July 17, 2025 • 30 mins
The resilience of Henderson County shines in this revealing conversation about our real estate market and the vital community services helping neighbors in need. Noah George shares encouraging market data showing a 14% increase in new listings and 9% more closed sales year-to-date, with prices holding remarkably steady despite longer days-on-market. Buyers will appreciate hearing that mortgage rates have finally stabilized into a more predictable range, removing a significant barrier to confident decision-making.
But what makes this episode truly special is our conversation with Lynn Staggs, celebrating The Storehouse's 25th anniversary serving Henderson County. What began as a modest effort helping 40 children at Christmas has transformed into a comprehensive support system that aided over 2,700 children last holiday season following Hurricane Helene. Lynn's stories reveal the often-invisible struggles many neighbors face - seniors surviving on $500-700 monthly Social Security payments with minimal food assistance, families requesting basic necessities like bedding and warm clothes rather than toys, and the ongoing recovery challenges in our hardest-hit communities.
The episode takes us behind the scenes of The Storehouse's ambitious expansion plans, with construction underway on a new 12,000 square foot facility that will dramatically increase their capacity to serve. We learn about their innovative teaching kitchen plans, massive Christmas program logistics, and how they've managed to operate with just 2.5 paid staff members and 74+ dedicated volunteers. Their "Spark to Change" fundraising campaign runs through July, with matching funds from ten community partners making every donation go further.
This conversation beautifully illustrates Henderson County's two parallel realities - growing prosperity alongside persistent need - and how local organizations bridge this gap through extraordinary commitment. Whether you're considering a real estate move or looking for meaningful ways to support your community, this episode offers valuable insights, practical information, and inspiring stories of neighbors helping neighbors during both everyday challenges and unprecedented crises.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Good morning and welcome to the George Real
Estate Group.
Radio broadcast here on WHKPEvery Thursday morning, bringing
you positive news about yourlocal real estate market and
community.
We're so grateful to be herewith you and hope you're having
a wonderful day.
Can you believe how quick Julyis flying by?
I know my kids are countingdown days of summer till school
starts in August, but in themeantime we are having a great
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summer and just so much to bethankful for and grateful for.
If you're tuning in for thefirst time ever, the George Real
Estate Group's located in FlatRock, right next to the Flat
Rock Bakery, hubba HubbaBarbecue, campfire Grill, our
friends at Hubaloo, the WrinkledEgg all those great local and
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If you're thinking about buying, selling or investing in real
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estate, we'd love to have theconversation.
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whether you're selling or buyingyour personal home, maybe
you're relocating, maybe you'redownsizing, upsizing,
right-sizing, maybe you'reworking through selling an
investment property or aninvestment portfolio of real
estate, or maybe you have landthat you've inherited.
I mean, whatever the situation,we've worked with all types of
scenarios and every situation isunique and different.
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Every property, whether it'sland or home or both.
I mean we'd love to have theconversation and provide clarity
for you as you decide what todo with your real estate.
We're so passionate abouthelping our clients through real
estate.
We have over 100 years combinedexperience at the George Real
Estate Group and in my 20 yearswe've had the privilege of
helping over 1,500 families withtheir real estate needs quickly
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approaching 1,600.
If you're thinking of buying orselling or investing in real
estate or career in real estate,give us a call 828-393-0134,
828-393-0134.
We have one of our regularspecial guests, lynn Staggs of
the Storehouse of HendersonCounty, with us this morning.
Good morning Lynn.
Good morning Noah.
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Thank you so much for beinghere.
We have a lot to talk about andI know, before we jump into the
conversation about thestorehouse, just to give a
little snapshot on our market inHenderson County.
Now, this is a different number.
I know you and I have had overthe years guessing games with a
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single family.
But I'm going to look at thesingle family plus condos and
plus townhomes, if you want toguess what the average sales
price is if you include condosand townhomes.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
That should adjust it downward a little bit to maybe
$485,000.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Good guess.
Yes, actually, if you includecondos and townhomes, which are
about 10% respectively in ourmarket, it brings our average
sales price over the last.
Actually year to date puts itat 509, which is pretty
interesting.
But I will want to reflect forour listeners just a snapshot of
our market.
We've had a 14% increase in newlistings year to date through
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the end of June versus year todate last year and a 5% increase
in pending sales and a 9%increase in closed sales through
the end of June when you lookat the year to date through the
end of June versus year to datethrough the end of June last
year.
But we've had a 2% drop in themedian sales price and a 1.4%
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drop in the average sales price.
But the point is things areholding.
Now I will say one other thingis the days on market's getting
longer.
You know you're seeing moreprice reductions.
You're seeing days on marketlonger.
We're actually up through theend of june this year.
The days on market until thesale are up 37 to 63 days, um,
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and then that's.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I mean that's a record for the past couple of
years.
Well, right.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I mean previously, the previous year date was 46
days and then days until closedis now up 17 percent.
You know like it's one thing togo under contract but then when
you close, that's now at 116days from when you total, from
when you originally go on themarket, to going under contract,
to closing.
So I mean close to four monthsnow is the average days till
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close now, which is up 17%compared to the previous
timeframe.
So, all this to say, the marketis still strong.
We're averaging about 126single family homes a month
selling in Henderson County, lowinventory levels.
The market, the sky is notfalling, the market's still
moving.
And again, if you're thinkingabout buying or selling or
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investing in real estate orcareer in real estate, we'd love
to have the conversation.
Give us a call 828-393-0134,828-393-0134.
And then, and we will touch oninterest rates for just a minute
, but mortgage rates arestabilizing.
You know the mortgage rates arestabilizing, you stabilizing.
For now I mean the past yearthe rates have certainly had
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their share of going up and down, making it is challenging for
buyers to know what to expect.
But recently the rates havestarted to level out and settle
into a more narrow range andrates really have stayed within
a half a percent point sincelate last year, um, but, and of
course there's a little movementin that, but the big wild
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swings and sudden ups and downsjust haven't been the story
lately, which is wonderful andgiving buyers more clarity.
