Spring into Success: Mastering the Real Estate Market in Western and Upstate South Carolina

Spring has sprung, and with it comes a real estate rush that's as vibrant as the season itself! Tune in as we, the voices behind the George Real Estate Group podcast, unpack the secrets to navigating the competitive market of Western and Upstate South Carolina. Whether you're selling your cozy cottage or eyeing that dreamy downtown loft, our expert tips on home prep, the clever use of pre-inspections, and crafting an irresistible online presence will set you on the path to success. We'll even let you in on a recent triumph in a fierce multiple offer bout, showcasing just how our team's responsiveness and strategy can clinch the win for our clients.

But there's more to the story than just curb appeal and fast sales. This episode also dishes out the financial how-to's for eager buyers, with advice on getting pre-qualified and the skinny on providing proof of funds for those all-cash power moves. We wade into the "home fax" waters, unveiling how full property history transparency can streamline your buy or sell. Plus, for the investors out there looking to maximize returns, we break down the 1031 exchange, a savvy tax-deferral maneuver that's sure to pique your interest. From capital gains insights to timelines and new investment opportunities, we've got the lowdown to help you thrive in this flourishing market.

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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 georgerealestategroupradiocom for more information.

Speaker 2: 0:39

Hey, good morning, welcome. Good to see you, randy.

Speaker 3: 0:42

Hey, phillip Trees, how are?

Speaker 2: 0:43

you Doing fine, george Real Estate Group.

Speaker 3: 0:47

We got a radio program. Yeah, we got our hats on for the radio today. Substitute. Yeah, we're filling in for Noah today, and it's always a joy to do that with you how you been.

Speaker 2: 0:57

Oh, been fine, thanks so much, how you been.

Speaker 3: 0:59

Doing great. Doing great, doing great, just watching and keeping up with the real estate market around here with Noah. I get to be with Noah about every week and he keeps us updated on market trends and everything that's going on around here. I guess the biggest news it's spring, and so all those people who said I'm going to wait until spring well, the wait is over the wait's over.

Speaker 2: 1:24

I tell you what? What? It's still kind of low inventory yeah and um, the product can move fast. For example, I have a situation was past weekend was out in a neighboring county and looking at a home or two yeah and this home was in the upper bracket.

Speaker 2: 1:48

I say kind of and I'm thinking well, the real battleground is the three and four hundred thousand dollar homes, because that's you know where you either get your investors want to buy one for a rental or you get your first time home buyers can maybe get in a 300 or 400. So that's your real. They go real fast, right. Well, this one was way out of that league per se. So I'm thinking well, we got a little time. That was on saturday. So on sunday I kind of after church and kind of start put things together. I communicate with the realtor, the who's selling. It said oh, we already got an offer on the table, we just had left. I mean, we hadn't been 24 hours and seen the place, I already had an offer. And so then an hour later, in putting things together and talking to him, nope, now we have multiple offers. So this is before 24 hours had really passed on a weekend with rain right on the

Speaker 3: 2:38

weekend. It was a rain day.

Speaker 2: 2:39

So I'm thinking, oh my, so that made for a. You know my sundays with the music at feed and seed and church and I'm ready just to kind of unplug. No, I was having to plug in and find another outlet and and candles burning both ends to get that ready by monday morning and I'm thinking now is it that something?

Speaker 2: 2:59

it's still that hot yeah, I mean it's, I believe it's again. Folks, uh, from other parts country, you know they want to be here and so they find these things, because now we were there looking at it in person, now we didn't.

Speaker 2: 3:14

We stayed probably a little, a little bit longer to be sure, because it was so neat to be there and see it and we didn't have any other people coming in behind us to see it per se, so I wasn't like they were lining up the door physically to see it right. So I think they were seeing it online and even in this area. So I think still, that's a word to you sellers. I mean it's still a good time. If you've been uh, thinking about it and delaying, uh, it's a great, it's a great time to sell Henderson County, west North Carolina. Who doesn't want to live here expects to see this beauty out here and it's so beautiful and it's growing in a neat way and great activities and things. So people still want to live here. So that can help the sellers. So it's an amazing time still, I got to know what's the disposition.

