What Happens When A Tough Economy Meets A Generous Community

Mortgage headlines can make it feel like you’re supposed to freeze and wait, but the local story in Henderson County is more nuanced and more hopeful. We share what we’re seeing across Hendersonville and Western North Carolina: the market is still moving, sales activity locally has stayed surprisingly resilient, and prices in many areas are holding. Real estate is intensely local, so we talk about why neighborhood, price point, and timing matter more than the national noise, and how to make decisions based on your life instead of fear.

Then we dig into the “why” behind today’s mortgage rate frustration. We break down inflation using the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index and explain how the Federal Reserve’s federal funds rate can influence borrowing costs. If inflation keeps trending the wrong direction, “higher for longer” rates remain on the table and that changes the math for buyers and sellers. We walk through practical affordability tools we’re discussing with clients right now, including seller concessions, rate buy-downs, adjustable-rate mortgages, and programs that can help first-time buyers and households who need a reset.

We also bring in a guest we’re always grateful to host: Lynn Staggs from the Storehouse of Henderson County. The Storehouse just moved into its own building at 2313 Spartanburg Highway, unlocking more space for food and hygiene distribution, volunteer support, cooking and budgeting classes, and even a future garden that can feed the pantry. Lynn explains the Fourth of July matching fund campaign running June 1 through July 31 with a $125,000 goal, and why local giving directly impacts families and seniors right here in our community.

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Transcript

Welcome And Ways To Connect

SPEAKER_02 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 George Real Estate Group Radio.com for more information. Welcome to the George Real Estate Group Live Radio Broadcast here on WHKP. We're grateful to be here with you and we're so thankful. We're gonna cover a lot today. We have information about the local real estate market. We are gonna be sharing about some of our favorite nonprofits this morning. And again, the market is moving. Find us online at realestatebygreg.com. You can connect with us on social media, Facebook, and Instagram. You can also follow us on our favorite, on your favorite podcast platform, Apple, Amazon, Alexa, Spotify. Love to connect with you there. Stop in our office anytime. They're in Flat Rock. We're on Rainbow Row. We serve, like I said, all of Western North Carolina and the upstate.

Local Sales Trends And Price Stability

SPEAKER_02 1:27

A lot of conversations about what's going on in the real estate market. The real estate market is still moving. There's a lot of noise out there. But here locally, our market, we've actually had over a hundred more homes, single family homes sold in the last 12 months than we've had in the previous 12 months. The prices are holding here locally. Real estate's a very local market. Uh local. I mean, your neighborhood, your price point, your your area, your counting. Again, you know, and so the market's the market. Your home, your your life. I mean, life happens, therefore real estate happens. And again, we can have the conversation. There's no pressure, there's no cost, there's no obligation. Give us a call, 828-393-0134, 828-393-0134.

Inflation Data And The Fed Link

SPEAKER_02 2:17

There is some, you know, there is conversations and there is data about inflation. You can see this on our most recent blog post. You can go to George Real Estate Group Radio.com and see our blog there. But they are saying inflation uh is moving in the wrong direction. But before the headlines send anyone into a panic, let's just talk about what's really and actually going on and why it matters for the housing market, and if it means if you're thinking about buying or selling, the government tracks inflation in a variety of ways. And one of the ways they track it is called the PCE, and it's the personal consumption expenditures price index, and it measures how much more or less people are paying for goods and services compared to a year ago, and just based on your own expenses, and we all feel it, right? You probably can guess the way it's trending. We all experience it with gas and groceries. Um, and so that's the thing that everybody's talking about, and and there's there's just a lot going on. Here's the thing, though, the this is why this matters inflation, right? The housing, the here's the connection with housing when inflation is high, the ten the tri the Fred the Fed tends to keep the federal funds rate elevated or even raise it to try to taper spending and cool inflation back down. And so while this is not a one-for-one relationship, the Fed fund rate can have an impact, of course, on the mortgage rate when you buy. And so right now, the information we have, they're saying there's a 50-50 chance the Fed actually raises the federal funds rate before the end of 2026. And it's too soon to say that. But it's if we are heading into a rate hike, that means rates, mortgage rates are probably not going to come down as most people are hoping. And again, it seems counterintuitive. Why are they gonna make things more expensive when things are already expensive? But they're but it's inflation, they're trying to curb inflation, and so you know, if you're waiting for the rates to drop significantly before making the move, the the report that's out there is a reminder that higher for longer is still very much on the table, but of course it depends on what happens with the economy. And according to Bankrate, they said this oil prices and bond yields have dropped a bit, but they're still way up compared to the start of the spring. And so and and the reality is this is just the the impact of the geopolitical, the global world that we're in with the the the war, the the conflicts, everything going on. This is this is a real this hits our our pocketbooks at home with inflation and mortgage rates that are gonna

