Monday, November 23, 2015

December 2015 Steve & Jack's Home News

Happy Thanksgiving & Merry Christmas!!

We hope you are preparing to enjoy some time away from work and the hustle and bustle of life to spend with family and friends and truly be thankful for what we have. After some horrifying events around the world, it can become difficult to be grateful and thankful for what you have. Here are a few things for which we are thankful and will not take for granted:

Our health
Our family
Our faith
Our friends
Our country
Our clients
We are curious, for what are you most thankful?

Thank you to all of our clients for attending our final Happy Hour of 2015 last Wednesday at Matt The Miller's!! We had another great turnout and it was so nice to see so many clients & referral partners. We are grateful for the trust you have placed in us and for our friendship. See you in January!!

Thank you to so many of our clients for attending our Pictures with Santa on Saturday!! Santa was so happy to see so many smiles and hear all of the presents the kids asked him to bring. We will be sending you the photos from that afternoon in the next couple of days as we know many of you are waiting on them for Christmas cards. If you didn't get a chance to join us this year, please plan to attend next year. It is always a great time!

You should have received an invitation to our annual VIP Client Appreciation Event on December 12th from 8:30-11AM at Hamilton Towne Center movie theater. We already have a big group attending and look forward to seeing you there. We will have food and drinks and then show the soon-to-be-released movie The Good Dinosaur. It has received excellent reviews and know kids and adults alike will enjoy it. Please come and join us as we say Thank You for everything you have done for us. Parents, children, grandparents, grandchildren are all welcome. Please RSVP by December 1st to Kylie Zajac @ Kylie@Welcome2Indy.com with the number of adults & children in your party. Thank you for letting us 'love' on you!!

Our family had our Thanksgiving a little early this year and celebrated it yesterday with Brigid's parents who were up from Florida. Brigid did another amazing job cooking and Mary Anne and Michelle helped with bringing delicious desserts. No one walked away hungry!!

The reason we celebrated Thanksgiving a little early was Steve & Brigid are crossing off a 'bucket list' item and are flying to Germany & Austria on Wednesday for 12-days. Ana & Tali are coming along and are very excited about being out of the country for the first time aside from some cruises. We fly from Chicago to Berlin and then on to Salzburg. We plan to stay in Bavaria the entire time and enjoy the Christmas Markets, sled down the Alps, play in a thermal spring-fed water park, see Neuschwanstein castle, and much more!! This will be Steve's 3rd trip to the area and Brigid's 2nd, but our first trip to Europe since Brigid was 7-months' pregnant with Ana 10-years' ago!! Although recent events are in the back of our minds, we refuse to cancel our dream vacation. We are looking forward to getting away and showing our girls other cultures so they have more of an appreciation of how people can be different from us, but that doesn't make their way of life wrong or ours better. This is going to be a trip experiencing other cultures and traditions and one of tolerance and understanding. We can only hope that people in other countries and throughout the US adopt that same mentality as our world would be a much better and peaceful place for us our and children to live. Please say a prayer for our safe travels as we confront some obvious fears.

Finally, the housing market continues to be good. We are getting asked this question quite a bit. Inventory is extremely low and in some areas near 1-month-very unhealthy. First-time buyers only make up approximately 30% of the overall buyers and normally, they comprise 40%. We need first-time buyers to start the domino chain and we need people to put their houses on the market. Prices continue to rise and so will interest rates, so now is the time to sell, even though the holidays traditionally see lower traffic. With so few houses with which to compete, your chances are pretty good with each showing you get. Call us today if you or someone you care about is thinking about selling in the next 6-months. We would love to consult with you about your options and share facts and data so you can make an informed decision.

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to you and your family!!! We hope to see you at the movie on December 12th!!

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Steve & Jack Rupp

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