August 22, 2023 • 11 mins
Tony, Ice, & MoJoe talk about the list that puts Las Vegas as the number one destination for relocation. And we have a ton of job opportunities to share, for those looking.
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(00:00):
Live from three months three to Experiencein Fabulous Downtown Las Vegas. It's the
podcast that celebrates our city. Thisis Living Las Vegas, and I'm starting
to think that we may be toofabulous for our own Good guys, what
are you talking about? It's Mojofrom ninety five five to bol Ice and
Tony from ninety three one the Mountainfirst, put a mirror up in front
(00:22):
of you. Why Number one,that's why. That's why we're fabulous.
Oh thanks? And two because peoplekeep moving here. Oh you like a
lot. They just did a surveyand this was from redfinn dot com.
I don't know what Redfinn is.Okay, one of those realtor type sites
right here at houses and that kindof thing. Okay, so it's like
Zillo similar, All right. Well, the report is based on online searches
(00:45):
from about two million redfin dot comusers and for homes and more than one
hundred thousand metro excuse me, onehundred metros hundred thousand and be a lot.
Las Vegas had the most searches betweenApril and June. So they're saying
that home prices are attracting people weremore expensive places from more expensive places like
La and because the average home inthe valley sells for about four hundred and
(01:07):
twelve thousand dollars that this has beena hotbed for people looking to buy homes
and outpacing every other city in America. I think Phoenix was number two.
Phoenix was two. Yeah, thepeople in Phoenix want to tell you they're
number one. They're not. Theyhad a hell of a marketing campaign for
the last couple of months. It'sbeen over one hundred and ten for thirty
seven days above one ten. It'sall the same, so, I mean,
(01:30):
you know, but yeah, no, it's hotter in Phoenix, right,
I think that that story isn't tellingus anything we don't already know.
Like, yeah, the license platesin my neighborhood or California plates, it's
same on the one that says goback to California that was in Reno.
But how was that ever a problem? I don't understand why. Because some
people got butt hurt, somebody gotplaying. Some of those Californians are kind
(01:53):
of sensitive, right, Yeah,they can't drive. They probably saw it
as they weren't stopping at the stopsign. I got more, I got
more? Do we need more peoplehere? I'm not listen, No,
we don't. You're saying something thathas been said in this town so long
it predates us, right, like, hey, we're full. Everybody put
(02:15):
the brakes on it. We don'tneed all these people moving here. And
yet the moving continues, thankfully becauseI mean I moved here and I love
it. Right, Yeah, it'sbeen a great place for our family.
You say same, But wait,okay, let me ask you guys this.
We all moved here for our careersand our job. Take that out
of the equation. Would you havestill considered moving here if that wasn't a
(02:35):
factor. Yes, yes, Andhere's here's where I'm coming from with that.
Like my wife and I talk aboutretirement. Where do we want to
retire to, whether that retirement isat fifty eight or sixty five, whenever
we do get to retire, andnow we're like, why wouldn't we just
stay here? It does everything wewant. It's got golf, the weather's
(02:58):
good. We're in the desert,so from a sa point of like all
the things weatherwise in the Midwest thatyou could be put up against, you
know, people move to the desertto retire. This is the desert.
Yeah, I mean, I thinkthat, and you do have a lot
of these Californians who they get tofifty five and they're like, look,
if i just make a million dollarson this house, I'm done. I'm
done working. I can go toVegas live there, have everything available to
(03:21):
me that I want and to sortof live off all the money I made
on my real estate investment. Sosee us being that destination, and it
totally makes sense not to mention wehave the most unique array of options and
entertainment and things that are just soonly Vegas, you know what I mean.
There's I like, for instance,there's rumors that Post Malone's doing a
Fountain Blue show on New Year's Eve. That's all rumor. At this point,
(03:44):
we have the Sphere. I mean, you bring the sphere up.
Anybody in America knows exactly what cityyou're talking about. Yeah, but I
want to point out more. Andmy mom and I were just talking about
this. It's like because when theymy mom and dad came here, they're
like homebodies, but what they doenjoy is history and the nature and the
Hoover damn. And you know whatI'm saying, The Grand Canyon, like
that's what I enjoy most about livinghere. Yeah, we have a great
(04:08):
mix those things that don't get talkedabout. And then the thing everybody thinks
of when they think of Las Vegas, right is the party and saying too
much. We're making it sound attractivebecause it's a track. I mean,
it's just not it's right. Weshould do a whole episode on how it
sucks. That's not a positive lookin celebrating the city. It's so hot
here, the monsoons can be awful. A my garbage. Scorpions right,
(04:40):
terrible? Can I tell you I'velived here, coming up on seven years.
