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Rain, More Rain and More Flooding in Louisville, KY

09-21-09
Mike Brown

The National Weather Service in Louisville, KY reported that approximately 3.95" of rain fell last night in a short period of time causing a flood emergency with flash flooding. In Southern Indiana, lots more rain fell and there were several water rescues. When flash flooding occurs at nightfall it is very difficult to realize the water has flooded a road.

I hope that everyone in Louisville, KY is okay and that no one experienced major flooding in theirs homes as we just went through that on August 4, 2009.

What ever happened to a nice, peaceful, steady rain.......... it seems like it is all or none. Just yesterday morning Louisville was 1.5" below normal on rainfall, now on Monday morning, we are above normal.

More rain is predicted on Tuesday morning and this coming weekend. Stay dry!

Mike Brown, On the Move REALTORS, Inc. (502) 509-SOLD

Louisville Real Estate Market Weekly Statistics

09-21-09
Mike Brown

Greater Louisville Association of Realtors Statistics for the week of: Setpember 7-13, 2009. Listed less and sold more this year than last year the same timeframe.

LISTINGS Residential (Single Family & Condo)
Sept. 7 - 13, 2009 533
Last Year 633
SOLDS
August 30 - Sept. 5, 2009 291
Last Year 218

Mike Brown, On the Move REALTORS, Inc.

Statistics from Greater Louisville Association of Realtors

09-08-09
Mike Brown

Here are the some latest statistics that bold well for the housing market here in Louisville, KY:

LISTINGS Residential (Single Family & Condo)
August 31 - Sept. 6, 2009 652
Last Year 533
SOLDS
August 23 - 29, 2009 288
Last Year 261

Mike Brown, BROKER/Realtor- On the Move Realtors, Inc.

$8,000 Tax Credit proves to be successful for now!

06-11-09
Mike Brown

I have witnessed and represented many first time home buyers over the last 6 weeks in the Louisville, KY area. First time home buyers are a very special group in that they seem to really appreciate your efforts as their Realtor. They love for someone to actually hold their hand through the entire process. They are excited and look forward to owning their own home.

And of course, as a Realtor, I get excited to see their excitement in the American dream- owning their own home. One of my latest clients has paid rent for over 8 years. Do the math.... $750 x 12 x 8 = $72,000. Actually hard to believe. Had it not been for the $8,000 tax credit I'm not sure this first time buyer would have made the leap- so it's all good, right?

Well, not really sure what this $8,000 tax credit may do or already is doing to our National debt. The unfortunate issue may be seen down the road when we discover that our debt on a National level might really be a bad thing. Even though for now, it seems that many first timers are taking advantage of this opportunity.... I know I would if I were in those shoes. It's definitely helping the real estate market overall, but may be placing a bind on our Nation.

Only time will tell if this decision of the $8,000 tax credit was a good move or not so good.

Enrager vs. Engager

01-15-09
Mike Brown

I just finished up my 3 miles on a treadmill and 5 miles on a bike at the Louisville Athletic Club. This morning I read an article in the LEO Weekly. The LEO sat down and interviewed the Mayor Of Louisville Jerry Abrhamson.

I want to share with you 2 things that our Mayor said in his interview that really stand out to me.

1) He said that he is no different than any other CEO of any business when it comes to trimming the budget. There seems to be a small outrage of people that were against the closing of a small fire station. Although it seems that City of Louisville did their home work. They have been studying the issue of this firehouse for over 3 years. The media would want you to beleive that all of the sudden the City is closing this firehouse. Point is that CEO's of companies and Mayor's of cities are paid to make decisions that support the big picture. However, I know government is government and business is business.

2) The Mayor said that we have people in our community that are "enragers" and people in our community that our "engagers". Enragers are involved in the process of enragement- getting people or groups of people enraged. Unfortunately, most of the time these are the people depicted by our media. And of course, our city or our businesses go no where in the process of enragement. On the otherhand, the Mayor stated that we have many people in our community that are "engagers." Engagers are invovled in the process of engagement- getting people or groups of people engaged. Just think how far we could go if we had more engagers surrounding us.

After reading the article, I started to reflect on how true this is in everything we are invovled in. Whether it is a real estate transaction, or Church function, or family, or relationships, or any other business... there are "enragers" and "engagers."

Where do you fall most of the time? Are you an enrager or an engager?