Speaker 3: 4:06

What happened on that house that they had multiple offers Did your clients? We won the day. We won the day.

Speaker 2: 4:14

Okay, it was close.

Speaker 3: 4:17

Wow.

Speaker 2: 4:17

It was close.

Speaker 3: 4:18

So that's where the expertise of the George Real Estate Group comes into play, right?

Speaker 2: 4:23

there I tell you what You've got to kind of stay 24-7, seven days a week. We're eager to help you.

Speaker 3: 4:31

You've been through situations like that so many times.

Speaker 2: 4:34

Yeah, yeah, and you have to stay with it. You can't just kind of stay with it. You can't just kind of take your time. No, it really moves quick. It can when a home is in good shape again. That's another kind of good little lesson for sellers is how to prepare your property to sell.

Speaker 3: 4:59

You mentioned that online presence.

Speaker 2: 5:02

Very much so that immediately helps. Of course, when we list a home, it's in 4,000 social media. It just floods it, which is great, but there's real logistics in getting your home ready to sell too. A couple things I've really started to learn Now. We're big on where Howard George is. Noah is a great father-son team Howard George, noah, george George Real Estate Group. They're in Flat Rock. Howard's really big on the home pre-inspection of a home by the seller. Now buyers, 99%.

Speaker 2: 5:34

You've got to do an inspection because, as we've talked about, north Carolina is as is state, it's buyer. Beware North Carolina. Sellers do not have to do one thing. But what I love to preface that with with my little playing with words. I love to. I'm a wordsmith, I write songs, have to write sermons every week, so I love words and I take the word.

Speaker 2: 5:55

As is for sellers. Oh, it's an as is for sellers in North Carolina. We don't have to do anything to the house. Well, as is backwards is seesaw, and I love that because it which end up finding it is back and forth and back and forth and well, this thing's wrong and this thing's wrong and this thing's wrong, oh, really.

Speaker 2: 6:13

And so what the buyer has option to do during due diligence, which is usually 30 days, and they have the option to then pull off, pull away, but now they're going to lose their deposit because they test drove the quote. They test drove the car for a month, they took it off the lot quote, right? So obviously you got to give a due diligence uh deposit to the seller, non-refundable. So when you pull out you don't get that back, but they'll pull out if you don't do this and don't do that, don't do that.

Speaker 2: 6:40

I mean why? You think? Because if you're not going to help them out, they're buying, buying the house, and if there's four things wrong, you got to maybe do one or two. Now, if there's one thing wrong, you let it slide. But I've seen a situation where there's two or three things wrong. See, sauce, if you want to keep your buyer, you got to meet him in the middle and you might have to fix that. Those outlets that are that are arcing and electric, and the house may burn down. I mean, you know, because guess what Seller, you're going to have to fix it anyways.

Speaker 3: 7:12

If you live there, if you continue to live there, you've got to fix that.

Speaker 2: 7:15

And guess what, if you're going to then relist it, oh my buyer's. Well, fine, you want to leave, I'll just relist it. Problem, now, you know. Now again, the seller doesn't have to disclose anything wrong with the house. But now the agents, if they know of something wrong with the house, that they've gone to the home while they're getting it ready and they had to take their shoes off because there was an inch of water in the basement, the seller has to tell that there's a temporary swimming pool, sometimes in the basement. The seller agent has to disclose that Because he knows, he knows, he or she knows.

Speaker 3: 7:53

So you're going to have to fix it.

Speaker 2: 7:54

You're going to have to, so you might as well, fix it with your buyer in hand. So that's kind of pre-inspections really can help you go a long way in the process. That now everybody knows. Now it's all in the light. And guess what? The seller, in doing a pre-inspection, can fix things, pre-listing it, and they can get who they want to line up to fix this, that and the other Guess what. When the buyer is in due diligence, they're going to get somebody to fix it and give you quotes.

