Dearborn, MI

Tonight I went to an awards dinner at the Detroit Marriot Hotel for ACCESS. ACCESS stands for Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services. It is one of Metro Detroit's largest non-profit agencies with over 90 programs that include health services, youth programs, job training, and programs to help people find jobs. I learned a lot about ACCESS. And I want to thank my client Rasheed Amine for getting me the tickets. I found Rasheed and his family a Novi home a few years back and we have become good friends. His mother makes a great meal! I have been exposed to a lot of great Arabic cooking and have come to love it. (Not to just test it out like in the beginning)

With a name that says Arab Community Center you will be surprised to realize that 70% of the clients they help are non-Arabic. ACCESS is equal opportunity non profit dedicated to helping people of all races and cultures.

It started out of a storefront in Dearbornand has grown to a national organization. With Metro Detroithaving one of the nations largest Arabic communities it is natural that ACCESS would be headquarted here. Dearborn is the epicenter of Metro Detroit Arabic population.

ACCESS is one reason that Dearborn residents and Metro Detroit residentsshould be proud of the area. Tonight's programs showed that Metro Detroit is still going strong and that we are not going to give up even in the tough economic times. Metro Detroiters will survive and will make Michigan an even better place to live.

Thanks Rasheed for inviting me and my wife. We had a good time.

Russ Ravary your Metro Detroit Realtor

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this is a little tidbit I haven't mentioned anywhere except to clients that have retained me to help them get their marketing in order.

My last office location was on a main street but didn't seem to generate alot of walkin traffic. So I had an idea and bought an A-framed sandwich board from ebay and put the following message on it!

"FREE LIST OF

BANK OWNED

HOMES

SIDE DOOR

313-555-1212"

After investing in the $125.00 sign my office generated over 225 leads in less than 5 months.

P.S. I'm going to share stories just like this and more in a course that is under development. I'm honored that you've taken the time to read my posts and I hope that you find this information useful. I promise to never waste your time with bad information or thinly diguised sales pitches.

P.S. It would really help me out if you would visit www.realestatemarketinggenius.com/survey/index.html and give me your input. I know that each agent has their own set of challenges and I'd like to be able to put together a pretty comprehensive solution that helps all of us succeed together in this market.

From BPO's to bank owned homes I'll be spilling the beans over these next few weeks!

Dedicated to You Success,

Jason Snyder

Try to imagine what a subdivision of these homes would look like
in your neighborhood :

An inventor named Buckminisiter Fuller started thinking about the design for this
home in the late 1920's, and in the years during WWII the US Army commissioned
him to build and send these homes to the Persian Gulf. Mr. Fuller had bold ideas
to mass produce these homes for returning veterans to help ease the housing
shortage after the war, but his homes never came to fruitiion.

This Dymaxion home has been donated to The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn MI
and was lovingly restored to be exhibited there.

One of the unique (and ahead of it's time) features that I found so interesting was its
inner gutter system to capture rain water for recycling. In the picture below you will
see that the home is wrapped inside with aluminum sheets and has a gutter system
that lays just below those sheets. Any rainwater entering the home was funneled into
those gutters, then drained to a catch-all outside of the home to be reused by the
homeowner for lawn watering or clothes washing.




Imagine, in early 1940 someone was thinking about the environment and how to recycle
and reuse our natural resources!

Unlike the Lustron homes that were produced during the late 1940's, the Dymaxion
homes and the dreams of Mr. Fuller to mass produce these homes never came to pass.
What a shame. I would have loved to see what a subdivision of these homes looked like
in my area. The homes were right around 1000 square feet and had 2 bedrooms and
2 baths. (Unusual during those years to have 2 full baths!)


Below is a photo of what the living room and dining room looked like.





Have the winter blahs? Take a day trip to The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn MI.

The Village is closed now until around April, but the museum is open and is filled with treasures
and exhibits. There are 2 restaurants in the museum, plenty of parking, a coat check area at
the main entrance, and lots of family fun and "oohs and aahhs" to be had!

~Kris Wales~

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