No Crash Signs And Buyer Options

SPEAKER_02 4:52

probably stay high. So but it remember, this is a tough economy does not mean it's a housing crash. You know, the these are this is not the same housing, you know, uh environment or crisis that we might have experienced or the 2008 you know crisis, you know, or the it's not the 2010, 2011. Um so here's the thing. As I mentioned earlier, inventory levels are low. There's no flood of homes hitting the market. Homeowners still have strong equity in their home. Lending standards are sh are not the what you know, you couldn't the joke you could fog America get a home. Today's challenges is affordability, not distressed underwater sellers. And so uncomfortable and unhealthy are not the same thing. The housing market, and it does, it feels hard right now, but hard and crashing are very different. It's not the it's not doesn't mean the sky is falling. And so you have options, right? You still, I mean, the the high rates doesn't mean people aren't buying. Like I said here locally, we had a hundred more homes sell in the last 12 months than the previous once in Henderson County. It it it just it just doesn't and it doesn't mean this again, the sky is falling, doesn't mean home prices are crashing. It just means a lot of people it's out of reach. And so it can mean things look different, right? You know, you might have to look into maybe an adjustable rate mortgage, maybe you look into buying the rate down. These are conversations you can have with your lender for options. There's first-time home buyer programs, there's down payment assistance, there's sellers' concessions, there's these are the things that we discuss. There are ways to do this, and of course, we're working with our clients buying the hundred thousand dollar property, we're working with the clients buying the the five million dollar property. I mean, we're working across all price segments, and again, we have the the years of experience. This is twenty for my 21st year with my North Carolina broker's license. We've helped over 1,600 families throughout the years. Uh here's the thing about inflation, though, even though inflation is where above where they the feds want it, and that means mortgage rates are still likely to stay up for a while, life is still happening, people still need to move. Strategy matters, and it's not about timing the market, it's about what's right for you and the time for you. So if you're curious about your what your home is worth, if you're curious how you can buy and sell, or do you sell and buy, or you know, just what your home is, what the what a strategy is. We it's a privilege and honor to help our clients navigate through you know life and real estate and give clarity and provide information. So if you're thinking about buying, selling, or investing in real estate, or even a career in real estate, give us a call, 828-393-0134, 828-393-0134.

The Storehouse Moves Into A New Home

SPEAKER_02 7:20

We have one of our regular special guests, Lynn Staggs in the studio. Make sure you're getting close to that mic.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

There I am.

SPEAKER_02 7:27

How are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 7:29

On two wheels today. I was doing what you normally do.

SPEAKER_02 7:33

Well, we're glad to have you. There's a lot going on with the storehouse. And and I and again, we're so always grateful to the we're thankful for the work that the storehouse does in Henderson County. 26 years. Wow. Yes. And uh the the the what the work you're doing and the needs that you're meeting. And and again, let's uh and for our listeners, a lot of them are familiar with you guys, but let's pretend no one's ever heard of the storehouse, if you can imagine that.

SPEAKER_00 8:00

I can't imagine that.

SPEAKER_02 8:02

But let's share about the storehouse, and then again, let there's a lot going on that you have to update us with.

SPEAKER_00 8:08

There there is, and thank you for having us. Appreciate it. Um, the storehouse is a Christ-centered food and hygiene pantry here in Henderson County, and we've just moved into our very own location.

SPEAKER_02 8:22

Congratulations.