Speaker 2: 8:30

Now I'm not insinuating, there's going to be a little bit of a, but a buyer may have a cousin that's an electrician that's going to do it for X amount of dollars exorbitant and you don't know the difference and you'll end up paying an exorbitant fee because you know, hey, I know somebody that can do it. You know, I mean they're just, it can happen. Versus if you've, if you get it fixed to your uh pleasing on on the quote, three quote, three quotes to get. Always get three quotes. The quote you get. You like the price, it's fair, then you get to fix it at your fair price and then it's already fixed and there's not. Now there might be a few things you know about it, but no, I'm not going to fix that, because a lot of things I look at is that safety first, going to going to get a house ready to list. Obviously you want it safe for you to live in the next 30 days of course, or you want it safe for the person buying it.

Speaker 2: 9:26

I mean, let's be honest, you don't want to have a safety issue with a fire hazard, things like that, and you want water coming into the house right the safety so if the well's busted, I think, or or now water comes in.

Speaker 2: 9:40

You know the principle water's also going out. It's a little bit dirtier than the water coming, but anyways, you got to fit. So so you want I mean things like that uh, you want to kind of work with it. I mean not real, you don't have to, but if you're going to have a good situation in the process over and over again, we see when you get a pre-inspection on a house because I tell you what, as I've many buyer buyer situations I've been in as a buyer agent and we do that inspection and you you're dreading getting some homes you don't, because you know the house pretty well, but some you don't, and you're dreading getting that email yeah back from the inspector company that's very bunch of things on there oh, you see.

Speaker 2: 10:22

oh, you see one. They give you pictures. I mean, you didn't crawl up in the attic and they show you what's in the attic. Uh-oh, you didn't get in the crawl space because you weren't wearing clothes. Right, I couldn't crawl in the crawl space. But you see pictures of what's in the crawl space.

Speaker 2: 10:37

Uh-oh, yeah, houston we have a problem so it just really brings everything to light, and it is. It makes the process a lot smoother. So that's a one good thing sellers can do to prepare. Another little thing that we've talked about, too, is if there's been an estate situation with your home that you're going to be selling, probate the death of a loved one that owned the house, a will, I mean, you know, trust that can get very complicated very quick.

Speaker 3: 11:10

I'll bet.

Speaker 2: 11:11

And it's best to get that taken care of pre-listing, because once you're in it you don't have enough time to get that all worked out, because, probate, you know, one of the phrases I like is where there's a will, there's a way.

Speaker 3: 11:28

If there's no will, there ain't no way. I mean there ain't no way you're going to do it quick.

Speaker 2: 11:32

If there's no will, there's no way. It's going to take some time then to get that all worked out, because you've got to do probate. I mean, I didn't go to school to be an attorney, so I don't even begin to understand all that. It gets very complicated. So, you're going to have to. So that's just a couple things we talked about with getting sellers prepared, Buyers how do you get prepared to go buy your first home? Or you're moving in the area, Well pre-qualified. Pre-qualified yeah, that goes such a long way.

Speaker 3: 12:03

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 12:05

It goes such a long way. You've got to have your ducks in a row. If you're paying cash, that's fine, but you've got to have that a proof of funding letter ready, that you've got funds that are liquid enough to then purchase this land property condo for cash. You've got to have that ready to show with the offer. You can't just oh yeah, I'm good for it, you're good for nothing. Good for it. What do you mean? That's not going to fly. If I wrote my client to buy your house is good for it.

Speaker 3: 12:34

Good for it.

Speaker 2: 12:35

No.

Speaker 3: 12:36

Nope, not when there's multiple offers so many times.

Speaker 2: 12:41

Yeah, oh, they're good for it. No, you've got to have a letter showing they're good for it. No, you've got to have a letter showing they're good for it and the loan get pre-qualified. So things like that really help.

