Insights and Integrity: Navigating the Real Estate Landscape with Ethics and Expertise

Ever wondered how the world of real estate maintains its integrity amidst the twists and turns of market dynamics? Strap in for a hearty discussion on the ethics that shape our industry, especially following a pivotal settlement with the National Association of Realtors. My pastoral insights blend with professional expertise to highlight the golden rule's embodiment in our daily dealings. We navigate the complexities of real estate transactions in North Carolina, where due diligence is the name of the game and understanding the financial dance of commissions is crucial for a fair play in the property market.

Joining us in this enlightening conversation is Phillip Trees, a key member of our team, who brings his acumen to the table as we dissect the responsibilities and protections for buyers and sellers. Our chat goes beyond the basics, offering a candid look at the real estate profession's inner workings. We also share a hometown anecdote that brings the concept of integrity to life, illustrating how it resonates within our local market. It's a narrative that spotlights the importance of effective communication and the value that agents add to your property journey.

Rounding off our session, we delve into the inspiring synergy between family ties and business acumen, with a nod to the formidable father-son duo, Howard and Noah, who exemplify the power of familial bonds in successful real estate ventures. Our group's growth, our cross-state licensure endeavors, and the strength of a vast national network are all on the table, as we paint a picture of real estate through the lens of community and connection. And for a sprinkle of levity, I recount a tale from the Feed Seed venue, where a leaky roof and a band's determination capture the indomitable spirit of our work. So, tune in, get comfy, and enjoy the journey with us.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Hello friends, Thank you so much for being here. This is the George Real Estate Group podcast, which is a production of our live weekly radio shows hosted on multiple radio stations here in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The George Real Estate Group serves Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina and it is a privilege to share positive news about our local real estate market and community. Thanks so much for subscribing and, of course, if you have any real estate questions or if we can help you in any way, be sure to reach out. Visit us at georgerrealestategroupradiocom for more information.

Speaker 2: 0:37

Good morning everybody. It's the George Real Estate Group Hometown Radio Real Estate Show. I'm Randy Houston filling in for Noah George who is away on business, but I've got an ace in my pocket. I've got Phillip Trees with the George Real Estate Group in the house. How you doing.

Speaker 3: 1:01

Phillip Randy, thanks Doing well. Thanks always so much for being so hospitable here at the beautiful little light on the hill here in Harrison house. How you doing, Phillip Randy, thanks Doing well. Thanks always so much for being so hospitable here at the beautiful little light on the hill here in Harrisonville.

Speaker 2: 1:10

Well, this intersection.

Speaker 3: 1:11

You guys are a great, great community.

Speaker 2: 1:13

Good to have you here with us Community resource. You are an agent with the George Real Estate Group and we were just sitting here talking about real estate. It seems it's kind of in the news lately.

Speaker 3: 1:28

It sure has been in the news. We were just having a good talk about that and I wanted to kind of pick your brain because you're knowledgeable, Randy. I think you've listened to Noah a lot. I think you've-. I have, you have.

Speaker 2: 1:38

Noah teaches me a lot, I know.

Speaker 3: 1:40

I know it's great. He teaches us all. He's got a real, just, positive and skillful asset to the business helping people out. But yeah, in the news you know, if you've seen the, it was national news. This settlement the National Association of Realtors, nar, n-a-r-e-c, was this big settlement lawsuit and everything that came out.

Speaker 3: 2:02

So we're not going to get in the deep water, we'll just stay in the kiddie pool with it. I thought if Noah was here he might want to mention a little bit, maybe just again to clear up some things or just promote our way. We want to help as realtors. That's the number one thing is to be a help and fair compensation. That's that's fair with anything else you that you do in the, in the, in the business world. So, um, but I thought it was kind of interesting. I'll just tell you a little story was uh, when I uh did this, I got into realty as a kind of a, as a side thing, which a lot of people do and we talked about.

