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"cedar park" Discussed on Northwest Newsradio
"Radio 1000 FM 97 7, stay connected, stay informed. Good afternoon, it's three O 6 and I'm Kathy O'Shea. Here's what's happening. Stabbing comes out of the blue for a man waiting for a bus in Seattle. Seattle police are investigating a stabbing that happened here in the Cedar Park neighborhood, and it happened on the 13,000 block of Lake city way just after four 30 in the afternoon. Video from a Seattle traffic camera shows that officers were searching the area. This is right near the bus barn. That's for the school district. That is where they found the victim who reported an unknown woman approached him. Yelled at him, and then stabbed him repeatedly. He said the attack was entirely unprovoked. He was taken to harborview medical center with serious but not life threatening injuries. Police right now still looking for that suspect. And that's come up for us, Michelle Esteban. Investigators are trying to find out what caused a small plane crash in Kent. Two men are now in the ICU after this plane crash into the roof of this storage unit in Kent. Firefighters were there to help rescue them say the two were trapped inside. When they got here, it took 19 minutes to get them out before they had to be rushed to the hospital. We took down part of the side of the building there in order to get more access to the cockpit there. And then they actually, as they brought the patients down, firefighters, firefighter would basically cradle the patient as a brown down the ladder. We're learning the men are 59 and 23 years old and investigators believe they were headed to the auburn airport. That's come up for a small hider. Police are searching for three masked men who invaded a mill creek home Friday night. Milk creek police say officers responded to reports of a robbery in the 4100 block of 134th place southeast around ten, those inside the home were alone when the three masked men wearing all black forced their way inside, while inside they took money and valuables before leaving. Police are still searching for those suspects, a Tesla crashed into a pole this weekend prompting a long-term investigation. As happened at the intersection of south 56th street in south Washington street on Saturday, investigators say the car caught fire, the driver is seriously heard of the passenger, was killed authorities say speeding may have been a factor in that crash. That's come up for us Lee stole, state legislative leaders say they have some core issues to face in their upcoming session. Northwest news radios Ryan Harris has more from their session preview. House speaker Democrat Laurie Jenkins says they want to build on an economy that ranked top in the nation, but that washingtonian say homelessness, mental health, community safety and abortion rights are top issues. The other thing that I think is going to be an omnipresent issue over all of these and will prevent us from solving any of them is if we don't address workforce in a really big way. House Republican leader JT Wilcox says he's put a focus on the LatinX population, which he says is the only growing part of the workforce. Every single time I talk to someone involved in training, I ask them if they have an outreach program to reach Hispanic youth and make sure that this part of it our economy is able to access all of the training opportunities that are so necessary to our future. Both sides say that digging in their ideological heels prevents solutions, so they say they want to find the areas where there's a lot of agreement to get things accomplished. Ryan Harris northwest news radio. And como force Paul Rivera reports on the top priority when the regular session begins tomorrow in Olympia. They told me it is clear that homelessness needs to remain a priority. They told me they think what
The Dental Marketer
"cedar park" Discussed on The Dental Marketer
"It's still it's still going can open though. We have our occupancy over this guy man that's really really good all right so the one of the last questions to ask you is. What's some pieces of advice. You would like to give to our our listeners. Especially ones who are maybe not yet where you're at maybe there in the construction phase or maybe they're even just thinking about doing a startup. There's still working at their associate. What would which give them so. Yeah i missed it before just Try to set up your open. Dental tried to figure out how you gonna do your insurance claims. If you don't know how maybe a sign out with companies ahead of time on the equipment side. I think i can give good advice. So we checked all the available equipment that we could check a we got. We went with retailer dental chairs. They out of the german german-made they out of san antonio actually went to see their lace to Chairs out. I think was saved a lot of money by buying directly from them They super nice comfortable. They build in electric says they build in fuses killers all the extra options that normally all other chair companies charge you extra go says a package and a super comfortable super nice and nice people to deal with and we actually went with their implants still doing fence on the chair side. And then Vacuum they're actually We bought their compressors well. vacuum I bought sierra vacuum. Lord and i think I made about seventy five hundred normally which you go through big companies the size of beckham would cost you lifting graham. So those things Same this on money yeah. That's good yeah right right now we Getting a tarot scanner was saved enough or a terrorist candles. All this could and that's really really good. Yeah i mean. I would feel like you need to do a lot of pre hardcore budgeting especially if you're like shocked with like changeups you know what i mean like. Oh my gosh another team. Oh my gosh. This was like them anthology for me was always trying to save money by the at the same time. Just save money by cheapest stop at in a kind of compromising getting quality for less amount of money and that meant trying to source stock directly from the manufacturer is going through their bodies. That can be tough man. That can be really really tough. But that's good. That's good that you make get made it happen and everything like that and if anybody wants to reach out yet maybe they wanna ask you about those companies are going through those loops that you went through or just any advice. Where can they find you on facebook. Just my first last name or caesar park wellness instagram at cedar park dental wells. You can message me. They're awesome guys. It's all going to be in the show notes below like always reach not at definitely do so it. Thank you so much for being with us. It was a pleasure and we'll hear from you soon but like whereas thank you very much. Thank you so much for being on that episode with me. We truly appreciate it guys as always. I really appreciate you tuning in. Thank you so much if you can. If you want to continue the conversation with dot or with any other guests you've heard in the past you know you can definitely join the dental market or society facebook group. It's going to be the first lincoln this show tunnel below. I would love to have you on there if you want to chat with me chat with anybody else. Talk about an episode. We would love to have you in that free facebook group. It's the dental market or society pace group and it's going to be in the shots below guys. Thank you so much for always tuning in and supporting the podcast and supporting me. I really really really appreciate you. And i will talk to you in the next episode..
