Kid-Friendly Food To Go

Thanks to everyone who donated to the GRRA REALTORS Community Service Committee's May food drive. Yesterday, RCSC Volunteers delivered two car-loads of kid-friendly food items to the Inasmuch Ministry, a local group comprised of numerous church families who serve the less fortunate in our area.

GRRA members collected more than 30 paper boxes of food throughout April and early May (the donations took up the better part of one of the GRRA's offices).

Inasmuch will be distributing the food in the next couple of weeks to families whose children depend on school meals to eat. With summer vacation looming, these donations will make a big difference in the lives of a lot of local families. Hats off to the RCSC, Inasmuch and all the donors who helped make this possible.

Membership Breakfast - May 4, 2010

Today was a landmark for the GRRA -- instead of our usual luncheon on the first Tuesday of the month, for the first time we hosted our monthly membership meeting as a breakfast.

To mark the occasion we wanted a blockbuster guest speaker, and Greensboro City Manager Rashad Young didn't disappoint.



View more excerpts from Mr. Young's talk at the GRRA YouTube Channel. Thanks to the City Manager, and to all our members who helped make our first breakfast a success!

RPAC Auction Sneak Peek: Week 2

New items are coming in almost daily for the 10th Annual RPAC Auction on June 2 -- here's another look at what's in store when the bidding opens:

Ladies Motorcycle Boots - Size 9B

RPAC Auction Sneak Preview

The 10th Annual RPAC Auction is coming at the beginning of June, and we've already received some great items -- here's the first of several sneak peaks:

First Act Mini Guitar Amp, for the musician in your life

Tax credits and March housing numbers

It was a long, cold winter, but warmer weather seems to have brought out the buyers.

Sales of existing homes in Greensboro were up 48 percent in March over February of this year.

In High Point, March home sales climbed by 106 percent.

From News 14's report on March home sales in the Triad.

More Greensboro numbers.

Mo Green visits the GRRA

Thanks to Guilford County Schools superintendent Maurice "Mo" Green for coming out to speak at our luncheon on April 6. In case you missed it, he outlined several areas where the schools had made good or excellent progress (ABC Honor designations, EOG grades in math, reading and science), and some where much work remained (e.g. the number of schools designated as "low-performing" which currently stands at 10).

He brought along excerpts from the school's strategic plan, which you can view in full here.

One topic the superintendent wasn't able to talk about in detail was the budget for the coming school year, which he planned to unveil to the school board later that day. He did warn of further belt tightening, and news reports from the meeting outline exactly what that might mean.

Housing numbers down due to weather

The existing home sales totals for January 2010 are in, and it appears the weather took its toll.

But spring is approaching, and you can expect tax-credit seeking buyers to be out in full force.