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  • Steve Young 1:54 PM on December 30, 2015 Permalink | Reply  

    December 2015 Newsletter by Steve Young 

    Welcome to Steve Young’s most current Housing Trends eNewsletter. This eNewsletter is specially designed for you, with national and local housing information that you may find useful whether you’re in the market for a home, thinking about selling your home, or just interested in homeowner issues in general.

    Please click on this link to view the Housing Trends December 2015 Newsletter  Steve Young’s December 2015 Newsletter 

    The Housing Trends eNewsletter contains the latest information from the National Association of REALTORS®, the U.S. Census Bureau, Realtor.org reports and other sources and is filled with local and national real estate sales and price activity provided by MLSs and the National Association of Realtors, U.S. Census Bureau key market indicators, consumer videos, blogs, real estate glossary, mortgage rates and calculators, consumer articles, and REALTOR.com local community reports.

    If you are interested in determining the value of your home, click the “Home Evaluator” link for a free evaluation report:

    Free report to find the value of your home or property

    Sound decisions can only be made with accurate and reliable information, and I am happy to be a trusted resource for you. Thank you for the opportunity to provide you with this monthly eNewsletter, and I look forward to answering any questions you may have and to the opportunity to be your REALTOR® in the future.

    Happy New Year,

    Steve Young
    RE/MAX Associates
    4105 S Bowen Rd Arlington TX 76016 817-276-5149 stevesellsdfw@gmail.com

     

  • Steve Young 11:30 AM on December 21, 2015 Permalink | Reply  

    Great way to start your New Year off… 

    And it’s FREE!  Proven Tax Strategies for the Real Estate Professional

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  • Steve Young 10:29 AM on December 15, 2015 Permalink | Reply  

    Downtown Ft Worth…a few years ago 

    I would catch the bus to downtown on E Lancaster or at my friend’s Grandmother’s home on Meadowbrook Dr. and head to a full day of downtown Ft Worth fun. Usually go play basketball, swim and Judo classes at the YMCA then off to the joke shop, Monnings, Striplings and later in the 60’s grab one of the best hamburgers I’ve ever eaten at Famous Hamburgers (Click the link to see a pic). If I remember correctly no place to go inside, just order at the window and enjoy. Started going to downtown as the Leonards subway was beginning to be built. Since I or a friend rode to downtown on the bus we really didn’t need to ride the subway when it was completed in 1963 to get anywhere, we just did it because that was what you did! I remember the doughnuts at Leonard Brothers. Wow those were good and we loved to watch the doughnut making machine they had. Krispy Kreme’s are good but had nothing on these. At Christmas the “Toyland” located in the basement of Leonard’s was like really cool and can’t remember what it was called except Santa’s express or Santa’s monorail? Leonards was the original Wallmart, Hypermart and any other large “we’ve got it all” store only 100 times better!

    Then after half a day of all the above we would head to either the Palace, Hollywood or Worth theaters for a movie, of course depending on what was showing! Got to see John Wayne at the premier of the War Wagon, 1967 at the Worth Theater…now that’s what I call very cool. The Worth theater had all these hidden hallways going through the complex and when they would find us running through them one of the ushers, usually someone who looked like some dude from the TV series Route 66 would make us go back to our seats. You know the look, hair slicked back with a duck tail and enough grease in their hair to change oil in a car!

    We noticed that Leonard’s dept. store did not have separate “white” and “colored” signs on all rest rooms and drinking fountains as Monnings, Striplings and several other stores did. Turns out some years later I discovered that Leonards was the first downtown retailer to desegregate. In the early 1960s, before the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the store’s maintenance crew removed the designations previously mentioned! My friend Dennis and I still talk about how amazing we thought it was that stores had those signs. We called the folks that put those up and the mindset that inspired them complete idiots then…still do now!

    Closer to my home in the old Meadowbrook area who remembers the Gateway Theater? Merry Christmas

     

     

  • Steve Young 3:37 PM on December 14, 2015 Permalink | Reply  

    November 2015 Newsletter by Steve Young 

    Welcome to the most current Housing Trends eNewsletter. This eNewsletter is specially designed for you, with national and local housing information that you may find useful whether you’re in the market for a home, thinking about selling your home, or just interested in homeowner issues in general.

    Please click on this link to view Steve Young’s Housing Trends November 2015 Newsletter: Steve Young’s November 2015 Housing Trends Newsletter

    Housing Trends eNewsletter is filled with local and national real estate sales and price activity provided by MLSs and the National Association of Realtors, U.S. Census Bureau key market indicators, consumer videos, blogs, real estate glossary, mortgage rates and calculators, consumer articles, and REALTOR.com local community reports.