The Dental Marketer
"cedar park" Discussed on The Dental Marketer
"Most of them have got couple weeks. Wait time how really. I mean i called. Maybe like six months ago might have. Yeah but still. It's like you know what i mean. That's actually really smart to do that. To call the people and be like. Oh yeah. i did scotland breakaway seminar. We did online. And that's what he's advising so. I just went with his advice. Unconditional said gotcha. Okay that's where man i like that. So then right now your first month. How far away are you guys from breaking. Even would you say it's looking like okay in three months. We're going to break even six months or we already did. I still need to bora numbers without Cpa it's looking promising. That's all i can tell you but it's a little too early to think about it. Would you know by any chance at the top of your head. How much production was for your past month or now yeah open. Dental shows Sixty five thousand or the action okay. That's pretty good and then calculating. How much do you need to break even so that number i still need to calculate so we recently closed along. I need to sit down with scipio. Just kind of go over numbers that question. Yeah would you. Would you say in that community right now. are you guys you're trimming closing rate is pretty good or i'm super happy about that. Even though it's might be a little early to judge some people accepting some people just kinda like thanking us working. Your way reached out to any of those people. So i like to figure out what's stopping them. I think i think there was still potential for growth. Let's put it this way. Yeah gotcha gotcha okay and it. At one of the think about from moment you signed lace writer. You guys signed the lease till right now today. What spin some of your biggest struggles or fails or pitfalls or the whole process. human right. yeah with from right now till the moment you're like we should do is start up. You know what. I mean being prepared putting systems down so the biggest struggle for me. I never been dental world before side. Didn't like i listened to all the past It's and my wife is borrowed. Dsm dental success network. So i've been reading through some post there but kinda like knowing cowards. In real life. It was hard for me so i was waiting until we opened the door. So i can start putting the systems together and kinda like implementing stuff but right now. The struggle is. It might be a little too late too late but little late just getting busy with patients. And now i wish i. I put some systems prior. We opened like setting up open dental. For example that one thing i could have done beforehand in all the old Insurance certification insurance building. Things like that. And i had no idea until a couple of weeks ago. Yeah see right now. You feel like everything's kind of like rushing like almost like last minute right like you're doing it as it's happening and i thought we would have time and i wasn't planning that get that'd busy clinically. It's been busy for you then. Wow that's really good. How has All of this affected. You guys is personal life. That's a good question so on the personal level just between me and my life spend more time together. Bud you know. We don't see how kids and all the time we spend in the practice. Yeah it's a lot of work a lot of ours and hopefully we can change that and spend the same amount of time. Just the include out kits were then it during the build out or construction process in the design phase. And everything like that. Will you guys ever like were you on the same page with everything or not really. Yeah i mean we discussed us. Things were happening everything. I can say that. Yeah i mean my wife was involved in that like less less than me. I would say she just trusted me that process and i think maybe it soon better that way that way. After like gonna stop everything just both Both of you need to make decisions stuff. Instruction decisions inside was making my own gotcha. That's smart who did you for did you guys get a designer or anything like that or now as far as the design one of the things. I can tell you a lot of people asking first thing that i think helped us and i would do that again. Designer nomex blocking diagram. I love their blocking degrom. Especially those practices that don't have like a straightforward like rick tanggula space would like extra corners or blocking doug Helps a lot saves so much time. So they kind of lay out all your rooms and after that i used the benko benko for the redesigned service. Just give them that. Blocking doug i worked with their designer. She was pretty good and then cost us anything they do. That is complementary because they probably help hoping you can buy a lot of equipment from them which we did some about. Not all of them yeah. That's the design process. This good. that's really really good throughout this time because you guys opened up. I mean you started everything and opened up. I mean we're still during kobe. Right covert still happening. But i mean like you did it all through that time. You know what. I mean in the middle of of everything. Was there any moments where you guys were like. We should wait or let's not do this right now. Let's give like five more years or something like that for a second. We couldn't wait. There's this there was never a moment where you guys were like given up or no no the moments where this construction will never. That's yeah it's still happening right now. Isn't it construction. Yeah i mean.
The Dental Marketer
"cedar park" Discussed on The Dental Marketer
"Now. we're working. How many how much was there a big delay now in construction huge delay huge delays. So the after delay you know the want call it. Of course shortage of supplies doors been delayed for very long time so anyone's doing the worst and how it is right now but we put pocket doors Have total nine ops. Like those doors. It took forever to get them delivered. So if anyone doing doors Make sure check with your contractor. Order them in advance You know whether delays you know without freezes in texas. Oh yeah that's true and yeah just a lot of delays. I kind of explained. And i got some explanation from country news. Yeah all of them made sense some of them like you know and then i guess it's hard to find the subcontractors kazaa. They rely on subcontractors a lot some of them good some of them not so good and some of them faster than others. I guess Just for them. it's struggle. yeah it can be tough guy you okay. So you have nine ops. How many are plum. would you say. So we're plumbed all of them. We'd whipped we're equipped only four okay. Most people started with three or like. Okay let's let's go all in for a little bit today. Yeah no i get you okay. Awesome and right now. How many employees do you guys have. We have to assistance. I worked on the front and my wife is a dentist. Should as you know her own hygiene all the dental work. how'd you. how did that come about. It was easy to find. Assistance was a hard so for her. It actually had to work with them and to his job and they just wanted to work with her and they asked her to come over and she'll them's easy transition from that point on us Yeah like i i hate. I hate looking for people hiring interviews. Thanks so right now. I'm trying to actually find the front office person. Is it easy for you. Were were you looking for them. Are you going on indeed or how you doing. Yeah on indeed. The asking people on facebook. That i know and work in the area trying to utilize resource actually a gach. Okay and then right now. What type of practice do you guys have. Like fee for service or you guys accepting ppo or hmo medic- medicare that stuff or now feel so big shot out to be Helped us with the ppo negotiations and I'm currently standing up with his insurance certification. Service is second company gase He's called a horrific right. Yeah with right now signing up to joke that's good so then the first month went amazing and then what went really wrong so amazing what we didn't expect i was the amount of patients we got. So we we spend zero dollars on marketing. Though what happened is we both from russia and we have a big russian community here but not that many russian-speaking dentists. And i don't even know if there is a russian dentists that owns a practice so when my wife worked here for the past the issue was working in the area. She got some following from russian community on facebook like russian beach and people start recommending her and then she just told few people that she's opening her own practice and she started getting folding from there and as soon as we open she just message few people. And i guess they shared the message and we have little hundred patients in database right now and he's been busy. I thought we got to open slow. I'll have time to dial in the systems. But i didn't even know how to process any claims or anything like working with insurance. It's disaster right now. Yesterday we got i insurance check but the taking a while is still trying to figure this out This was amazing but it was still a big challenge for us just dive in with that amount of patients and everyone needs work and the nice thing about those patients. They were waiting for her they committed. They'll listen time we don't have any Like a mr boardman and We get calls from. Ppo patients just because she's network with ppo of people call from the insurance websites. They find her. Yeah those patients they not always drop it enough to confirmation milic. I have a car problem. You confirmed the boardman. Should've at least call this. Yeah las calling you. Yeah no i get you hundred percent. Wow so you for marketing and advertising. You guys have not done anything. Nothing like where we spent any money. Just kinda like telling people. Hey we're open. Know one thing i advise Like people from other countries that have their community. Facebook page is let people know if you're planning to open your practice and be generous with your time in a while you have time so especially before you open if you have people like I talked to another dennis out that they is also from another country so I asked him to have a community based facebook. Page and who people ask events extend the. He admitted that people ask for dentists all the time. Just not every dentist willing to reply and answer those questions most of the questions a dumb question but if you time and you just talk to people and especially when you have time that's going to be a good marketing. Yeah definitely definitely okay. So then. Who did you guys do your website and everything like that. Who who do that. I would really cheap. So i went up work. I found a freelancer. She was new and She is super deal. Do that for two hundred fifty bucks. You know time fifty bucks even if you mess it up really bad to get start goodstein and then i had to all my content writing so i wrote over quantum yes so website is not perfect. Probably going to be looking to switching for like a professional company. But it's good for. Yeah i get you good for now so then. How many days are you guys opened. We open five days right now in the hours. Nine to five yesterday we stay up to eight. we had emerged. So it's it's it's a five Behind fast five but the yeah and then how saturated would you say dentistry is in your community right now. So if you on google it feels supersaturated. I did my marketing like a competition. Study just calling dentists around there. It feels like most of them unlimited hours others. I think feels like a still pretty good. Amman opportunity when you can the other. Dentists was specifically where you saying you're doing. I was asking how soon i can get in as new patients and.
