July 1, 2025 • 31 mins
What happens when paradise has a hidden side? This week we explore the stark reality of Henderson County's wealth gap through the eyes of Lynn Staggs, director of The Storehouse, a local nonprofit celebrating 25 years of service to our community's most vulnerable residents.
Behind the scenic mountain views and gated communities lies a troubling truth: many of our neighbors, particularly seniors, survive on just $500-900 monthly with minimal food assistance. Lynn shares how her organization bridges this gap through weekly food pantry operations and dedicated delivery routes serving homebound seniors who lack transportation and family support.
Nine months after Hurricane Helene devastated parts of Western North Carolina, Lynn offers a sobering update on the ongoing recovery. "Yes, the water's back on and the power's back on, but life has not gone back to normal," she explains, describing communities still struggling with damaged infrastructure, displaced families, and the blue tarps that have become an all-too-familiar sight across the region.
We discuss The Storehouse's ambitious expansion plans—moving from their cramped 4,200 square foot location to a nearly 12,000 square foot facility that will allow them to triple their impact. The new building will enable extended operating hours and innovative programming like cooking classes to help clients maximize their food resources. Their fundraising approach is refreshingly straightforward: if 13,000 people each donate $150, they can build it debt-free.
The conversation highlights their current "Spark the Change" Fourth of July fundraiser running through July 31st, with matching funds from ten community partners including local churches and Advent Health. With just two paid staff members and over 75 volunteers, The Storehouse exemplifies efficient community service, ensuring donations directly support their mission of feeding the hungry in Henderson County.
Want to make a difference? Visit storehouseonline.org, call 692-8300, or stop by their location at 1049 Spartanburg Highway to learn how you can volunteer or donate. Because in a community of plenty, no one should go without the basics.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Fourth of July is around thecorner.
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We just had some amazing openhouses this past weekend.
I mean the activity ishappening and I will give you a
brief snapshot on the market.
The market continues to move.
Henderson County we'reaveraging about 126 single
family homes a month selling.
Buncombe county is averagingover 200 homes a month selling
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and, interestingly enough,transylvania county just around
the corner, just over the, thecounty line, uh, near brevard
they're only averaging some 35homes a month selling in
transylvania county, but it'srelative to the amount of homes
available in the counties I mean.
So the market's still movingthe interest rates to the
interest rates.
But of course, if we know realestate happens around life, it
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could be a really positivereason why you might be buying
or selling, or it could be achallenging reason.
But whatever it is, we'd loveto have the conversation.
Reason, but whatever it is,we'd love to have the
conversation again.
Call us at 828-393-0134.
828-393-0134.
We're so grateful to have oneof our regular special guests
with us, lynn stags, with thestorehouse of henderson county.
(02:57):
Good morning, lynn.
Good morning.
Thank you so much for beinghere this morning.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Thank you for having us again and again, and again it
never gets old telling thestory again.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You guys are doing incredible work here in the
community.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
25 years yes, it's, our anniversary was in may, so
we're just sailing right alongwith our 25th year now that's
amazing and the work you'redoing, and for those that maybe
are tuning in for the first timeever, and my goodness, you've
missed out on so much.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Let's pretend no one's ever heard of the
Storehouse of Henderson County,if you had to describe that and
share with what you're doing tosomeone for the first time ever.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well, you know, people have a heart for
different things in life.
Some people, you know they wantto do missions out of country,
out of town, different places.
But my heart has always beenhere in Hendersonville.
I grew up here and I love hereand I love the people here and
there is just a big gap betweenthe haves and the have-nots in
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Henderson County.
Riding around you may not eversee, you know, with all the
beautiful homes and all thebeautiful gated communities that
we have, you may not realizethat.
You know.
Just a mile or two down theroad you may run into places
that you would be like, oh mygoodness, we're still in
Henderson County.
It really happens that way.
(04:23):
The poverty there is, povertyhere in the community, like, oh
my goodness we're still inHenderson County.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It really happens that way.
The poverty there's, there ispoverty here in the community
yes, there's.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
There's no middle class, basically is what's
happened here.
And so those people who need,and the elderly, the people who
grew up here and lived heretheir whole lives, when they
become seniors, sometimes theycan't afford to stay here at the
level that they were before.
So that's how our missionstarted, with five little old
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ladies, and here we are, 25years later.
We have senior delivery routes,we feed people every week, we
do Christmas with HendersonCounty Public Schools and we're
just riding the roller coasterwhen you say senior deliver
delivery routes, what does thatmean?
well, we have certain criteriafor our seniors.
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They have to be, you know, 60plus that no transportation, no
family to help them out, andthey get their food delivered to
them once a month.
They get all their food boxesdelivered to them.
Plus they get all theessentials that you know we may
or may not have in the officeall the time.
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But the senior delivery routepeople are guaranteed a certain
amount of things that foodstamps don't cover.
A lot of times people justassume well, they'll be fine,
they get food stamps.
Well, food stamps doesn't covertoilet paper, and that is
essential.
And food stamps doesn't coverany kind of hygiene products or
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aspirin or anything like that.
And we try to hit all thoseareas.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, and you said at one point you told me it was,
and I was so shocked to hear theincome level of your clients.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That little crowd, this pocket that we're serving.
Usually they're anywhere from$5.50 to $900 a month, a month A
month, not a day a month andmaybe $15 to $25 in food stamps
a month $20 a month in foodstamps.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It's not even worth the paperwork that's hard to
comprehend and, by the way andwe talked about this affordable
housing, I mean trying to find aplace to rent with an income of
$500 to $900, I mean, it's just, it seems impossible.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Well, I mean, I know that they sometimes receive
rental assistance, but still theplaces are so full.
