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FOOD DRIVE – CALLING ALL MEMBERS AND PARTICIPAINTS

The Tri-City Association of Realtors and KNDU Family Food Drive is on December 3rd.  We will caravan to KNDU that morning at 10:30am with vehicles loaded with boxes of food and envelopes of checks to be donated! Pick up your donation bags starting November 16^th, 2011 the Association Office or you can create and use your own bag designed to promote yourself and your efforts to help the less fortunate.

How can you help?

It’s really easy to participate and will take only about an hour or so of your time.  This is a grass roots approach which is the key to this year’s success. We are involving REALTORS and Volunteers to reach out to our neighborhoods, spheres, families, and individuals to join in our effort. This year TCAR wants to involve as many Tri-City REALTORS as possible to raise 15,000 pounds and as many dollars as we can for this important effort. Can we reach this goal? Together, yes we can!

Here’s how:

Tell everyone you know what you are doing and ask if they will join you!

The Tri-City Association of REALTORS has purchased 3000 Donation Food Drive Bags to be handed out to Members and Offices that want to participate. We will notify you when the offices and individuals can pick up donation bags. 

You simply attach a donation bag letter for Donation Request (see attached example) – which we encourage you to personalize with your contact information – (If you want you can print the donation bag letter and use your own bags). Pick a day to drop the donation bags on doorsteps in Tri-Cities neighborhoods and return the next day to pick up donations.  It’s that simple.  

 Drop bags on your neighbors doorsteps. (The more houses the better!)

Pick a day before Dec 3, 2011 – Drop the donation bag and letter off in your neighborhoods the day before and then pick up donations the next day before 10:00 am.

 We will caravan to KNDU to deliver our collections the morning of Dec 3, 2011 from the parking lot of the TCAR ASSOCIATION Office at 10:30am

Have your vehicle loaded with boxes of food and envelopes of checks ready to roll!

 How else can you Help?

Monetary donations – If you want to help but can’t be a part of the food collection, cash donations are always welcome. Cash gives the flexibility to acquire perishable items like fresh produce, meat and dairy products. If you are interested in making monetary donations please have the checks (made payable to Second Harvest) in an envelope with the total clearly marked on the front. 

Promotion

Do you have any events you or your office has planned for the campaign?  If so…we want to know so KNDU can help publicize it!

Questions? 

Please contact:

Paul Roy

509-737-3096

proy@cbtabs.com

windermere tri-cities

Americans Still Believe in the Value of Homeownership

Posted: 09 Nov 2011

By: The KCM Blog

Last week, Fannie Mae released their National Housing Survey for the third quarter of 2011. They survey the American public on a multitude of questions concerning today’s housing market. Each quarter, we like to pull out some of the findings we deem most interesting.  Here they are for the most recent report:

Most Important Reasons to Buy a Home

The study shows that the four major reasons a person buys a home have nothing to do with money. The four reasons, in order, are:

• It means having a good place to raise children and provide them with good education.
• You have a physical structure where you and your family feel safe.
• It allows you to have more space for your family
• It gives you control of what you do with your living space (renovations and updates)

When we talk about homeownership today, it seems that the financial aspects always jump to the front of the discussion. There is no doubt that families must justify a home purchase from a financial point of view today. However, the reasons they actually buy are the same reasons our parents and grandparents purchased their home – to create a better lifestyle for their families.

The Home as an Investment

Though most people purchase a home for non-financial reasons, everyone realizes there is a money component to homeownership. Here is what they said on this issue:

• 64% of the general population (and 69% of homeowners) believe that homeownership is a “safe” investment.
• 55% believe that homeownership has more potential as an investment than any other traditional asset class.
• 68% think that now is a good time to buy a home.

Rent vs. Buy

We are always interested in the difference people see in renting vs. owning.

• 63% of renters have aspirations to someday own their own home
• 70% of renters think that owning is superior to renting
• 96% of homeowners see homeownership as a positive experience (4% see it as a negative experience) while 83% of renters see renting as a positive experience (15% see it as a negative experience).
• 97% of homeowners live in a single family residence while 53% of renters live in a multi-unit building.

Bottom Line

Even in these difficult times, American still realize the value of homeownership both from a financial and social standpoint.