The Dental Marketer
"cedar park" Discussed on The Dental Marketer
"Like okay. Now what is going to be hard for us Later on we're going to have to sell this. And what do you have to sell. If you're listening. Space was just the lease itself. Because if you sell the lease everything else doesn't matter. Yeah gotcha gotcha okay so then you. You couldn't agree on that. Then you just said forget it. We're going to start up. And then you found a location first and then decided to ask for the walls fargo or you could didn't find the location. I i think i already started talking to wells. Fargo and Yeah because i wanted to get approval beforehand You know it takes a lot of work to talk to people and they don't take you serious guy and so if you don't mind me asking how much was the loan for loan was like five hundred thousand okay gotcha and then diving into the construction and the build out. How much would you say was the whole doubt so the bill three hundred thirty eight thousand and some change god estimate originalist to meet was two hundred ninety six. We had a bunch of change orders and change orders expensive so this is where i want to advise the listeners. Just starting when you working at a construction tried to plan for some things such just go over some of the change orders. That cost us Extra we had to upgrade electrical panel to full hundred amps. So make sure you check how many empty house that you have. Less than four hundred amps in most likely going to have to upgrade. I think that's pretty standard for dental offices though that costs us about eleven thousand. We did some upgrade on cabinets countertops. So if you're doing custom with your contractor just make sure your plan for that and some roof penetrations we could know for the vents. And extra wall been attrition sports events. Even though i'm kind of upset because contractors should have known that because of their expertise the experts at that yeah that cost us arleigh extra six thousand dollars so those things that and then we change orders contractor usually charge often overhead extra percentage so upfront on the original estimate i was able to negotiate lower profit and overhead percentage but When it came to change orders it was already set in the contract so it was like. Okay yeah well it is and then you have like ability to shop around when it gets to that point where you need to add the change order you pretty much stock. Whatever the price they're gonna give you. Would you say change orders in total. Were like twenty to thirty thousand or more forty two thousand. Oh man forty. Two thousand yeah. That's something where you're like. How'd you guys feel. How did you guys feel in all that started happening. I mean i smell really bad. They told me. I need electrical panel before hundred and my question was like how come you didn't know i need a big electrical. You guys do that all the time. And they gave me like vague explanation. And then at i shopped around and the first one and i figured you know this is the market price for upgrading electrical panel. So at least. I felt better after shopping. Around that i wasn't like overpaying. Just because i had to go through from deal you know this this something. I would've brought spend that much annual but just the fact that they should've known. Yeah no definitely i know. Yeah you're right. So then did you're the one who had to shop around for they. They couldn't just do it themselves like it's not their job to trump Prices and they gave me the price. But i i felt like you know it was too much and then i was like let me. Let me call Shoe people just to see what's the market value dissent. I guess it's mainly for me to feel better. No smart. it's just so you know you're like am. I getting ripped off right now. Or is this for real for real. You know okay man. That's great advice. So you guys had a lot of change orders and so in total. The bill was in the three hundred three hundred. Thirty eight thoughtful including the change orders. Gotcha okay and you guys have already used. I mean everything's already been used up because you're going to be open already. You're already opened. It's going to be a month right so we already open still final punch list items as they call it like things that would not super happy about they just coming and fixing those Slowly there's still like a ten percent danish we need to pay them after they complete and after that we'll get are what does it lean. Release from actor which allows us to get money from their Landlocked landlord allowed us. Some liberal guide how much what was the was the the money that they It's forty dollars a square foot so game out. Eighty something okay. Gotcha so then how. Many will actually grew on a little bit. What are you not really happy about them right now that they're coming in and fixing guys were the contractor so actually the people were asking recommendation On the group start off his attractors and the mentioned the name of the contract. And i was like you know. I'm not super happy about this particular contractor and realization. That right now. Because i start talking. A few people reached out to start talking to several people that kinda starting construction process in austin and they talking to multiple contractors and they sharing information with me their position. I have right now that there's no perfect contractors so you will have to deal with imperfections so none of them are perfect. Kinda like kind of have to decide sucks less. Yeah but your question you know i. I wish they could do better. Quality control and kind of proactively ek stinks for example outdoors when installed correctly. And they coming back trying to fix them which you know like already. They're already covered with dry will now. It feels like fix them properly. They might even have to open up walls. That's the feeling. I have right now so i don't know what's going to end up happening but Yeah the those things should have been taught at the time right after they were installed. So there's no going back and forth little details like that if you're asking who is the contractor k. Gotcha gotcha some podcasts. That use them but yeah they're working trying to make things right now so coming back attention right now. Yeah i get what is your. How does your wife react. Like what did she say. She kind of focused on the details. To or not as much as you. Not as much as me only. Actually she'll focus on details only she sees things and she kinda like gets upset but Yeah i mean right. now she's super-busy kind of focus changed. I the ride before we were opening. She's like you know there's so much work laugh. I don't know if you're gonna be able to open and that will just just opened and you've made it happen.
The Dental Marketer
"cedar park" Discussed on The Dental Marketer
"How's it good. Michael how are you. I'm doing pretty good man. Thanks for asking if you want me asking right now are are you already up and running with your startup or no. Yes actually a matter of fact to more is going to be one month exactly. We start seeing patients on june ninth am. I'm super excited to get into that story. And everything like that but just far listener so they can get a better understanding of where you're located. Where are you located so we in cedar park texas. It's north of boston Gottschee you awesome and do you like it in that area right now or yeah. Love it So we live in southern california in san diego while and as soon as my wife graduated the promo linda she. She was a international dentists from russia and she had to go through international dental program. Special program so It wasn't loma linda and as soon as she graduated when moved into thousand nineteen to texas. Wow so she was a dentist already in russia yeah shipwrecked as there for a couple years. And she decided to marry me. Moved to san diego. I lived there. God is the is the criteria like is there a lot more schooling involved or when you come over here is it like starting over or does that look like so my understanding. It's pretty much going through dental school again. The only you know advantage steroid no of stuff. They've been practicing. And it's super competitive than a lot of people from all over the world trying to become dentists in the united states versus workings Countries so competitive but the program is shorter so most of the universe like university. Not every university gonna have that program. Those that half. It's usually two year program versus a regular four year all the curiculum. They put it that two year period. So it's a lot of studying. God chain hunt you. Oh that's interesting. And then you went to san diego and then why didn't you decide. Like oh man. I want to open up a practice in san diego with this Actually i had a business in san diego I had a car deal ten years prior and just from running a business. They're just knowing that you know. Yeah i'm not trying to go political and stopping but is just It was hard and We just decided you know. Let's let's find a better place. Gaza we start having kids so we currently have three kids and like we need to find a more friendly lace for family and business san diego's nice but it's supersaturated so every dentist graduating thinks they wanna live in the nice place and san diego checks that box that makes it supersaturated. Plus mexico is super close so a lot of people. Just go get their teeth. That's so true until he california Elaine i can't tell you how many times he will say odd. Go get that done in my towing cleaning done here. Only okay but you're right. Wow okay yeah. I can see that. Oh why cindy would be like a lot more expensive as far as like rant in. No i don't know how much more but i mean. i know. a lot of people are making that decision. So then why did you guys pick texas. So that time Graduation time my wife had a paternity to get a job. It was i was in south texas. It's one of the local diesels and we lived in victoria for one year. We texas and after that we decided we want to own directors and leaving a better better for us place and we started looking to buy practice and at the same time we're open for startups as well so anything you had a guest. You're not not too long ago. Who actually a urges the practice were really serious about purchasing but we can agreed with the landlord the on purchasing that practice from tech. Tina who it is now. Or can you say or no. You can't say You mean Your guest yeah. It's in south boston. I forgot his name south. Meth this mathis. If anybody listening can recall me like oh. I know it is an awesome. Let us know right now. At the moment. I can't i can't recall but awesome as okay so talk to me about your started processing tummy a little bit about your past your present. Why did you guys. How did it go. How did the construction go with startup process. The loan process everything like that. So with construction loan the loan. Actually it was interesting so we start applying so i applied to purchase a practice. It was the beginning of two thousand twenty so we were approved bank of america and a common happen and then they they still give us approval to purchase a practice but when we decided to start out they they stopped doing star loans that's when wells fargo stepped in wells. Fargo approved us. And that's who we worked with. Finding space was challenging so all the construction of froze at that time and we were working with the local broker. Who helped us to figure things out here. So i ended up finding a space so my understanding most brokers they looking for like a brand new builds. I guess that's easy for them. But there was nothing available and or he would take forever because a lot of places. We're looking like a dirt still like. We don't want to wait that long. As i went on loop nets. I start looking at second-generation again. The had an idea which area were looking so am just found the second-generation location pretty busy plaza. An lender for sure. We're excited to get a dentist here is like it's kinda mix with small restaurant. Mom-and-pop shops and Like a nail salone hairdresser like a haircut placed dental and identify. Good i i like them. So then rewind a little bit. The bank of america approved you. But then they couldn't give you the loan so then you had to go to wells fargo. Is that what happened yes. So bank of america proved to purchase a practice for acqusition and when acquisition didn't happen we asked them we think Startup loan and they said okay. This time we're not doing any startup loans. Just i it was nationwide thing. Yeah wow so you you had already found an acquisition that at that time or no you had not acquisition. We actually start working with a letter of intent. We start moving towards you know closing process and one of the final things was hard for us to overcome. Just the germs on the lease and the landlord. I guess they didn't see much value in us especially being new dentist versus the guy who's been there forever. They just do not want to buy the terms.