Speaker 3: 2:43

The first thing I tell you when you start the first hour of real estate class is now, don't quit your day job. And that's true, right, and I started that during being a pastor for 30 years and then during the COVID thing, it was kind of like you know, needed something a little extra. That was fine, but the first thing they taught you was basically this ethic, and I've got a little I kept I thought I'd print. Today I have the little ethic thing that you have to sign off on and have to know backwards and forwards right off the bat and I thought this was real interesting. This respect for the public is the first and the number one ethic was follow the golden rule do unto others that you would have them do unto you. Now you brought in today a realtor and a pastor.

Speaker 2: 3:31

I'm fine with that.

Speaker 3: 3:32

Noah has me substituted, so I can't leave one at the door.

Speaker 2: 3:35

No.

Speaker 3: 3:36

You know, I'm a pastor and when I read that I said well, that's kind of my gig. Yeah, I talk about that every Sunday.

Speaker 2: 3:44

Yeah, I talk about that every Sunday.

Speaker 3: 3:44

Yeah, and that is the number one act. And kind of the backdrop they explained was 100 years ago in Chicago area. When this National Association of Realtors started was because 100 years ago it was I think it was the most corrupt, under-table, underhanded thing, scoundrels and they said we need an organization nationally to hold the realtors to an ethic. And they formed the NAR, the National Association of Realtors, and here is their ethics. I love that they started with that one.

Speaker 2: 4:15

I couldn't stop me, so when I read that I said.

Speaker 3: 4:17

Well, I think I'll be okay with that. And then respond properly to inquiries and requests for information. Number two, that's good. Number three schedule appointments and showings as far in advance as possible Well, that's sure nice. Yeah, communication promptly, this is good. When entering a property, ensure that unexpected situations, such as pets, are handled appropriately Well, that's sure nice. And it just goes on and on and on. Never criticize the property in presence of the occupant, that's nice.

Speaker 2: 4:50

Makes real good business sense.

Speaker 3: 4:53

And it just goes on with these ethics and I thought now that's again, that's the ethic, that's the code. Now I was driving over here, randy, where I've grown up since I was 12 years old here in Harrisville, and I thought I'd ask you, randy, and you'll know this immediately. I mean, this county is third I guess I've heard it's like third of the nation this county is third of the nation for a certain agricultural product that you can eat, and you know what that is. Of course it's the apple. Well then, hendersonville knows bad apples.

Speaker 2: 5:32

Yes.

Speaker 3: 5:33

I would say they know what a bad apple is. Totally Well, this has all happened. There was a bad apple, okay, so there was a bad apple. Okay, so there was a bad apple. And of all things now, granted, it's a big corporation and it's a big non-profit entity, this national real estate. They have a lot of money. I understand all that, but it's kind of interesting. You start reading.

Speaker 3: 5:58

The backdrop was in a certain city in the midwest. Five sellers got together with a personal injury lawyer and said well, we didn't know, we paid the buyer agent this amount of percentage and we were only options. We were given it. Here's the options Check this box 6%, 7%, 8% or nine percent. That you that this is the agent told the seller this house that started this lawsuit with a personal injury lawyer. Literally, it said check a box. Well, which box you think they're going to check? Of course the six percent. I mean they're saying we're, we don't want to pay six, but well, see that what they forced them. They're not going to pick nine percent. But they had four boxes to pick. Guess what? North Carolina, the contract. If we go to Mrs Jones to sell her condo, it's blank. The percentage is blank, it's negotiable.

Speaker 2: 7:00

Always has been there, you go.

Speaker 3: 7:01

It's not checked and we're going to manipulate the four boxes. You're going to pick the one that we're going to.

Speaker 1: 7:06

Yeah, no, no.

Speaker 3: 7:06

Well, that's what this bad apple, this is what happened, okay, and this person went to this. Now I have to admit it's kind of for me with writing songs. I, oh, yeah, all my exes live in Texas, so irony is great and irony works great for a sermon. So I love to spot irony, I've got to admit. The irony is here's this lawsuit and there's going to be one party of this lawsuit that's going to get 30% to 40% of the settlement, okay, yeah, lawsuit that's going to get 30 to 40 percent of the settlement, yeah, okay. Yeah, we're talking about three percent. Lower is what we get for doing our job. But so, anyways, it's very interesting. This whole thing is very fascinating and they say it could just really rat, you know, ratify the whole situation and and cause a lot of which we were talking about, it'll kind of get real loosey-goosey.