Finding a place and if you'vegot a mom with three kids or
something like that, finding aplace that will take, you know,
the rental assistance and beingin a drivable area without
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living, you know, 20 miles outin the county, that's a feat in
itself it's a real challenge.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And again you guys, the Storehouse of Henderson
County has been serving thecommunity since 2000,.
25 years.
It's a.
It is a 501 C3.
Yes, and it's a nonprofit.
And again you guys are doingthe, the senior delivery routes
and the food pantry right.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yes, we run the food pantry every week, the senior
delivery routes.
That's happening while we'rethere and then at beginning in
Octoberober we partner withhenderson county public schools
and we do christmas with theschools.
So last year was an unusualyear because the hurricane.
Normally we serve about 2 000plus kids.
(08:00):
Last year it was 2,700 kids andthe little director here about
went under, but it stillhappened it still happened.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well, and you, because of the nine months ago,
I mean, we were experiencingthis hurricane and, uh, you know
, right before Christmas and,like you said, you had a, you
know, 25 percent increase.
You know, from 2,000, if Idoing my math right, but from
2,000 children to 2,500 childrendoing Christmas 2,700 kids, oh
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my word, oh, my word.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And it was such generous people from this area
and outside the area that madethis happen and outside the area
that made this happen.
But the one thing I want toimpress upon people is yes, the
water's back on and the power'sback on, but life has not gone
back to normal.
Now there's a bigger housingshortage here for the people who
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are affected.
People are still not back intheir homes.
There's still blue tarpseverywhere.
Once you drive outside the citylimits, you will see how the
land is still ravaged here.
Bridges are still out, um yeah,it's the the.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
It is still a long road of recovery ahead of us in
our community and, uh, you knowwe've recently been helping some
clients in the back cave arealooking to sell their property
and so to be out there and tosee again some of these areas,
just the total destruction.
It's hard to comprehend and forpeople that are still in those
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areas they're seeing it everysingle day, versus people that
are living in town or whatnot,it's out of sight, out of mind.
But a reminder is again ourcommunity is still recovering.
It's still a long road ofrecovery ahead.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah, and we're still dealing with the families who
are affected.
You know, now, not only didthey have the challenges before,
but now they have theadditional challenges from the
hurricane.
And how are we going to getthrough the summer?
The kids are home, we need morefood, you know, those things
are still going on, on top ofthe fact that, well, we still
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don't have the bridge fixed andwe have to walk across the river
every day.
Right, just random stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
It's a lot, yes, across the river every day,
right, just it's random stuff.
It's a lot, yeah, and and sothe amount of work and needs
that are still out there aresignificant.
And this is the long game, thisis the marathon that we're in,
and, uh, you are having now yourannual fourth of july, fourth
of July matching fund raiser.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yes, we had about 13 years ago I think I've lost all
my numbers in the hurricane.
We had a veteran couple walkinto our office and say hey, we
received this inheritance.
We are challenging you, we willmatch anything you raise up to
$10,000.
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And you got eight weeks andthey turned around and walked
out and I'm like, oh my gosh,what are we going to do?
So we got on the radio and weadvertised and advertised and
advertised and that first yearwe raised $11,000.
So we met that match and raised$21,000.
So we met that match and raised$21,000.
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And ever since then, you know,we were like, okay, what are we
going to do next year?
They're not going to get aninheritance next year.
And we came up, we startedpartnering with the churches and
so we had five churches thefirst year and then it went to
seven.
Now there's a one business and,I think, eight or nine churches
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there's 10 on the list this yearand they partner with us and we
have a goal this year of 150000, which meets all of our food
, budget and operating expensesthat's amazing Because we have
two paid staff and everybodyelse is volunteer and people
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don't realize we have 75 plusvolunteers that come in every
day that we're open, pack thoseboxes, carry them to the cars,
unload the trucks, go do thepickups, do the deliveries.
We have seven routes here inHenderson County.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
They take all this stuff out to people and it's all
volunteer run and which keepsyou guys are so efficient and
the money donated stays in thecommunity and it goes and it's
all going back to the communityand and it's a way to get
involved, that's now.
I know you guys are alwayslooking for more volunteers.
There's always opportunitythere and there's opportunity to
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give financially.
So this year, with the goal of$150,000, with the matching
funds of the churches and alsoAdvent Health, which again I
know that's a significantpartnership there.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, partnership there.
Yeah, our sponsors are AdventHealth East, flat Rock, first
Baptist Church, ebenezer BaptistChurch, first Baptist Church,
fruitland Baptist Church, graceLutheran Church, hendersonville
Church of God, hendersonvillePresbyterian Church, reformation
Presbyterian Church and StJames Episcopal Church.
(13:17):
So it always just goes to letyou know that all the churches
can play nice and we are here asa community.
It is a group effort.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Coming together.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
It is a coming together kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
So today's the last day of June.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And again excited about the 4th of July.
But this is your 4th of JulySpark the Change matching fund
fundraiser and you guys startedJune 1st at the beginning of the
month, but this is going to runthrough the end of July.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yes, we have until July 31st.
That's amazing.
If you want to drop it by orwrite a check, just put 4th of
July on there and we'll knowwhich fund it goes into.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Again, your dollars can go further with this
fundraiser right now.
