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Finding Perspective During Community Crises: Fires, Basketball, and Housing Markets

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Fresh devastation strikes Western North Carolina as wildfires become the top priority nationally, forcing evacuations and bringing CNN and Good Morning America to our doorstep just six months after Hurricane Helene. As our community faces these challenges, we reflect on finding meaning and perspective during times of crisis.

The conversation turns philosophical as we explore how disasters clarify what truly matters. Drawing wisdom from Bill Perkins' "Die With Zero," we discuss how life's resources shift throughout our journey—when young, we have time and health but little money; in midlife, money and health but scarce time; in older age, money and time with declining health. These realities shape how we should allocate resources to maximize experiences and community impact rather than simply accumulating wealth.

Against this backdrop of crisis and reflection, Henderson County's real estate market demonstrates remarkable resilience. Unlike cooling Sunbelt markets, our region maintains strong demand with average home prices holding steady at $550,000. With only a 3.4-month inventory supply, we're firmly in seller's market territory. January and February showed a 6% increase in homes sold compared to last year, despite the hurricane's impact.

The national picture tells a fascinating "tale of two markets" story—Northeastern homes receiving dozens of offers while Florida properties sit for months without interest. We share real examples of how proper pricing remains crucial; homes priced right for their condition and location still attract multiple offers even after sitting on the market.

Whether you're considering buying, selling, or exploring real estate as a career path, we're here to navigate these complex waters together. Our team offers solutions for traditional sales, investment strategies, capital gains questions, and more. Connect with us at 828-393-0134 or realestatebygregcom and discover why, even in challenging times, Henderson County real estate continues to thrive.

Speaker 1:

Welcome to the George Real Estate Group podcast hosted by the George Real Estate Group. This is the George Real Estate Group radio, broadcast on WHKP Radio in Hendersonville, north Carolina. It's been heard for over 10 years on WHKP 107.7 FM, whkp AM 1450, and WHKPcom each Thursday morning at 10.05. These radio programs reach the local population of beautiful Hendersonville and Henderson County, north Carolina. Each week. The show provides real estate news and trends in our region. Let's listen in on this week's show.

Speaker 2:

Good morning and welcome to the George Real Estate Group live radio broadcast here on WHKP every Thursday morning sharing you positive news about your local real estate market and community. Whoops, we got this thing running again here, but just so grateful to be here with you every Thursday morning, here sharing with you positive news. I mean our community is suffering right now. We just want to acknowledge the fires that our families are facing and all that, you know, six months from the hurricane, and I mean just a lot to process. So certainly want to acknowledge and give space and our thoughts and prayers and certainly our concern. And you know, we're so grateful for our law enforcement, we're so grateful for our first responders, our firefighters. I mean, uh, you know there's so much work being done. You know, and it's and it's a significant I heard it was the number one, um, you know, number one fire priority in the united states. I just recently heard that and t.

Speaker 2:

I know you guys are doing all these announcements and you know the public service announcements and the different evacuation maps and being prepared. There's just a lot going on right now.

Speaker 3:

Well, I want to commend our Henderson County Board of Commissioners communication chief. I said his title wrong the other day. He said Timmy, don't give me a new title, but I'm talking about Mike Morgan. Mike has been so instrumental trying to get the information to the outlets like HKP and TZQ and all other outlets as well, and all other outlets as well. But he's doing a bang-up job and I commend him getting the information out so we can get it out to the public as well.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's a lot.

Speaker 3:

It's a lot to process and.

Speaker 2:

I know families are having to evacuate certain areas. We, even some of our agents, had to get out of their homes in some of the areas that are being evacuated and we even as a company, had a client that had a home under contract near Lake Adger and we were supposed to close in a few weeks, right and the home ended up burning to the ground and the sellers were so fortunate to get out with their lives, that's right.

Speaker 2:

That's the most important thing Of course, but I mean just, it's sobering and it's and it hits home. And again, you know, our community is faced so much, you know, with the hurricane and the recovery, and then it just feels like wow, I mean when?

Speaker 3:

when we get a, when we when will we get a break?

Speaker 2:

When will we get a break? When will we get a break? I don't have anything to verify this, but I'd heard. You know. Cnn was apparently down on Main Street of Saluda this morning.

Speaker 3:

Good morning America In Asheville.

Speaker 2:

I mean like again, it's fascinating. Yeah, it is, because as we live here.

Speaker 3:

We don't realize, because my aunt called me out of Michigan a couple of nights and she said Tim, I didn't realize what y'all were going through. It's on the national news. Yes it is, and she said I'll be praying and that's what we need the most.