Speaker 3: 12:54

Yeah, and talking back about the pre-inspection, it does such a good job of preventing that seesaw that you talked about and once that seesaw starts, it's very likely there's a high percentage somebody's going to fall off the seesaw. Somebody's going to fall off the seesaw.

Speaker 2: 13:17

And it's gone. Somebody's going to get thrown off the seesaw and get hurt and go home and forget about it. Take their toys and leave the playground. I mean you know it, yeah, yeah, take their toys and leave the playground. I mean you know it can be discouraging.

Speaker 3: 13:29

And then you know things fall out okay. So other realtors see that this house has been on the market for and so they're saying what's wrong with it?

Speaker 2: 13:43

Hey, you know what A good illustration of that too, randy is. What's the big the recent industry has been. Carfax quote.

Speaker 3: 13:50

Right For cars.

Speaker 2: 13:51

Right, think of it as a home fax. There's probably business for that. You and I should go into it right now. We'll sign papers. In a second We'll copyright that. You and I will start a home. It's basically a home.

Speaker 3: 14:02

Fa facts on the home.

Speaker 2: 14:04

Right. Here's the times it's been bumped, bruised. Here's where the transmission was replaced.

Speaker 3: 14:11

Right.

Speaker 2: 14:12

It's home. Facts on a home you know.

Speaker 3: 14:16

I've heard of this kind of deal in real estate. You know, if you've got a property you want to sell, you do the pre-inspection and you lay all of the warts and all on the table. Everything's out here in the open and here's 30 things on this inspection report and we're going to fix 10 of them. I like it, but 20 of them we ain't going to fix. But you know about them. Hey, there you go, and so that creates such goodwill and stops that seesaw from starting.

Speaker 2: 14:47

It makes a smooth journey to the closing, which we all want. Very good.

Speaker 3: 14:54

Now, if you really want to sell your home, I think this would be cool as heck is to provide that pre-inspection report and disclose everything and then say, as a part of our closing costs, we'll pay for a home warranty for a year and so that's a biggie.

Speaker 2: 15:13

You've done everything. Yes, we won't do these 10 things, but we're providing a home warranty for a year. I mean excellent, great one right, very good excellent option.

Speaker 3: 15:22

Yeah, I can't see why a buyer would back away from something like that.

Speaker 2: 15:27

Very good. That covers the appliances and stuff. It's very good. I think those things cover the HVAC. I mean you know the heat pump, you know what it always is Murphy's Law, I mean it always shows up. Murphy always shows up with homes. I mean, you know like oh great.

Speaker 3: 15:47

And then two weeks later the heat pump goes out. Yeah, yeah, you know stuff like that. It's just yeah good stuff. The home prices in are we seeing some leveling off of the increases in home prices?

Speaker 2: 15:54

Let's see a month ago or so, noah mentioned in our huddle, average home price in Harris County was $529. It was I mean. I remember this past month it was $480 high, then $490s. It jumped.

Speaker 2: 16:12

Still going up it was a jump when I heard 529, I didn't get stats this week, but that was a jump and that's amazing. Again, it's great for property owners land and commercial homes in this area. I mean that's a very positive thing. It's probably more investment. You, you know more you get from other ways to try to make money on your investments percentages. Wise properties are great, as you know. A great way that that leads into. We talked about what your, what your property increases as you own it.

Speaker 2: 16:50

I mentioned this 1031 oh, yeah, yeah because? Because we just had april 15th you know, there's two things you know, there's two things you can count on in the United States, and you and I are both alive, so we cheated. The first one is death, but taxes is the other one, so we know we can depend on that. So April 15th we just experienced that and I've been learning and studying this 1031 exchange they call it. That's when.

Speaker 3: 17:12

I've heard of that, so what is?

Speaker 2: 17:14

that Bill?

Speaker 3: 17:14

I don't know a thing about it Tell me like a first grader here.

Speaker 2: 17:19

It's a neat program, so capital gains is a key thing. So you own your home and it's your primary residence. Here's the key it's your primary residence you live in. So I was watching a video on this and they said so you sell your home for $100,000. Well, that shows how old the video is.