Buyers give the.
It takes away theunpredictability.
Buyers can plan ahead, you know, and compared to when the rates
were running, were jumpingaround from week to week, it was
really intimidating for buyers.
And so the point is, the ratesare the rate, the price are the
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prices.
You want to work with a realestate broker that can help you
navigate through the buying andselling process and we'd
certainly love to interview forthe job.
Again, call us at 828-393-0134,828-393-0134.
We're so passionate aboutpromoting and helping and
sharing the story of incredibleyou know nonprofits like
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yourself, the Storehouse, doingincredible work here in the
community.
And there's you know we've saidthis before there's two sides
of the coin.
There's great prosperity hereand great wealth, and there's
you know we've said this beforethere's two sides of the coin.
There's great prosperity hereand great wealth, and there's
also great need here, whichagain lends itself.
There's an opportunity for youto give to you, to give back as
our listeners in our communityand the Storehouse.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
This is your 25th 25th year we're having our
anniversary year this year.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's amazing 25 years serving the community and
there's been so much you guyshave been doing throughout those
20 years and I love sharingwith our listeners about the
work you're doing.
You know, in starting 20 years,25 years ago, you know, and
it's been a you really have amultifaceted approach to serving
our community and we want youhave a lot of things going going
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on, but let's remind ourlisteners about what the
storehouse does well, we, ofcourse.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Every week we're serving people food, coats,
blankets, hygiene products.
We do that all year long, andthen we do senior delivery
routes all year long, and then,starting in october, we get
ready for Christmas, andChristmas is vastly approaching.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And for Christmas.
For you guys.
People don't realize unlessthey've heard about it or seen
it, and certainly they mighthave heard about it, but if you
haven't seen it, you don'trealize the undertaking you guys
do.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
The breadth and the scope of christmas.
I mean we partner withhenderson county public schools
and we go in for 10 straightdays and do intakes for all the
schools in henderson county.
And christmas does not stop at12 years old.
We go all the way up throughthe high school kids.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So that's amazing and there's some.
What is the number number?
Some 15,000 Henderson Countystudents.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yes, I think it is right around 15,000.
A normal year.
Last year was not a normal yearbecause of the hurricane, but a
normal year.
We usually serve about 2,100kids.
Last year we served 2,700 pluschildren, so the hurricane kind
of threw a lot into that, and sothis year I'm hoping we'll be
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getting back towards more normalnumbers so.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So when you partner with the Henderson County school
system, you're identifyingfamilies and children's children
that are in need, and and andthese, and can you clarify again
what that might look like?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
we have the social workers and the counselors from
the schools so that we areverifying that these are actual
children in Henderson County inschool, so that when I give a
donor a tag these are real kidsand they are only in one program
here.
We do advise them that they canonly be signed up for one
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program in Henderson County andwe do check it with the other
agencies that do Christmas.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
But what does this look like?
I mean so you're intaking.
I mean this is when peoplethink of Christmas, you're
thinking a lot of peoplenaturally would think toys.
But what people don't realizeis a lot of the families are
requesting just essentials.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Oh, bags, bedding, clothes, warm things, coats,
socks, socks, yes, under clothes, it's all of that, and last
year especially, it wasextremely heavily on bedding and
warm clothes because they hadlost everything through the
hurricane.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yes, so here we are in j July, and I mean this is
you've already been working onChristmas.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well, we had Christmas booked last year for
this year, and so we've beenworking on it throughout this
year and we will be doing ourtraining starting October 1st.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It's around the corner, yes, and so Christmas is
a huge component of what thestorehouse does.
And what was the number lastyear?
How many family or children?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It was 2,700, plus children, wow, so it was a lot.
That was a lot, it was a wholelot.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
And so powerful and year round, you're also serving
another demographic.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yes, the seniors and the elderly here in Henderson
County, with our delivery routes, we go out every month and we
take them their food and theirextras bags with hygiene and
cleaning supplies, papersupplies, things that food
stamps don't cover, pluswhatever we have, and I I don't
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know what to call it, but maybea prize bag.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Um, like a surprise the surprise.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It is a surprise because we never know if
everything's going to come in ontime and we have to get
everything together for all thepeople on the delivery routes so
every single way, week you,your team, your volunteers are
distributing food all week,every week, wow, and we're still
working in the background onChristmas and we're building a
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building.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Well, well before we get to the building, like you
and other non-profits.
After Helene saw an incrediblesurge of demand.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Oh yes, and it's not gone away.
I mean, there were lots ofprograms in place that are not
going to be in place any longer.
So the demand is going to go upand our resources have not gone
up.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Well, not necessarily match the demand, and so there
is an's an opportunity to I mean, this is where we're getting
the word out is for the need weneed more food, we need more
produce.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
We need, we need more everything the hygiene, the
cleaning supplies, all thosethings are needed yeah, and
that's where a lot of peoplethink oh, food stamps, they
stamps.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
They cover paper and hygiene items.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
That's not true, they do not Food stamps only cover
edible food Right.
And they do not cover toiletpaper and paper towels.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Or toothpaste.
Yeah, things that youdefinitely need every day, yeah
so, and you did at one pointshare with me that that I mean
it's hard to comprehend, but alot of your clients don't even
get a hundred dollars worth offood stamps a month a lot of the
seniors um.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
They may get 20 25 dollars of food stamps a month a
month a month on their five toseven hundred dollar paycheck
from social security monthlymonthly paycheck, so within that
they have to fit whatever rentdifference they have to cover,
any food differences they haveto cover and any bills
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transportation medical.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I mean they're the prescriptions.
I mean yes everything has tofit in that little bitty, tiny
box so, and again, this is 25years the storehouse has been
serving henderson county and,and in after helene, again,
exponential demand and growth.
In the meantime, you guys hadbeen planning this for a long
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time this building, yes, andyou're currently on spartanburg
highway.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yes, and you're going to be moving about a mile and a
half down the road, 1.7 milesup the road, so it was already
underway before the hurricaneand you can't stop in the middle
so we have to just keeppressing on which was the
intention all along.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And the interesting thing is again the timing of it,
because you are havingincreased demand, and so part of
the purpose of the building isto increase your capacity to
serve the community.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And our capacity to buy bigger amounts of food so
that we can bring the price down.