Speaker 2:

Certainly and again, we do need to pray pray for our community, pray for those fighting.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah, the people behind the scene, the ones that do the really hard work trying to put out these fires, though, and we just got to be really conscious of where we go in these senses. We can't burn. We got a burning band, so we can't burn, but the wind has been up.

Speaker 2:

We do need to pray for rain, but again, that's where you follow the social media accounts of the local government the local news outlets like WHKP Right, you know, follow the local government outlets.

Speaker 3:

Right.

Speaker 2:

And again for the reports and the news and the evacuation. They did an incredible job. There was an interactive map that Henderson County put out, that was so helpful putting the different zones together, whether it was a green zone, a red zone, a yellow zone, and it's just hard to comprehend. I mean it hits home here.

Speaker 3:

Marcus Jones as well. I mean, I can name quite a few of them, but I've talked to Marcus a lot, and, and as well as Mike Morgan, but there's a lot of things that's going on behind the scenes to make everything possible for us to get the news out to people that needs to hear it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and again, everything from evacuation routes to being prepared with emergency kits, to staying informed on the official channels Again there's. And then where the shelters are and where the aid stations are, and again it's just. And you see neighbors helping neighbors, you see the community coming together and again it's the resilience that our community, we're going to get through this again and it will. Again it's just a lot to process. So I mean, all these things are happening and again it puts things in the perspective.

Speaker 2:

It does I mean, and again we, it can't, and I've this has actually been a theme I've been sharing and talking about but again, we can't control the things that happen to us, but we get to decide how we respond, how we. But we get to decide how we respond, how we. And we get to decide what things mean and, uh, you know what are their silver linings, or you know the again the things happen, but until we assign meaning to it, it's just things are happening, but we get, we get to decide how to respond to things and and the, the challenges of life, and and and again, all those things that and no one's immune to any of it.

Speaker 2:

You think you hear about these stories you heard about it's like we hear about the stories in Cal, the fires in California.

Speaker 3:

And then you know oh it won't.

Speaker 2:

I mean who'd have thought right? I mean like I mean here we are in our small town and there's fires happening here.

Speaker 3:

I always think about that picture that they showed of the landscape in California. Oh yeah, that the devastation, devastation man. So we must realize that some things happen for reasons too yes, that we don't know about and we don't know yeah so the challenge is well is that see how we persevere yes, and how we respond to it, right it's it's interesting.

Speaker 2:

I actually um, it reminds me of a book I was recommended and read by Bill Perkins, and it's interesting. And you might say, what am I trying to do to connect these books? But the book's called Die With Zero. But the point is, none of us can take anything with us anyways. No, we can't. And especially, I think about these sellers that literally escaped with their lives and the shirts on their back and their dogs. Again, it puts things in the perspective as to what end is. Obviously, we're all working, we're striving, we want to take care of our family, we want to take care of our kids.

Speaker 2:

We want to take care of our grandkids. It's interesting care of our kids, we want to take care of our grandkids, and you know it's. It's interesting. This book talks about, you know, living your life, but maximizing your experiences rather than hoarding money or you know to what end. Right again it's. It's, the book really challenges the traditional mindset of wealth accumulation and and again, when you, when you, when you lose everything, it really puts things in the perspective as to, I mean, mean, what's important in life, right, our priorities.

Speaker 3:

We're a little specks upon Mother. Earth. Oh yeah, I'll never forget when I first flew to Orlando Florida Never flown before in my life and my wife asked me because she had flown a couple of times and she kept asking me. She said are you all right? And I wasn't, but I told her, I was. And Norm, when I looked down to Mother Earth and I said, wow we're on these specks.

Speaker 2:

We are so small.

Speaker 3:

We are just small like a mustard seed. Yeah, I mean it's amazing, don't you think?

Speaker 2:

Well, well, they talk about the, the effect that the uh astronauts experience when they're up in space. Oh, I can imagine there's. There's an effect they talk about, that they come away with this perspective of just this.

Speaker 2:

It's for their mind to comprehend how small we are, that's right man and again, it's back to perspective and it also puts things in the perspective with our own, our own challenges and our own problems that we face. Actually, another quote that I saw recently as to our perspective on life, and a guy named Peter Cundill said the power of perspective, said the power of perspective. I think it may be easier to see solutions if you can distinguish between context and content, if you can place a problem when the within the framework of the larger universe, its dimensions are put into perspective and automatically diminish, wow. So again, you put things in the perspective and and again, what, what's really important and and to what end. Right Again, and even back to that book, the, the die was zero.