Speaker 2: 8:06

Some of it will you know, uh and, and I saw a news headline about this, I think it was this morning. It says uh, the tease on the. The news headline was things are changing in the real estate world that could lower the cost of your home.

Speaker 3: 8:25

Sure Sure.

Speaker 2: 8:26

So you know this, this kind of a buzz, this kind of social media craze, you know you're going to be able to get a real estate agent for nothing anymore. Right, right, you guys, uh, have you ever been through the sale of a home? Have you been through the sale or purchase of a home in the last five years? And how many hoops there are to jump through.

Speaker 3: 8:55

They keep adding paperwork because there's been some lawsuit, some bad apples.

Speaker 3: 9:01

Bad apples. I mean, there's a form for you got to sign off your property. You've not given the rights to dig for mineral oil and gas. Well, why was that added? North Carolina? Because one time and it happened down mid-state somebody bought a house, they loved it and they were drinking their iced tea on the front porch the next day and all of a sudden the bulldozers show up. Are y'all doing, oh, we have rights to dig here to do, uh, natural fracking for natural gas. Well, they didn't know that. So that there again and you know the classic one with the airport the person buys the home, they're sitting on the front porch, maybe drinking something strong with a nice tea, and they start hearing a rumble. What is it? It's the allegiant flight going over their house. Well, nobody tells they have those things happen and it's continually, but those are great.

Speaker 3: 9:49

Now Then going forward is a great protection for the seller and the buyer, so we keep adding those things. Well, if you're going to sell your house without having a buyer agent, it's not going to be like Facebook, marketplace or Craigslist. You have to kind of beware. Now, north Carolina is a great state. We were talking about this, randy. What I learned North Carolina is now. It may be heavy on litigation in all the amendments and all the, but it's for good reason, because they say North Carolina is one of the hardest real estate for the state license to get Really, but for good reason, isn't it great they got it covered and they're covering all these great aspects of protecting. And the thing is, we've talked about this buyer beware state. Right as is, the seller can sell their house as is, and it's a buyer beware state. That means a buyer. It's up to you. The seller hasn't not. The seller doesn't have to say one thing about their house. It's all on the buyer. Well, guess what? How can a buyer be aware if they don't have a little help?

Speaker 3: 10:57

to be aware of what things they don't know what to be aware of.

Speaker 3: 11:00

Yeah so the agent comes in hand-in-hand and will work with the buyer and say, well, let's do a thing called a home inspection. And guess what? On the flip side is the seller, howard we talk about this every time we get together, as Howard George always suggests. We're good is why don't the seller do a home inspection before you sell it? That's the way then. The seller then knows some things you've got to fix or you don't want to fix, but at least now you know they're on the table.

Speaker 3: 11:28

It's on the table. Everybody knows it's a great thing. I say North Carolina is as is, but if you say that backwards, it's see-saw A-S-I-S see-saw.

Speaker 3: 11:42

Otherwise, if there's nothing, if it's all in the dark, it's back and forth and back and forth. But if everything's brought out, everything's out front and it makes for just a good situation. Now I've been talking too with some people about this is that I tell my buyers or my sellers I say this because I just had a buyer just start in the process and they said now, as a buyer, I'm going to be then paying your commission. I said let's stop there, let's get this all straight. What it is. No, as a buyer currently as a buyer you don't pay my commission as your buyer agent, as your representative, as your one to intercede for you and communicate on behalf of you and to be your proponent and make sure this all is the best for you during this process. You don't pay me, I don't. No, the seller pays a commission. It's stated.

