11/25/08 – News of the Day

CITO Breakfast – staff & agents – don’t miss Tuesday’s CITO lunch, with your donations to benefit our LACASA holiday effort. This week an assortment of agents and staff are providing the breakfast, so be sure to pay a visit.

JoAn Hauber’s mother passed away on Monday after an extended illness. Wanda has a card at the front desk if you would like to send your condolences.

NAR Conference – here are my top takeaways from the NAR Conference, held in Orlando recently:

1. We have to be the trusted real estate advisor – the knowledge resource – in our community (whatever that community is – church, coffee shop, bowling league, etc.)
2. We should be buying real estate ourselves in the next 12 to 24 months. Heard “if one house is good, three houses are better” and “for every person getting hurt in this market, someone else is going to get rich.”
3. Stay away from overpriced listings. Tell the sellers “please don’t add to the misery in this market.”
4. Lose control of your communications online – social networking.
5. Asians, African Americans and Hispanic/Latinos will account for over half of the nation’s population growth over the next five years, and an even larger percentage of first time homebuyers.

Livingston County Foreclosures – this week was the first week since I started tracking foreclosures that Livingston County active foreclosure listings exceeded 250.

LACASA Holiday Family – at the sales meeting last week, it was shared that our holiday family is a single mother with two children, a 14-year old girl and a 12-year old boy.

For Agents & Staff in Brighton: Now through the holidays enjoy flavored coffee or tea compliments of Preview Properties.com. See Wanda or Barb at the reception area and they can show you how to work the machines. We have available the following flavors of coffee: Hazelnut, Breakfast, Italian, Sidamo Gold, French Vanilla, House and Columbia. Tea choices include Herb Red, English Tead and Earl Gray.

In December’s Self magazine, Detroit was selected as the unhealthiest metropolitan area in the United States – Detroit was singled out as the metro with the most hypertension as well.

Spotted in the Wall Street Journal on November 19 – per Forrester Research the average time people ages 18 to 27 spent per week with selected media in 2007:

1. Use the Internet – 12.7 hours
2. Watch tv – 10.4 hours
3. Use a cellphone – 8.9 hours
4. Listen to the radio – 7.1 hours
5. Watch DVDs or VHS tapes – 6.0 hours
6. Play video games – 4.4 hours
7. Read magazines – 1.7 hours