SPEAKER_00 8:23

We have been renting for 25 years, and three months ago we got to move into our very own building, which is located at 2313 Spartanburg Highway. We are right next to East Flight Rock Baptist Church and the taco truck next door, which is awesome.

SPEAKER_02 8:43

We think that taco truck is is incredible.

SPEAKER_00 8:46

It is, it is good food. That's all I'm gonna say. I don't want too many people to know because then it will cut my supply down.

SPEAKER_02 8:54

But it is But congratulations.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

I mean, I remember year a few years ago we were sitting here sharing about your vision for the building, and and yes, we had the land, and then we had to come up with the plan, and then we came up with the plan, and now we're now we're living in the plan.

SPEAKER_02 9:13

You're you're it's happening.

SPEAKER_00 9:15

Living a dream, which is amazing. You guys went from what four or five thousand square feet to forty two hundred square feet to twelve thousand almost twelve. Right under twelve. Right under. We are not at twelve.

SPEAKER_02 9:28

That's amazing. But that's a it's tremendous. And again, you're the the the additional space, and again, this does so much for the community. Your your capacity of what you can do now.

SPEAKER_00 9:40

Yes, so many things that we were able to do, like when we were on Seventh Avenue, we could do budgeting and cooking classes when we moved to Spartan Burg Highway in the first location. We lost our kitchen, we lost our classroom space, and now we have all that back and more. So we're gonna be able to expand everything we're doing.

SPEAKER_02 10:01

Amazing.

SPEAKER_00 10:01

So we're still serving and we're still

Classes, Gardens, And Practical Life Skills

SPEAKER_00 10:04

doing this.

SPEAKER_02 10:04

Well, what is a what is a weekly uh what does a week look like? Um, like you know, you guys have I mean, a normal week.

SPEAKER_00 10:12

What I don't know if you can say whatever's normal, but you guys have not seen that cartoon picture of the chicken with the feathers going everywhere? That's kind of what a normal week looks like for us. Um But the thing that is changing is what we're gonna be able to do and the programs we'll be able to add. We have enough space that now we are putting together, and some of it is already done. We're putting together our cooking classes, the garden that we want to put in in the back, the budgeting classes, just uh classes for people at life, life classes. Um sometimes it's not people's fault that nobody has shown them. It's just the time they grew up in, or maybe their parents didn't have time, or maybe their parents didn't know. So we just have a whole different group of people. So we're adding things that we think are practical application stuff that people regular stuff that people need to know, how to balance a checkbook, how to look at your money on paper, how to cook rice in a bag.

SPEAKER_02 11:21

Well, it's a more holistic I mean it's yes it's one thing, what's the classic line? You can give them a fish, right? Or you can teach them how to fish.

SPEAKER_00 11:29

And they can feed themselves for the rest of their life. So if you teach somebody how to cook real rice, they will never eat Uncle Ben's again. Um, real rice tastes better. So and it's so much cheaper. That's right. So much cheaper. And it just those kind of simple things that you can you don't have to have a whole garden space at your house. You can have a five-gallon bucket from Lowe's and grow a tomato plant and have your own tomatoes. So we're trying to do things like that, have a practical little thing like you can do garden in a bucket. You got a tomato plant, some basil on one side and cilantra on the other, you got salsa and spaghetti. Boom. It's all right.

SPEAKER_02 12:11

It's amazing. So, I mean, these the programs you're expanding and the new building. When did you guys uh uh reiny days ago, literally?

SPEAKER_00 12:21

Wow. We we moved in on March 19th, so that's about 90 days ago. I don't know, it's been a blur. Every day is a blur.

SPEAKER_02 12:31

And it's but it's it's continuing to happen.

SPEAKER_00 12:33

And I mean and we're serving people, they're serving people right now. So One Monkey does not stop the show because here I am and the show is running without me.

SPEAKER_02 12:43

It's still happening. Let's talk about your team.

SPEAKER_00 12:46

Oh, I have we have a staff of Linda, the office manager, and Sarah, the assistant, and me, and then 75 to 80 volunteers every week that make everything happen. And that's that's the huge part of this that is

Volunteers Power The Pantry

SPEAKER_00 13:06

community, people coming in to volunteer, bringing their gifts to the table, and they're able to share.