Speaker 1: 17:38

I don't think you can think of it.

Speaker 2: 17:39

Anyways, just for simple numbers, you own your home and you bought it for $100,000, and you own it and you sell it for $175,000. Less $75,000 in the good, you've made $75,000 on the home. Well, that's your primary residence. Now, on the home Well, that's your primary residence. Now, that's a plus, that's money you've made. Now, here's the thing it's your primary residence. If you're a single filing tax single, you get $250,000 credit A gate, a gate yeah $250,000.

Speaker 2: 18:13

If you're married, filed jointly, it's $500,000. So a lot of times it's really for investors If they've made a boo-coo of money on it. Here's where it comes into play. 1031 really comes into play for folks that own a secondary residence, like for an investment. It's a rental or it's an Airbnb. When you go to sell that property then you have to pay capital gains on the profit that you've made on it. Here's the key. It has a program to avoid that capital gain tax, which is 30%-ish it's a third. I mean of it that they have a program where, within 45 days, you can find three possible properties that you want to exchange and now purchase with the money you've made from the sale of this secondary residence the 75,000 in the beginning or the other secondary secondary, yeah, secondary, same thing.

Speaker 2: 19:13

let's say you have a thousand dollar, a hundred,000 secondary property for investment. You sell it for $175,000. You've got $175,000. You've made on it. You have made that legitimately, that's income. Well, you can take that $175,000. And it used to be real strict If you sold a commercial property, you could only buy a commercial property. If you sold a condo, you could only buy a commercial property if you sold a condo you can only buy. Now it's really wide open so you can sell a home and take the profit you've made if it's your secondary residence and you can then buy land with it equal or greater, and then and then you there's no tax no tax.

Speaker 2: 19:52

No, you save that 30 you save that tax on it, you save that tax. So it's a neat way around. And there's. There's these companies uh, and I've been uh talking with one in charlotte. They, they handle the whole thing from start to finish, all the paperwork, they hold the money, they, they do it from turnkey okay to help you as an investor. So it's really out there because we have a we do in in hend County we have a lot of folks that have secondary ownership of properties, vacation homes, exactly.

Speaker 2: 20:22

Well, if you're going to sell that, maybe you're going to downsize it. It's a big home. The taxes, da-da-da. You can sell that and the money you gain from it as a secondary home, that and the the money you gain from it as their secondary home, the money you gain, you can, but you don't get the fit 20 250 000 because it's not your primary home right it's just secondary or investments so you are subject to 30 of that.

Speaker 3: 20:48

Yeah, yeah, yes, you are, you know profit.

Speaker 2: 20:49

You're subject to that, to be that task, because that's gain. Yeah, you know, capital gain, that's capital that you've gained by owning this, uh, investment property or the second home or third home here in area. So it's a great program called 1031 exchange and and we can help guide you in that and connect you with a reputable company, company that we've used and things like that. So it's a neat thing.

Speaker 3: 21:12

I'm, I'm, uh that is a neat program program, is that new.

Speaker 2: 21:16

No, no, it's been around for a while. Okay, just yeah, but they've modified it.

Speaker 3: 21:21

That's been a neat thing, that restriction to just buy the same type of property. Yeah, it was like for like Really strict. Gotcha.

Speaker 2: 21:29

And that's tough.

Speaker 3: 21:30

Well, sure, sure In one sense.

Speaker 2: 21:31

It doesn't make sense. I mean, if you're selling a condo, why would you want another condo? If you're selling a big home, you've got to buy another big home. I want out of that, yeah, yeah but if you're selling a condo, whatever, you might want to get land, so it's kind of neat. Ah, because then you can do more. There's more options to do with the property you buy.

Speaker 3: 21:46

There's so many.

Speaker 2: 21:53

Yeah, we can learn more about it with you and talk more about it with you.

Speaker 3: 21:55

Right.