So we'll have a much biggerwarehouse.
We'll go from 4,200 square feetto almost 12,000 square feet.
So we'll have warehouse spacewhere we can bring in pallets of
food versus, you know just afew little Like.
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Right now we can't handle morethan three to four pallets, but
in the new place we couldprobably handle 12 to 20 pallets
.
But in the new place we couldprobably handle 12 to 20 pounds.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Wow, because you're moving into, was it 12,000
square feet about?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
right up under right up under 12,000 square feet, as
big as we could put on that lot.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That's what we're in that's amazing and and uh, you
know there's a lot of uhcomponents of this new building
from a loading dock, oh yes.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Loading bay doors.
We'll be able to have a roomspecifically for senior
deliveries instead of fivedifferent offices working out of
my office, which will be great.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
And I know you've told me you're excited about the
teaching kitchen.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yes, that's going to be like a huge thing that we've
been wanting to do for a longtime.
When we were on 7th Avenue, wehad a kitchen.
When we moved over toSpartanburg Highway, we didn't
have a kitchen, so we will beable to get back into having
cooking classes and havingpeople come in and doing some.
You know, out of the boxthinking.
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You know cooking out of the box.
Here's the box of food thatyou're receiving today.
What can we do out of this box?
Or having a class on?
I don't know what to do withthis vegetable.
I've never experienced thisbefore Just different things and
basics.
Know the measurements, how tocook rice in a bag simple stuff
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that people haven't learned orjust haven't experienced or
maybe need to be reminded.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I mean there's a.
I mean just there's so manydifferent.
You know ways to prepare andwhen they're receiving this food
into it helps it go so muchfurther across the board, which
which you know.
So you have this building in inprocess right now.
If you've driven downSpartanburg highway, you've most
likely seen it up.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I mean the the metal frame is up and the steel frame,
the steel frame the roof and wegot a couple of walls up now
and a door.
We got a door today so exciting.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And this time of year is your annual fourth of july
matching fun, spark to change,and this has been.
How many years ago did thisfirst start?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
this is our 13th or 14th year doing this.
So we had a couple of veteranscome in all those years ago and
said you know, we've received aninheritance.
We will match anything youraise up to $10,000.
And you got eight weeks andthey walked out and so we ran
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with it and we made it.
We raised $11,000 that firstyear.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
And, by the way, back then you're like, how can we
even do this?
Oh, the way back then you'relike, how can we do even do this
?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Oh, yes, I mean, we were definitely.
How can we even do that?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Well, that reminds me of how many children did you
serve Christmas to the veryfirst year you did this?
I think there was 40 kids 40,which felt like a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Oh, it was a lot.
It was a lot, it was a lot, andthen this last year $2,600.
$2,700.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
$2,700.
I don't want to short you andso the first year you did the
matching funds campaign.
It was $11,000.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
For a grand total of $21,000.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Which is incredible.
And so what's your goal thisyear?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
The goal was $150,000 .
Speaker 1 (17:45):
And we've had a couple of setbacks because of
location of the banners and anddifferent things going on and
you're still in process we'restill.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
We're still in process.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
So and this runs.
This ran from the beginning ofjune through the end of july.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
That's right so you still have time there is still
time so if your iras need to bepaid out or anything, or you
feel like this is something thatyou want to give to, please
think of us.
It's storehouseonlineorg, orcome by the office at 1049
Spartanburg Highway or you canmail it.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Well, and it's so important again just now, the
couple that did that that onetime.
This has evolved into how manychurches are doing this now with
you we have, I think, 10 donors.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Now we have advent.
Health is our corporate sponsoreast flat rock.
First baptist church.
Ebenezer baptist church.
First baptist church, fruitlandbaptist church.
Grace lutheran church,hendersonville church.
Church of God, hendersonvillePresbyterian Church, reformation
Presbyterian and St JamesEpiscopal Church.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
What a partnership.
And so these churches are, andAdvent, right, yes, and Advent
are partnering with thestorehouse for matching funds,
and so your dollar does gofurther.
And so the 4th of July sparkedthe change.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And so there's an opportunity.
You can go online tostorehouseonlineorg.
Did I say that?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
right, yes, storehouseonlineorg.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Or call up, or reach out or stop by 828-692-8300.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
So this is a significant portion of your
yearly budget it usually meetsall of our budget for the year
for buying food and justoperating expenses, so this is
more than helpful when youdonate to this.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
This is how we get to do what we're doing yeah, it's
so important to give, to be partof it.
Now, do you have a timeline onthe building?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Well, everything is flowing faster than I could
possibly imagine right now, soit could be as long as the
vendor things come in on timecould be end of the year or
beginning of next year.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Which is so exciting.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And very fast, very, very fast, which is so exciting,
and very fast, very very fastand it's happening.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Very fast.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I know your organization, like majority of
the nonprofits here in town.
The volunteers are so critical.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Oh, and I have the best volunteers.
I'm sorry for all the otherplaces, but I have the best
volunteers.
We are completely run byvolunteer staff.
There are two and a half paidpeople myself and the office
manager, who is not paid enough.
The office manager is worth herweight in gold.
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Linda Dolan is the best andthen everybody else.
We have 74-plus volunteers whocome in on different days of the
week and get everything doneAll the boxes packed, everything
broke down, deliveries, pickups.
I mean the cleaning of thebuilding even is volunteer staff
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and I have like five Lindas andthe lindas are the best I have
linda the bookkeeper, linda thecleaner, linda the office
manager I have.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
There's a pattern there.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
There is the best lindas in town or at the
storehouse.
They are, and all the lindasare organized.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So what a riot.
My name is not linda and, again, incredible effort in volunteer
.
And's what I in my experiencewith working with people that
are moving here from other partsof the country.
Frankly, and one of the mostcommon questions, we get this
all the time.