So when are you open and wewant to talk?
We have a short break coming upin the second half of the show.
We want to talk about the newbuilding, which is so exciting.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So, temporarily, you're still in your current
location yes, we are in ourcurrent location with a very
great landlord and but we have4,200 square feet to do all this
work in and we are gonna get tomove up the road as soon as the
building's completed to analmost 12,000 square foot
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building that's amazing triplingyour size yes, much needed.
And so now my office won't bethat, won't have four sets of
people in it.
You know my, it's my office,it's the bookkeeper's office,
it's the day to entry people'soffice and the senior delivery
route office.
So there's four or five thingsworking out of my office well
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that again it just shows the,the bootstrapping.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I mean you and your team and your volunteers.
I mean you did whatever it tookand you continue to do whatever
it takes, and again, with theefforts and the needs now being
even more so with after thehurricane in our community.
So there is an opportunity togive, and you mentioned earlier
I've shared this before we havejust two sides of the same coin
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incredible prosperity here,incredible wealth here, and on
the other side of the coin,great needs and hopefully, our
listeners.
Again, I know we have a lot ofregular listeners and they are
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able to share with their friendsand family.
We're going to podcast this.
We actually podcast all of ourradio shows and so please share
this podcast with your friendsand family about the storehouse
and the opportunity to give andto participate and be part of
that.
And again, we have a shortbreak coming up, but we'll be
back, but we're going to talkabout the new building and all
the things going on there.
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There's opportunities toparticipate in that as well.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And you don't have to wait for the new building.
You can come see us at 1049Spartanburg Highway now.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You can see the metal structures are up right now.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Well, that's down the road a little bit.
You know it's a mile and a halffrom us where we're at now.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But if you don't want to wait, oh, you can stop by
and see your office right now Ifyou don't want to wait until
the building's up.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
hey, we always need help.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
That's right.
So that's awesome.
Lynn, thank you so much forbeing here Again.
We have a short break.
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Good morning and welcome back.
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You're listening to the GeorgeReal Estate Group radio
broadcast here on the Q everyMonday morning sharing with you
about our local real estatemarket and community.
We're so grateful to be here.
Welcome back.
We're now in the second half ofthe show and just grateful to
have Lynn Staggs with us here.
With the storehouse of HendersonCounty We've been having that
conversation about theirupcoming 4th of July fundraiser.
Doorhouse of Henderson County.
(17:59):
We've been having thatconversation about their
upcoming 4th of July fundraiseror their current 4th of July
fundraiser.
That's running from June 1stall the way through the end of
July and we'll continue to havethat conversation.
Before we do that, just a quicksnapshot on the market.
We're still running about 126single-family homes a month
selling in Henderson County.
The demand remains steady.
I mean, we've actually seen,actually seen uh year to date.
We've seen more homes sold,just a little bit more homes
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sold this year today versus thisyear to date last year.
The prices are are holding andI always I know lynn loves
guessing the average singlefamily home price in henderson
county.
If you want to take a guess Isay 542.
The most recent data I have is539.
So you're so close, but 542 isa good guess and we did it when
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earlier this year we peaked outin the 550s.
That's come down a little bitwith the average price.
The median price is holding,but when we look at what's
happening in the supply anddemand, I mean the prices are
holding.
Yes, is it down a little bitfrom earlier this year, but the
fact that we're selling morehomes but we are seeing a little
bit more inventory on themarket, so the market's
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softening Days on market aretaking a little bit longer.
Interest rates are holding, butwe still see about a third, we
see about a third of our salesin Henderson County being
purchased with cash.
So we still have cash sales andthis might come as a surprise.
I mentioned in the firstsegment the number of homes
selling in the surroundingcounties.
Now the average single-familyhome price in Buncombe County is
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in the high sixes actually, andthe average single-family home
price in Transylvania County isin the sevens.
Oh, I believe that.
So it's fascinating.
The market's the market, but,as I say many times, the real
estate happens around life.
Therefore, life happens,therefore real estate happens,
and it could be a reallypositive reason why you're
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buying or selling, or it couldbe a challenging reason.
Whatever it might be, we'd loveto interview for the job.
And if you're thinking aheadwith your estate, thinking ahead
with your tax planning and, inregards to real estate, we're
working with selling, we'vehelped a lot of our clients with
their own land.
We've helped a lot of ourclients that own real estate
portfolios and their investmentproperties.
In regards to what do you do?
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How do you plan ahead?
What should you do?
Maybe you might want toconsider giving some of your
real estate to a nonprofit.
I mean, there's different waysto think about things, but
whether it's your personal home,investment property, commercial
property or raw land, we'd loveto have the conversation.
Give us a call today828-393-0134, 828-393-0134.
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family.
So, lynn, you guys have been inthe works now for a long time,
planning ahead and working onthis new building.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yes, and I'm excited because we're busting at the
seams of our old building, and Ido mean that in the literal
sense some days we can only beopen three days a week because
of space confinements and it's asafety issue.
We can't unload a truck andunpack and put everything away
while we're operating becausewe're just space confined.
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Everybody drives by and theywere like but you got that big
old building, but we don't havethat whole building, we just
have the front two units, and somoving 1.7 miles up the road is
going to give us almost triplethe space.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
That's incredible, and so your vision of being able
to serve more, to help more,your capacity goes up.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yes, our capacity, our days open, being able to
offer classes, having cookingclasses in there, having other
partners come in and be able touse the space to help our
clients with issues that theymay have.
