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Franklin American Mortgage Real Estate Report -- Leisa Johnson
"Lenders have been inundated with refinances for some time now. If business is that good, why invite more business in the door by loosening credit standards? Well, now that the real estate recovery is underway and rates are moving up a bit, we get news that banks are indeed loosening credit standards ever so slightly. We think this is one other step that will help make the recovery even stronger. In this case, higher rates are actually good news. There is a lot of latent demand out there and if this demand increases, so will job creation and this will create more demand for real estate and consumer goods. Five years ago, we were in a vicious cycle. Slightly looser credit could help us move to a full virtuous cycle. Don't expect the subprime days to come back, but every little bit helps. And if you read that rates have increased, you may realize that this could be the last opportunity to take advantage of the Fed's sale on money -- whether you are looking to purchase a home, refinance or even purchase an automobile. Don't step, leap at the opportunity."
Greenville Downtown
Euphoria Wine and Food Festival starring musician Edwin McCain brings visitors from many places. Read the great article: http://www.starkinsider.com/2012/10/eat-play-euphoria-greenville-south-carolina-travel-news-tips.html
http://talkgreenville.com/article/20120301/TALKGREENVILLE/303010079/1192/TALK02
TALK magazine was kind to feature my personal home in March issue of TALK in bungalow designed homes. I live in an historic neighborhood in downtown Greenville and it was an honor to see the photo spread that Owen Riley photographed. Owen captured light, texture, depicting my home in the artistic style that I love. Many thanks to Kim Hassold, Stephanie Morgan, and Owen Riley.
Lil Glenn's Blog
George Hincapie continues to promote our community to the international world. International Cycling Union is interested in our town to host an inter-national event. Already Greenville is the chosen place for USA Cycling Pro Championships and Roger C. Peace US Handcycling National Criterium championship. In addition to Hincapie....... cudos to the City of Greenville and residents for keeping patience while adding bike lanes plus redesign of streets. It is worth the inconvenience. George is an advocate, an example, and pure friend to Greenville while the community embraces his presence and efforts. Win-win for Greenville!!
Lil Glenn
No wonder everyone is looking to visit downtown Greenville!! This Sunday morning I walked Main, McBee, River Place, and looked with a curious eye.....as if I was a newcomer, searching for a new place to call home. WOW, among the tall buildings, glass Peace Center, sculpture dots each corner, brick reliefs depict slices of the day way back when Vardry was alive. Water rushes in the fountains at the artisit row of River Place offering metal benches to sit and get lost in the sounds of the river flowing and mallards flyings. Now I know why visitors want to become residents of downtown Greenville. Check it out sometime!!
Lil Glenn's Blog
Sometimes the word expert appears in my description. Really, not sure I am an expert in anything. As I grow older, I realize the less I really know. I love learning and knowing about real estate and especially building relationships with clients. I educate myself in classes.....each day I learn something new about people and their needs. If a person being open to new experiences and listening to others is an expert then perhaps I am.