Speaker 2: 21:56

But the key thing is 45 days. You have to find three and then you get 180 days to close, which in a one way I don't that should be backwards, I think, because this day Mark it takes 180 days to find something and closing's easy. Exactly Because you're going to be mostly probably cash because you've sold them, you've got money. So it only takes less than 30 days to close if you've got cash.

Speaker 3: 22:18

It does sound backwards.

Speaker 2: 22:20

It's a little backwards, so you've got 45 days to find something. But that's where we kick in and George Real Estate Group can help you find something quick. We will, we'll help you find something.

Speaker 3: 22:30

That's a federal program, not just state. It's awesome.

Speaker 2: 22:41

Yeah program not very much, just state yeah, yeah, it's awesome, it's a real neat, it's a neat deal. So you guys uh do some. Uh you, you have agents that work across the state line in south carolina. Right mentioning, we got south carolina agents. I mean it's a great thing. Uh, you know, I mean it is nice down there in travelers rest greenville.

Speaker 2: 22:49

I mean that's a nice yeah that's a nice area and now with the I mean the new super autobahn come in this area. I mean it's gonna be, once it's done, it will be some easier travel it will.

Speaker 1: 22:59

Yeah, you know, will be.

Speaker 2: 23:00

I mean you know it's, it will be, so you can commute. Oh boy, the commute's gonna be a lot easier. It really, really is. And they keep, and they keep doing these uh, acoustic trails and swap. Yes, you probably can maybe ride a bike all the way. It's tough, tough. There'd be a tough morning. Commute uphill. Wouldn't you love that 5 o'clock ride on a bike all the way back down to Travel's Rest.

Speaker 3: 23:24

Yeah, downhill.

Speaker 2: 23:27

Like I said, I've heard talk of connecting all the coasts.

Speaker 3: 23:30

I know, I know.

Speaker 2: 23:31

Wouldn't that be.

Speaker 3: 23:33

I think they're going to do all of that.

Speaker 2: 23:34

I'll tell you, that would be just wonderful, won't it?

Speaker 3: 23:37

The Ocklawaha Trail Greenway connecting up with the Acosta.

Speaker 2: 23:41

Trail, can you imagine? Yeah, oh, the Saluda Grade.

Speaker 3: 23:45

Yeah, and that's coming too as a rails-to-trails program. Wow yeah.

Speaker 2: 23:50

I mean that would be a beautiful commute. Just a calorie burner on your way up and cruising on the way down.

Speaker 3: 24:02

Well, we talk a little real estate, but we always got to talk a little music and a little feed and seed. Come on.

Speaker 2: 24:08

Hey, feed and seed. We've just kicked off our 2024 season at feed and seed. Of course we have church every Sunday. Love to have you. Simple 11 o'clock service, real down home, love to have you at 11 and Seed. Of course we have church every Sunday. Love to have you. Simple 11 o'clock service, real down home, love to have you at 11 o'clock. But we've always done through the years this bluegrass on the weekend. We're doing Fridays primarily, with some Saturday shows, fun ones maybe slipped in there on a Saturday night. So Fridays at 7 pm doors open. Atpm no admission, it's free, give some cash to the tip jar for the band.

Speaker 2: 24:43

They get 100% of it and we got popcorn and RC colas and moon pies and it's just a really precious time. It really is we stress on local bands first, Local bands first, and then we start to branch out and get other regional bands. And I'll just tell you a little funny story we last couple of months we've had a roofie, a leaky roof.

Speaker 3: 25:08

A leaky roof.

Speaker 2: 25:09

Not a leaky roofie, but yeah, the roofie. Yeah, the leak was the roof and it got us kind of scared. And then I asked our owner now, when was the roof last put on? Well, see, I was 10 years old, okay. Well, how old are you? I'm 75. Well, I guess that's a pretty good roof, but I think it's due.

Speaker 3: 25:30

Don't you think?

Speaker 2: 25:31

I think it's due and this water was coming through and I joke with a lot of people our little church. I'm standing there and we're in the middle floor. It was coming through the roof, through the third floor down into our second floor where we have our church, and I was having the drip and, I'll have to be honest with you, there were some times I thought I may, as a Protestant minister for the last 30 years, I was thinking about maybe joining the other team and having a sprinkling.