The Dental Marketer
"cedar park" Discussed on The Dental Marketer
"Host michael ideas and in this episode i am speaking with dot yousof and him and his wife opened up a practice in austin texas and they're doing pretty great right now. They're doing amazing. It's been one month in so he. Lets us know everything that's going on in that month. We discuss how his first month wind. What went amazing. Won't really wrong. And we were wind. We talk about why he decided to open up his practice in texas. He opened it up. Got approved and everything during the lockdown or the shutdown of covert so. He talks about how he was approved for specific loan with the avai- or bank of america. But then it went south that deal and then he had to go to another pink so he talks to us about that he also talks to us about how finding space was challenging because of kobe. So how he overcame that and then one thing one humongous piece of advice that he gives us is change orders. Why you need to budget for that. And it's so interesting. They had so many change orders and he talks to us. And you know what specific change orders were how much where the amounts and why you need to be careful about this as well if you are in the construction process or you started your practicing. You're you're about to. He also talk to us about the big delays in construction. That he had he. Lets us know exactly how he found out or how saturated dentistry is in his community. You know what he was doing in that process Talks about how he hired his team. He talks to us about what they're not really super duper happy about with their practice. Right now What they plan to change and he lets us know his biggest struggles. And how you need to be prepared and make sure you get your systems lockdown before you open up no matter how busy or how non busy you think you're gonna be always always always be prepared so without further delay.
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"cedar park" Discussed on KLBJ 590AM
"In the number of people who are crossing the border now in the Rio Grande Valley, and the city's I mentioned compared to A year ago, Donald Trump had control of what was happening. His agreements with Mexico we're working, and the Biden and the Harris administration have turned their backs on the American people. It's an invasion. They don't care that we're being invaded and when she said, Look, people really want to stay at home. Who's she kidding? People want to come to America, and if they don't do something about securing this border, if we don't do it, they're going to keep coming by the hundreds of thousands by the millions this year alone. Yeah, there you go. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick on Fox. Now. In La Hoya, Texas newsman Griff Jenkins will have a press briefing with Governor Abbott and former President Trump and then ultimately that tour of the border wall. Exact location unknown, but We've actually taken cover because they're really heavy storm hit. We saw storms late yesterday, and there's more storms in the forecast, so it's going to be an interesting situation. Also joining the delegation busy GOP delegation of about a dozen house members. One of them is representative Michael Cloud, his district about 100, miles north of where we are, but very much impacted. By the border crisis. He blames the by an administration front doing Trump era policies for the crisis. This comes days after VP Kamala Harris traveled to near El Paso. It was criticized for not visiting a sector that's overwhelmed by people that have been crossing the border illegally. It is 8 52. You could jump in at 51283605 90. I don't think any of us have any, uh, you know, hope that her border visit meant anything other than look, I'm at the border, and that's where it began and ended and Donald Trump. You know, I'm trying to figure out myself. I think it's good that he's raising awareness. It makes people talk about it makes people you know, think about it. Beyond that, I'm not sure what he can do. Uh, but maybe that is just the whole sole purpose just to to bring attention to what's going on, and that's doing it in a very big way. Yeah. Let's see here. We got a couple of calls. Let's get to Jen is on the top of Don show Jen checking in from B caves this morning, Jim. Good morning. Hey, Jim. Yeah. You guys. Junior phones. Kind of breaking up a little bit there. Go ahead. Try it again. Yeah, I'm in Bee cave. There we go. Hey, guys, So I just wanted to talk with Don. I'm one of those stupid people that don't have a vaccine. Really? My main concern is just being able to be there for my kids as they're growing up. Um, there's no long term. Data that's been collected on the shots and the main thing if you look at the clinical trial data, if you get the covid shot, you're still able to transmit covid to somebody else. And you're still able to get covid. So the only thing the shot does. Is actually lessens your symptoms if and when you do get it. Well, it also lessens your chance for getting it dramatically. So I'm trying to understand your statement of mornings. Me true. Yeah, it's not. What? What? What? What do you mean? It's not true. Where'd you get that? Why would I get it if it didn't reduce my chances of getting covid? It's a great question. If you look at the clinical trial data information, and you can go to the FDA website for that. Boy. There's conflicting information on this. We're getting it all. I'm just trying to understand Why, Why? Why you would put yourself at risk like that. But I'm not at risk. You're at more risk You're at more risk 997% chance of surviving Covid without the shot. So that's without having a shot. I can survive that. So what you're saying is that I need the shot in order to survive. And that's not true, because the shot doesn't protect you from getting covid. It doesn't protect that is status false? That is false. That is false. It lessens child data. The clinical trial data does exactly what they tested for. So what? Everybody's hearing and the assumption that everybody is making is that When they hear the word vaccines. They think that they're automatically protected everything I'm seeing and reading and said the vaccine makes getting contracting covid. Your chances are greatly or vastly reduced. It doesn't do it 100%. But the, uh why are they saying that you know the 97% advocacy rate? What? What is that all about? Or whatever the epic Octopussy efficacy rate is for whatever. Uh, Medication you went with What? What is that up? What is that all about? That's a great question. It is 8 55. You could jump in at 51283605 a total God and don show listen, it could cost trillions of dollars to modernize the electrical grid that can no longer handle the demand strain in a widespread emergency, But you don't have to live with longer frequent outages anymore. 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"World. I'd have a tough time working there walking past the You know all the meats. No, the treats that they have that have have a tough time working there. Yeah, I don't have a jerky. I mean, every once in a while you need it. You would need a Beaver nugget. My daily sodium intake would be off the charts because of all the jerky led Howard is on the tide of Don show. Good Morning, Howard. Hey, man. Good morning. How you doing? Great. What's going on? Hey, on these electric cars, you know when they are not gonna come, there's no doubt. But the taxes that they're gonna be lost from the combustion engine, you know, like you railroad you, Paige. But few attacks where Where is that money gonna come from? That's a great question, man. I mean, In fact, there's been a lot of conversations on that front in Washington where they're talking about. I mean, well, there was even one idea of taxing truckers. By the mile an additional gas tax for for the truckers out there, But that's that's a great question. We'll have to figure this out. Now. We're told the gas tax help pays for road projects and things like that. But, yeah, if you're an electric vehicle, you're kind of getting a kind of getting a deal. They're guests in the pocket in a different way. You're listening to the best of Todd and don. On news, radio, K O B. J Jeffries here for Generator Supercenter. You know what would cost about five Charlie maybe more dollars to modernize our country's electrical grid and well, we could just no longer handle to demand strain of a widespread emergency. You know, like we experienced in February. You could get peace of mind and get keep the power on at home and get a free estimate on a Generac automatic standby generator with my friends at Generator Supercenter. They are the nation's number one generate generator do the very best at a storefront there in Cedar Park. Financing is available and take that. First step. Make a phone. Call the generator Supercenter at 817 2077 Generator Supercenter. It 817 2077 that walk. What's better than faves on the radio babes in your kid's hands right now, she says. Milkshakes for 3 99 or left all the goodies like chocolate peanut butter Crunch milkshake made with butter.
