Month: April 2010

Fed’s Beige Book: New Mexico region’s economy improved in March – New Mexico Business Weekly:.

Joan Park, Bruce and Beth DeFoor, Dawnn Moore, and  ENMU Ruidoso announce the:
4th ANNUAL RUIDOSO KITE FESTIVAL !!!

Please plan to come and share all your beautiful kites and your STERLING personalities with our little Village.  If you have been here before, you know how much fun it is and if you haven’t we especially want to invite you and make you feel welcome in our beautiful mountain resort.

Festival dates and times-
Friday, April  23       1 pm to 5 pm
Saturday, April 24   9 am to 5 pm  (Dinner together later at a restaurant yet to be named)
Sunday, April 25     12 to 4

We know it will be yet another cool experience.  If you can’t make all the days, just come for what you can.

If you have been here you know what a great flying field we have here.  It is the best I have ever flown at.  It is all green grass…It’s flat…no sagebrush…no cactus…no stickers…no fences…no highways…no highline wires…two good paved parking lots adjoining…

and best of all there is the beautiful snow capped Sierra Blanca Mountain right behind us.  It’s quite a sight to fly kites in front of that kind of a backdrop!  Looks like we will probably have to put up with a soccer practice just like last year, but they shouldn’t last long and the field is big.

Ruidoso is a tourist village and so there will be plenty of out-of-towner’s there.  The newspaper always does a big story and the local morning radio shows also promote the event.  The public schools are supporting it as well so there show be plenty of kids that want to make and fly kites.  We will have a kite making station set up so if that’s your thing, then we want you there to help too.  We have made up to 1,200 kites for kids during one three day festival.

We are trying hard to get free complimentary rooms for you professionals.  We can’t promise free rooms to everyone, but we will try if you let us know.  The first flyers who respond will be almost certain to stay in a free room.

This event promises to be bigger and better than ever.  We are looking forward to seeing you again and to meeting some new kite flying friends for the first time!

If you think you may be able to attend, please contact one of our team as soon as possible. When you contact us, please list your ALL your phone numbers, home address, and email addresses.  (this will help us update our list with current contact info.)

Please also send this to other flying friends you think would be interested.  We can’t promise all the new ones free rooms (since we have no way of knowing how many that might be!) but we will still try hard to see if we can!

TOP TEN REASONS TO ATTEND AND FLY IN RUIDOSO:

1. Ruidoso is a beautiful ski resort village
2. You will feel right at home, only better
3.  Flying in the mountains will increase your height
4.  You will get to see Ollie the Octopus again
5.  Kites prefer pine scented air
6.  Bruce’s kites miss your kites
7.  It won’t be the same without you
8.  Economy schmonomy
9.  If you don’t come, you will not be here!

…and the number one reason to come to the mountains and fly is…

10.  Anyone can fly on a beach!

Pending home sales rose in February, potentially signaling a second surge of home sales in response to the home buyer tax credit, according to the National Association of Realtors®.

The Pending Home Sales Index,* a forward-looking indicator based on contracts signed in February, rose 8.2 percent to 97.6 from a downwardly revised 90.2 in January, and remains 17.3 percent above February 2009 when it was 83.2. The data reflects contracts and not closings, which usually occur with a lag time of one or two months.

Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said the improvement is another hopeful sign. “The rise in buyer contact activity may signal the early stages of a second surge of home sales this spring. The healthy gain hints home prices are continuing to flatten,” he said. “We need a second surge to meaningfully draw down inventory and definitively stabilize home values.”

The PHSI in the Northeast rose 9.0 percent to 77.7 in February and is 18.9 percent higher than February 2009. In the Midwest the index jumped 21.8 percent to 97.9 and is 18.7 percent above a year ago. Pending home sales in the South increased 9.2 percent to an index of 107.0, and the index is 17.5 percent higher than February 2009. In the West the index fell 4.8 percent to 98.0 but is 14.6 percent above a year ago.

“Anecdotally, we’re hearing about a rise of activity in recent weeks with ongoing reports of multiple offers in more markets, so the March data could demonstrate additional improvement from buyers responding to the tax credit,” Yun said.

The National Association of Realtors®, “The Voice for Real Estate,” is America’s largest trade association, representing 1.2 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.