I haven't seen a scorpion same orsnake for that matter. So whoever
owned my house and built it bombedit so well from a scorpion standpoint,
I mean they just scared away thescorpions forever, right, Yeah, so
sending that guy in my way,you have a scorpion. No, But
our co worker Jen, she believesthat she brought it from Utah. But
(05:03):
she had a scorpion in her kitchen, baby one. She's shown me a
picture. I think she brought itfrom scorpions in Utah. We have a
friend who talks about the He goesout every night with a black light trying
to find scorpions in his backyard,and they're there every They're there all the
time. Right, So I knowthat some people are up against the scorpion
problem. But look, I thinkone of the things that happens here is
(05:26):
everybody moves here because it's so attractive, and then they get here and there
it's like a year and they're like, do I get to start complaining about
it yet? Yeah, So that'swhen like sort of like the locals complaints
start to happen. So you dohave people who've moved here in the last
five years and they're like, Okay, stop moving Yeah right, well you
you moved here. Most people movedhere. We can't just put the wall
up or I don't even know whatyou're gonna do. I think it's gonna
(05:47):
get worse too as we get youknow, the F one race here in
November, the international exposure that comeswith that, the Super Bowl, I
mean, all of these things aregoing to add up to more people realizing
the gym that is Las Vegas.Yeah, the real problem is Mark Wahlberg.
Oh yeah, Marky, Mark,keep your funky bunch out of our
city. It does as it goeson and tells everybody how great this town
(06:09):
is. Not everybody comes here todo the Marky mark experience. It would
be nice. Look, I don'tmind that they're trying to bring Hollywood here,
but I just feel like at somelook, maybe that's good for the
real estate market. Maybe I shouldn't. I should stop complaining because these are
all things. As a homeowner,you do love to see your values go
off to the opposite is bad.But yeah, I don't listen, there's
(06:30):
the we're full. Certain parts ofthe valley feel like where are we even
going to build? But where Iam Centennial, there's a lot of going
out. There's real you know whereI think, let's see if it's sky
can you know whatever? That's thenext one up from me. There's one
more exit past that. I mean, if you just keep going up the
(06:50):
ninety five, they could continue tobuild out exits up there the same,
the same. I mean, Hendersonand Boulder City are almost touch each other
now, so I mean it's certainlycoming together. I'm just saying there is,
there are places to put them right, and you're seeing more and more
of like things going up instead ofoutright more. We just need to make
(07:12):
sure we have the resources to accommodateall like like that's going up. We'd
all tell fresh Water this year.Well, if you're trying to move here
and you're like, well, wheream I going to find a job,
You're unluck There are lots of jobopportunities here as we continue to build new
properties. The one that Tony hasbeen extremely excited about, I am excited
trying for I'm not seeing that facetiouslyat all. Fountain Blue, although it
(07:34):
looks like font you guys keep sayingthat way, I think you should keep
saying it. No, no,no, And what did you tell me,
Tony? It is going to beone of the tallest hotels in the
country. I think I read buildingslike hotels in the country. But again,
so maybe my facts were I don'tknow how accurate I am with that,
(07:57):
but I think I read one ofthe biggest hotels and and it definitely
stands out on our horizon and justthe whole story behind it and what it
represents now that it's going to beopen in time for New Year's Eve,
and the pictures from inside look prettyincredible. And if they've got a poker
room. Ago, Hey, hey, are they gonna have a casino in
there? Imagine they'll have a casino. Some of them don't. I did.
(08:18):
Not everybody gets a gambling permit.Oh no, for sure, they've
got it. What it looks likea massive casino floor. But again,
nobody said whether they've got a pokerroom or nothing. Right, they don't
all have poker, that's true.I do know that they are going to
have a casino because they are hiringcasino operators and a whole bunch of other
careers dot Fountain Blue Las Vegas dotcom. That's fo U N T A
I N E B L e aU Las Vegas dot com careers Dot Fountain
(08:43):
Blue, Las Vegas dot com hasa ton of different opportunities. When you
moved here, If you've moved herein the last fifteen years and you saw
this giant empty building with windows blownout, it looks like an eye saw,
and you're like, uh, whatdo they need to do? Maybe
just knock it down. But nowthey've put all the fresh glass up.
They shined it up. Good.Yeah, it actually looks pretty great,
(09:05):
really cool. It really doesn't blue, I mean the blue stands out We've
got a lot of new between FountainBlue the Durango, which is also hiring
what twelve hundred positions. I didn'tknow where that was, and it's over
there twa yeah. I was like, hell, yeah, that's by my
house. Everyone says it's by theIkea literally across the it's like a landmark.
