September Steve & Jack's Home News

Welcome Fall (almost)! It certainly feels like it! We hope you are enjoying the cooler weather even though it means winter is just around the corner. School is now back in session for everyone and our crazy schedule certainly proves it with soccer (4x/week), swimming lessons, piano lessons, choir (2x/week), & Girls Scouts, not to mention homework and birthday parties, etc. Whew! I am tired just thinking of all of that! We hope you are enjoying the nutty fall season as well.

Real estate has slowed a little, but is still going VERY strong. Inventory is down another 14.1% to just 5.6 months, the median sales price is up 5.3%, and closed sales are up 27.5%. Hamilton County is seeing even stronger numbers and is down to just 4.1 months of inventory with closed sales up 39.6%! We are having our best year EVER and are so incredibly grateful to you our loyal clients for making that happen. THANK YOU!

Did you receive your 2013 football calendar from us a few weeks ago? We hope you enjoy it as a little gift to say thank you for your support over the years. We have a couple of more ways we would like to say thank you as well:

1) You should have received a Save The Date invitation in the mail about a week ago for a private screening of the upcoming movie Frozen, which we are showing on Saturday, December 7th. A donut and juice bar opens at 9AM and the private screening begins at 10AM at the Hamilton Town Centre movie theater in Noblesville. We rented out the entire theatre for you, your children and your grandchildren, so bring the whole family and let us treat you to a fun and entertaining Disney movie for the entire family. The trailer is hilarious.

2) We are GIVING away TWO tickets to the most popular football game of the season, which is the Colts vs. Broncos game broadcast on national TV at Lucas Oil Stadium on Sunday Night Football on October 20th at 8:30PM. This game has been SOLD OUT for months and these tickets are incredibly difficult to get. If you would like to be entered into our drawing, you must CALL ME at 317-573-1880. A drawing will be held on Friday, October 18th and the winner will be notified via phone, so please make sure you leave a phone number and your name when you call. In order to qualify to have your name entered into the drawing, you must have bought, sold, or built a home with us OR have referred a client to us anytime in the past whether it was this year or 40+ years ago. If you haven't done any of those, don't worry, there is still time. Good luck!

Finally, check out the September edition of our newsletter. There are some cool articles about not giving up your dreams, regardless of what anyone says and another article about how to get a raise from your boss, as well as many others.

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September 2012 Steve & Jack's Home News

Welcome to the end of summer! With school starting earlier and earlier, it seems like summer is getting shorter and shorter. Ana started 2nd grade last Tuesday and Talia started in the TOTS program at Ana's school last week as well. Both absolutely LOVE their teachers and classmates. We are so fortunate to have such amazing schools! They both attend Maple Glen Elementary in Westfield and we couldn't be happier. Hopefully, if you have school-age children, they had a smooth transition as well going back to school.

With the new school year comes new activities. Ana has taken an interest in voice and piano and has been taking lessons weekly to encourage and improve her skills in both. We have been very happy with her progress, but getting her to practice is not always easy... Ana has also started soccer again and Brigid is her coach once again. Both enjoy it and Ana is also taking an additional developmental practice session for 5-weeks to sharpen her skills. She seems to enjoy that as well. Finally, we signed Ana up (at her request) to sing in the Indianapolis Childrens' Choir. If she likes it, we will probably continue it, but Ana knows she can't do any more activities without discontinuing a current one. Mom and dad have run out of time!!!

Earlier this month our family traveled to Tampa, FL to visit Brigid's parents for a few days and then we took our first Carnival cruise. Over the years, we have taken a couple Disney cruises, a Costa cruise and I took a couple of Royal Caribbean cruises with my family while in college. We were interested to see how our experience would be with Carnival.

Overall, it was quite good and we would recommend Carnival to others. It was a smaller ship and an older ship celebrating its 10-year anniversary while we were on board. We were able to get a good deal and secured a stateroom with a balcony for Brigid and me and then got an adjoining inside stateroom for the girls. That arrangement worked great allowing us to relax on the balcony at night after they went to bed and during Talia's naps.

The food was surprisingly good, except for the last night. The dining room service was extremely slow, however. The shows at night were a disaster and even the crew admitted they were terrible! We enjoyed the family comedy shows early each evening. The Carnival Kids Club was amazing and was actually rated higher than Disney!!! The girls both loved it so much, they didn't want to hang out with us the rest of the cruise! We enjoyed several relaxing dinners and comedy shows, as a result. Our ports of call were Cozumel, Belize, Roatan, & Grand Cayman. We swam with the dolphins in Cozumel, stayed on the ship in Belize as there wasn't much we wanted to do there, took a zip line tour through the forest in Roatan (without the girls, of course), and enjoyed a pirate ship ride in Grand Cayman.

We were lucky that we missed both hurricanes, which came through there the weeks prior and following our trip. Carnival is trying really hard to kick its reputation of being a 'booze cruise' and instead is more of a family cruise now. We had a great time and will probably do it again. If you get the chance to take their 'Behind The Fun' tour, do it!! It was fascinating to see areas of the ship guests never see.

Jack and Mary Anne are both doing well and enjoying taking some trips and playing lots of bridge. I was fortunate that Jack was able to cover for me while we were gone. That is quite a relief knowing your clients are in great hands while you are away.

As for the real estate market, it is still going strong! Closed sales are UP 16.6%, the median home sales price is UP 5.3%, and inventory is DOWN 11.6% to 7.8 months. These are all great numbers and are contributing to one of the strongest years in real estate that we have seen in years.

Enjoy the end of summer and feel comfortable calling us anytime we can help.

Here is a sneak peek into this month's newsletter:
• Better Write It Down
• September Quiz Question
• Have A Peaceful September
• Are You in The Cloud?
• Six Innovative Questions
• Movie Homes for Sale
• Four Interesting Food Facts
• Thrifty Car Management
• You Probably Suspected...
• Early Signs of Diabetes
• Why So Many Zippers Say YKK

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September 2011 Steve & Jack's Home News

Check out the latest edition of our fun and informative newsletter. The link will also take you to our VIP discount site and a first-ever video introduction!! Let us know what you think!!! Enjoy!!

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