‘Gene’s Financial Notes. . .’ Archives
Real Estate or Monopoly??
Wow! We were thanking God for great weather here in the Valley of the Sun last week so God blessed us with even nicer weather this week! Day time temperatures in the 70’s were delightful! Last year was unseasonably warm at this time. We had just moved down from the White Mountains and Deb found the Valley heat a real challenge! This [...]
Real Estate 101 As Taught at Church
Deb and I are active in a Mesa, AZ church, City of Grace. For those who like pigeon holes to classify churches, most would put us in the charismatic pigeon hole—others refer to this as Pentecostal lite! For those unfamiliar with such things, that means we are among those people who believe God created the world to put us on it for the [...]
Lessons from Jack
Trust you have all been praying for our Southern neighbors that were ravaged by all this crazy weather the last several days! I went to the Gulf Coast after the big 1999 hurricane to help in the clean-up effort. I surveyed a lot of the damage caused in a 1970’s tornado in Grand Island, Nebraska. Mother Nature can demonstrate incredible [...]
Trust the Process. . .
Trust everyone had a happy Easter! Easter represents such a great event for those of us who claim the name of Christ followers! It represents the very essence of our faith. It signifies for us that we know how the great cosmic revolt between God and Satan ended; even though its acts are still being played out in our earthly realm. We have [...]
Week in Review
The last article I wrote, I mentioned what a whirlwind week we had gone through!! Last week went from whirlwind to intense as I was processing some listings for an REO pool and the other agents were out showing and writing Offers. I blew right through Saturday scrambling to get stuff done. I worked right in to our Saturday night “wind down [...]
Whirlwind Week With Good Deals!!
This weekend, Humberto’s wife Rita is entered in the salsa contest over at Tempe Town Lake!!! She makes great Salsa and was actually getting ready to launch it as a commercial enterprise before having a severe health challenge a few months ago. We are rooting for her grand prize!!!! We have had a whirl wind week at 1st Interstate! Just [...]
Epiphany Number Two!!
The weather in the Valley of the Sun has been absolutely marvelous!!! About mid-week, New Hampshire friends posted pictures on Facebook of their kids romping in the snow. I observed that I saw very different scenery when I looked out the window from the office! Dawn retorted with a warning that we just might have several unexpected dinner [...]
Out of the Box and Into a Better Future. . .
Deb and I celebrate our anniversary this week! We were reminiscing the other night about our wedding day. We had some of our friends from the Christian chat room where we met come in from the Eastern Seaboard. One gal flew all the way from Oregon; but of course that had more to do with her desire to meet our chat room musician friend than it [...]
Out of the Box and Into a Better Future. . .
This has been quite a week in the Call household. Debbie had her agenda set last Saturday!!! She kissed me good-bye and headed down the hall from the office as a woman on a mission!!! Gabby, our playful Calico, sprinted beside her and ducked between her legs sending Deb tail over tea kettle through the kitchen door onto the kitchen floor! [...]
Sequel–It’s Buyin’ Time Again 2. . . .
Several events happened this week that prompted the “sequel”. Darrell had buyers from the agricultural portion of Canada fly in for a week end of house hunting. In a marathon effort, they found four that they were ready to buy and Darrell has the number one choice under contract. Another Canadian farmer learned of us on the internet, [...]