Speaker 3: 12:32

When it's all worked out and signed, the seller is going to pay our firm a percentage. It's usually half, so it's going to half. Now here's what I tell the people. But guess what, when you go to sell a house, then let's say, our firm is 6%. Now you're going to pay 6% when you sell a house, but when you buy a house, you don't pay any percentage. Guess what it evens out, because most of the time when you sell a house, you're going to go buy a house.

Speaker 2: 12:57

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 12:57

So that means, you pay 6% first and then you pay zero next. That equals three so it is even out. So I tell people, yeah, and isn't it great that when you're buying a house, you shouldn't have to pay three percent because you need to maybe buy some furniture?

Speaker 3: 13:12

yeah or maybe put in some new plants. Why nickel and dime the buyer when they've just paid for the house? Now the seller has just gotten and we know, know, in Hendersonville Noah just said it two weeks ago now the average house in Hendersonville is $529,000. I just thought I just heard him say a couple weeks ago it was $498,000. Now it's $529,000. So the sellers, their properties, are continuing to increase. Well, I think it's fair the seller, if they're selling and they have a buyer that's qualified, that the buyer brings them hey, hey, they get to sell their house and it's all legit and it gets to closing and it's all smooth and you get your check. It's only fair. The seller then pays the commission because they've just gotten a wonderful check for the property that has increased in this beautiful area we live that everybody wants to move to. So it evens out. But what's happened is now there was a situation, one situation and the jury. It's now going to. We kind of think we're really having to get our ducks in a row and it's going to be a new day when this comes through. But I'm afraid it's going to get a little squirrely because obviously a buyer agent is not going to work for free.

Speaker 3: 14:30

I do that. I work for a nonprofit. I thankfully get compensated. They used to pay with chickens and eggs and I've even gotten that a few times. But as you work for a nonprofit, but work for profit and and and worthy of your hire, I think that's fair. I think everybody would agree that if you're going to do all the paperwork you know. I looked at the word commission, yeah, com and then mission, and that's a great what. What does it mean com? Com is communication. That's the key thing with earning. Commission is communication. Your agent, buyer or seller agent I communicate every day, basically through emails and texts. If I've got three properties going buyer or seller it's every day I'm communicating.

Speaker 2: 15:17

I'm sure Multiple times a day.

Speaker 3: 15:20

Randy, you're having to work. You don't want to deal with communicating every day. I'm communicating on your behalf and LeBron James. He has an agent.

Speaker 2: 15:30

Of course.

Speaker 3: 15:31

Same thing Now. Lebron doesn't want to be wasting time. He spends 10 hours a day when he's not playing a game at the gym doing what? Shooting? Three point after three point. He doesn't want to have to be communicating. His agent is back at the firm and communicating for him what next ad he's going to do, what sponsorship he's going to do what's his contract?

Speaker 3: 15:55

You've got to have a communication and then mission is it's our mission to bring you to close. Yeah, what's the most beautiful time I've been with a single mom at thanksgiving. Two daughters never owned a home in buncombe county yet and I sat with her at thanksgiving. It's like on wednesday, because thanksgiving was thursday. We got done done on Tuesday or Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I sat there she was crying. I was crying why? Because she got her first home for her two daughters at Thanksgiving and they were leaving to go get a Christmas tree.

Speaker 2: 16:28

Oh To put in that new house. Now, that's a mission. Oh, that is.

Speaker 3: 16:32

So it's a mission to get to the end and it's a mission to get to the end and it's just a beautiful story on both sides. But now it's rough going, it's rough waters. Who's going to navigate the rough waters? Well, the seller or the buyer has got enough on their plate. The seller is trying to maybe find a place where to go next and the buyer has got enough trying to just close on this one to make sure, because it's hard enough to find one. So that, all to say, it's very complicated. And I was going to tell you I didn't come in here very well, read about it because I have a service to do on Sunday. I don't think the NAR settlement notes would be good for the sermon topic, especially on the Sunday. We got coming up.

Speaker 2: 17:12

No, not this Sunday.