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"If this far as I'm concerned, the mast need to go. We're done our numbers. As far as hospitalizations are approaching. We're approaching less than 100, as far is total cases active cases in all of Travis County, which is what we're close to two million people, too. Mill young people in this county where were down to like 800 something total active cases total active cases. Why are we required to wear a mask anywhere anywhere at all? Stage three. We We have the story earlier, the Oregon State health officials have extended their Mass policies for businesses indefinitely. Thank you that they've gone on record and said You're gonna be wearing masks in the workplace indefinitely indefinitely. Well, speaking of summer camps and mass, we got somebody we've got. Gary from Cedar Park wants to shine in on that. Hey, Gary, Thanks for calling the Todd Don't show. Hello. Gary, are you there? Line one So he's still being screened. Okay, Gary, there You doing this morning? Okay. I hit the right button. Here we go. Hey, Gary. Morning. How you doing? We're doing great. And you want to chime in on the kids have anywhere masks at summer camp the whole time. Yes. So when all this kicked off, you know a year ago, right? It's spring break. You know, we tried the social distancing with the Children. And we realized really quick. Kids are very social beings, and they just have to be around each other all the time. Absolutely. And so we just We just took some other protocols to make sure that we were what having them wash their hands more frequently. Especially before and after eating. We ran our camps last summer. Andre.
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"Up is Arthur in Cedar Park. I am 67 years old, and I intend to take sole security benefits at age 70. My wife turned 65 in June, and she does not have the minimum 40 credits of work to get her own assaults of security retirement benefits. When she turned 65 can she claim spousal benefits? And how will they be calculated? And if she claims spousal benefits? Will that have any effect on my benefits? When I claim at age 70? This got quite a few questions. That's Yeah, this is this is very common, and I like the idea of the lengths Social Security. Now not everybody can do that. Mom, you may know that for for each year you delay after your full retirement age. That adds about 8% to your, uh, your retirement benefit. Now, one thing I just want to throw out there because I had this discussion recently when we were putting together an income plan for another client that When you're looking at these different values that social Security is showing you that, of course, their estimates and that doesn't that words printed pretty big on the statement. These air estimates. Uh, the estimates are made with certain assumptions. And so if you read a little further down, I think it's on the second page of a statement. It talks about income taxable income assumptions that social Security is making when they're showing you. Those projections for Age 67 or aged 70 retirement benefits in those assumptions are going to be based off of in assumed. Amount of taxable income. So if you're not planning to work, let's now I don't know if Arthur is working or not, but if he is not planning to work Then the numbers are likely to be a little different than what they're showing him for his age 70 estimate because they are assuming on that statement. He's working through 70 up up to 70. But you know, to get back to the question here. If your wife does not have 40 credits, she will not be able to claim off of her own work record, But she will be able to claim spousal benefits and survivor benefits. So how are they going to be calculated? Well, first, you would have to claim your Social Security benefits. And if she were full retirement age than she would get up to 50% of your spousal benefit. But if she's not quite full retirement age, so she's 65. It's going to be reduced and what I would recommend Arthur is that we get together put together an income plan that will reflect the percentage that your wife is going to get of your spousal benefit or of your benefit. That would be her spousal benefit. And compare that to what she would get if she were to wait two full retirement age Now, this doesn't mean you're going to delay. I just want you to have the information and be educated. About the two amounts you might say after looking at the numbers. Well, it makes 100% of sense makes it very clear that we should do this 65. But again, I want The numbers speak for themselves really? Now that will not affect the benefits that you're going to be collecting, so she can collect those separately from you, but it will be based off of your right work record, But that doesn't mean it's deducted from what you're going to get now. Uh, this is one reason I do like the idea of Arthur Delaying to 70. Statistically speaking, his wife is much more likely to live the longest. And if Arthur were to pre decease his wife, his increased Social Security benefit becomes Hurst her survivor benefits now a survivor benefit could be up to 100% of what Arthur was collecting. So if either one of them passes away, what's going to happen is their household is going to lose the lesser Social Security payout. Okay, so again, these are details we get into with an income plan. If you're listening to this show right now, and you have questions about your social security benefits. You may have questions similar to Arthur. When should I collect? How much am I going to get? What about my spouse? These are questions that I want to help you answer by putting together an income plan. Yeah, And they're very good questions and definitely give Nathan a call. Next up. Is Sheila in Lakeway. I have most of my money in a traditional IRA. I'm 66 years old and still working. Is it better to convert to a Roth irate and invest? Am I able to transfer the stocks and the traditional IRA or do I have to sell them? Great question and again. We talked earlier about taxes and reducing taxes in the future and easy way to do that is by Roth conversions again. There's no painless way to deal with the taxes you owe in your traditional IRA, because even by doing a conversion, your head can have to pay taxes on the IRA in order to convert it. But then that Roth money is going to grow tax free. One thing you've got to keep in mind. Sheila is, you know we talked about this. I think several shows ago You can look up a recording on retire austin dot com. We do have a link to my podcast there. Way spoke a little bit more in depth about this, but a Zafar is Roth conversions Go. There is a five year clock on money that you convert. If you wanted to access the growth, the gains on that money Before that five years is up. There could be iris penalties for doing that. So one question I would ask Sheila's. Well, When do you plan to access this money? When do you plan to start withdrawing this money? Now you can have stock in a traditional IRA. And then convert that account to a Roth without selling the stock. So if you have stock that you really like you don't want to have toe, sell them and repurchase them. Remember, you could do that it within a You gotta wait 30 days before you purchase that stock right back. But if you don't want to have to go through the selling and repurchasing You could convert that traditional IRA keep the stocks in place and you basically get a tax bill to pay the taxes on that conversion. Sheila. I could. If we had more information about your situation. We could definitely put together a plan that's going to be optimal for you. That's going to show the best. Path for, uh Roth conversion and taking care of that I raise so it's best suited to take care of you throughout your retirement. Okay. All right. Great question. Next up is Joel in Austin this year, I plan to maximize my contribution to my four. Oh, one K, including the ketchup provisions. Can I still contribute to a Roth IRA? In some cases, Yes. Now there are income limits that could that could prohibit you from making contributions to IRAs. Joel, I recommend you call in. I'd love to sit down and have this conversation with you. It sounds to me What you're trying to do is is catch up as much as you can. You're you're trying to pump is much money as you can. And your retirement accounts. Or you're trying to take advantage of that. This whole Roth concept. It's possible that your employer offers Roth contributions to your For one case, so that's something you might want to look into. Not all employers do and some employers that do Will only match on the pre tax contributions, not the Ross So again. No, there's there's no cookie cutter answer here. But this is an example of a conversation I would have with Joel is well, let's find more information out about your plan. Do they offer Roth contributions of so do we want to take advantage of those again? I really recommend Roth contributions. I like those, but as far as Participating in both the 41 Kate and Roth IRA. This is where we need to understand your income and make sure there aren't restrictions based on the iris tax code. Because of the level of income you're currently experiencing. Okay. All right. And next is Vince in around Iraq. I'm retired, and I have several international and U. S. E T F bond funds, which make up 70% of my portfolio. Some are not doing well. Should I remove some or.