Yeah. Yeah. They're hiring everythingfrom dealers to attendance, the housekeeping,
(09:28):
food service, third party restaurants allhiring. Soon you can go to
get a job at Durango dot com. It's all suck. It sounds that's
pretty easy, right yea. Sothose are a couple of places to start.
I mean just those two alone,that's like twenty five hundred jobs.
I know good Will's hiring two.Good Will is always doing their hiring a
job connections get hooked up. Man. So we're talking people into moving to
(09:52):
Vegas. We gotta throw the needlehere. People are coming. So you're
not gonna stop. Well, wedon't want we don't want homeless people.
Stop, what's up. We don'twant them to all be here and homeless
and not have money and jobs.We want them to be contributing to society
here in Las Vegas, so let'stry to help them along. I guess
at the point of this, well, Joe, I guess I have to
(10:15):
follow it up with how do youeven address it? Forget it? No,
no, go ahead, I'm saying, forget it. Nobody's moving from
California to be homeless here, rightor obviously we're we take care of our
own homed friends as well, Yes, of course, But I'm just why
did your mind go there? Something? Not everybody, no, no,
(10:37):
no. Not everybody that's moving hereis coming from California with a surplus of
money because they sold the real estate. Some people are moving here because it's
a cool place and they think theycan find opportunity, right, agreed.
So I'm just talking to those peoplelike, we're trying to help you find
the opportunities so that you can landon your I misunderstood. No, no,
I understand why you said that,though, my bad. Thank you
for clarifying, so I don't soundlike an idiot because that often, of
(11:00):
course, you never do. AndI just misunderstood. That's very kind of
you, not accurate, but verykind of you, Tony. Well pick
it out. So many things happeningas we get closer to f one.
Of course, there will be evenmore opportunities too, so we'll keep you
open to all the things happening,as we do every week with new episodes
(11:20):
of this podcast. Make sure youhit subscribe wherever you listen. It sounds
best though, and I think ithelps you lose extra body weight and makes
you look five years younger if youlisten on the free iHeartRadio app. Just
putting that out there, hit thesubscribe button wherever you listen, and we
thank you for doing so. We'llbe back with a new episode again this
week, Living Las Vegas
Live from three months three to Experiencein Fabulous Downtown Las Vegas. It's the
podcast that celebrates our city. Thisis Living Las Vegas, and I'm starting
to think that we may be toofabulous for our own Good guys, what
are you talking about? It's Mojofrom ninety five five to bol Ice and
Tony from ninety three one the Mountainfirst, put a mirror up in front
(00:22):
of you. Why Number one,that's why. That's why we're fabulous.
Oh thanks? And two because peoplekeep moving here. Oh you like a
lot. They just did a surveyand this was from redfinn dot com.
I don't know what Redfinn is.Okay, one of those realtor type sites
right here at houses and that kindof thing. Okay, so it's like
Zillo similar, All right. Well, the report is based on online searches
(00:45):
from about two million redfin dot comusers and for homes and more than one
hundred thousand metro excuse me, onehundred metros hundred thousand and be a lot.
Las Vegas had the most searches betweenApril and June. So they're saying
that home prices are attracting people weremore expensive places from more expensive places like
La and because the average home inthe valley sells for about four hundred and
(01:07):
twelve thousand dollars that this has beena hotbed for people looking to buy homes
and outpacing every other city in America. I think Phoenix was number two.
Phoenix was two. Yeah, thepeople in Phoenix want to tell you they're
number one. They're not. Theyhad a hell of a marketing campaign for
the last couple of months. It'sbeen over one hundred and ten for thirty
seven days above one ten. It'sall the same, so, I mean,
(01:30):
you know, but yeah, no, it's hotter in Phoenix, right,
I think that that story isn't tellingus anything we don't already know.
Like, yeah, the license platesin my neighborhood or California plates, it's
same on the one that says goback to California that was in Reno.
But how was that ever a problem? I don't understand why. Because some
people got butt hurt, somebody gotplaying. Some of those Californians are kind
(01:53):
of sensitive, right, Yeah,they can't drive. They probably saw it
as they weren't stopping at the stopsign. I got more, I got
more? Do we need more peoplehere? I'm not listen, No,
we don't. You're saying something thathas been said in this town so long
it predates us, right, like, hey, we're full. Everybody put
(02:15):
the brakes on it. We don'tneed all these people moving here. And
yet the moving continues, thankfully becauseI mean I moved here and I love
it. Right, Yeah, it'sbeen a great place for our family.