People from the co-op be ableto come in and go hey, let's
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teach you how to cook spaghettisquash.
Or you know, here's what you dowith this weird vegetable.
You don't know what to do witheggplant?
Here you can do this.
So just teaching people things.
You know we pack a box.
People go to food pantries.
I personally want to do a classcalled cooking out of the box.
So here's your box that you get.
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What can we do with what yougot today?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
And again, it's sharing the knowledge.
It's helping your clientelemake the resources go further.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yes, and knowing what to do with the weird vegetables
, things that they've neverexperienced.
Some people, unfortunately,have grown up on chicken nuggets
and fries and never had sauteedzucchini.
So those kind of things, youknow, even though for me I'm
like, really, those kind ofthings are the things that we
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need to be teaching people, weneed to be showing them.
Here's what you do with freshstuff.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
So your clients are getting fresh vegetables?
Oh yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
We get fresh vegetables from Sam's Club.
We get them from man of FoodBank.
We get them from some of thelocal farmers here, the Johnson
Farm.
They give us fresh, freshvegetables, so we're getting
fresh stuff.
The orchards give us apples andfruits and so that's amazing.
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We have a plethora of things.
Health food.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
That again it's being I, uh, I.
I recently was at a propertyand talking about eating fresh
vegetables.
This property we were at had afarm and had, uh, some crops and
they'd recently harvested, uh,some okra no, no, not okra, it
was asparagus and there was afew stalks still, uh, that were
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there and we just snapped thestalks of the asparagus and we
ate it right there.
It was the most sweet tasting,uh, it's not like asparagus
again, it was just eating the.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
The asparagus right out of the ground was amazing
yeah, and and people don'trealize too you have a pot on
your porch.
We have planter beds at ourhouse.
I don't buy tomatoes andlettuce and cilantro and stuff.
It's right there in my frontyard.
I just grow it and there'snothing like having your stuff
fresh.
You walk outside and just pullwhat you need.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
My neighbor is so gracious, she grows heirloom
tomatoes.
Oh my word, and she's sogenerous and kind and there's
nothing better than a fresh cuttomato off the vine.
Yes, it's the best, and I thinkwe're coming up.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
They're going to be getting ready pretty soon.
Here the little tomatoes arealready popping.
It's amazing.
The cilantro is I mean.
That's going all the time.
The lettuce is just coming up.
I can't give it away fastenough.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
But you have this vision for cooking classes.
Yes, and for your helping thecommunity through that avenue
with this new building.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yes, I want the building to be used as many days
a week as we can.
That's the purpose of it tohelp this community, to teach in
this community, to get theresidents in this community on
their feet.
Better, more well-versed,better equipped.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
And this is again.
You just finished.
This is your 25th anniversaryof the storehouse and this year
and back in May was your 25thanniversary.
And then how appropriate andjust again the vision you've had
in this new building for thenext 25 plus years.
I mean it's amazing in thegenerosity of the community to
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make it possible the visionyou've had to get back to the
community.
And then I mean it's incredible.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, and the thing is is, the building is a simple
plan.
I just need 13,000 people todonate $150 each and the whole
thing's paid for.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
No problem.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Then we have no mortgage and everything that
comes in will go to directprogram costs.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Because we saved money.
We purchased the stuff up frontand so we didn't have to.
You know, we do have a loan,but I don't want to use it.
So reach out to your friends,your family.
$150 is doable.
Some people can do a whole lotmore.
Some people can go in withtheir friend and do 75 each
which is amazing again, whateverlevel that you're able to give.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yes, so the, the building, uh, you know the funds
which you're working on, butagain, we were focusing on
fourth of july I mean not that.
I mean I mean it's allimportant, it's all important.
So again, these two things aregoing on at the same time.
The 4th of July matching funds,again running through the end
of the July reach out, go totheir website, call, stop by.
(26:53):
I mean, there's so manydifferent ways and we're so
thankful for the churches andalso Advent Health that we're
matching the funds.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yes, because we I mean the $150,000, that gets all
of our stuff met, all of ourfood we're able to purchase, you
know, because you can't geteverything at one place.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Well, and you've shared with us before that the
needs have grown Grownextensively.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yes, the needs have grown, grown extensively.
Yes, so I mean the matchingfunds and and this fourth of
july match that carries us yearto year, the building that will
carry us years into the futurethat's amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Well, thank you, lynn , and all your 75 plus
volunteers and your staff.
That makes it all possible.
Always grateful to have youhere on the radio.
Again, it's important to us tosupport the Storehouse and our
nonprofit community here in thecommunity.
It's making a difference in ourcommunity.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Just visit us at storehouseonlineorg.
You can come see us at 1049Spartanburg Highway or call us
at 692-8300.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Awesome, lynn.
Thank you so much.
And to our listeners again,we're just if you can consider
volunteering or giving.
I mean whether it's with yourtime or your resources.
I mean there's always.
I hear from clients moving herefrom all over.
They're so blown away by thegenerosity but also the
volunteer community that we livein and the nonprofit world
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that's here and people want toget involved and they're joining
and they're moving here andthey're saying where can I
volunteer?
And we see this happeningfrequently.
But people are moving here, andalso our natives and people
that have grown up here again,that have seen and want to give
back regularly.
And Lynn made a decision togive back and to be a catalyst
(28:42):
for our community.
So thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I love here.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, I tell people all the time I'm biased.
I think we live in one of themost amazing places and the
people are amazing and there'stwo sides of the coin incredible
prosperity and there'sincredible need.