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"Would text out. He's talking about some of those roads up in North Texas and North East Texas, and we'll all across the northern half of Texas. Think locally, we'll start to see some improvement on our roads. You know Friday, maybe not necessarily Thursday morning, but I think Friday you may start to see things open up a little bit more here locally and in our area. It is 807. You could jump in any time you wanted 51283605 98 TVs. They're going to be opening up today at noon. They were closed yesterday. All flights at the Austin airport have been canceled Break second consecutive day, No flights at all in or out of the Austin airport and Cedar Park police Are now rerouting their 911 calls do the phone line problems this morning? It's pretty interesting. Cedar Park Police say they are again having to reroute 911 calls to dispatchers at the Williamson County Sheriff's office. Due to an ongoing problem with phone lines in this maze. We have something do with cell phone services well, but here's the tweet from Cedar Park. Police are 911 phone lines are experiencing difficulties. Emergency calls are being routed to what Dempsey counties s O. Who would didn't then dispatch the teams of officers are non emergency lines are also experiencing problems where callers may receive a busy signal. Which is very similar to what we had in Austin with the 311 system yesterday. Now, the outages on apparently have been now you know, kind of often on again in the Cedar Park areas well over the past 48 hours. The police department said Other non emergency phone lines were also experiencing problems for not emergencies. Folks should call 864 82 82 Press one. That's for non emergency numbers calls that is in the Cedar Park now earlier this morning, what Ortiz with the Austin Office of Emergency Management Had a few things some advice. Small. I won't let anybody know that we are not having any impacts to never won operations. We're still asking the public to please keep number one opening for immediate emergencies on way are having some technical difficulties with everyone one and then the Austin, Texas doctor website which are currently down Into a corner and power issues. Really? We have Way have opened up a warning center that is open at the former event center. You can show up in any.
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"San Jose Barrera Kudos Hockey night. They're on the ice tonight at the HBC Events, Center and Cedar Park. Yes, that is great. Oh, man. Good news, huh? Oh, listen, the stars to their awesome Someone. Give us a preview. What do you expect tonight on the ice? What kind of action respect What's on the fast action left the hot skating and some awesome goals. There will be some hockey in this. Okay. All right. All right. What's new? What's new with the season? We got any new new players. We need to brag about. A lot of new players, a lot of new players and they have a thing called the taxi squad from the NHL. So the guys play up in Dallas sometimes and then sometimes they come down the Cedar Park and play so you'll get to see and I tell kids. Oh, that's awesome. That's exciting. They got that new hockey arena that's right across from the event center. What's the name of that place called? It's They get crossed their cross something well, the other's a breath and I stated there is it's great. It's a brand new kind of events center coming indoor hockey, youth and you know directly. I don't know for sure. I've been inside the place to be right across the toll road. It's a brand new business, and it's turned out to be like a really cool hockey place. Where they have a lot of beautiful but they have, like karate or something. There, too, for the kids, But it's like that. It's a variety of youths clearly open because of the cove in Yeah, Yeah, so what time's the pot drop? Think 77. O'clock. Seven o'clock. Don is when the puck drops, OK, we will play the national anthem. You Damn right! Oh, damn right we will and God's country they got Let's see $2 draft beers tonight..
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"Cedar park. Overhead doors. The Senate begins the impeachment trial of former President Trump Today, the Senate will spend four hours debating whether it's constitutional to try a president who has left office with Texas Republican John Cornyn, reminding everybody it's now ex President Trump a private citizen. Trump's lawyers say it's unconstitutional. But Cornell expert Michael Dorf says there is precedent Belknap case former secretary of war William Belknap, who resigned in 18 76 hours before he was to be impeached. The Senate still tried him and top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer says Trump shouldn't get a pass. Either. You cannot sweep it under the rug. Belknap was acquitted man Trump likely will be as well since it would take two thirds of a 50 50. Senate to convict soccer Mahogany Washington World Health Organization says the coronavirus probably jumped from an animal the humans in China and did not emerge from a Chinese lab. That announcement was made this morning by a team of W. Pho investigators They've spent two weeks in Wuhan, China, the team says it is still not certain of the true origin of the Corona virus. The future of the Texas economy is dependent upon the state's success in fighting that virus. That is the message this week from Contra Lachlan Hager's budget talks have gotten underway. The pandemic is making those budget talks in the legislature much trickier than previous years. Neighbor says there is still a looming shortfall of nearly $1 billion economic damage done by pandemic has created a whole that it will take some time to climb out of the continued rollout of vaccines generates hope for return to pre pandemic levels later this year. But over the next two years, he does expect to see significant growth, including an expected $6.5. Billion increase in tax revenue. Patrick Osborne News radio K L. B J 6 33. Here's Austin's on time traffic with Don Prior. We do have Looks like a bit of a problem coming out of beauty still on North bound. I 35 this is a nearly for their That's definitely slowing you down. If you're heading out, I hadn't and from Buta and North bound 35 just typical stuff. Slaughter to stash in the building up and then Woodward up to Cesar Chavez now And sap and 35 building from 2 90.