Speaker 3: 17:14

So I don't spend a lot of time and I congregation to know I'm not spending a lot of time on it, but uh, while I was uh waiting at the light or just a little reading to kind of be familiar what's going on with this major thing that's happened with real estate and this is a george real estate show. So yeah just kind of this thing to talk about and and ran. I know you've read about a little bit too kind of.

Speaker 2: 17:36

Yeah, and I you know. You see those headlines that say everything's going to change. Everything's going to change. I, I can't imagine that everything's going to change for the better when you have these situations and people with this mentality of oh I don't, I'm not going to have to pay for a real estate agent anymore, I can do this myself. I know you've also seen what can happen there, bill.

Speaker 3: 18:10

Unbelievable and to share. Working with George Real Estate Group and done some transactions like everybody else, I've never seen the same transaction for every one. It does vary Everything, I'm sure it varies. It's negotiable Land is 10% Well, I've seen eight. Home is 6% for a seller I've seen five. So I mean it's because in North Carolina, our form I really again proud North Carolina with their forms it's blank. No, no, no, no, no, no. No suggestion I read it is right there in the news. Yeah, this seller in the Midwest state, a city, major city, said I was handed the form by my agent that said check box. 6%, 7%, 8% or 9%, please check a box and you have to check a box. That is ludicrous. It is Well, there you go. And that was the beginning of this whole thing.

Speaker 2: 19:09

Right right.

Speaker 3: 19:09

So, oh boy, Bad apple.

Speaker 2: 19:13

Yeah, so how is that going to affect us here in North Carolina with these stringent rules and guidelines? How will that ruling interfere?

Speaker 3: 19:25

Negotiation-heavy. It's now going to be negotiation-heavy, where it's going to be a lot more footwork and a lot more with the buyers and them agreeing to this, and the sellers are going to have to now negotiate. Well, are you willing to pay the buyer agent this for a commission?

Speaker 3: 19:41

and the buyers and then the buyer agents are going to have to do, you know, and both, both agents on both sides are going to have to, a lot more negotiating and try to come to and sadly it's going to gum up the process, which is sad and we know. In hendersonville, which we've already seen, I've been doing this four plus years. When I started it was so hard even to get a house under contract. Why? Because there's multiple offers right off the bat, right, well, there it's, just was everybody, it was the craze it's. They're just influxing here, just, and so it's so hard.

Speaker 3: 20:12

Anyways, it's so competitive, you hardly have time even to get to the computer to write it up and it's already too late. So now it's going to really gum it up, because now you're going to have to deal with back and forth and back and forth, and one percent to one point two, one point five, seven and one point. Really, you know it's just so that's going to be again. I'm, I'm, I'm a rookie. There's many more realtors in this county with more experience than I am. I'll go toe-to-toe with you with a Bible, or I've done that a lot more. That's fine, or music a little bluegrass.

Speaker 3: 20:48

I'll debate bluegrass with you, but yeah, as I'm learning this, I just wanted to provide a little bit of information for the audience today that's listening to the George Real Estate Show and kind of seeing what's current and this is current. So now I encourage you, go and read, read both sides, and begin to understand kind of what's going on here and then ask your agents, as this transpires Supposedly this summer, it'll take place.

Speaker 2: 21:15

That was my next question.

Speaker 1: 21:16

That's what I said, which you never know I mean, but it says, this summer.

Speaker 2: 21:18

Okay.

Speaker 3: 21:19

It's going to be kind of a new day, but so yeah, it's huge. So there's a lot of information to learn about this. But I was just trying to get just in the kiddie pool not too deep yet about it, but it's been kind of interesting and I just thought it. As interesting as I thought more about it is commissions have been negotiable Always have, yeah and the main beef was the seller having to pay the commission for the buyer agent. Well, guess what, when you go to buy, you weren't paying a commission.

Speaker 2: 21:55

Right On the standard.

Speaker 3: 21:57

Now, everything is negotiable, but that's the norm, and so that's fair.

Speaker 2: 22:03

It appears to me that this would be a good time for us to talk about the George Real Estate Group and the heritage and the longstanding in the community of the George Real Estate Group. The second generation now with noah, and you guys have helped uh upwards of 1400 people go through and shepherded through these deals uh don't you miss a day of father and sons use tires you are father and son.