So, again, there's anopportunity to give and to
donate and to be generous, andthat's what life's so much more
than what we make it about.
Again, the relationships, thehelping others, being kind.
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Again, it's those things thatwe'll remember.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
That's why we sell more houses.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
We love serving our community through real estate,
so we are grateful.
We've had an incredible year.
Continue to help and continueto advocate for our clients
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So give us a call 828-393-0134,828-393-0134.
Find us online atrealestatebygregcom.
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But have a great day, have ahappy 4th of July and we'll see
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We just had some amazing openhouses this past weekend.
I mean the activity ishappening and I will give you a
brief snapshot on the market.
The market continues to move.
Henderson County we'reaveraging about 126 single
family homes a month selling.
Buncombe county is averagingover 200 homes a month selling
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and, interestingly enough,transylvania county just around
the corner, just over the, thecounty line, uh, near brevard
they're only averaging some 35homes a month selling in
transylvania county, but it'srelative to the amount of homes
available in the counties I mean.
So the market's still movingthe interest rates to the
interest rates.
But of course, if we know realestate happens around life, it
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could be a really positivereason why you might be buying
or selling, or it could be achallenging reason.
But whatever it is, we'd loveto have the conversation.
Reason, but whatever it is,we'd love to have the
conversation again.
Call us at 828-393-0134.
828-393-0134.
We're so grateful to have oneof our regular special guests
with us, lynn stags, with thestorehouse of henderson county.
(02:57):
Good morning, lynn.
Good morning.
Thank you so much for beinghere this morning.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Thank you for having us again and again, and again it
never gets old telling thestory again.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
You guys are doing incredible work here in the
community.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
25 years yes, it's, our anniversary was in may, so
we're just sailing right alongwith our 25th year now that's
amazing and the work you'redoing, and for those that maybe
are tuning in for the first timeever, and my goodness, you've
missed out on so much.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Let's pretend no one's ever heard of the
Storehouse of Henderson County,if you had to describe that and
share with what you're doing tosomeone for the first time ever.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Well, you know, people have a heart for
different things in life.
Some people, you know they wantto do missions out of country,
out of town, different places.
But my heart has always beenhere in Hendersonville.
I grew up here and I love hereand I love the people here and
there is just a big gap betweenthe haves and the have-nots in
(04:02):
Henderson County.
Riding around you may not eversee, you know, with all the
beautiful homes and all thebeautiful gated communities that
we have, you may not realizethat.
You know.
Just a mile or two down theroad you may run into places
that you would be like, oh mygoodness, we're still in
Henderson County.
It really happens that way.
(04:23):
The poverty there is, povertyhere in the community, like, oh
my goodness we're still inHenderson County.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
It really happens that way.
The poverty there's, there ispoverty here in the community
yes, there's.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
There's no middle class, basically is what's
happened here.
And so those people who need,and the elderly, the people who
grew up here and lived heretheir whole lives, when they
become seniors, sometimes theycan't afford to stay here at the
level that they were before.
So that's how our missionstarted, with five little old
(04:49):
ladies, and here we are, 25years later.
We have senior delivery routes,we feed people every week, we
do Christmas with HendersonCounty Public Schools and we're
just riding the roller coasterwhen you say senior deliver
delivery routes, what does thatmean?
well, we have certain criteriafor our seniors.
(05:10):
They have to be, you know, 60plus that no transportation, no
family to help them out, andthey get their food delivered to
them once a month.
They get all their food boxesdelivered to them.
Plus they get all theessentials that you know we may
or may not have in the officeall the time.
(05:31):
But the senior delivery routepeople are guaranteed a certain
amount of things that foodstamps don't cover.
A lot of times people justassume well, they'll be fine,
they get food stamps.
Well, food stamps doesn't covertoilet paper, and that is
essential.
And food stamps doesn't coverany kind of hygiene products or
(05:52):
aspirin or anything like that.
And we try to hit all thoseareas.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, and you said at one point you told me it was,
and I was so shocked to hear theincome level of your clients.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That little crowd, this pocket that we're serving.
Usually they're anywhere from$5.50 to $900 a month, a month A
month, not a day a month andmaybe $15 to $25 in food stamps
a month $20 a month in foodstamps.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It's not even worth the paperwork that's hard to
comprehend and, by the way andwe talked about this affordable
housing, I mean trying to find aplace to rent with an income of
$500 to $900, I mean, it's just, it seems impossible.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Well, I mean, I know that they sometimes receive
rental assistance, but still theplaces are so full.
Finding a place and if you'vegot a mom with three kids or
something like that, finding aplace that will take, you know,
the rental assistance and beingin a drivable area without
(07:10):
living, you know, 20 miles outin the county, that's a feat in
itself it's a real challenge.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And again you guys, the Storehouse of Henderson
County has been serving thecommunity since 2000,.
25 years.
It's a.
It is a 501 C3.
Yes, and it's a nonprofit.
And again you guys are doingthe, the senior delivery routes
and the food pantry right.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yes, we run the food pantry every week, the senior
delivery routes.
That's happening while we'rethere and then at beginning in
Octoberober we partner withhenderson county public schools
and we do christmas with theschools.
So last year was an unusualyear because the hurricane.
Normally we serve about 2 000plus kids.
(08:00):
Last year it was 2,700 kids andthe little director here about
went under, but it stillhappened it still happened.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Well, and you, because of the nine months ago,
I mean, we were experiencingthis hurricane and, uh, you know
, right before Christmas and,like you said, you had a, you
know, 25 percent increase.
