Guest for the Real Estate Show this week

It is Dad’s day at the Univisity of Arkansas this coming Saturday, and being the father of a freshman young women, I must travel to Fayetteville to participate!!!  I wouldn’t miss it for the world.  Shane Wolfe will be in studio to handle the duties of managing the madness we call the Real Estate Show (I may call in from the road) along with David Lukas, with City Pro Lending.  I am sure we will continue the discussion of the bailout, or lack thereof, depending upon what takes place in DC this week

Ethan Nobles with the Arkansas Realtors Association will drop by as well, and will lend his thoughts to the discussion.  Tune in this Saturday morning 8 to 9 on 103.7 FM

Bad News from D.C.

Well, I don’t know what to make of the vote in Congress today.  What do we do now???  The stock market drops off the end of the table and the Real Estate market is now in a suspense mode.  I don’t see any real estate activity taking place until some sort of bail out is agreed by both parties.  What are we going to do now?  I don’t know how we will recover if we don’t get some sort of relief.  This effects every American from coast to coast, and it doesn’t matter what “class” you are in at this point.  Somehow all of us in the real estate biz must stick together and find a way to survive this time in history.  It maybe more difficult than we had ever imagined.

Interest Rates Fall

Good news from the Gov’t bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is that the interest rates have taken a plunge.  I heard one Lender quoted 5.55% on a 30 year loan.   This should help us as we head into the fall season, when we see our traditional slow down in the housing market.  Maybe this will increase the refinance numbers and get some of the buyers who were sitting on the fence, a nudge to make a move.  Thoughts?

Words of Wisdom from Napoleon Hill

NEVER MIND WHAT OTHERS DIDN’T DO. IT’S WHAT YOU DO THAT COUNTS.

If you depend upon others for your success, you are doomed to a life of failure and despair. It is a sad fact of life that few people consistently deliver what they promise. Instead of lamenting what someone else should have done to help you, focus on what you can do to help yourself. The best plan of action is one that provides opportunities for others to benefit if they wish to work with you toward the accomplishment of your goals but that does not depend upon these people for success.

Twitter, Facebook and Linked in

I don’t know if this was the smartest thing I have ever done in my life, but I did it anyway!  I am now on Facebook, Linked In and have signed up for a Twitter account.  We talked about new technology and networking sites in a previous post, so I decided to try it our for myself.  The Twitter phenom, is still  work in progress and I will report back to you after a couple of weeks and let you know my thoughts.  Facebook and Linked in have been an eye opening experience!  The number of reconnections with friends and business associates over the weekend has been surprising.  I guess I have haven’t realized how many folks are out there utilizing these tools.  You might want to get on line and check these sites out and see how they could be helpful to you and your business.

Call from the Mayor!!

I want to thank Kelly Conley, President of the Argenta CDC and John Gaudin with the New Argenta Fund, for being our guest this past Saturday morning.  We had a great show and I hope you all had a chance to catch some or all of it.  We had a great call in from North Little Rock’s Mayor Hayes.  This sure adds some credibility to our show!!!  If you are interested in more information about Argenta go to www.argentacdc.org

This week, our guest will be David Lukas from City Pro Lending.  I bet we talk about the gov’t bailing out of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae!!  Be sure to listen in on Saturday and call in if you have questions for David.

ARGENTA CDC on the Real Estate Show

We had a knock out show Saturday with our guest Ethan Nobles from the Arkansas Realtors Association and Dan Broughton, Home Inspector and Chariman of the State Board of Home Inspectors.  These two will be regular guest on the show, in fact mark you calendar for October 4th when they will be back on the show

This week we are going to have Kelly Conley, President of the Argenta CDC and John Gaudain to discuss all of the exciting new develpment in Downtown NLR.  We may even have a special call in Guest and maybe some Razorback tickets to give away!  Tune in this Saturday morning at 8:00 on 103.7FM.