Speaker 3: 22:32

You know, discount uh yeah pharmacy. Don't you love that father and son. Father you brought, don't you love that Father and son?

Speaker 2: 22:36

Father, you brought it up to me to begin with. I love that.

Speaker 3: 22:39

And I help another old father and son out. You know Diamond Rose Jewelers with Ed Wright and Chris Wright Known them for years. I help them out a little bit and then on Sundays I'm in the father and son business Big time. Okay, so I love the father and I had the alley cat, my family talked about my dad and my brother and I.

Speaker 3: 22:56

We were father and sons. My mother was a key part of it. She kept the place clean, so it's a great thing. So, father and son, howard and Noah, what a great team. Howard's long time very experienced in big projects commercial and residential for many years. Andah's experience 1400 involved homes I mean just amazing. So very, very knowledgeable. He is my go-to uh for pricing.

Speaker 3: 23:25

I we always say noah knows numbers and that's his gift. It's the market. He always says and he's told you this right answer. He's always he's waiting to find and maybe there's a listener out there today that will take noah upon it to sell their house for a dollar. You say, what in the world is Noah wanting to sell a house for a dollar for? Well, he finds somebody. Why? Because Noah loves to see how the market actually determines what the house is going to sell for. And if you sell it for a dollar, what's going to correct it? The market is going to bring it to the very dollar of what that house will sell for. We can price it high, we can price it low. Guess what's going to the market will tell.

Speaker 3: 24:04

That's it. Is there somebody out there? Talk to Noah next week. He would love to sell your house for a dollar. He says that he hasn't found anybody yet, because I don't think, I wouldn't, I wouldn't, you wouldn't, but maybe there's somebody. But it's true, it's a great point. We see it over and over again as noah studies the market each and every day and we inform our sellers. But what the market is and we form our buyers was what the market is. Well, I, I can't, but we're not going to pay. Well, now, this is the market and we're going to show you what we're going to offer according to the market. So the market is the great, great, even Equalizer. Equalizer, that's the word. Yeah, equalizer isn't that great yeah.

Speaker 3: 24:45

Noah's great with that help. He's great with helping Howard and Noah. Their experience is so good with negotiation, negotiating.

Speaker 2: 25:02

It's just very helpful. You guys have run into all kinds of situations all over western North Carolina and the upstate of South Carolina. You're growing. There's more of you. There's a lot more agents now that work.

Speaker 3: 25:10

Crossing the state line. We have agents that are licensed in South Carolina and North Carolina, but now we have, and you know, Travelers. Rest that Greenville County.

Speaker 2: 25:19

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 25:21

It's a wonderful place, it's nice, it's got little mountains too, and so come see. You know George Real Estate Group and if you're looking for a primary home or maybe a second home at the beach or something in South Carolina, we can refer, and NOAA's Rolodex is vast of national agents. Now this is an interesting thing which I've used is I have a friend downstate that was we were able to refer because NOAA's Rolodex who do I know? He knows a realtor in every major market in the country and he can then refer in every major market in the country and he can then refer. And that goes a long way because then they know they've been referred. So they do have to be up front and very on the ball with it because there's a reference given, they want to hold that reference.

Speaker 3: 26:09

Right, so that's been helpful with Noah and Howard with their contact nationally.

Speaker 2: 26:15

Yeah, I'm sure you run into it all the time. You know someone's in Phoenix, arizona and they want to move to Hendersonville. Oh, I know an agent in Phoenix that can help you.

Speaker 3: 26:23

Help you there. Do you have anybody? Always ask.

Speaker 2: 26:25

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 26:27

That's been a great resource as well, yeah.

Speaker 2: 26:31

Ken, in the last couple of minutes of our show here, can I ask you about Feed Seed? I?

Speaker 3: 26:37

appreciate you always telling me.

Speaker 2: 26:38

I can only tell you this story.

