

I did see a guy pulling a new boat behind his new pick-up away from the house he just to foreclosure the other day. What a picture. Priorities I guess.

How great and easy is Bishop Airport? Really fantastic, A great resources for our area, combine that with cheap real estate and freeway access and I would think a large company or two would want to relocate here.

Not to beat a dead horse (no not the building company!) but our area is so lucky to be near a great sports town, Playoff Time and the Pistons and Red Wings are best in their respective conferences! That is unreal! And Michigan State Hockey what a performance in the Frozen Four!
A great area.

Ok I have to do it, the builder that went out of business y'all got mad at me for typing about, yes we still get 5-8 people a day landing on this blog from google and msn searches.
Inquiring Minds I guess.

Has anyone ever searched "Flint" on you tube? mmmmmmmmm.

I really don't like blogs filled with you tube links so I will let you look on your own, let me know what you think.

I had ran into a pretty big real estate consultant on my travels and we swapped stories and talked business, he was giving me tips for ChangingStreets.com site. He was amazed we do our programming in house, it was nice of him to notice that we have all the features on our site that companies with no sales in California get all the publicity for and we had them first.
Actually he has yet to see a site anywhere that has the listing history of a home on the site.
Click on the BLUE price next to every home listing on ChangingStreets.com, really cool. He also liked the other homes for sale link that mapped the neighborhood and homes for sale. Our boy Marky Mark the super programmer is strong.

People are still merging in the construction zone on 23! SOOOO HAPPY people are polite! That is hope on four wheels!

Would it not be nice if the lady at the tax window smiled and said thank you when you dropped off your annual $20,000 property bill? I know it would help make my day.

Anyone need a house in Fenton? Please help! I still own the house we bought from a client to help her out after the seller and their agent blatantly lied. I am cool with the whole no good deed goes unpunished thing, but enough is enough I will make the deal of the century on a really big, really sharp 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath home in Fenton with a daylight window basement.
Help out one of the good guys! Call me please!

Have a great weekend thanks for reading my dribble and go do something nice for someone!