SPEAKER_02 13:14

You you guys probably have room for some more volunteers.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

Absolutely, because we'd like to be open more days, and that takes volunteers. That does take volunteers, and so we have a strategic plan on how to open up starting like maybe on a Saturday morning, so the people that work during the week would have a chance to volunteer, but not every Saturday. Take one Saturday morning a month, and that way you're not giving up your whole month.

SPEAKER_02 13:40

Yeah, it's amazing. So we can with many hands it can make the the work light. Yes. So we talk this is where you know we've said this many times the incredible prosperity here, the incredible, which also we have incredible generosity here, which you guys have been the beneficiaries of, yes, and which then goes into the community. But you know, food insecurity is one of the big you know, those issues that we probably it's easy to miss until you might you might not be realizing it's happening next door, right? It could be the senior citizen on fixed income, you know, that has to choose between groceries or medicine, right? It could be the single parent trying to uh stretch that one that one paycheck across whether it's their rent, their utilities, or food, right? It's like and it's or the family that's gas right now, right? And it and it could be the person or the family that looks fine on the outside, but but maybe quietly and privately they're wondering how they're gonna get through the week, right? These are real things, and that's why the the organization like the storehouse of Henderson County is such a blessing and an impact on our our community.

SPEAKER_00 14:37

We're

Fourth Of July Match Funding Goal

SPEAKER_00 14:38

we are trying our best to be, and this is the one time of year where everybody comes together. We have our corporate sponsors, we do the Fourth of July challenge match, and what people don't understand is yes, they put up the challenge and people donate the match, and we've always raised more than what was put up. That is our operating budget for the year. This is how we buy food, this is how we're able to get those supplies for the family. This is the only way we stay open is because of the donations to this Fourth of July campaign.

SPEAKER_02 15:15

And so that's going on, started June 1st 1st to July 31st.

SPEAKER_00 15:19

So we have 60 days, and here we go.

SPEAKER_02 15:22

But I always love telling the beginnings of this because it's important, like how this first started out.

SPEAKER_00 15:28

Yep. Twelve years ago, we had a retired military couple come in and looked at me and said, Hey, you know, we would like to match anything you raise up to ten thousand dollars, and you got eight weeks. And they turned around and walked out. And it was like, Wa, blah, blah, what do I do? What do I do? So I came to my good friend Richard Rhodes on the radio, and boom, that's where it started, the Fourth of July campaign. The matching fund campaign. It started that first year, they matched us 10 and we raised $12,000. So that was $22,000, and we'd never raised that much money in a year, let alone eight weeks.

SPEAKER_02 16:12

It expanded your thinking and your mind. Yes. And your faith.

SPEAKER_00 16:16

It definitely expanded our faith. And so last year we raised almost $120,000. Wow. So this year, because we are serving more people, we need more.

SPEAKER_02 16:28

What's your goal this year?

SPEAKER_00 16:30

The goal is $125, okay.

SPEAKER_02 16:32

Great. So And you have the matching funds with the corporate sponsors.

SPEAKER_00 16:36

Yep, we have Advent Health, East Flat Rock Baptist, Ebenezer Baptist, First Baptist, Fruitland Baptist, Grace Lutheran, Hendersonville Church of God, Hendersonville Presbyterian, Reformation Presbyterian, and St. James Episcopal.

SPEAKER_02 16:52

Amazing.

SPEAKER_00 16:53

These are our partners, they put up the match, and you know that gets us started.

SPEAKER_02 17:00

But $125,000 is the goal this year. You'll do it.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

Well, we we are trying. We really are.

SPEAKER_02 17:07

I don't think. Oh, by the way, did we I and I might be putting you on the spot. Did we ever get some numbers after the the food drive, the United uh letter carriers? Uh, did we get some numbers?

SPEAKER_00 17:19

I think we each averaged about 13,000 pounds.

SPEAKER_02 17:22

That's amazing. So 36,000 uh pounds was given for Henderson County, which did we beat? We joked.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

We did beat Ashley. We had a little friendly friendly competition. That was really all that mattered, wasn't it? Arcadia, that was for you.

