Wednesday, December 23, 2015

January 2016 Steve & Jack's Home News Newsletter

Merry Christmas & Happy 2016!!!

We hope you are ready for Christmas (if you celebrate it) and are planning to celebrate with family and friends. We are hosting Brigid's parents and brother and his family at our house for about one week, so we will have a full house! Christmas Eve we spend with Jack & Mary Anne with a nice dinner, Christmas Eve services, and opening presents with my sister Michelle and her family. Christmas Day is spent at home with our family and then Christmas afternoon we go to Brigid's Aunt & Uncle's for a huge dinner with her family. Fortunately, everyone is local so that makes traveling much easier. We hope you enjoy your celebrations wherever they take you.

We have a LOT of THANK YOUs, so please read on...

THANK YOU to all of our clients for attending our 3rd Annual VIP Client Appreciation Event at the movies a couple of weeks ago!! We had a huge turnout and loved seeing everyone. The movie was fantastic and we highly recommend The Good Dinosaur if you haven't seen it already. If you weren't able to make it this year, please know we missed you and hope you will plan to join us next year for our 4th Annual event!

THANK YOU also to all of our clients who have attended a Happy Hour in 2015. This as something new we decided to do this year and boy, has it been a big hit. We love seeing you in a relaxed and fun environment and catching up on what has been going on in your lives. We even provide FREE food and drinks! These are held the 3rd Wednesday of every month from 5-6:30PM and have been at Matt The Miller's in Carmel. **Please note a change in location for January. We will be meeting at The Stacked Pickle located at the NE corner of 116th & Allisonville Road in Fishers. This is a family-friendly restaurant, so feel free to bring your kids. Since we usually host our monthly Happy Hours in the bar area of Matt The Miller's, we thought we would try a family-friendly location and see how you like it. Your comments and opinions are welcome and encouraged and will determine our February location.

THANK YOU to everyone who has played our FunDay Monday contests!!! This is also something new for 2015 and it has been a BIG hit. It is always fun to see answers and the occasional comment to the monthly quizzes. If you have played, thank you and we hope you will continue to do so. If you haven't, please consider playing with us in 2016. The winner receives a FREE Amazon gift card each month.

THANK YOU to our amazing clients, especially those of you who have submitted a great review of us! Because of your efforts and stellar grades, you have earned us our first-ever Angie's List Super Service Award for 2015!!! We are SO excited about this honor. Only 5% of agents on Angie's List earn this award. We just found out yesterday and couldn't be happier. Thank you so much!! We have a lot of new plans in place for an even higher level of service to our clients next year as we strive to repeat this honor. Please do keep us in mind for the next person you know who is thinking about buying, selling, or building a new home and needs our help. We promise to deliver 'raving fan' service and show them why we earned the Super Service award. Your referrals are what keep us in business!

THANK YOU to all of our clients for 2015!! Because of you, we were able to help more clients than ever before. We continue to be amazed at how loyal our clients are and we are grateful to you for inviting us to help you and those you care about. We would love to help even more clients in 2016 and with your help, we will!

Steve, Brigid, Ana, & Tali returned from a dream vacation to Germany & Austria a couple weeks ago. It was simply amazing and we loved spending time in Bavaria. We saw lots of castles including Neuschwanstein, and Linderhof, stood at the top of the highest point in all of Germany in the Alps-the Zugspitze, visited over one dozen Christmas markets, and safely navigated the twisting countryside roads with the 'crazy' German drivers. They drive FAST!! The beer is cheap and very good and so is the food! We have attached a few photos, if you would like to see some of the sights.

Due to the unseasonably warm winter as well as dangerously low inventory and rising interest rates, we are seeing unusually active real estate right now. Don't get me wrong, there aren't a TON of buyers in the market around the holidays, but the ones that ARE, are very serious and houses are selling. If you or someone you care about is thinking of moving, please give us a call today so we can share specifics with you so you can make an informed decision about your options. Home prices are going up, inventory is going down and the list price-to-sale price ratio continues to increase. Distressed sales now are lower than 2006 levels! This is all good news for homeowners.

From our family to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a very prosperous 2016!

Your Personal Real Estate Consultants...for Life!
Steve & Jack Rupp

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