One Tool Every Realtor In Ada County Should Have

November 18th, 2007 categories: Community Events, Down to Earth Information

Tool for realtors What is one tool that tells you all about the current issues a town is dealing with? What can give you an insight into what your real estate investment or that of your clients will do in the future? In the case of Kuna, Idaho that would be a simple subscription to the Kuna Melba News.

I will be so bold as to say that every realtor that sells and buys in the Kuna/Melba area needs to be a subscriber and reader! How else can you best represent your clients?

Not all weekly newspapers of smaller towns are the same. I am no expert on the subject, but this is the first paper that I’ve subscribed to that I don’t want to miss a single issue for fear I will not be that well-informed realtor that I am striving for.

I was not totally surprised by this recent article about the decline of readers of local news. Newspaper readership declines

You can read online and perhaps glean some good information, but you will miss out on the complete story. I was surprised that on the day of our last mayoral election, there were numerous citizens of Kuna that I talked to that did not even know what we were voting for! So obviously they are not reading it online either. Something about getting it in the mail that makes it harder to ignore.

I am guilty of not subscribing to the local news in the past. I’ve lived in larger cities and the larger the community, the more money is riding on what is decided in the chambers of the city council. That usually complicates the issues making it hard to know if you are agreeing with the right side. I think it even complicates the decision making of the politicians that are in office. So the newspaper reporting is not clear or easy to believe nor did I feel it involved me.

The same is true for the reporting done on the national elections. It is all so complicated and muddled by big business and money. I don’t believe half of what I see or hear, and have a very hard time when it comes to knowing who to put my trust in with my vote.

The Kuna Melba area has a big advantage and that is a good source of unbiased reporting. The community is small enough that the issues are not that complicated, and our votes can still make a big difference in how our community grows.

I would not be ashamed in any way to encourage citizens of this great community to spent money on this well written source of news.

This is especially true for the real estate agents that sell real estate in this community. The Kuna Melba New has reported on important issues that affect the value of people’s real estate investments such as:

Kuna’s plan to annex an additional 5000 acres…..
The early end to Kuna’s irrigation season….
Development of a Big-box store…..
Ada county Highway department plans for a Kuna Highway….

Besides all the community events, business ads, guest columnist sharing their wisdom (my favorite by far is “This is the Life” ranks right up there with Laura Wilder!) local school and sports, and of course the classifieds.

I would not hesitate to pay the minimal fee for this great source of information that Scott and Nicola McIntosh at the Kuna Melba News prints.

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