SPEAKER_02 17:35

Friendly competition with uh Bunkham County. Yes, that's amazing. 36,000 pounds uh was given on the the National Letter Carriers uh food drive, the nation's largest food drive, which I know is a huge shot in the arm for you guys. Oh, yeah. In our other food pantries, like everybody.

SPEAKER_00 17:52

Yeah, Inner Faith and Salvation Army got the other two portions of that and us. And so it's helping us to get through this campaign so then we can go buy more food.

SPEAKER_02 18:05

It's amazing.

Food Insecurity And Senior Delivery Routes

SPEAKER_02 18:06

Here's the thing. I I and again, you can tell me if these numbers are wrong, but I mean I saw a report from the 2024 Henderson County Community Health Assessment that said local house foods experiencing food insecurity rose from 17% 2021 to 24% 2024, even before the the disruptions of Helene. And this is not where this is not a somewhere else issue, right? This is a Henderson County issue. This is a Western, this isn't well, Western, this is not just a this is a neighbor issue. You don't know who's struggling.

SPEAKER_00 18:35

I've got a Henderson County issue, and it's all your fault because housing prices are so high in Henderson County.

SPEAKER_02 18:43

It's a real thing. The affordability is, I mean, we're our average price is at 540 right now.

SPEAKER_00 18:47

I know. So it's it's a it's a it's and if you look at the bottom of the hill in South Carolina, the average price is like 320.

SPEAKER_02 18:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:55

So that's a huge gap.

SPEAKER_02 18:57

And we have a lot of people that will buy in South Carolina and commute up here.

SPEAKER_00 19:01

I mean I know at least six or seven people that do that.

SPEAKER_02 19:04

Yeah, it's a real thing. So the thing is though, food pantries isn't just uh, you know, uh uh it's not just about the food, right? But it is. You know, it is the you're you're helping people, you're giving them some I mean, you're meeting them at a time.

SPEAKER_00 19:19

Well, and and then with the seniors, you know, we try to take it a step further. We have um special seniors who are the least of the least. They have no family, they're on fixed incomes, they have no transportation, and we get our referrals from the hospitals, from DSS, um, Council on Aging, the social workers at DSS, and we do take them their food. And that route is small, and the only way that these routes get to grow is through donations. We only have the capacity to do so many.

SPEAKER_02 19:54

Well, you're over what 300 each week?

SPEAKER_00 19:57

Oh, yeah, probably in food boxes, but our delivery routes where our cap right now is 70 and we're sitting at 67.

SPEAKER_02 20:06

Wow. Again, again, you're you're this is why, again, this time right now with the the Fourth of July matching fund campaign.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

That makes a huge difference.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

It's a chance for our listeners and the community to step up. That when you give when you give to the storehouse, it stays here in Henderson County.

SPEAKER_00 20:22

Yes, we only do Henderson County, yeah, which is you know one of the things it it helps us and it hurts us. Um, we are not a man of food bank partner because we ask for ID. And we ask for ID so we can make sure that we're serving Henderson County and we have clean numbers that way.

SPEAKER_02 20:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:43

And that and that cost us. But you know, it's still my responsibility is to our donors and to our clients. And and to Henderson, so there's no responsibility there. There's a lot of responsibility there. Because trust me, when they do an audit, there's a lot of responsibility there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:02

And that's again, this is you guys are an official 501c3 nonprofit. Like again, this is again, this is the transparency of what you guys are doing. Yes. And so the again, our community has stepped up and it's gonna continue to step up, and and here's a chance to to step up with your generosity. Yes, and to give.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

Um do that because one, we need to pay the building off. Yeah, which we don't owe that we don't owe that much. Uh-huh. You're making progress. And two, we need to keep buying more food, and and three, we want to add more seniors to our routes because they're out there and they are struggling. Yeah. And I just I hate that.

SPEAKER_02 21:42

Yeah. And so there's a b again, there it's not a it's not that you're not aware of other people, it's just there's a capacity. Again, and your capacity's growing, but it's again, it's limited to what the Yeah, what our budget will hold. Right.