You say same, But wait,okay, let me ask you guys this.
We all moved here for our careersand our job. Take that out
of the equation. Would you havestill considered moving here if that wasn't a
(02:35):
factor. Yes, yes, Andhere's here's where I'm coming from with that.
Like my wife and I talk aboutretirement. Where do we want to
retire to, whether that retirement isat fifty eight or sixty five, whenever
we do get to retire, andnow we're like, why wouldn't we just
stay here? It does everything wewant. It's got golf, the weather's
(02:58):
good. We're in the desert,so from a sa point of like all
the things weatherwise in the Midwest thatyou could be put up against, you
know, people move to the desertto retire. This is the desert.
Yeah, I mean, I thinkthat, and you do have a lot
of these Californians who they get tofifty five and they're like, look,
if i just make a million dollarson this house, I'm done. I'm
done working. I can go toVegas live there, have everything available to
(03:21):
me that I want and to sortof live off all the money I made
on my real estate investment. Sosee us being that destination, and it
totally makes sense not to mention wehave the most unique array of options and
entertainment and things that are just soonly Vegas, you know what I mean.
There's I like, for instance,there's rumors that Post Malone's doing a
Fountain Blue show on New Year's Eve. That's all rumor. At this point,
(03:44):
we have the Sphere. I mean, you bring the sphere up.
Anybody in America knows exactly what cityyou're talking about. Yeah, but I
want to point out more. Andmy mom and I were just talking about
this. It's like because when theymy mom and dad came here, they're
like homebodies, but what they doenjoy is history and the nature and the
Hoover damn. And you know whatI'm saying, The Grand Canyon, like
that's what I enjoy most about livinghere. Yeah, we have a great
(04:08):
mix those things that don't get talkedabout. And then the thing everybody thinks
of when they think of Las Vegas, right is the party and saying too
much. We're making it sound attractivebecause it's a track. I mean,
it's just not it's right. Weshould do a whole episode on how it
sucks. That's not a positive lookin celebrating the city. It's so hot
here, the monsoons can be awful. A my garbage. Scorpions right,
(04:40):
terrible? Can I tell you I'velived here, coming up on seven years.
I haven't seen a scorpion same orsnake for that matter. So whoever
owned my house and built it bombedit so well from a scorpion standpoint,
I mean they just scared away thescorpions forever, right, Yeah, so
sending that guy in my way,you have a scorpion. No, But
our co worker Jen, she believesthat she brought it from Utah. But
(05:03):
she had a scorpion in her kitchen, baby one. She's shown me a
picture. I think she brought itfrom scorpions in Utah. We have a
friend who talks about the He goesout every night with a black light trying
to find scorpions in his backyard,and they're there every They're there all the
time. Right, So I knowthat some people are up against the scorpion
problem. But look, I thinkone of the things that happens here is
(05:26):
everybody moves here because it's so attractive, and then they get here and there
it's like a year and they're like, do I get to start complaining about
it yet? Yeah, So that'swhen like sort of like the locals complaints
start to happen. So you dohave people who've moved here in the last
five years and they're like, Okay, stop moving Yeah right, well you
you moved here. Most people movedhere. We can't just put the wall
up or I don't even know whatyou're gonna do. I think it's gonna
(05:47):
get worse too as we get youknow, the F one race here in
November, the international exposure that comeswith that, the Super Bowl, I
mean, all of these things aregoing to add up to more people realizing
the gym that is Las Vegas.Yeah, the real problem is Mark Wahlberg.