Speaker 2:

Again, just, you know how we, how we use our resources, how we spend our money, I mean before we die. I mean, to what end? Is it to accumulate all this wealth and not use it for good, or use it for your family, or to you know, again, it's it's um, using a, using your money to create well, to make an impact in the community, to to create memorable experiences, uh, in, in with your family and your, in your, in your children. And again, you know, we all, all of us with life have to decide between. You know we have. We have really three resources we have time, we have our health and we have money. And so when you're young, you have time and health, but less money.

Speaker 3:

That's right, you're just playing along.

Speaker 2:

That's right. In your midlife you have money and health, but less time. Imagine all the time raising your kids. And then, when you're older, you have money and time, but we have our declining health. And so, again, it's the it's. It's how we use our, our resources in the right time of life to maximize the enjoyment while still healthy enough to, you know, experience things. So again it's, you know, it's investing in in our experiences. It's investing in, in giving back to the community, our community that we live in. Again, these fires put things into perspective.

Speaker 1:

It does.

Speaker 2:

You think your problem? Maybe you have a flat tire. Today Someone else is literally wondering if their home is going to survive or not.

Speaker 3:

Well, one good note.

Speaker 2:

Tell us some good news. Is that the NCAA Home's going to survive or not? Well, one good note Tell us some good news.

Speaker 3:

Is that the NCAA?

Speaker 2:

I was wondering how we were going to change the conversation.

Speaker 3:

But you know, we have good things in life and we have bad things in life.

Speaker 2:

Well, two things can be true at the same time. That's right. Two things can be happening at the same time, right. And again, there's suffering in this world and challenges in this world at the same time, and that's why I've even said about real estate. Real estate does happen around life. It can be a really beautiful, positive experience, while maybe someone's buying or selling, but there's also challenges that people face. It could be a death of a loved one, or a divorce or a job loss, and so real estate, your decisions to do real estate for you might be different than someone else's, and you know, again, all of us are experiencing this life with different set of circumstances and but we all get to decide what things mean. But back to the uh, the, the, the ncaa at the same time 16.

Speaker 3:

we basketball going on, we got a basketball, jones A basketball.

Speaker 2:

This is the time of year that Tippy and I like to have the conversation Again, want to give space to what was going on, certainly in our community. But tonight BYU is playing Alabama, and then Maryland's playing Florida, and then Arizona's playing Duke and then Arkansas's playing Texas Tech. I mean that's the games today, and then tomorrow there'll be another round of basketball and we've got to tip our hat to Carolina. I mean they did make it past.

Speaker 3:

They won two games in the tournament.

Speaker 2:

But I will tell you and again I appreciate, tippy, your perspective this morning you said I gotta acknowledge when it's good regardless of the team.

Speaker 3:

I love the game. So the game is not only just consists of one team, it's the best team. And I must tip my hat off to the Dukies man. And you know what's so funny? My brother-in-law was up here from Atlanta yesterday and he took me to the Dukies man. And you know what's so funny? My brother-in-law was up here from Atlanta yesterday and he took me to the drugstore and I'd start talking about Duke. He said well, bro, you know I'm a Dukie man. I said well, why Carolina stuff? Then he said well, that's my state, oh, interesting. I said okay.

Speaker 2:

I get it. He must have be known he's supporting.

Speaker 3:

Carolina. Yeah, North Carolina is his home, but his team is Duke. You didn't know that? No, I didn't know it. I said let me out the car.

Speaker 2:

He finally told you.

Speaker 3:

He finally told me, and I told him. I said well, look man, I must say, as we talked about before Flag is a specimen that you don't see From Maine, From Maine. He was watching somebody's talent? Yeah, he had. I would love to ask him that question who did you study playing?

Speaker 2:

basketball. Maybe we can get him on the radio. Oh man, you know, we never know who's listening. You make a phone call, right? Yeah, that's what.

Speaker 3:

I mean, but you know, you don't see, those specimens come around too often. No, and I hope he has a great career because what he's already done as a freshman- yeah. And everybody said, oh, he might come back. He said he might come back, but even personally I don't think he should come back.

Speaker 2:

Well, even Coach K I think I saw in an article said listen, this is life-changing money.

Speaker 1:

Go on.

Speaker 2:

Take advantage of it I mean, how often does that happen?

