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Here is a report we will start to post monthly that shows the year-to-date number of building permits requested for single family units in the Siouxland community.

	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Sioux City, IA	13	15	14	14	18	as of April 2008
Union County, SD	15	9	9	12	9	as of Feb 2008
South Sioux City, NE	3	3	5	5	11	as of April 2008

This information was provided to us by "The Tool Box" put out by the Home Builders Association of Greater Siouxland.  

Tonight is the second Fridays on the Promenade concert of the 2008 summer season. The show starts at 6 pm, and is done by 8 pm, and is held in front of the Promenade Theater, around the Roth Fountain, at 4^th and Virginia. In case you have never been to one of these events, Fridays on the Promenade is a summer long outdoor concert series, held every-other Friday night through September. A different musical act is brought in for each show, with musical styles ranging from rock, to blues, to bluegrass. Admission is only $2, and there is a cash bar and food available. The shows are a lot of fun, and don’t take up your entire night. There is limited seating, so you may want to bring a lawn chair with you.

You can check out the website at www.fridaysonthepromenade.com.

The concert series started out big two weeks ago with Fat Tuesday and the Greasefire Horns putting on an awesome show to almost 500 people! Tonight’s musical guest is Damon Dotson. Listen to some of his music at www.myspace.com/damondotson.

Future Shows

July 11 Jim Suhler and Monkey Beat

July 25 Rockin’ Jake

August 8 Saint Elvis

September 5 TBA

September 19 Les Exodus

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CHECK IT OUT!!! The newly designed Sioux City Economic Development Department website is located at http://www.locatesiouxcity.com/. The improved functionality and content of this site is geared toward professional site selectors, business executives and developers considering new investment in Sioux City.

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How can we assist you in your recruiting efforts?  As we all know, the community you bring potential employees into has a great bearing on whether they will consider your company as their future employer.  That is where we can help you.  Pro-Link Realty offers Community Tours that can be set-up on short notice and tailored to your prospective employees' interest.  Also, we offer a Relocation Information tab on the front page of our website!

We would love the opportunity to sit down with your management team to show our unique approach to becoming your recruiting partner.  Call Susan at 224-2300 or e-mail her at susanmeis@pro-linkrealty.com to schedule a time.

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Did you notice that Pro-Link Realty offers Driving Directions on the front page of our website.  I am getting ready to head on a road trip and thought I better pull up the driving directions on the internet before I hop in the car.  Typically I use sites like mapquest or google or AAA, but today I tried one of our Pro-Link Realty tools. 

Once you click on the page, you enter the stops you plan to make.  Then put them in the order you plan to stop at the different sites and click on GET DIRECTIONS.  This not only works with trip planning, but also home looking.  Try it the next time you need directions to get from Point A to Point B.

What we are seeing around the country is not happening in this area.  Sioux City ranked as number 20 in the nation for housing appreciation! 

Here's the link for the entire report.  The data on Siouxland specifically is on page 24 & 38.

http://www.ofheo.gov/media/hpi/1q08hpi.pdf

Here is a link to the document that shows the top 20.

Top 20 MSAs and Divisions with highest rates of house price appreciation

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Jim Trucano, Sales Associate

712-301-2300

www.jimtrucano.com

Have you ever wondered if there is a foolproof way to determine if you will be compatible with someone before you start down that (sometimes) slippery slope towards a full blown relationship.  Not surprisingly, Feng Shui has a methodology to determine with whom you will be compatible in either personal or business relationships. It has to do with concentrating your relationships to those with a similar Kua number.

Determining your Kua number is simple, all you need do is add together the last two numbers of the year in which you were born. If that number is more than a single digit add them together again until you get a single digit number.

Now, if you are male deduct your number from 10 to get your Kua number. If you are female add 5 to your number. Again, if the resulting number is greater than 9 you need to add the digits together again to arrive at a single digit number to get your Kua number.

Everyone with Kua numbers 2, 5, 6, 7, and 8 belong to what’s called the West group and share similar characteristics, preferences, and desires. Numbers 1, 3, 4, and 9 belong to the East group and likewise have a natural affinity for others in the same group.

Feng Shui proponents maintain that people should search out people from their same group when they engage in business and personal relationships. So, if you are a male with a Kua number of 2 then you should seek out those partners that also have Kua numbers in the West group. Likewise for the East group. There is thought to be an essential and elemental commonality inherent in the group that is difficult to identify but is, nonetheless, present.

People rarely interact in simple and uncomplicated ways. And our relationships often have as much or more meaning in business situations as those that are personal in nature. So, when we find ourselves picking our next business partner we might want to check their Kua number to see if we’ll be compatible.

Even the strongest followers admit that there are exceptions and even people from two different groups can co-exist and have meaningful relationships. But it would be a unique individual, indeed, that didn’t have at least one experience where the person with which they fined themselves interacting is incompatible, incorrigible, or downright mean. At the same time we all have had experiences where we just seemed to “click” with the other person.

It could very well be that there is a grand master and puppeteer vexing certain combinations of people and their relationships.

Just as likely there is but essential natures that either mix or act like oil and water.

But, consider another theory for a minute. An ancient and invisible force releases energy into a strange and alien wind that blows in various ways over us and stamps each of us with a number.

A number that imbues us with a natural affinity for others.

Nuttin' but Stats as of 5-31-2008

In May 2008, there were 460 homes on the market in Sioux City with the average list price of $139,842 compared to 432 homes in April 2008 with the average list price of $140,013 and 423 homes in May 2007 with the average list price of $136,555.

Within the entire MLS area, there were 193 homes sold in May 2008.  The price range of homes sold were 34 under $50K, 69 homes between $50K-$99,999 and 90 homes that were $100K & over.

Click on the housing button above to take you to the Siouxland Market News where you can download the entire report.