We want to volunteer, we wantto give back, we want to be
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involved and you see that in ourcommunity, the generosity,
definitely that's what I wassharing at the beginning.
I mean we have great prosperity, great wealth here, and in
talking to you and talking toour other non-profits in the
community, I mean the communityshows up and they step up
definitely.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
And and it shows up like at mail carriers, food
drive during the hurricane,everybody stepped up, and I mean
everybody.
Even the people who losteverything were volunteering
well you bring up.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
We had the opportunity to talk with the bat
bat cave fire chief last fridayfor our hometown hero series
and if you hadn't had a chanceto go and listen, go to our
podcast.
He lost his home and, to yourpoint, he put aside his own loss
and was on the front lineshelping others.
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And that was this.
That was a common story.
You hear from people.
You we heard stories many timeswhere people themselves that
had lost it all themselves wereout there helping others and
they and people and they would.
They were very, um, they, they,they and again, incredible.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yes, I had at least four to five volunteers who had
to move out of their homesbecause their homes were damaged
by trees or flooded or theylost a room or whatever the
situation was.
But they were right there ontheir regular day helping pass
things out, helping bag thingsup.
It never stopped theirvolunteering.
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They, they did not miss anydays.
We.
We opened right back up thatnext week wow we started, we had
drive-through lines and thepeople who lost their homes,
they were still right there andsome serving two of them, I know
for a fact, are still not backin their homes yet.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Wow, yeah, yeah, the recovery, and that's another
conversation.
I mean, for a lot of us wequote unquote feel life is
normal and for a lot of our townthere are somewhat.
You can go to the grocery store, you have your power, you have
the gas.
And, please remember, there's anumber of our people in our
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community that are still, uh,you know, out of their home.
They're, they're still inrecovery and they're still
rebuilding and and certainly our, our neighbors in chimney, rock
and bat cave and gerton are,it's still ground zero it is and
they're.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It's not that they're not even trying.
There's nothing to recover.
They're having to start frombeyond.
Scratch.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
You can't well, they're just trying to get the
roads in place, even to startthe rebuilding.
It's, it's, it's going to be amulti-year uh at least five to
seven years yeah because they're.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
It's not just going in.
Oh well, we can just take amodular and sit right back here.
Not if you don't have a well,not if you don't have the wiring
, not if you don't have a powerpole.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
The infrastructure's gone.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, it's sobering to consider and to remember and
to hold space for that and it'sa reminder.
I mean, this is why we'rehaving these conversations and
so the nonprofits in ourcommunity, and specifically the
storehouse, are out there, bootson the ground, in the front
lines helping our community andthere's a way to give back and
to be part of it, and thestorehouse specifically.
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When you give to the storehouse, those monies stay in Henderson
County.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Definitely, because we only serve Henderson County.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
That is my mission field.
So if people want to give, howdo they give?
What's the best way to connectand share about all that?
The best way?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You can give at storehouseonlineorg or you can
call us at 692-8300.
You can mail us a check at POBox 6146, Hendersonville, 28793.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Lynn, we're so, so thankful to have you here with
us, one of our regular specialguests, and we're grateful for
what you and your volunteers andyour organization is doing 25
years serving the community.
So we're always grateful tohave to share the news and share
the information Again.
The building campaigns going on, the spark, the change, I mean
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all the things that are going on.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Everything Just come on down, we'll give you a tour
and we'll show it all to you.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
It's amazing and this is what makes our community so
amazing is the generosity of ourcommunity.
The volunteers, again.
People move here.
We hear the conversation allthe time.
We want to get involved, wewant to volunteer and our
community is so resilient andit's powerful to see it all come
together.
This is where it's interestingwhen you talk to locals and
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people that got here as quick asthey could, they say, but, like
you know, people like to shutthe door behind them.
But that's I mean.
The reality is we're having, orcontinue to have, growth here
in our community and it's andit's part of the, I mean when
you live and you're passionateabout where we live and what we
call home and for all thereasons, the quality of life,
the amazing people, thecommunity I mean all the outdoor
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, the wonderful schools we have.
I mean there's so many thingsthat make our community what it
is.
I mean.
No wonder people are attractedto it.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yes, we love the schools.
I especially loveHendersonville because we're
bear cats.
That's just the best.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
My rising junior son.
He has a different feeling.
He loves he's at east right now, and so I know there's a lot of
uh, a lot of school spirit inour community, which makes it
wonderful too definitely forsure.
but it's, you know it's, it'sthe, it's the quality of life
and people love, love it hereand and and and.
For us at the Georgia RealEstate Group, we love serving
our clients.
We love serving our community.
We love helping our clientsnavigate through buying and
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selling.
We've been helping a number ofour clients with their real
estate investments, whether it'sselling a rental property or
maybe an apartment building, ormaybe you have land that you've
inherited.
I mean, whatever the situationis, you can give us a call at
828-393-0134, 828-393-0134.
You can find us online atrealestatebygregcom.
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You can follow us on socialmedia, Facebook and Instagram.
I want to say thank you to oneof our recent clients.
I mean we are so grateful atthe George Real Estate Group the
number of clients that we'vebeen serving this year.
We've already helped moreclients this year than we did
last year and we continue togrow.
We are hiring also more agents.
If you thought about a career inreal estate, you can go to the
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George Real Estate Group.
You can go to Google and lookup the George Real Estate Group.
You'll see our reviews on there.
You can go to our Facebook page.
You'll see our clienttestimonies.
You can see our new listings,our new inventory, our
celebrations and homes thatwe've closed on clients we've
served.
We're so grateful.
We're enthusiastic aboutserving our community through
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real estate and we love havingthis Thursday morning radio show
where we can share with ourcommunity about our nonprofit
friends.
And, Lynn, we're so thankfulfor what you guys are doing.
And then every Friday morning at845, the George Real Estate
Group sponsors the Hometown HeroSeries.