    If you are interested in determining the value of your home, click the “Home Evaluator” link for a free evaluation report:

    What is the value of my home or property free report

    Sound decisions can only be made with accurate and reliable information, and I am happy to be a trusted resource for you. Thank you for the opportunity to provide you with this monthly eNewsletter, and I look forward to answering any questions you may have and to the opportunity to be your REALTOR® in the future.

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  • Steve Young 9:00 AM on December 13, 2015 Permalink | Reply  

    Merry Christmas & National Violin Day 

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    Celebrated annually on December 13, it is National Violin Day.  This holiday honors a bowed string instrument, which is also known as the fiddle, the violin. The violin, played by a violinist, is played by drawing a bow across one or more strings, by plucking the strings or by a variety of other techniques. Violinists play the violin in a wide variety of musical genres including: Baroque music, classical, jazz, folk music, rock and roll, country and soft rock.

    “Violin” comes from the Medieval Latin word “vitula” which means stringed instrument.  The person who makes or repairs violins is called a luthier.

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    • It is supposed that the oldest documented four string violin, like the modern violins, was constructed by Andrea Amati in 1555.
    • The record dollar amount paid for a Stradivari violin, when the “Lady Blunt” was sold on an online auction on June 20, 2011 was $15.9 million. (P.S. this was NOT the one Cara played)
    • Violins made by Stradivari are one of the most sought after instruments by both collectors and musicians alike.

    My greatest joy as a musician has been the opportunity and privilege of playing music with Cara.

     

  • Steve Young 9:28 AM on December 12, 2015 Permalink | Reply  

    Always need my music, just some days more than others! 

    The Piano Concerto No. 3 saw its debut three years after its completion on April 5th, 1803. The concert held on that day featured only Beethoven compositions. I find it totally amazing that Beethoven played the solo piano part from memory since he hadn’t managed to write it out entirely. He completed the solo part only a year later when his friend and student Ferdinand Ries had to play it.

    For me Beethoven’s Concerto No. 3 brings about a fullness throughout the instruments, not just the piano. There is something dynamic in this composition and presents, again in my opinion a clarity of sound that I enjoy. This was the first Beethoven piece I learned to play on the clarinet.

    Click on the above links to hear Krystian Zimerman play this wonderful piano concerto and enjoy!

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    This boxer was one of my cousin David Bartley’s dog. He raised them most of his life. All were pretty sweet dogs but the female above was the sweetest. She would sit and stare at you until you acknowledged her, usually by a rub on the head, then go away for awhile. This is her waiting for just that!

     

    David_and_Grandson Asher_in2014That is David with his grandson Asher. David passed away Nov. 14th, 2014 and I miss him and the dogs very much. Here is a tribute I did on my blog when I found out he had died.

    A Tribute to David Bartley

     

     

  • Steve Young 7:50 AM on December 5, 2015 Permalink | Reply  

    Enjoy some Mozart on this day 

    Mozart

    Born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, Austria, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a musician capable of playing multiple instruments who started playing in public at the age of 6. Along with his friend Joseph Haydn, Mozart conceived and perfected the grand forms of symphony, opera, string ensemble, and concerto that marked the classical period.

    There are anecdotes about his precise memory of pitch, about his scribbling a concerto at the age of five, and about his gentleness and sensitivity (he was afraid of the trumpet)-I made sure this was included just for Dan Stafford.

    Mozart died December 5th, 1791 in Vienna, Austria.

    I like most all his music and many favorites but tops would be Requiem in D minor and Symphony No. 40 in G minor.

    Enjoy!

     

     

  • Steve Young 12:48 PM on December 3, 2015 Permalink | Reply  

    Tax Strategy Class at ARBOR 

    The ARBOR Education committee is providing a very useful Tax Strategies class and is scheduled for January 13th (10-11:30am). This class has been added to the ARBOR Calendar and is open for registration.

    Proven Tax Strategies for the Real Estate Professional

    Learn how to keep more of the money you earn! Find new deductions in the current Tax Law to help you help your CPA. Learn to become more tax efficient in your business planning for 2016!!

    Topics include:
    How the new tax law affects purchases of cars, computers and desks; how will the Healthcare Reform Act impact your 2016 deductions; How to make the 105 Medical Plan work for you; how to double your entertainment deductions; why Real Estate Professionals are now eligible to claim their home office as their “principal place of business”; how to properly record and document business expenses to help Real Estate Professionals help their accountant; how to maximize vehicle deductions while reducing record keeping time and how to document and audit-proof your business tax records.

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  • Steve Young 7:49 AM on December 2, 2015 Permalink | Reply  

    Just in case you forgot… 

    What that large orange looking thing is in the sky…

    The sun lies at the heart of the solar system, where it is by far the largest object. It holds 99.8 percent of the solar system’s mass and is roughly 109 times the diameter of the Earth — about one million Earths could fit inside the sun.

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