You know, from 2,000, if Idoing my math right, but from
2,000 children to 2,500 childrendoing Christmas 2,700 kids, oh
(08:33):
my word, oh, my word.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And it was such generous people from this area
and outside the area that madethis happen and outside the area
that made this happen.
But the one thing I want toimpress upon people is yes, the
water's back on and the power'sback on, but life has not gone
back to normal.
Now there's a bigger housingshortage here for the people who
(08:57):
are affected.
People are still not back intheir homes.
There's still blue tarpseverywhere.
Once you drive outside the citylimits, you will see how the
land is still ravaged here.
Bridges are still out, um yeah,it's the the.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
It is still a long road of recovery ahead of us in
our community and, uh, you knowwe've recently been helping some
clients in the back cave arealooking to sell their property
and so to be out there and tosee again some of these areas,
just the total destruction.
It's hard to comprehend and forpeople that are still in those
(09:40):
areas they're seeing it everysingle day, versus people that
are living in town or whatnot,it's out of sight, out of mind.
But a reminder is again ourcommunity is still recovering.
It's still a long road ofrecovery ahead.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Yeah, and we're still dealing with the families who
are affected.
You know, now, not only didthey have the challenges before,
but now they have theadditional challenges from the
hurricane.
And how are we going to getthrough the summer?
The kids are home, we need morefood, you know, those things
are still going on, on top ofthe fact that, well, we still
(10:13):
don't have the bridge fixed andwe have to walk across the river
every day.
Right, just random stuff.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
It's a lot, yes, across the river every day,
right, just it's random stuff.
It's a lot, yeah, and and sothe amount of work and needs
that are still out there aresignificant.
And this is the long game, thisis the marathon that we're in,
and, uh, you are having now yourannual fourth of july, fourth
of July matching fund raiser.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Yes, we had about 13 years ago I think I've lost all
my numbers in the hurricane.
We had a veteran couple walkinto our office and say hey, we
received this inheritance.
We are challenging you, we willmatch anything you raise up to
$10,000.
(11:01):
And you got eight weeks andthey turned around and walked
out and I'm like, oh my gosh,what are we going to do?
So we got on the radio and weadvertised and advertised and
advertised and that first yearwe raised $11,000.
So we met that match and raised$21,000.
So we met that match and raised$21,000.
(11:22):
And ever since then, you know,we were like, okay, what are we
going to do next year?
They're not going to get aninheritance next year.
And we came up, we startedpartnering with the churches and
so we had five churches thefirst year and then it went to
seven.
Now there's a one business and,I think, eight or nine churches
(11:43):
there's 10 on the list this yearand they partner with us and we
have a goal this year of 150000, which meets all of our food
, budget and operating expensesthat's amazing Because we have
two paid staff and everybodyelse is volunteer and people
(12:04):
don't realize we have 75 plusvolunteers that come in every
day that we're open, pack thoseboxes, carry them to the cars,
unload the trucks, go do thepickups, do the deliveries.
We have seven routes here inHenderson County.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
They take all this stuff out to people and it's all
volunteer run and which keepsyou guys are so efficient and
the money donated stays in thecommunity and it goes and it's
all going back to the communityand and it's a way to get
involved, that's now.
I know you guys are alwayslooking for more volunteers.
There's always opportunitythere and there's opportunity to
(12:44):
give financially.
So this year, with the goal of$150,000, with the matching
funds of the churches and alsoAdvent Health, which again I
know that's a significantpartnership there.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Yeah, partnership there.
Yeah, our sponsors are AdventHealth East, flat Rock, first
Baptist Church, ebenezer BaptistChurch, first Baptist Church,
fruitland Baptist Church, graceLutheran Church, hendersonville
Church of God, hendersonvillePresbyterian Church, reformation
Presbyterian Church and StJames Episcopal Church.
(13:17):
So it always just goes to letyou know that all the churches
can play nice and we are here asa community.
It is a group effort.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Coming together.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
It is a coming together kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
So today's the last day of June.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
And again excited about the 4th of July.
But this is your 4th of JulySpark the Change matching fund
fundraiser and you guys startedJune 1st at the beginning of the
month, but this is going to runthrough the end of July.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Yes, we have until July 31st.
That's amazing.
If you want to drop it by orwrite a check, just put 4th of
July on there and we'll knowwhich fund it goes into.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Again, your dollars can go further with this
fundraiser right now.
So when are you open and wewant to talk?
We have a short break coming upin the second half of the show.
We want to talk about the newbuilding, which is so exciting.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So, temporarily, you're still in your current
location yes, we are in ourcurrent location with a very
great landlord and but we have4,200 square feet to do all this
work in and we are gonna get tomove up the road as soon as the
building's completed to analmost 12,000 square foot
(14:36):
building that's amazing triplingyour size yes, much needed.
And so now my office won't bethat, won't have four sets of
people in it.
You know my, it's my office,it's the bookkeeper's office,
it's the day to entry people'soffice and the senior delivery
route office.
So there's four or five thingsworking out of my office well
(14:58):
that again it just shows the,the bootstrapping.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I mean you and your team and your volunteers.
I mean you did whatever it tookand you continue to do whatever
it takes, and again, with theefforts and the needs now being
even more so with after thehurricane in our community.
So there is an opportunity togive, and you mentioned earlier
I've shared this before we havejust two sides of the same coin
(15:22):
incredible prosperity here,incredible wealth here, and on
the other side of the coin,great needs and hopefully, our
listeners.