SPEAKER_00 21:54

Our senior delivery route budget for the whole year is fifty thousand dollars.

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So

SPEAKER_00 22:00

So what we're doing with that is they're getting their two boxes of food a month plus all the other things that we get for them. Like every month they're getting toilet paper, trash bags, laundry pods, paper towels, things that food stamps don't cover. Exactly, and that are very expensive. So we try to handle that and then we also give them like a meat box and produce and different things that food stamps do cover meat and produce, but they're expensive. And so sometimes they opt out of not getting fresh fruit versus canned fruit, which is a packed full of sugar and packed full of preservatives. We want them let them have strawberries and blueberries and fruit.

SPEAKER_02 22:48

And I heard you you uh I I love that you're uh your one of your goals is to have the garden.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

Yes, we will it it goes along with the programs that we're you know, we want to actively keep doing the program that we're doing, but we want to have a garden in the back that feeds the kitchen. That would be our cooking classes, that feeds the pantry, which is our clients.

SPEAKER_02 23:09

It's amazing. We had last Friday uh Milton Stewart, who has been running the the Garden for First Congregational Church, Milton's Garden, and they've he's been doing it some 20 years, and it was an amazing again. We need more gardens to be serving the community, but they've been doing it for 20-some years. Uh it was an amazing story. You can hear it on our podcast, but he won the North Carolina Governor's Volunteer Service Award, Milton. He's in his 90s, he's been having a garden.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

Again, these And I pass it every Sunday going to church. That's right. And it's a beautiful garden. It's amazing. First night and Methodist Church has a beautiful garden out there.

SPEAKER_02 23:45

Just imagine more gardens in our community, feeding our community.

SPEAKER_00 23:48

Yes, exactly. And this would go directly out of our garden straight into the pantry.

SPEAKER_02 23:53

That's amazing.

SPEAKER_00 23:54

And that that's definitely the goal. And in the cooking classes, too. Again, the basics, the budgeting classes, life skills. You know, just the things that are we don't think about maybe in our age group, we may not think about, but other people just don't know what to do or where to start. You know, maybe if they just had somebody to talk to, uh a kind ear to go, hey, did you ever think about this or did you ever think about that? You know, we could eventually, if enough of this is done, then we're going, Hey, I know a great realtor, Noah George, he could get you a house. You know, look at it long-range.

SPEAKER_02 24:36

Well, the big well again, we do coaching for first-time home buyers or people that have had to do resets after uh bankruptcy or foreclosure. I mean, like life happens, and again, you're you're coaching them, you're mentoring them, you're giving them uh, you know, again, if you don't talk about money or don't talk about budgeting or don't talk about food, I mean you're having these conversations.

SPEAKER_00 24:56

Silence is a killer.

SPEAKER_02 24:58

Yeah. And so we're gonna have these discussions, and so it's amazing. The again, the the it's the bigger vision of what you guys are doing. The building's allowing you to do that. The buildings, you guys got in there 90 days ago, which is amazing. You're drinking from a fire hose, I know.

SPEAKER_00 25:14

And I can't turn it off some days, and I can't swim, I'm drowning.

How To Donate, Visit, Or Volunteer

SPEAKER_02 25:19

What's your what's your website for people?

SPEAKER_00 25:21

Um, storehouseonline.org. And there's scanner codes on there, there's the information, everything's right there on the webpage.

SPEAKER_02 25:32

Incredible. And now, the beginning of June through the end of July is the Fourth of July matching fund campaign. And $125,000 is the goal.

SPEAKER_00 25:42

Is the goal. And if you look right here on Four Seasons Boulevard at Telco Bank, the banners are right here facing the road. So you can track our progress and donate.

SPEAKER_02 25:54

And you'll take money online or you'll take money in person or yeah, however you want to do it.

SPEAKER_00 26:01

It all is spendable.

SPEAKER_02 26:02

Drop drop it off at the new building.

SPEAKER_00 26:04

There you go.

SPEAKER_02 26:05

You guys have what are your uh hours and days right now?