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"And it's one story and got a pretty small yard and just wondering what your thoughts are on that $1 million A million dollars. What, Brad read dollars. What's your number that we talked about this last week? What's your number? Because that's the only way talk about this lack of inventory out there, Right? And then at some point somebody has that number right? That will actually you move that will make you move right? And Kevin Ryan thought so. Here's well, I'm gonna make John I'm gonna make John guess because he knows about how big Cedar Park is. It's its own city. Right? So how many locked How many active listings do you think there are right now? Active? Yeah. All in all of around rock, Cedar Park, Leander. Lutherville, Hutto and Georgetown. There are three active listings under $250,000. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, so just just park across all price ranges. There's only 10. I guess. 10 actors there's 116 pending and there's 10 active. So $10 Million.10 million dollars. Brad basically, just fetch your prices. Great base hits the market will set the price depending on on how who's the craziest fire with the most cash? But this this undersupply of stretching all the way out. We're in I had one Liberty Hill where the buyer really wanted the house and they be 38 other offers, but they wait. There was off 38 offers and Liberty Hill, Liberty Hill and Yeah, like, he said. The under 300,000 game is pretty much vanishing. There's basic housing Now is is a load of mid three hundreds. No matter where you go, this is this is a crazy crazy market. So just put it out there and let the well fires here. Here's one stain. Yeah, Here's Here's what I would say. I would say Look at your constant out there, Right? And then you gotta you gotta pick a number. What is theatrics? Over list Price thinks we're closing for closing that right now. The problem is is when you look at that in the MLS, Those things went under contract in December, right our early January, so they're really not an indicator on how fast is market is moving, You know, maybe have your agent talked to some people that they know that's what we're talk today. And when we tell them what's really happening with when we were dead, Siham ls right stuff will visit with the other listing agents who have things under contract so that we can understand it may say that it was listed for 300. But if we chat with him and fight I doubt that. It's under contract for 3 75. It helps us help people like you try to figure out Okay. Where are we right now? And you're gonna be closer to what the true value is. Yeah, You know, it's just hard. You know, it's hard. We're going to do that back of the napkin math right now here for you, Brad. But But it's definitely there's almost an auction or eBay type of process That's happening in many cases where if there's 30 or 40 people that have interest in the house, you're going to discover its very much open market. Sadistic cover with the top dollar. I would get out Dad. Guess to say that there's probably over 100 people looking for houses in the Cedar Park area. There's only 10. You'd be a number 11. So do the math Well, and your description also fits what investors are buying. So there are north. There's a huge flood. Can't even describe how many buyers years. Yeah, bring your match with. We had a guy called their day said he wants to buy seven properties here in the Boston area when it wants to get prequalified ago. We could get prequalified. The problem is, you're not gonna be able to find him there tonight. Brad. Thanks for listening about. We appreciate good luck with that cell. Let's go to Michael and Steiner. Hey, Michael. Thanks for calling you the question for us. You know, I got a question. I mean, looking at the pricing. I'm gonna area that's really nice area near the role in the elementary school so forth. Coal effect lot and then house down the street, which I thought was over prize when waitress got amazing, because there's just two car garage it was, you know about. You know, maybe less the quarter acre minds a third of an acre, three car garage type of thing, And it's a big lot flat, you know, Well, landscape type of thing with a huge cool. Yeah, that doesn't eat up the yard. And that type of situation in that house up there went for 7 48, which was actually 20 something over asking, And I'm just like, Well, you know, I'm thinking about maybe going out sometime in May on the market in this kind of your thoughts for that time, time frame or what's your suggestion? I will tell you that that market is it. Steiner is one of those places right where you know there have been some talk earlier because it four points is kind of hard to get through. There's gonna be a lot of construction going out there. And if you're working in town to come from Steiner, even though, has a zoo crow flies. It's very close as the car drives. It's not right. But with people working from home a lot more. That area's become very, very valuable on DNO. Now we have this perfect storm. Kevin having listings are in that area and five right now there's almost 4000 homes and start Niranjan. There's five houses. You have more than their 4000 circles. Sees the center has more than that. Yeah, if you think about that. Michael, is it? Yes, I'm there's more. There's Listen. There's probably a couple of 100 people looking for houses and starting arranged to move right now, And there's four houses there actually, may well be interesting. So we're gonna have some discovery over the next 30 days. As this latest round of pending contracts start to close. We're gonna have a lot of discovery of where this sort of new pricing is. And you'll have the benefit in May of seeing that I think that we may we may have a little bit of a slowdown right when things that were 600 in our closing at 800 that as those rounds of things close and then the neighbor across the street, right, so like he says, okay, Surprised at 8 15. Let's say whatever his number is that there's not gonna be 40 people that match it that higher price. There's going to be 234. So we'll see that escalation will probably taper off a little bit. But at least Michael will have the information in May to make a good determination because they'll be able to see what's happening right. It should be a little bit easier in May to see what this real trajectory looks like. And I will tell, you know, having a good agent that has a lot of contacts been in the business for a long time. It's so important right now because they talked to all their friends and other company. And they have a sense because they tell each other what really what's going on right and they know things before it hits the MLS right because they don't put that sales price in there until after the deal closes. And so, but they'll know it ahead of time so they can kind of get a better trajectory of the market. And Kevin's one of those guys But, Michael, Thanks for calling. We appreciate it. Let's go to Brad and see. Agree right now. That's not Brad. Let's see if this is Brad. Hey, Brad. You there? Yes, sir. How are you guys doing tonight? We're doing well. How are you? I'm doing quite well. I have a little bit of a complex question. And I'm sorry if it is one, but I lived out the off the 1100 series of Farmers Market 8, 12 and Cedar Creek. A matter fringes, and there's a lot of development. Going on with a lot of former ranch is just being absolutely bulldoze and they're turning them into these trailer park. Now we own a About 11 Acre ranch out there Nothing to huge, but it's got a very nice, you know, newer construction home building 2000 and 12 20 2400 Square foot. Four bedroom home with three bath. And the concern, of course, is with all these surrounding ranches being sold off. Andre turned into these trailer parts. Well, how How badly is that going to affect our property value? And furthermore, you know what can be done to hedge our bets to maintain property value. If you know that surrounding area kind of goes down, one of the things you want to pay attention to is the deed restrictions in that area, right? Even even big parcels of land and rural areas like that was particularly have some deed restrictions on then they may have Time limit on them, too..
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"cedar park" Discussed on KLBJ 590AM
"So it's hard to reconcile some of the numbers here just off the top. But that sounds encouraging. The CBO is presumably Nonpartisan, right. They look at the data and so that Z that is encouraging. All right, Let's go to Sharon in Cedar Park with Mark and Kenny a 10 48 sharing Good morning. How you doing? I am fine. Thank you for taking my call. I just have to questions that maybe just way out there, but First question is if these motels or hotels are valued at two and $3 million, why is the city paying $9 million for him? And second question. How many of these hotels are currently in the same district as the City Council, where they Well, let's take that second one. First. It's single member district's, and so they each have their own district Now, their own little section of Austin. I would imagine. Well, we own Three hotels, and it could be four after this week, so and they're spread out, so that would be four spread over council member District. Right s. So I'm gonna I'm gonna suggest that All these hotels air in somebody's district. Just off the top. I'm just guessing Yes. Your case to the first question on why do we pay these inflated numbers? That just to me all the more reason for an independent audit Tol Understand how these deals are struck. Who's negotiating on the part of the city? Because it seems like we're on the losing end. Every time around. It makes absolutely no sense. It's it's indefensible, right Pay that much. Above the assessed value of the property, right? I mean, I think sharing the 11 of the reasons why they're doing that is they are just dead set on making this happen. As fast as possible and money's no object because it's not their money. True do and and if you own something, how can you say no? If somebody walks in and says we'll pay you two or three times what it's worth, You're not going to say no to that. Yeah, well, Fortunately, it's not my money since I live in Cedar Park, But, you know, it just seems strange to me. Well, you're a resident of Williamson County, aren't you? Yes, indeed. I am. Okay, so this one they're going to buy this week is in your county, and that's why the Williamson County commissioners were saying hold on there. We haven't even been told about this. Dependent on the finances of that hotel. And how that turns out, you know, that could impact the overall revenue stream for the county. Yes. You know, they'd have to start back filling and making up for that. And then So who knows that some of those unintended consequences, Sharon, thank you. Jamie South Austin. Good morning, Jamie. Welcome to K. L. B. J. Let's go to David in David and Round rock. How are you this morning? Good morning. I'm doing good. How are y'all doing? Hey, we're doing great. Welcome, sir. I actually have a question for both of you. I don't know where you stand As far as I don't think that do you think that's a $15? An hour minimum wages? OK, What do you think? Do you think the 7 25? That is that is that now is okay. Yes, I think below 2% of the current U. S. Workforce is making the minimum wage. It was not intended to support a family or support someone needing to live on a full time basis. These air, part time, low skill jobs. But that's just it. I mean, I understand what you what you're saying is, you know, but You know the low Still people I understand. But you have right now. So many people out of work that adult not just kids taking these jobs on, you know you have people that are trying to make ends meet. Trying to work at these jobs, you know, because you know, there's so much you know, they don't have the opportunity out there. No, I I get that. But you have to remember David below 2% of the current hourly employed people in the United States are making that 7 50 an hour. It's a very, very tiny percentage. The market has forced that hourly wage up even for the low skill, and that's to me..