Speaker 3: 26:40

I just told you we had a band, kind of our kickoff. We had it this past Sunday night. Nothing fancy band, national touring band, 30 years experience. They asked they were coming from Georgia back to Virginia going home from a tour, but they were going to be coming through Fletcher, western Carolina, basically at Sunday evening. I said can we stop in and visit a spell and play a little gospel set? I said, sure, this is a big-time band, came in, did a great show.

Speaker 3: 27:08

I wasn't able to tell the band that it was great. They did their sound check. And I said, folks, I've never been able to tell a band this, but guess what, you guys are so good, you actually blew the roof off this place. And they said, really. I said guess what you did? Because the feed and see, the roof's been leaking for a month and a half. And I said you can actually you can go home and tell you can put it on your scene, your website, that we blew the roof off at feed and seat and we've got a leak, leak and we're working on it to get it fixed. But it's been kind of a way just to make lemonade out of the element.

Speaker 2: 27:44

So I've just tried to make some fun.

Speaker 3: 27:45

We're working on it. It's only a 100-year-old building. Yeah, right, and I did ask the owners when was the last time it was roofed? I think it was 70 years ago, oh my gosh. So I think we're pretty grateful this lasted this long. Yes, I have, with the church, a little poking fun about. You know, we're basically kind of a Baptist church, but I have considered maybe changing teams a little bit and we have dripping water so I thought I could do some sprinkling because if the creek gets dry, or a lot of times in Fletcher, which I love, cane Creek we've done.

Speaker 3: 28:20

But the E coli and things can be bad in Cane Creek, which we love. But I said, if need be, I can have a sprinkling during the service, I can bring little babies, do christening sprinkling and then move on. I've done that. We've talked about little fun, things like that. You bring a whole new vision to a baptistry. Things like that. You bring a whole new vision to a Baptist street. It's a fun little building and it's got like everybody else. It's old and we've got some bumps and bruises that we're going to be fixing. But we've got Lynn Goldsmith coming.

Speaker 2: 28:45

April 19th, big name.

Speaker 3: 28:48

Yeah, she's got her band, so they're coming in to kind of kick us off with the Friday nights.

Speaker 2: 28:52

Okay.

Speaker 3: 28:52

We're doing kind of Friday nights now.

Speaker 2: 28:54

Okay.

Speaker 3: 28:54

On Friday nights 7 pm Got Lynn Goldsmith kind of kicking off our official starting the spring season, so yeah, Well, and you've got a lot of activity around you there.

Speaker 2: 29:06

The auction house is scheduled to be opening soon. Lewis Restaurant.

Speaker 3: 29:10

Restaurant, two-story, yeah, and across from us there in Fletcher Wow. Yeah, I mean it's a complex.

Speaker 2: 29:18

Well, thank you so much, Phillip, for coming in and filling in for Noah today. We are always, by the way, we are saluting a George Real Estate Group hometown hero tomorrow, and we do that every Friday morning at 845. And this Friday, tomorrow morning, we're saluting Allison Garrett. Looking forward to meeting and talking to Allison. She was just named the 2024 Career and Technical Education Teacher of the Year here in Henderson County. She teaches marketing at West Henderson High School and a part of her curriculum there is the DECA class, the Distributive Education Clubs of America, of which I'm a little partial to. I'm a graduate of that and I'm looking forward to meeting her.

Speaker 3: 30:08

Wonderful.

Speaker 2: 30:08

And again, thank you, Phillip, so much for coming to join us this morning Always.

Speaker 3: 30:13

Randy, appreciate you so much Happy.

Speaker 2: 30:14

Easter to you. Happy Easter to you. Have a great day. Appreciate you so much.

Speaker 3: 30:15

Happy Easter to you. Happy Easter to you. Have a great day.

Speaker 2: 30:18

Thank you so much.

Speaker 4: 30:27

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Speaker 2: 31:26

Thank you for listening to the George Real Estate Group podcast. Tune in next time for more industry news updates and real estate tips. You can reach Greg, the George Real Estate Group, at 828-393-0134 or at realestatebygregcom.