Tomorrow morning, if you'd liketo tune in, we'd be honored for
you to tune in tomorrow morning, Every Friday morning at 845,
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Maybe you know somebody that'sin the community, somebody
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Reach out to WHKP and we'd loveto interview them and to
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We love our Friday morningconversations and we podcast
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You can find that on yourfavorite podcast platform.
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So, Lynn, thank you again forbeing here this Thursday morning
.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Thank you for having me.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
And to our listeners.
Thanks so much for tuning in.
If you're thinking about buying, selling or investing in real
estate or a career in realestate, give us a call
828-393-0134, 828-393-0134.
Find us online atrealestatebygregcom.
Also, stop by our office inFlat Rock.
We serve all of West NorthCarolina and upstate South
Carolina.
But have a wonderful day, havea wonderful week and we'll see
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Good morning and welcome to the George Real
Estate Group.
Radio broadcast here on WHKPEvery Thursday morning, bringing
you positive news about yourlocal real estate market and
community.
We're so grateful to be herewith you and hope you're having
a wonderful day.
Can you believe how quick Julyis flying by?
I know my kids are countingdown days of summer till school
starts in August, but in themeantime we are having a great
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summer and just so much to bethankful for and grateful for.
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If you're thinking about buying, selling or investing in real
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estate, we'd love to have theconversation.
There's no pressure, there's nocost, there's no obligation.
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whether you're selling or buyingyour personal home, maybe
you're relocating, maybe you'redownsizing, upsizing,
right-sizing, maybe you'reworking through selling an
investment property or aninvestment portfolio of real
estate, or maybe you have landthat you've inherited.
I mean, whatever the situation,we've worked with all types of
scenarios and every situation isunique and different.
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Every property, whether it'sland or home or both.
I mean we'd love to have theconversation and provide clarity
for you as you decide what todo with your real estate.
We're so passionate abouthelping our clients through real
estate.
We have over 100 years combinedexperience at the George Real
Estate Group and in my 20 yearswe've had the privilege of
helping over 1,500 families withtheir real estate needs quickly
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approaching 1,600.
If you're thinking of buying orselling or investing in real
estate or career in real estate,give us a call 828-393-0134,
828-393-0134.
We have one of our regularspecial guests, lynn Staggs of
the Storehouse of HendersonCounty, with us this morning.
Good morning Lynn.
Good morning Noah.
(02:19):
Thank you so much for beinghere.
We have a lot to talk about andI know, before we jump into the
conversation about thestorehouse, just to give a
little snapshot on our market inHenderson County.
Now, this is a different number.
I know you and I have had overthe years guessing games with a
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single family.
But I'm going to look at thesingle family plus condos and
plus townhomes, if you want toguess what the average sales
price is if you include condosand townhomes.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
That should adjust it downward a little bit to maybe
$485,000.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Good guess.
Yes, actually, if you includecondos and townhomes, which are
about 10% respectively in ourmarket, it brings our average
sales price over the last.
Actually year to date puts itat 509, which is pretty
interesting.
But I will want to reflect forour listeners just a snapshot of
our market.
We've had a 14% increase in newlistings year to date through
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the end of June versus year todate last year and a 5% increase
in pending sales and a 9%increase in closed sales through
the end of June when you lookat the year to date through the
end of June versus year to datethrough the end of June last
year.
But we've had a 2% drop in themedian sales price and a 1.4%
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drop in the average sales price.
But the point is things areholding.
Now I will say one other thingis the days on market's getting
longer.
You know you're seeing moreprice reductions.
You're seeing days on marketlonger.
We're actually up through theend of june this year.
The days on market until thesale are up 37 to 63 days, um,
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and then that's.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I mean that's a record for the past couple of
years.
Well, right.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
I mean previously, the previous year date was 46
days and then days until closedis now up 17 percent.
You know like it's one thing togo under contract but then when
you close, that's now at 116days from when you total, from
when you originally go on themarket, to going under contract,
to closing.
So I mean close to four monthsnow is the average days till
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close now, which is up 17%compared to the previous
timeframe.
So, all this to say, the marketis still strong.
We're averaging about 126single family homes a month
selling in Henderson County, lowinventory levels.
The market, the sky is notfalling, the market's still
moving.
And again, if you're thinkingabout buying or selling or
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investing in real estate orcareer in real estate, we'd love
to have the conversation.
Give us a call 828-393-0134,828-393-0134.
And then, and we will touch oninterest rates for just a minute
, but mortgage rates arestabilizing.
You know the mortgage rates arestabilizing, you stabilizing.
For now I mean the past yearthe rates have certainly had
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their share of going up and down, making it is challenging for
buyers to know what to expect.
But recently the rates havestarted to level out and settle
into a more narrow range andrates really have stayed within
a half a percent point sincelate last year, um, but, and of
course there's a little movementin that, but the big wild
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swings and sudden ups and downsjust haven't been the story
lately, which is wonderful andgiving buyers more clarity.
Buyers give the.
It takes away theunpredictability.
Buyers can plan ahead, you know, and compared to when the rates
were running, were jumpingaround from week to week, it was
really intimidating for buyers.
And so the point is, the ratesare the rate, the price are the
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prices.
You want to work with a realestate broker that can help you
navigate through the buying andselling process and we'd
certainly love to interview forthe job.
Again, call us at 828-393-0134,828-393-0134.
We're so passionate aboutpromoting and helping and
sharing the story of incredibleyou know nonprofits like
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yourself, the Storehouse, doingincredible work here in the
community.
And there's you know we've saidthis before there's two sides
of the coin.
There's great prosperity hereand great wealth, and there's
you know we've said this beforethere's two sides of the coin.
There's great prosperity hereand great wealth, and there's
also great need here, whichagain lends itself.
There's an opportunity for youto give to you, to give back as
our listeners in our communityand the Storehouse.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
This is your 25th 25th year we're having our
anniversary year this year.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
That's amazing 25 years serving the community and
there's been so much you guyshave been doing throughout those
20 years and I love sharingwith our listeners about the
work you're doing.
You know, in starting 20 years,25 years ago, you know, and
it's been a you really have amultifaceted approach to serving
our community and we want youhave a lot of things going going
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on, but let's remind ourlisteners about what the
storehouse does well, we, ofcourse.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Every week we're serving people food, coats,
blankets, hygiene products.
