Why We Do What We Do - A Personal Story by Tristan Emond

The Beginning

It was getting cramped in the double wide mobile home.

Michael and Seth were in bunk beds in one room and Isaiah and Emily shared the other.

Fortunately, that was on the other side of the house from our master bedroom. 😁

On those cold winter days when the kids didn’t get a chance to go outside, the open living room/kitchen/dining room got a bit noisy.

Fortunately, real estate was took off in 2008 and we got the thumbs up to look for a home.

It was a simple matter: the BIGGEST house for our budget. (those 4 kids ain't gonna get any smaller!)

Our First "Real" Home

We settled on a 4 bedroom split level home with detached garage. The previous owner had built an addition on the side giving us a family room upstairs and unfinished bedroom in the basement.

This is where my kids have grown up.

Not their first steps or first days at school, but it's where they played basketball and tether-ball.
✔️ We built a patio for the 10 foot pool.
✔️ They went to middle school.
✔️ They learned to drive (so glad THAT's over with...)
✔️ We had meals around the table and movie nights in the family room.
✔️ Friends came over and spent the night. (And still do...)
✔️ They studied for finals.
✔️ 2 boys graduated.

It’s nothing fancy. It needs some upgrades that the orthodontist bills took precedence over.
But it’s home. It’s OUR home.

We feel safe and secure.

I remember how I felt the first time I came home from the office:

I drove my car into the garage. Pulled my briefcase from the back seat. And shut the garage door. (yeah - no power in the garage...)

And then I 😁 smiled. I worked for this. I was providing a place for my family to grow, laugh, play, and cry.

Home.

➡️ THIS. This is what I want for you. This is why I do what I do. ⬅️

How can we help you feel awesome today?

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Tristan and Sarah Emond, Mindful Living Realty
605-391-7086

Rapid City Real Estate Market - Summer of 2018

Rapid City Real Estate Market Report

Summer 2018

by Tristan and his WHITEBOARD – LIVE!

Hey Everybody I’m Tristan Emond with Mindful Living Realty. Welcome back to Tristan and his WHITEBOARD- LIVE!

So, let’s take a look at some of the numbers we’ve got for the summer from May through August.  I put it into very high tech fancy graphic I got going on here.

So you can see the active numbers in 2017 vs 2018.  And we actually had quite a few more active in 2017 than we did in 2018.

However, the solds are about the same as far as the number.

Then we can see a pretty normal downhill trend towards August as people are finishing vacations and that kind of thing. Usually we see things kind of boot back up come September.  We’ll see how things go from there.

You can see here – since we have so many so many fewer listings on the market and about the same amount of sales, we actually have less homes on the market now than we have last year.  This is evidenced by the average six months sales around rapid city have been 37 days on market.  So we’ve been selling quickly and they’ve been selling for 98 percent of list price.

The market still is moving right along. We’re not seeing anything that’s going really, really slow at this point…aside from the typical end of summer doldrum there.  We’ll will probably pick right back up here until we’ll see what happens in November.

There we go!  Rapid City Market Report for the summer.

Have a great day, everyone!

Thanks for watching Tristan and his WHITEBOARD – we’ll see you next time!