Ashley Warlick's article on Greenville in Garden and Gun
BY ASHLEY WARLICK | AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2011 | CITY PORTRAIT Sweet Greenville The hippest little city in South Carolina More on Greenville: Greenville: Where to Eat Greenville: Where to Drink Greenville: What to Do Greenville: The Residents Say you marry your first boyfriend. You know about boys before that, the way you know about internal combustion engines: You can recognize one when you see it, and you have expectations it will take you somewhere. A boy ought to spin you around, buy you dinner, bring you flowers every once in a while. Say you meet a boy, and he does all that, and you go ahead and get married. You’re young. It’s not like you can say you know what you’re doing, but nobody’s going to tell you otherwise either. You’ve got a plan. This is my first real hometown. Not somewhere I was born, but somewhere I picked myself. We moved to Greenville almost twelve years ago for the reasons people move places. There was a job at Furman University in a campus like a park, with a student body as nice and earnest as a professor’s dream. My brother lived here, finishing a degree at Clemson. Our daughter was young, I wanted to be near family again, and coming off a long run in Pennsylvania, I wanted to be back in the South, where I grew up. It seemed like a nice town, rich in dogwoods and azaleas, in shade. A Southern town ought to have a lot of azaleas, a good barbecue joint with a Sunday church crowd, and some dead heroes in the cemeteries whom people still claim as their own. We bought a house just off the end of Main Street from a man who said the iron insets in the gates on the white picket fence had come from his family’s side of the Faulkner clan, and when I met his mother, I could ask. It was just what we were looking for. When we moved in, our neighbors Lamar and Bob brought us a bottle of wine and a card printed with a poem by the late South Carolina poet laureate Bennie Lee Sinclair, because they had heard I was a writer. Lamar was in set design; Bob mostly liked to watch my brother work on his car in our driveway. This, not far from the ultraconservative shadow of Bob Jones University. We could spot the girls in the grocery store with their skirts past their knees, and the boys buying flowers every Friday, even though there was no dating allowed on campus. It seemed sweetly confused, like whatever’s going on over there was as private as what’s going on in my neighborhood. I liked the idea, even back then, that this town had room enough for both. 123NextLast Photo credit: Andrew Stephen Cebulka VIEW MORE IMAGES
Fountain Inn - City Seeks Foot Traffic - June 16, 2009
Project to boost Fountain Inn economy Against a backdrop of aging Fountain Inn buildings, the city broke ground Monday on a new Commerce Park and Historical Center that it hopes will spur a rebirth of economic development. With the old Woodside Mill in the background and the back of a row of brick Main Street buildings opening up onto Depot Street, the planned $2 million development will incorporate the old with the new – a history museum and farmers market with a tourism center and new Chamber of Commerce building – in a development that will rise next to a set of train tracks where the former depot once stood. City leaders said the project fits with the city's master plan to attract foot traffic to downtown Fountain Inn's sidewalks. Saying it would add “new life” and a realization of more than 10 years of dreams, Fountain Inn Mayor Gary Long called the project exciting for the growth of the city Included in the first phase of the development is a 3,500 square-foot open air farmer's market pavilion with 20 stalls and public restrooms that is slated to open in October or early November, said Eddie Case, city administrator. It could be used to host the city's ice skating rink during its Spirit of Christmas Past festival as well as events throughout the year, he said. A 5,200 square-foot building divided into office space for the Fountain Inn Chamber of Commerce and the Fountain Inn History Museum would open in April 2010, Case said. “We decided that this site would provide the best opportunity to bring to downtown some foot traffic that we desperately needed,” Case said. (Nathaniel Cary – Staff Writer – Greenville News – June 16, 2009)
Greenville Rated Top "Micro City" April 21, 2009
Per fDi Magazine, Greenville is ranked the No.1 "micro cities of the future" for 2009 - 2010. This ranking is based on several criteria including economic potential, human resources, cost effectiveness, quality of life, infrastructure, business friendliness and promotion strategy. The magazine, which follows issues that concern foreign investors, says in its April/May issue that Greenville has the top economic potential of any North American city of its size and the second-best business climate behind Wilmington, Del. Nancy Whitworth, Greenville's economic development director, quoted the ranking recognizes the community's work to ensure the city's reputation for a good business environment, particularly international investment. Hank Hyatt, the Greenville Chamber's vice president of economic development, agreed. "We already have the strength in international investment in the Upstate." The magazine said its judging criteria for economic potential includes population forecast, unemployment rate and foreign-direct investment, including projects within the high tech service and manufacturing sectors. (David Dykes - Business Editor - Greenville News 4/21/09)
December 2008 Newsletter
2008 brought changing times for our America...election of a new president, mortgage buyouts/bailouts, ups and downs of Wall Street and the Dow. When transition is in place, it is human nature to stop our daily routines until we understand how our families and businesses are affected. During transitions, I reflect to the beginning of Lil Glenn Company, notice the improvements of downtown Greenville from 1992 to the present...how so much has changed but the roots remain the same. I recognize that good follows change, opportunities arise, and we embrace new beginnings. During 2008, the Glenn family added John David Hauser and Pearson Brody Glenn to our clan, we are proud and blessed with their presence. During changing times, we grab ones we love and ones who love us, remembering they are always our roots...just as each of you are for me. Lil Glenn Company, LLC is making a contribution for 2008 to Clements Kindness in honor of our clients, families and friends. Many hopes for a peaceful holiday season and many beginnings for 2009.