We do that all year long, andthen we do senior delivery
routes all year long, and then,starting in october, we get
ready for Christmas, andChristmas is vastly approaching.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
And for Christmas.
For you guys.
People don't realize unlessthey've heard about it or seen
it, and certainly they mighthave heard about it, but if you
haven't seen it, you don'trealize the undertaking you guys
do.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
The breadth and the scope of christmas.
I mean we partner withhenderson county public schools
and we go in for 10 straightdays and do intakes for all the
schools in henderson county.
And christmas does not stop at12 years old.
We go all the way up throughthe high school kids.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So that's amazing and there's some.
What is the number number?
Some 15,000 Henderson Countystudents.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yes, I think it is right around 15,000.
A normal year.
Last year was not a normal yearbecause of the hurricane, but a
normal year.
We usually serve about 2,100kids.
Last year we served 2,700 pluschildren, so the hurricane kind
of threw a lot into that, and sothis year I'm hoping we'll be
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getting back towards more normalnumbers so.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
So when you partner with the Henderson County school
system, you're identifyingfamilies and children's children
that are in need, and and andthese, and can you clarify again
what that might look like?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
we have the social workers and the counselors from
the schools so that we areverifying that these are actual
children in Henderson County inschool, so that when I give a
donor a tag these are real kidsand they are only in one program
here.
We do advise them that they canonly be signed up for one
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program in Henderson County andwe do check it with the other
agencies that do Christmas.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
But what does this look like?
I mean so you're intaking.
I mean this is when peoplethink of Christmas, you're
thinking a lot of peoplenaturally would think toys.
But what people don't realizeis a lot of the families are
requesting just essentials.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Oh, bags, bedding, clothes, warm things, coats,
socks, socks, yes, under clothes, it's all of that, and last
year especially, it wasextremely heavily on bedding and
warm clothes because they hadlost everything through the
hurricane.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yes, so here we are in j July, and I mean this is
you've already been working onChristmas.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well, we had Christmas booked last year for
this year, and so we've beenworking on it throughout this
year and we will be doing ourtraining starting October 1st.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It's around the corner, yes, and so Christmas is
a huge component of what thestorehouse does.
And what was the number lastyear?
How many family or children?
Speaker 2 (10:06):
It was 2,700, plus children, wow, so it was a lot.
That was a lot, it was a wholelot.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
And so powerful and year round, you're also serving
another demographic.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yes, the seniors and the elderly here in Henderson
County, with our delivery routes, we go out every month and we
take them their food and theirextras bags with hygiene and
cleaning supplies, papersupplies, things that food
stamps don't cover, pluswhatever we have, and I I don't
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know what to call it, but maybea prize bag.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Um, like a surprise the surprise.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
It is a surprise because we never know if
everything's going to come in ontime and we have to get
everything together for all thepeople on the delivery routes so
every single way, week you,your team, your volunteers are
distributing food all week,every week, wow, and we're still
working in the background onChristmas and we're building a
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building.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Well, well before we get to the building, like you
and other non-profits.
After Helene saw an incrediblesurge of demand.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Oh yes, and it's not gone away.
I mean, there were lots ofprograms in place that are not
going to be in place any longer.
So the demand is going to go upand our resources have not gone
up.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Well, not necessarily match the demand, and so there
is an's an opportunity to I mean, this is where we're getting
the word out is for the need weneed more food, we need more
produce.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
We need, we need more everything the hygiene, the
cleaning supplies, all thosethings are needed yeah, and
that's where a lot of peoplethink oh, food stamps, they
stamps.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
They cover paper and hygiene items.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
That's not true, they do not Food stamps only cover
edible food Right.
And they do not cover toiletpaper and paper towels.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Or toothpaste.
Yeah, things that youdefinitely need every day, yeah
so, and you did at one pointshare with me that that I mean
it's hard to comprehend, but alot of your clients don't even
get a hundred dollars worth offood stamps a month a lot of the
seniors um.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
They may get 20 25 dollars of food stamps a month a
month a month on their five toseven hundred dollar paycheck
from social security monthlymonthly paycheck, so within that
they have to fit whatever rentdifference they have to cover,
any food differences they haveto cover and any bills
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transportation medical.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
I mean they're the prescriptions.
I mean yes everything has tofit in that little bitty, tiny
box so, and again, this is 25years the storehouse has been
serving henderson county and,and in after helene, again,
exponential demand and growth.
In the meantime, you guys hadbeen planning this for a long
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time this building, yes, andyou're currently on spartanburg
highway.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yes, and you're going to be moving about a mile and a
half down the road, 1.7 milesup the road, so it was already
underway before the hurricaneand you can't stop in the middle
so we have to just keeppressing on which was the
intention all along.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
And the interesting thing is again the timing of it,
because you are havingincreased demand, and so part of
the purpose of the building isto increase your capacity to
serve the community.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
And our capacity to buy bigger amounts of food so
that we can bring the price down.
So we'll have a much biggerwarehouse.
We'll go from 4,200 square feetto almost 12,000 square feet.
So we'll have warehouse spacewhere we can bring in pallets of
food versus, you know just afew little Like.
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Right now we can't handle morethan three to four pallets, but
in the new place we couldprobably handle 12 to 20 pallets
.
But in the new place we couldprobably handle 12 to 20 pounds.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Wow, because you're moving into, was it 12,000
square feet about?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
right up under right up under 12,000 square feet, as
big as we could put on that lot.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
That's what we're in that's amazing and and uh, you
know there's a lot of uhcomponents of this new building
from a loading dock, oh yes.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Loading bay doors.
We'll be able to have a roomspecifically for senior
deliveries instead of fivedifferent offices working out of
my office, which will be great.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
And I know you've told me you're excited about the
teaching kitchen.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yes, that's going to be like a huge thing that we've
been wanting to do for a longtime.
When we were on 7th Avenue, wehad a kitchen.