Speaker 3:

But you know, what was sad about that is that a lot of kids want to enjoy that. Well, the game has changed. Yeah, it has, man Well, who? Was I talking to recently about baseball, and baseball was every man's you know it was oh yeah, that's like an apple pie and Chevrolet, but baseball To America, you know, oh yeah, that's that's like apple pie and chevrolet, but baseball to america, baseball.

Speaker 2:

Back in the day, those baseball players were playing professional sports, but then they would go work at the grocery store during the week, or they would still have a job, yes, while they were still playing. And it was just again. It's very different now, of course, the economy of sports.

Speaker 3:

It is man.

Speaker 2:

But you know again, it's changed the game, whether it's baseball or basketball. Whatever it is yes, Whatever it is, but it's fascinating Well.

Speaker 1:

I'm glad to see on the collegiate level that they are giving some of the players compensation.

Speaker 3:

So when you're doing that, you're recognizing that, wow, you're making all this money off these guys and these girls I mean the girls'.

Speaker 2:

sport has climbed the ladder so much. Oh, it has I mean it's made incredible progress.

Speaker 3:

I was watching Southern Cal, who was number one seed in the whole shebang, and the young lady. I mean she's tough but she got hurt and I don't know her status. I haven't heard anything, but she's phenomenal man. I mean she really can play that basketball.

Speaker 2:

Wow, and I'm not sure I need to. I should pull up. I just had to pull up the. I pulled up the men's, but I mean the women's tournament.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah, you got Carolina, you got Duke. You got Notre Dame it seemed like it's four of them and North Carolina State and the Sweet 16 and the ladies. It's pretty good, great representation.

Speaker 2:

Texas Tech and Florida, belmont and James. Ladies, it's pretty good, great representation Texas Tech in Florida, belmont and James. Madison, gonzaga, minnesota, portland, villanova. Tomorrow Carolina and Duke. That's right it sure is In the Sweet 16. Who does State play? I've got to still get that information here. South Carolina and Maryland play, nc State plays LSU and LSU has a longstanding program? They sure have yes, ole Miss plays UCLA. It's again a great time of year. The basketball is a nice distraction.

Speaker 3:

Yes it is you know even the things in life that matters. You can find comfort sometime in watching a basketball game. Yes, enjoy those moments, oh yeah.

Speaker 2:

Again. Tippy always grateful for the conversation. You as well, nora, this is my favorite time of year in. March, spring is here. Go, basketball, basketball. And then, 1st of April, the Masters tournament.

Speaker 3:

Time what they say time marches on.

Speaker 2:

Time marches on and again the community that we're in, and there are moments that we can enjoy, for sure in spite of all the challenges we face.

Speaker 2:

So you're grateful for the conversation, for our listeners. We have fun here on this live radio program WHAP every Thursday morning, right after the 10 o'clock news Every Friday morning. By the way, we're here for the Hometown Heroes series Every Friday morning at 845. Tomorrow morning we're having Manna Food Bank, now located in Mills River. You know Manna is a private nonprofit organization that serves 16 counties in western North Carolina and they link the food industry with over 200 partner food pantries to get food to thousands of families' tables. You know Hurricane Helene destroyed their headquarters in Asheville. Now they're in Mills River. We have Micah Chrisman who's representing man of Food Bank tomorrow morning as our Hometown Hero series tune in tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning for our Hometown Hero series.

Speaker 2:

And if you know someone that's making a difference in the community like to nominate, recommend, have them come out. We'd love to have the conversation, give them time and share about what's going on in their world and in their story. And again, it's just, it's powerful. I mean, we know life is happening and real estate is a part of life, but you know we want to. Our community is incredible how we've been able to. We've walked through so much with the hurricane and now the fires. But again, our life is happening every single day and, you know, one person's challenges might be different than another person's challenges, but it's, you know, it's. Everybody's got a story and walking through something. So, again, be kind, be kind to one another, be kind to yourself, as, as you walk through whatever you're facing, and again, the, the, the, there's the beautiful moments in life, um, the, you know. And again, tippi and I digressing, talking about basketball, which is so enjoyable, and then again, people facing so much.