SPEAKER_00 26:09

We are open to the public Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 9 to 2. That's when we have clients in the door. If you see cars in the parking lot, one of us is usually there. Just keep knocking, somebody will come to a door. Um, and you know, our mail and address is P.O. Box 6146 Hendersonville, North Carolina, 28793. Um, but I would rather you come by and see what you're donating to and not just hear about it on the other hand.

SPEAKER_02 26:39

Yeah, it's amazing. We're so thankful for what you and your volunteers and everybody and it again, it's it's because of the generosity of the community that's uh made it all possible.

SPEAKER_00 26:48

Yeah, and then the one person we got to get in for a tour is the radio host again.

SPEAKER_02 26:52

That's right. We'll make it happen. But we're so thankful for what you're doing, all right. And we're so thankful, and again, it's a chance that here's here's where you can give, and it's when you give, it stays here locally. Um, and it makes an impact. This is a I mean, this is a real we're all feeling it. You feel it at the pump, you feel at the grocery stores, it's inflation. I talked about that at the beginning of the show. I mean, it's it's real, it's impacting everybody, especially at the pumps, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:16

And that's what's making a difference, I think, for these parents. Gas is really cutting into people's grocery budgets.

SPEAKER_02 27:23

And people are having to make hard choices.

SPEAKER_00 27:25

They are.

SPEAKER_02 27:26

Are you so any I want to make sure we cut I I know you brought a list that we cover, I know there's a lot of things we wanted to talk about today.

SPEAKER_00 27:32

Well, you know the spot. Nope, no, I heard you always come with the best quotes, so I came with my own today.

SPEAKER_02 27:39

Oh, let's hear it.

SPEAKER_00 27:40

And it is grateful to be able. Yeah. So grateful to be able to do what we do.

SPEAKER_02 27:46

Well, gratitude is everything, right? It's har it's hard to complain when you're grateful. It's hard to to be in a victim when you're grateful, but in but when you're able to do this, right? You're and you are you guys are able to make a difference.

SPEAKER_00 28:00

Yes. And it's it changes your heart position, you know, focusing up and forward, you know, and taking it off yourself. Yeah. It just gives you a different perspective.

SPEAKER_02 28:12

That's why they say the front windshield is as big as it is and the rear windshield, the rear view mirror is small, right? You should be looking forward. Definitely, not behind us, but again, grateful to be able. I love that.

SPEAKER_00 28:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:25

And we're thankful that you guys are able to do what you do in our community.

SPEAKER_00 28:29

But we only do it with the help of this community.

SPEAKER_02 28:31

Truly. Okay, make sure you give, you got time. Uh, watch the progress on four seasons, call and their check-in, stop by, stop by the the new building. Yes, again, also want to acknowledge the generosity of the the National Food Drive, which was amazing. 36,000 pounds for Henderson County. That's our community stepped up, and I know it's a huge shot in the arm. If you want to volunteer, reach out as well.

SPEAKER_00 28:56

Definitely. Sarah or Linda, somebody will greet you happily.

SPEAKER_02 29:00

And it's a and there's always a need there. And I know you love placing people in their in their sweet spots. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 29:07

So that's why we have conversations.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

That's right. Well, Lynn, we're so thankful to have you, and we'll be having you back again as the as the campaign continues.

SPEAKER_00 29:15

Yes, hopefully with great updates on the thermometer rising.

SPEAKER_02 29:20

I love it. And again, for our community, again, it's truly the generosity of our community that makes it all possible. You never know who's struggling, even just your neighbor next door. And again, this the the neighborhood, uh, you know, again, the the food insecurity and the the storehouse, 26 years serving our community. It's remarkable. And again, you can be part of that. Well, thank you so much for tuning

Wrap Up And Real Estate Help

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in. Uh, we're so grateful to be here with you every Thursday morning, sharing with you positive news about your local real estate market and community. We love sharing positive news. Again, if you're thinking about buying, selling, or investing in real estate, you can give us a call at 828-393-0134. Be sure to subscribe to our podcast. We have our podcast of all of our radio shows. And then on social media, you can see our open houses, our new listings, and follow us on social media. Have a great day, and we'll see you tomorrow morning.

SPEAKER_01 30:07

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 realestatebygreg.com.

A Closing Message On Life Transitions

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