When we moved over toSpartanburg Highway, we didn't
have a kitchen, so we will beable to get back into having
cooking classes and havingpeople come in and doing some.
You know, out of the boxthinking.
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You know cooking out of the box.
Here's the box of food thatyou're receiving today.
What can we do out of this box?
Or having a class on?
I don't know what to do withthis vegetable.
I've never experienced thisbefore Just different things and
basics.
Know the measurements, how tocook rice in a bag simple stuff
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that people haven't learned orjust haven't experienced or
maybe need to be reminded.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
I mean there's a.
I mean just there's so manydifferent.
You know ways to prepare andwhen they're receiving this food
into it helps it go so muchfurther across the board, which
which you know.
So you have this building in inprocess right now.
If you've driven downSpartanburg highway, you've most
likely seen it up.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I mean the the metal frame is up and the steel frame,
the steel frame the roof and wegot a couple of walls up now
and a door.
We got a door today so exciting.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And this time of year is your annual fourth of july
matching fun, spark to change,and this has been.
How many years ago did thisfirst start?
Speaker 2 (16:34):
this is our 13th or 14th year doing this.
So we had a couple of veteranscome in all those years ago and
said you know, we've received aninheritance.
We will match anything youraise up to $10,000.
And you got eight weeks andthey walked out and so we ran
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with it and we made it.
We raised $11,000 that firstyear.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
And, by the way, back then you're like, how can we
even do this?
Oh, the way back then you'relike, how can we do even do this
?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Oh, yes, I mean, we were definitely.
How can we even do that?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Well, that reminds me of how many children did you
serve Christmas to the veryfirst year you did this?
I think there was 40 kids 40,which felt like a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Oh, it was a lot.
It was a lot, it was a lot, andthen this last year $2,600.
$2,700.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
$2,700.
I don't want to short you andso the first year you did the
matching funds campaign.
It was $11,000.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
For a grand total of $21,000.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Which is incredible.
And so what's your goal thisyear?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
The goal was $150,000 .
Speaker 1 (17:45):
And we've had a couple of setbacks because of
location of the banners and anddifferent things going on and
you're still in process we'restill.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
We're still in process.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
So and this runs.
This ran from the beginning ofjune through the end of july.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
That's right so you still have time there is still
time so if your iras need to bepaid out or anything, or you
feel like this is something thatyou want to give to, please
think of us.
It's storehouseonlineorg, orcome by the office at 1049
Spartanburg Highway or you canmail it.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Well, and it's so important again just now, the
couple that did that that onetime.
This has evolved into how manychurches are doing this now with
you we have, I think, 10 donors.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Now we have advent.
Health is our corporate sponsoreast flat rock.
First baptist church.
Ebenezer baptist church.
First baptist church, fruitlandbaptist church.
Grace lutheran church,hendersonville church.
Church of God, hendersonvillePresbyterian Church, reformation
Presbyterian and St JamesEpiscopal Church.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
What a partnership.
And so these churches are, andAdvent, right, yes, and Advent
are partnering with thestorehouse for matching funds,
and so your dollar does gofurther.
And so the 4th of July sparkedthe change.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And so there's an opportunity.
You can go online tostorehouseonlineorg.
Did I say that?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
right, yes, storehouseonlineorg.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Or call up, or reach out or stop by 828-692-8300.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
So this is a significant portion of your
yearly budget it usually meetsall of our budget for the year
for buying food and justoperating expenses, so this is
more than helpful when youdonate to this.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
This is how we get to do what we're doing yeah, it's
so important to give, to be partof it.
Now, do you have a timeline onthe building?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Well, everything is flowing faster than I could
possibly imagine right now, soit could be as long as the
vendor things come in on timecould be end of the year or
beginning of next year.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Which is so exciting.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
And very fast, very, very fast, which is so exciting,
and very fast, very very fastand it's happening.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Very fast.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I know your organization, like majority of
the nonprofits here in town.
The volunteers are so critical.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Oh, and I have the best volunteers.
I'm sorry for all the otherplaces, but I have the best
volunteers.
We are completely run byvolunteer staff.
There are two and a half paidpeople myself and the office
manager, who is not paid enough.
The office manager is worth herweight in gold.
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Linda Dolan is the best andthen everybody else.
We have 74-plus volunteers whocome in on different days of the
week and get everything doneAll the boxes packed, everything
broke down, deliveries, pickups.
I mean the cleaning of thebuilding even is volunteer staff
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and I have like five Lindas andthe lindas are the best I have
linda the bookkeeper, linda thecleaner, linda the office
manager I have.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
There's a pattern there.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
There is the best lindas in town or at the
storehouse.
They are, and all the lindasare organized.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
So what a riot.
My name is not linda and, again, incredible effort in volunteer
.
And's what I in my experiencewith working with people that
are moving here from other partsof the country.
Frankly, and one of the mostcommon questions, we get this
all the time.
We want to volunteer, we wantto give back, we want to be
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involved and you see that in ourcommunity, the generosity,
definitely that's what I wassharing at the beginning.
I mean we have great prosperity, great wealth here, and in
talking to you and talking toour other non-profits in the
community, I mean the communityshows up and they step up
definitely.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
And and it shows up like at mail carriers, food
drive during the hurricane,everybody stepped up, and I mean
everybody.
Even the people who losteverything were volunteering
well you bring up.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
We had the opportunity to talk with the bat
bat cave fire chief last fridayfor our hometown hero series
and if you hadn't had a chanceto go and listen, go to our
podcast.
He lost his home and, to yourpoint, he put aside his own loss
and was on the front lineshelping others.
(22:31):
And that was this.
That was a common story.
You hear from people.
You we heard stories many timeswhere people themselves that
had lost it all themselves wereout there helping others and
they and people and they would.
They were very, um, they, they,they and again, incredible.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Yes, I had at least four to five volunteers who had
to move out of their homesbecause their homes were damaged
by trees or flooded or theylost a room or whatever the
situation was.
But they were right there ontheir regular day helping pass
things out, helping bag thingsup.