Speaker 2:

There was an article I saw actually I don't know if this was yesterday or today, but talking about the real estate market and the title of the article by the Wall Street Journal was this four bedroom ranch in New Jersey tells you everything about the lopsided housing market. Tells you everything about the lopsided housing market. It said the Northeast has tons of demand and low supply, but parts of the Sunbelt are seeing a flood of houses for sale, and so two houses went on the market for similar prices. The article says, about the same time earlier this year, one got 25 offers, the other got none. And of course there's other variables that determine demand, the condition of the house to the price, to the, you know. But the factor, one major factor is the geography where it's located. The Northwest and Midwest markets have far more prospective buyers and available homes. But parts of the Sun Belt the article says I'm quoting from the article the parts of the Sunbelt are seeing a flood of houses for sale. And so, like this is the example that the article talks about the divergence is playing out in places like New Jersey, where four bedroom ranch was on the market for just over a week in early February with dozens of offers. The winning buyers contracted to buy for about $200,000 above the roughly $1.1 million asking price.

Speaker 2:

But in Miami, a six-bedroom with a grand staircase and a pool sat on the market for nearly two months without a firm offer. The sellers cut the price by $9,000 to $990,000. By $9,000 to $990,000. And so again the quote there are very different realities for sellers depending on location, said Kara Lavender, research manager at John Burns Research and Consulting. So for the past few years nearly every market was hot and there were a few deals to be found. Per the article. Now many of the markets that rose fastest are the ones cooling the most and so if that weakness spreads more broadly across the housing market it could drag, per the article, on a US. It could be a drag on the US economy that has lately been slowing and so in the article talks about.

Speaker 2:

In South Florida, builders are dangling significant incentives to sell newly built homes. Investors, second homeowners and retirees are putting homes on the market to escape storm damage. Rising insurance rates, lavender said some 78% of real estate agents may say sellers of existing homes outnumber buyers out there. According to the survey conducted in March. In the Northeast new construction is constrained by land availability and zoning limitations. Many would-be sellers are putting off sales to hold on to lower mortgage rates, they said. 81% of agents there said buyers outnumber sellers. Again, very different. Two tails right. So every local housing market is different.

Speaker 2:

I've shared what's happening here locally. You know our average single family home price in Henderson County is over. It was right at $550,000. We continue to see, you know, strong demand here. The last two years we've been holding on. You did see in 2021 the number of homes sold in Henderson County was over 2,100 homes in 2021. Single-family homes 2,100. 2,106, actually divided by 12. That's 175 single-family homes we were averaging in 2021. 2,100 plus homes, 175 a month selling. In 2022, that number jumped down to 1,700 over the 12-month period. That drops it down to average of 142 a month. The last two years, 2023 and 2024 in Henderson County we've dropped down to 1,440 homes, really within a couple homes per year. So we're averaging 120 homes a month selling in Henderson County.

Speaker 2:

The interesting thing is in January and February this year we had a 6% increase, not in prices but in the demand. There were 6% more homes sold this January February than the previous January February. But for 2024 to finish up still at 1400 homes sold, which was just as many. Actually there was five more homes. There was five more homes sold in 2024 than in 2023 in Henderson County and that's in light of that hurricane. So maybe again we're expecting and we're already seeing January February this year increase this year compared to the previous January February. But we have low inventory levels here locally and that's why our prices are holding. Our average single family home price in Henderson County is holding around that $550,000 price range. So we continue to see the demand. Prices are holding. Inventory levels are low. We still have around a three-month inventory here in Henderson County and we see across all price points.

Speaker 2:

Again, it was interesting to look at the article when it was comparing Florida to the Northeast. Again we are seeing. You know now this is interesting. You know, again, nationally. Nationally, the home sales ticked up in February and then prices kept climbing. A measure of this is, per the article that I was referencing, a measure of prices across 20 cities rose 4.7% from a year earlier. In January New York had the highest gain at 7.7%. Highest gain at 7.7%. Prices in Tampa fell 1.5%. So again, this is just really fascinating. Every local market housing is different, but again it's just different across the country.

Speaker 2:

The state with the fastest moving market in February was Rhode Island, where the median home sat on the market for 37.5 days. The slowest moving market in the United States was Montana at 108 days on the market. Again, just giving some context on what's happening locally versus what's happening nationally. And so you know, locally here days on market has been increasing. I mean it was in the 30s and then 40s and then we're approaching average 50 days on the market, which again nothing. That's still very good, by the way.

Speaker 2:

So the average excuse me, the number of active single-family homes on the market in Henderson County as of this morning 425 active single-family homes on the market. The average available price of what's available is at $799. The average price sold over the last 12 months is at $548. Again, the market continues to move, strong demand and, like I said, this January, february we saw an increase in the number of homes selling. So so you know, if we're averaging 125 homes a month selling and there's 425 available, we have a 3.4 month supply. It's still considered a seller's market and we see that. We, we see that here, locally in it.