Speaker 3: 25:59

I thought it would say a baptism, but a sprinkling baptism, no sprinkling.

Speaker 2: 26:02

So I thought maybe Catholicism, why not? Hey, here's your sign.

Speaker 3: 26:06

Y'all just line up under that drip right there and the babies can come right through and I can have the Christmas and the water's coming through dripping.

Speaker 2: 26:12

And I could, because it's harder to find some our little place we don't have a baptismal.

Speaker 3: 26:16

No.

Speaker 2: 26:16

We have to go to the Cane Creek River at Fletcher.

Speaker 3: 26:18

Park. I love it, I love it.

Speaker 2: 26:20

But a lot of times that's got E coli in it, so I don't want to be on the news that Pastor. Philip has not only baptized you, but also given you the dreaded, and so you're sick for a month. So I didn't, so it's easier.

Speaker 1: 26:32

Why not?

Speaker 2: 26:33

Here's your sign the water's dripping down. I could just line them up, but thankfully here's the case. I had a band back in March that played on a Sunday night Nothing fancy. Now they're a good band 30 years 17 albums. They were coming through town and they asked if they could just stop on a Sunday night and play a gospel set which was unbelievable and they're going to come in for a main one, I think in the fall.

Speaker 2: 26:57

But anyways, I told them as they played Sunday night they did their set and I said you know, I've never had a band. I could tell this, but you guys blew the roof off the place.

Speaker 1: 27:07

What do you mean?

Speaker 2: 27:08

Well, just go look, you can see daylight and so they got that distinction. But we've got it fixed. We're going to get it fixed. Okay, and we started the shows. And just a shout out we mentioned got a new neighbor in town there in Fletcher.

Speaker 3: 27:22

Right, right across the street from you there, right across the street the old auction building yeah.

Speaker 2: 27:26

It's called the Auction House. You know, want to hey spread the love. Be with our neighbors. Yes, it's a winery brewery, food court.

Speaker 3: 27:37

Beautiful building. You've been watching the construction. Did you tell me they had a soft opening yesterday? The soft opening was Tuesday night.

Speaker 2: 27:45

Tuesday evening soft opening and I think they're opening it today or tomorrow. I mean it's soft openings going on, but just you know they put a lot of work into it and great food it looks like. So I just want to shout out to our new neighbors in Fletcher Fletcher's great, it's growing, it's a great spot Love Fletcher Great park. Bill Moore was one of our.

Speaker 3: 28:09

Oh, Bill Moore.

Speaker 2: 28:11

With Bluegrass. He was there every time doors opened.

Speaker 3: 28:15

I miss him so much. He was just such a greatest guy. He was right there for the founding of the incorporation of the town of Fletcher and the first thing he did when he became the mayor was say you know that big patch of land right over there. We need to preserve that from development and make a park out of it.

Speaker 2: 28:33

I'm there three times a week with the dogs. I mean it's just the most beautiful and he came with a bluegrass the minute we were there and he loved our place and just really helped really get it off the ground.

Speaker 3: 28:45

I'm so glad they named that park after him. Every time I drive by and I see his name, I think about him.

Speaker 2: 28:50

Asheville's got Bill Moore, we got Bill Moore.

Speaker 3: 28:53

Ah, you are a wordsmith and it's always a pleasure to visit with you. I think we're going to do it again in a week.

Speaker 2: 29:00

Can't wait.

Speaker 3: 29:01

Whether people want to listen to it or not.

Speaker 2: 29:04

Well, I'll try to bring a new joke or two. Mine are getting old.

Speaker 3: 29:06

But I'll try to get you.

Speaker 2: 29:08

Maybe the roof will be fixed and we'll be in the drive.

Speaker 3: 29:12

Phillip, thank you so much. Have a great day, thank you.

Speaker 4: 29:22

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Speaker 3: 30:23

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