Oh yeah, Marky, Mark,keep your funky bunch out of our
city. It does as it goeson and tells everybody how great this town
(06:09):
is. Not everybody comes here todo the Marky mark experience. It would
be nice. Look, I don'tmind that they're trying to bring Hollywood here,
but I just feel like at somelook, maybe that's good for the
real estate market. Maybe I shouldn't. I should stop complaining because these are
all things. As a homeowner,you do love to see your values go
off to the opposite is bad.But yeah, I don't listen, there's
(06:30):
the we're full. Certain parts ofthe valley feel like where are we even
going to build? But where Iam Centennial, there's a lot of going
out. There's real you know whereI think, let's see if it's sky
can you know whatever? That's thenext one up from me. There's one
more exit past that. I mean, if you just keep going up the
(06:50):
ninety five, they could continue tobuild out exits up there the same,
the same. I mean, Hendersonand Boulder City are almost touch each other
now, so I mean it's certainlycoming together. I'm just saying there is,
there are places to put them right, and you're seeing more and more
of like things going up instead ofoutright more. We just need to make
(07:12):
sure we have the resources to accommodateall like like that's going up. We'd
all tell fresh Water this year.Well, if you're trying to move here
and you're like, well, wheream I going to find a job,
You're unluck There are lots of jobopportunities here as we continue to build new
properties. The one that Tony hasbeen extremely excited about, I am excited
trying for I'm not seeing that facetiouslyat all. Fountain Blue, although it
(07:34):
looks like font you guys keep sayingthat way, I think you should keep
saying it. No, no,no, And what did you tell me,
Tony? It is going to beone of the tallest hotels in the
country. I think I read buildingslike hotels in the country. But again,
so maybe my facts were I don'tknow how accurate I am with that,
(07:57):
but I think I read one ofthe biggest hotels and and it definitely
stands out on our horizon and justthe whole story behind it and what it
represents now that it's going to beopen in time for New Year's Eve,
and the pictures from inside look prettyincredible. And if they've got a poker
room. Ago, Hey, hey, are they gonna have a casino in
there? Imagine they'll have a casino. Some of them don't. I did.
(08:18):
Not everybody gets a gambling permit.Oh no, for sure, they've
got it. What it looks likea massive casino floor. But again,
nobody said whether they've got a pokerroom or nothing. Right, they don't
all have poker, that's true.I do know that they are going to
have a casino because they are hiringcasino operators and a whole bunch of other
careers dot Fountain Blue Las Vegas dotcom. That's fo U N T A
I N E B L e aU Las Vegas dot com careers Dot Fountain
(08:43):
Blue, Las Vegas dot com hasa ton of different opportunities. When you
moved here, If you've moved herein the last fifteen years and you saw
this giant empty building with windows blownout, it looks like an eye saw,
and you're like, uh, whatdo they need to do? Maybe
just knock it down. But nowthey've put all the fresh glass up.
They shined it up. Good.Yeah, it actually looks pretty great,
(09:05):
really cool. It really doesn't blue, I mean the blue stands out We've
got a lot of new between FountainBlue the Durango, which is also hiring
what twelve hundred positions. I didn'tknow where that was, and it's over
there twa yeah. I was like, hell, yeah, that's by my
house. Everyone says it's by theIkea literally across the it's like a landmark.
Yeah. Yeah. They're hiring everythingfrom dealers to attendance, the housekeeping,
(09:28):
food service, third party restaurants allhiring. Soon you can go to
get a job at Durango dot com. It's all suck. It sounds that's
pretty easy, right yea. Sothose are a couple of places to start.
I mean just those two alone,that's like twenty five hundred jobs.
I know good Will's hiring two.Good Will is always doing their hiring a
job connections get hooked up. Man. So we're talking people into moving to
(09:52):
Vegas. We gotta throw the needlehere. People are coming. So you're
not gonna stop. Well, wedon't want we don't want homeless people.
Stop, what's up. We don'twant them to all be here and homeless
and not have money and jobs.We want them to be contributing to society
here in Las Vegas, so let'stry to help them along. I guess
at the point of this, well, Joe, I guess I have to
(10:15):
follow it up with how do youeven address it? Forget it? No,
no, go ahead, I'm saying, forget it. Nobody's moving from
California to be homeless here, rightor obviously we're we take care of our
own homed friends as well, Yes, of course, But I'm just why
did your mind go there? Something? Not everybody, no, no,
(10:37):
no. Not everybody that's moving hereis coming from California with a surplus of
money because they sold the real estate. Some people are moving here because it's
a cool place and they think theycan find opportunity, right, agreed.
So I'm just talking to those peoplelike, we're trying to help you find
the opportunities so that you can landon your I misunderstood. No, no,
I understand why you said that,though, my bad. Thank you
for clarifying, so I don't soundlike an idiot because that often, of
(11:00):
course, you never do. AndI just misunderstood. That's very kind of
you, not accurate, but verykind of you, Tony. Well pick
it out. So many things happeningas we get closer to f one.
Of course, there will be evenmore opportunities too, so we'll keep you
open to all the things happening,as we do every week with new episodes
(11:20):
of this podcast. Make sure youhit subscribe wherever you listen. It sounds
best though, and I think ithelps you lose extra body weight and makes
you look five years younger if youlisten on the free iHeartRadio app. Just
putting that out there, hit thesubscribe button wherever you listen, and we
thank you for doing so. We'llbe back with a new episode again this
week, Living Las Vegas
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