Again, I know we have a lot ofregular listeners and they are
(15:44):
able to share with their friendsand family.
We're going to podcast this.
We actually podcast all of ourradio shows and so please share
this podcast with your friendsand family about the storehouse
and the opportunity to give andto participate and be part of
that.
And again, we have a shortbreak coming up, but we'll be
back, but we're going to talkabout the new building and all
the things going on there.
(16:04):
There's opportunities toparticipate in that as well.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
And you don't have to wait for the new building.
You can come see us at 1049Spartanburg Highway now.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You can see the metal structures are up right now.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Well, that's down the road a little bit.
You know it's a mile and a halffrom us where we're at now.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
But if you don't want to wait, oh, you can stop by
and see your office right now Ifyou don't want to wait until
the building's up.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
hey, we always need help.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
That's right.
So that's awesome.
Lynn, thank you so much forbeing here Again.
We have a short break.
You're listening to the GeorgiaReal Estate Group radio
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(16:53):
market.
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Life happens Could be a reallypositive reason why our clients
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It could be a challengingreason but no matter what it is,
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(17:14):
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You're listening to the GeorgeReal Estate Group radio
broadcast here on the Q everyMonday morning sharing with you
about our local real estatemarket and community.
We're so grateful to be here.
Welcome back.
We're now in the second half ofthe show and just grateful to
have Lynn Staggs with us here.
With the storehouse of HendersonCounty We've been having that
conversation about theirupcoming 4th of July fundraiser.
Doorhouse of Henderson County.
(17:59):
We've been having thatconversation about their
upcoming 4th of July fundraiseror their current 4th of July
fundraiser.
That's running from June 1stall the way through the end of
July and we'll continue to havethat conversation.
Before we do that, just a quicksnapshot on the market.
We're still running about 126single-family homes a month
selling in Henderson County.
The demand remains steady.
I mean, we've actually seen,actually seen uh year to date.
We've seen more homes sold,just a little bit more homes
(18:22):
sold this year today versus thisyear to date last year.
The prices are are holding andI always I know lynn loves
guessing the average singlefamily home price in henderson
county.
If you want to take a guess Isay 542.
The most recent data I have is539.
So you're so close, but 542 isa good guess and we did it when
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earlier this year we peaked outin the 550s.
That's come down a little bitwith the average price.
The median price is holding,but when we look at what's
happening in the supply anddemand, I mean the prices are
holding.
Yes, is it down a little bitfrom earlier this year, but the
fact that we're selling morehomes but we are seeing a little
bit more inventory on themarket, so the market's
(19:08):
softening Days on market aretaking a little bit longer.
Interest rates are holding, butwe still see about a third, we
see about a third of our salesin Henderson County being
purchased with cash.
So we still have cash sales andthis might come as a surprise.
I mentioned in the firstsegment the number of homes
selling in the surroundingcounties.
Now the average single-familyhome price in Buncombe County is
(19:30):
in the high sixes actually, andthe average single-family home
price in Transylvania County isin the sevens.
Oh, I believe that.
So it's fascinating.
The market's the market, but,as I say many times, the real
estate happens around life.
Therefore, life happens,therefore real estate happens,
and it could be a reallypositive reason why you're
(19:50):
buying or selling, or it couldbe a challenging reason.
Whatever it might be, we'd loveto interview for the job.
And if you're thinking aheadwith your estate, thinking ahead
with your tax planning and, inregards to real estate, we're
working with selling, we'vehelped a lot of our clients with
their own land.
We've helped a lot of ourclients that own real estate
portfolios and their investmentproperties.
In regards to what do you do?
(20:12):
How do you plan ahead?
What should you do?
Maybe you might want toconsider giving some of your
real estate to a nonprofit.
I mean, there's different waysto think about things, but
whether it's your personal home,investment property, commercial
property or raw land, we'd loveto have the conversation.
Give us a call today828-393-0134, 828-393-0134.
(20:37):
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You can certainly share thispodcast with your friends and
family.
So, lynn, you guys have been inthe works now for a long time,
planning ahead and working onthis new building.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yes, and I'm excited because we're busting at the
seams of our old building, and Ido mean that in the literal
sense some days we can only beopen three days a week because
of space confinements and it's asafety issue.
We can't unload a truck andunpack and put everything away
while we're operating becausewe're just space confined.
(21:12):
Everybody drives by and theywere like but you got that big
old building, but we don't havethat whole building, we just
have the front two units, and somoving 1.7 miles up the road is
going to give us almost triplethe space.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
That's incredible, and so your vision of being able
to serve more, to help more,your capacity goes up.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yes, our capacity, our days open, being able to
offer classes, having cookingclasses in there, having other
partners come in and be able touse the space to help our
clients with issues that theymay have.
People from the co-op be ableto come in and go hey, let's
(22:00):
teach you how to cook spaghettisquash.
Or you know, here's what you dowith this weird vegetable.
You don't know what to do witheggplant?
Here you can do this.
So just teaching people things.
You know we pack a box.
People go to food pantries.
I personally want to do a classcalled cooking out of the box.
So here's your box that you get.
(22:21):
What can we do with what yougot today?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
And again, it's sharing the knowledge.
It's helping your clientelemake the resources go further.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yes, and knowing what to do with the weird vegetables
, things that they've neverexperienced.
Some people, unfortunately,have grown up on chicken nuggets
and fries and never had sauteedzucchini.
