Larry Johnston's Blog

The NAR Convention – What’s in it For Me?Photo from previous NAR ConventionThe National Association of REALTORS® Conference and Expo, held once a year, in various parts of the Country, attracts thousands of Real Estate professionals from all over, to take advantage of what they have to offer. The...

Middlebury, IN Market Report - August, 2016.   Middlebury, in Elkhart County, is located in extreme north central Indiana. TheAugust report of 2016, shows the market with 14 residential homes sold, compared to 12 sold in 2015.  The average Days on Market for the period was 74, which is less than ...

Goshen, IN Market Report -August, 2016.   Goshen, in Elkhart County, is located in extreme north central Indiana. The August report of 2016, shows the market with 49 residential homes sold, compared to 47 sold in 2015.  The average Days on Market for the period was 53, which is the same as the 20...

Bristol, IN Market Report -August, 2016.   Bristol, in Elkhart County, is located in extreme north central Indiana. The August report of 2016, shows the market with 16 residential homes sold, compared to 11 sold in 2015.  The average Days on Market for the period was 81, which is less than the 20...

Elkhart, IN Market Report - August, 2016 The City of Elkhart, in Elkhart County, is located in extreme north central Indiana. The August report of 2016, shows the market with 130 residential homes sold, compared to 96 sold in 2015.  The average Days on Market for the period was 78, which is less ...

WHEN BUYING A HOME: Are Your Eyes Bigger than your Wallet? So, you have been looking on the Internet for a home. With a sheet of notebook paper, there are a half-a-dozen addresses scribbled on the page.  After looking at them, I checked out the information on the MLS and relayed the information t...

A Painting - The Broken Swing, "Before and After".As an artist, I am always looking at things differently than most.  This photo was taken in a school yard near Nappanee, Indiana.  The school was Weldy school which I have also painted. Notice the pencil in the grass! Photograph property of Larry ...

How we became a "Wild Success", giving away Hot Dogs! (September Contest).    One of the contests for September is hosted by Bob "RealMan" Timm , asking us to share something that we tried in our business and became a "Wild Success".In 2013, Evelyn and I were discussing what kind o gift would be ...

After a Hot Summer, We are Now into the BER's.You know what the Bers are!  They are SeptemBER, OctoBER, NovemBER and DecemBER.  In the northern tier of States we notice a dramatically cooler climate that just gets colder as we approach the Deep Freeze of January and February.Personally, this is m...

Elkhart - Goshen, IN Ranks in the Top 10 for Job Growth.  The US Bureau of Statistics ranked Elkhart County, Indiana tops in the Nation for job growth  in 2012 with an increase of 7.4% from December 2011 to December 2012.  The National Rate during that time was only 1.9%.  Manufacturing was the h...