Speaker 2:

By the way, the way the price is everything, the condition is everything, the location it's these three factors price, condition and location. And in our market we see homes that have sat on the market and, guess what? They've chased the price down. The fascinating thing is and this happened we had a seller that wanted to test out a higher price. They dropped the price and it's so interesting, when that price got down to what we call it, it's fighting weight, I mean price more appropriate to the market and this home was on the market for five months and it priced higher originally and then, when it dropped down to the price that was appropriate to the market and the condition and the location, out of nowhere which it wasn't out of nowhere, but when it was priced correctly, it ended up getting multiple offers.

Speaker 2:

In the last seven days in Henderson County, there has been 46 new listings. There's been 36 price reductions. There's been 36 new listings. There's been 40, 40 homes go under contract in the last seven days in Henderson County and there's been 29 homes closed single family homes. This is again just a seven day snapshot in Henderson County. So again, it's a healthy market.

Speaker 2:

The markets are very local and we also know real estate is driven by what's going on in your life and it could be a really positive reason why you're buying or selling. It could be a challenging reason, but we'd love to have the conversation. Give us a call at 828-393-0134, george Real Estate Group. You can find us online at realestatebygregcom. You can also follow us on social media Facebook and Instagram. We also podcast all of our radio shows. You can find it on your favorite podcast platform. We're so grateful. We have a lot of activity, we have a lot of momentum. We have incredible agents.

Speaker 2:

If you've thought about a career in real estate, we'd love to have the conversation. If you thought about investing in real estate or maybe you're trying to decide what to do with your portfolio of real estate, maybe you are ready to move into a more active investment excuse me, move from an active investment to a passive investment, and it's still real estate, but something that's just mailbox money. We have options and opportunities and solutions for you. If you want to talk about avoiding capital gains, if you want to talk about you know, maybe you want to consider giving to nonprofits with your real estate. I mean, we have so many solutions that we can discuss and we can help you with. We'd love to have the conversation.

Speaker 2:

Some new listings that we have is 675 Foster Hill Drive in Hendersonville year-round, long-range views, a million-dollar views. This home, four acres, is only $569,000. Another home we just have on the market in Rutherfordton 130 Fairway Drive, 395, beautiful home, 2,500 square feet. A lot of home for the dollar there. Another property that we have on the market is 873 Indian Hill Road for $849. Such an incredible remodel home in Indian Hills.

Speaker 2:

We have an office for sale at 1612 Asheville Highway, suite 4. This is a great deal. This is a turnkey office and you can literally walk in and start your business whatever professional services you have there. It says three offices plus a waiting room, plus a kitchen and bathroom. It's right next to the baker's box. Only $260,000 for this office. It's a great setup.

Speaker 2:

Again, just different samples of the listings that we have, the inventory we have. If you want to go to realestatebygregcom you can see all of our listings, all of our inventory. But we're so grateful, again grateful to be here serving the community through real estate. If you thought about a career in real estate, I know a lot of people are facing challenges but we are thriving, we're growing. We have helped more people this year than we did already last year, year to date.

Speaker 2:

When we look at the numbers and we're so excited and if it's whether it's, you know, single family homes or a condo, or townhomes or raw land or a commercial investment, we'd love to have the conversation. Give us a call, 828-393-0134. Find us online at realestatebygregcom. Stop by our office. We'd love to have the conversation. But again, we're here. Every Thursday morning there's some live radio for you. The technology challenges, but it's okay, we're here. Thank you so much for tuning in. That's our new ad we're running and again, I hope that makes sense and have a wonderful day. Again, our thoughts and prayers for our community. Tune in tomorrow morning at 845. Enjoy that basketball today. Basketball.

Speaker 3:

Joe have a great day.

Speaker 2:

And again, praying for our community. Life has a way of throwing us into deep waters when we least expect it. Dr Robin Hainley-Defoe knows this firsthand. One winter day, her car skidded on ice and plunged into a freezing river, trapped in sinking darkness, she had seconds to act. But instead of panicking, she reminded herself I can do hard things. She stayed calm, found a way out and survived. At the George Real Estate Group, we know that buying or selling a home can feel like that moment Overwhelming, uncertain, maybe even a little scary. But here's the thing you can do hard things and you don't have to do them alone. With decades of experience, we're here to guide you every step of the way, turning challenges into opportunities. So if you're thinking about making a move, let's do it together. Call the George Real Estate Group today, because when it comes to your future, you're stronger than you think.

Speaker 1:

Thank you for listening to the George Real Estate Group podcast. Tune in next time for more industry news updates and real estate tips. 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.