So those kind of things, youknow, even though for me I'm
like, really, those kind ofthings are the things that we
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need to be teaching people, weneed to be showing them.
Here's what you do with freshstuff.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
So your clients are getting fresh vegetables?
Oh yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
We get fresh vegetables from Sam's Club.
We get them from man of FoodBank.
We get them from some of thelocal farmers here, the Johnson
Farm.
They give us fresh, freshvegetables, so we're getting
fresh stuff.
The orchards give us apples andfruits and so that's amazing.
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We have a plethora of things.
Health food.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
That again it's being I, uh, I.
I recently was at a propertyand talking about eating fresh
vegetables.
This property we were at had afarm and had, uh, some crops and
they'd recently harvested, uh,some okra no, no, not okra, it
was asparagus and there was afew stalks still, uh, that were
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there and we just snapped thestalks of the asparagus and we
ate it right there.
It was the most sweet tasting,uh, it's not like asparagus
again, it was just eating the.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
The asparagus right out of the ground was amazing
yeah, and and people don'trealize too you have a pot on
your porch.
We have planter beds at ourhouse.
I don't buy tomatoes andlettuce and cilantro and stuff.
It's right there in my frontyard.
I just grow it and there'snothing like having your stuff
fresh.
You walk outside and just pullwhat you need.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
My neighbor is so gracious, she grows heirloom
tomatoes.
Oh my word, and she's sogenerous and kind and there's
nothing better than a fresh cuttomato off the vine.
Yes, it's the best, and I thinkwe're coming up.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
They're going to be getting ready pretty soon.
Here the little tomatoes arealready popping.
It's amazing.
The cilantro is I mean.
That's going all the time.
The lettuce is just coming up.
I can't give it away fastenough.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
But you have this vision for cooking classes.
Yes, and for your helping thecommunity through that avenue
with this new building.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yes, I want the building to be used as many days
a week as we can.
That's the purpose of it tohelp this community, to teach in
this community, to get theresidents in this community on
their feet.
Better, more well-versed,better equipped.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
And this is again.
You just finished.
This is your 25th anniversaryof the storehouse and this year
and back in May was your 25thanniversary.
And then how appropriate andjust again the vision you've had
in this new building for thenext 25 plus years.
I mean it's amazing in thegenerosity of the community to
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make it possible the visionyou've had to get back to the
community.
And then I mean it's incredible.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, and the thing is is, the building is a simple
plan.
I just need 13,000 people todonate $150 each and the whole
thing's paid for.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
No problem.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Then we have no mortgage and everything that
comes in will go to directprogram costs.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Because we saved money.
We purchased the stuff up frontand so we didn't have to.
You know, we do have a loan,but I don't want to use it.
So reach out to your friends,your family.
$150 is doable.
Some people can do a whole lotmore.
Some people can go in withtheir friend and do 75 each
which is amazing again, whateverlevel that you're able to give.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yes, so the, the building, uh, you know the funds
which you're working on, butagain, we were focusing on
fourth of july I mean not that.
I mean I mean it's allimportant, it's all important.
So again, these two things aregoing on at the same time.
The 4th of July matching funds,again running through the end
of the July reach out, go totheir website, call, stop by.
(26:53):
I mean, there's so manydifferent ways and we're so
thankful for the churches andalso Advent Health that we're
matching the funds.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Yes, because we I mean the $150,000, that gets all
of our stuff met, all of ourfood we're able to purchase, you
know, because you can't geteverything at one place.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Well, and you've shared with us before that the
needs have grown Grownextensively.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yes, the needs have grown, grown extensively.
Yes, so I mean the matchingfunds and and this fourth of
july match that carries us yearto year, the building that will
carry us years into the futurethat's amazing.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Well, thank you, lynn , and all your 75 plus
volunteers and your staff.
That makes it all possible.
Always grateful to have youhere on the radio.
Again, it's important to us tosupport the Storehouse and our
nonprofit community here in thecommunity.
It's making a difference in ourcommunity.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Just visit us at storehouseonlineorg.
You can come see us at 1049Spartanburg Highway or call us
at 692-8300.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Awesome, lynn.
Thank you so much.
And to our listeners again,we're just if you can consider
volunteering or giving.
I mean whether it's with yourtime or your resources.
I mean there's always.
I hear from clients moving herefrom all over.
They're so blown away by thegenerosity but also the
volunteer community that we livein and the nonprofit world
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that's here and people want toget involved and they're joining
and they're moving here andthey're saying where can I
volunteer?
And we see this happeningfrequently.
But people are moving here, andalso our natives and people
that have grown up here again,that have seen and want to give
back regularly.
And Lynn made a decision togive back and to be a catalyst
(28:42):
for our community.
So thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I love here.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, I tell people all the time I'm biased.
I think we live in one of themost amazing places and the
people are amazing and there'stwo sides of the coin incredible
prosperity and there'sincredible need.
So, again, there's anopportunity to give and to
donate and to be generous, andthat's what life's so much more
than what we make it about.
Again, the relationships, thehelping others, being kind.
(29:09):
Again, it's those things thatwe'll remember.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
That's why we sell more houses.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
We love serving our community through real estate,
so we are grateful.
We've had an incredible year.
Continue to help and continueto advocate for our clients
buying and selling.
So give us a call 828-393-0134,828-393-0134.
Find us online atrealestatebygregcom.
Follow us on Facebook, followour podcast.
But have a great day, have ahappy 4th of July and we'll see
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you next Monday.
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