It never stopped theirvolunteering.
(23:11):
They, they did not miss anydays.
We.
We opened right back up thatnext week wow we started, we had
drive-through lines and thepeople who lost their homes,
they were still right there andsome serving two of them, I know
for a fact, are still not backin their homes yet.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Wow, yeah, yeah, the recovery, and that's another
conversation.
I mean, for a lot of us wequote unquote feel life is
normal and for a lot of our townthere are somewhat.
You can go to the grocery store, you have your power, you have
the gas.
And, please remember, there's anumber of our people in our
(23:51):
community that are still, uh,you know, out of their home.
They're, they're still inrecovery and they're still
rebuilding and and certainly our, our neighbors in chimney, rock
and bat cave and gerton are,it's still ground zero it is and
they're.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
It's not that they're not even trying.
There's nothing to recover.
They're having to start frombeyond.
Scratch.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
You can't well, they're just trying to get the
roads in place, even to startthe rebuilding.
It's, it's, it's going to be amulti-year uh at least five to
seven years yeah because they're.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
It's not just going in.
Oh well, we can just take amodular and sit right back here.
Not if you don't have a well,not if you don't have the wiring
, not if you don't have a powerpole.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
The infrastructure's gone.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, it's sobering to consider and to remember and
to hold space for that and it'sa reminder.
I mean, this is why we'rehaving these conversations and
so the nonprofits in ourcommunity, and specifically the
storehouse, are out there, bootson the ground, in the front
lines helping our community andthere's a way to give back and
to be part of it, and thestorehouse specifically.
(25:00):
When you give to the storehouse, those monies stay in Henderson
County.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Definitely, because we only serve Henderson County.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
That is my mission field.
So if people want to give, howdo they give?
What's the best way to connectand share about all that?
The best way?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You can give at storehouseonlineorg or you can
call us at 692-8300.
You can mail us a check at POBox 6146, Hendersonville, 28793.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Lynn, we're so, so thankful to have you here with
us, one of our regular specialguests, and we're grateful for
what you and your volunteers andyour organization is doing 25
years serving the community.
So we're always grateful tohave to share the news and share
the information Again.
The building campaigns going on, the spark, the change, I mean
(25:55):
all the things that are going on.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Everything Just come on down, we'll give you a tour
and we'll show it all to you.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
It's amazing and this is what makes our community so
amazing is the generosity of ourcommunity.
The volunteers, again.
People move here.
We hear the conversation allthe time.
We want to get involved, wewant to volunteer and our
community is so resilient andit's powerful to see it all come
together.
This is where it's interestingwhen you talk to locals and
(26:25):
people that got here as quick asthey could, they say, but, like
you know, people like to shutthe door behind them.
But that's I mean.
The reality is we're having, orcontinue to have, growth here
in our community and it's andit's part of the, I mean when
you live and you're passionateabout where we live and what we
call home and for all thereasons, the quality of life,
the amazing people, thecommunity I mean all the outdoor
(26:47):
, the wonderful schools we have.
I mean there's so many thingsthat make our community what it
is.
I mean.
No wonder people are attractedto it.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yes, we love the schools.
I especially loveHendersonville because we're
bear cats.
That's just the best.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
My rising junior son.
He has a different feeling.
He loves he's at east right now, and so I know there's a lot of
uh, a lot of school spirit inour community, which makes it
wonderful too definitely forsure.
but it's, you know it's, it'sthe, it's the quality of life
and people love, love it hereand and and and.
For us at the Georgia RealEstate Group, we love serving
our clients.
We love serving our community.
We love helping our clientsnavigate through buying and
(27:33):
selling.
We've been helping a number ofour clients with their real
estate investments, whether it'sselling a rental property or
maybe an apartment building, ormaybe you have land that you've
inherited.
I mean, whatever the situationis, you can give us a call at
828-393-0134, 828-393-0134.
You can find us online atrealestatebygregcom.
(27:54):
You can follow us on socialmedia, Facebook and Instagram.
I want to say thank you to oneof our recent clients.
I mean we are so grateful atthe George Real Estate Group the
number of clients that we'vebeen serving this year.
We've already helped moreclients this year than we did
last year and we continue togrow.
We are hiring also more agents.
If you thought about a career inreal estate, you can go to the
(28:14):
George Real Estate Group.
You can go to Google and lookup the George Real Estate Group.
You'll see our reviews on there.
You can go to our Facebook page.
You'll see our clienttestimonies.
You can see our new listings,our new inventory, our
celebrations and homes thatwe've closed on clients we've
served.
We're so grateful.
We're enthusiastic aboutserving our community through
(28:34):
real estate and we love havingthis Thursday morning radio show
where we can share with ourcommunity about our nonprofit
friends.
And, Lynn, we're so thankfulfor what you guys are doing.
And then every Friday morning at845, the George Real Estate
Group sponsors the Hometown HeroSeries.
Tomorrow morning, if you'd liketo tune in, we'd be honored for
you to tune in tomorrow morning, Every Friday morning at 845,
our Hometown Hero Series.
(28:55):
Maybe you know somebody that'sin the community, somebody
that's made a difference in yourlife, that's an unsung hero,
and we'd love to honor them.
Reach out to WHKP and we'd loveto interview them and to
nominate, If you'd like tonominate someone for the
Hometown Hero Series.
We love our Friday morningconversations and we podcast
those as well.
You can find that on yourfavorite podcast platform.
(29:16):
So, Lynn, thank you again forbeing here this Thursday morning
.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Thank you for having me.
I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
And to our listeners.
Thanks so much for tuning in.
If you're thinking about buying, selling or investing in real
estate or a career in realestate, give us a call
828-393-0134, 828-393-0134.
Find us online atrealestatebygregcom.
Also, stop by our office inFlat Rock.
We serve all of West NorthCarolina and upstate South
Carolina.
But have a wonderful day, havea wonderful week and we'll see
(29:46):
you tomorrow morning Thinkingabout estate planning for your
real estate.
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become an unwelcome burden foryour kids.
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or deal with the tenants.
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