Newsradio 1200 WOAI
"cedar park" Discussed on Newsradio 1200 WOAI
"Clinic and Cedar Park on Wednesday. Now we know Willy's 87 years old, but he also suffers from the lung condition. COPD. No, Daddy was at high risk, right? Oh, big time, but being the fine Texan that will. He is his wife, and he made it clear that they did not jump the line. They sat in the line, she told Rolling Stone quote who made sure that he wasn't cutting anybody. In fact, the health care workers were kind of angry that we waited so long. She added that she's been an insanely Taipei about keeping Will he save quote? Stuff doesn't even come into our house unless it's sterilized. Let it got a little PR out of it, too. They took pictures of Willy in his mass getting a shot posted on my Facebook with the caption getting your cove it vaccine is Willie. Cool. We encourage everyone to continue to get routine tests and signed up for the vaccine. It really gets the shot. Come on. Yeah, It's really cool. I love that. You know, That's my new motto. Now it's Willie Kool Fairly. Is the keynote speaker. Yes, it's South by Southwest. Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be cool. It's gonna be really virtual again. Everything is gonna be virtual. It's we're in a virtual world right now. The only thing we've got the inauguration coming up on Wednesday is gonna be in a virtually inauguration, which is gonna be weird. Yeah. Hopefully the people planning on protest ng, you know, being armed? Get the memo. Maybe they could do that virtually all right, coming up at 5 40, the latest on the inauguration, perhaps as well as President Biden's stimulus plan is unveiled that but right now, here is your Fox business news. I'm Charles Payne.
Sean Hannity
Austin-area police say three officers shot
"Situation in a suburb of Austin, Texas, Cedar Park police say multiple officers have been shot and one person remains barricaded inside a home and
Rush Limbaugh
Austin, Texas responds to coronavirus with safety measures
"Health's coronavirus responses now been elevated to phase three that means there are confirmed cases but not spread their local transmission Austin chief epidemiologist Jennifer Schultz as a team will be mobilized to conduct what's known as contact tracing that requires them to investigate that individual and determine where the band if they've been in contact with any other individuals two people have been confirmed to have the virus but neither are believed to have contracted it in the Austin area capital metro says its operations will be changing very little amid these local cases of coronavirus the agency says it's adding extra disinfected to hand rails and other areas touch regularly by passengers all buses trains and facilities are also undergoing CDC recommended cleaning procedures the cedar Park City council has address the growing issue of coronavirus that discussion was added to the agenda at the last minute mayor Corbin van Arsdale says governor Greg Abbott is called for steady income leadership from local governments they don't want to have this over panicked over fearing thing going on at the same time they want to enhance safety because he made it crystal clear this is going to require a lot of effort to keep from spiking he says Williams a county judge bill Gravelle begin conducting daily conference calls to increase coordination and the Pflugerville city council is calling a special meeting this afternoon to discuss coronavirus city services and preparedness social distancing and necessary precautions related to that illness will all be brought to the table that meeting will kick off at five PM Pflugerville is also in close contact with Austin public health and Travis county emergency services district
CarStuff
From Chevy Monte Carlo to Ford Escape
"For years. I've been driving one interational of a Monte Carlo or another and all of all of our longtime listeners you guys have been with you guys have heard my trials and travails with that with that car and you know what it's like when you own a car for a long time and you know it's idiosyncrasies you get used to not having a car payment which is beautiful And eventually I had to give up the ghost man. I still have my Monte Carlo. But a new car. Yeah all right. Well Yeah it's three ninety nine money. No I got a twenty-seven four escape. 'cause I got a great deal on seventeen four. Okay okay. Very good news car. I've ever driven and I'm actually taking possession of it like all. The deals stuff is taking possession of it tomorrow as we're recording. Congratulations -gratulations well. Let's let's hope. It's I still have the Monte Carlo. Though it's you know I won't be able to sell it for anything I understand. Maybe your data take it. He takes he takes on projects. Like this right. Yeah maybe maybe he will. Well I you know I'm I'm just a couple questions if you don't mind we have to jump into shoe topic. Yeah couple all right. So how did he find. Is that something you're buying from a dealer you buy it from a friend you buy from craigslist. What a I'm buying a used With I I found it with the help of a A third party but the the purchase itself is directing. So I've checked out the car and I literally tomorrow all I'm doing is like taking possession of it. Well color is black black. Okay black on the outside. And it's you that's another thing with the cars as little worry gain 2017 model because the color is kind of the last thing I care about. Yeah engine that works. Louis says this has sixty K.. On it but I got a good deal and I was just very happy that I didn't get stuck with you. Know like a cornflower yellow or would you. They've all these fancy car paint names like you know absent minded vermillion or whatever. I don't get it but yeah I got just a regular a black Ford escape because they gotta do some hauling road trips ahead of me and so I I wanted to get Just a little beater pickup truck but like we talked about before. We're talking about the ranger. It's tough to get the the kind of pick-up truck would want you know. No disrespect to an F.. One fifty but I don't needs something like that little manual transmission do Cedar Parking Lot which is very difficult. The nothing funny I I mean I don't know why as to color I mean. That's the last thing that you should be concerned with probably just like a prank you in the parking lot if I see right do something this thinking because I actually went through some of the old research that we had done on the the INS and outs of buying a car. What you should know and what you should avoid what you should look for Cetera Hell yeah well. In a lot of people here in the audience today have war stories and one of the things that we had said in the past. The I think maybe some people weren't on board with was that I like you know know about you will see if you're on board with us. I am very much against Buying a brand new car. Oh Yeah I just. It's just not for me. I know it's for some people but it's not for me on what about you Kurt. I'm not completely against it. Really all right so you buy a new car and it's GonNa last you for maybe four or five years. I mean depending on how much you drive but years trouble-free maybe more Miki at two hundred thousand miles on pretty much any any car nowadays I'm not totally against it. So you see some security in it if you get used to make car payment every month. It's not too that's the one thing that's the one thing 'cause I did get it like through third parties so I do have a car note again. Yeah it's just it's tough to stomach but oh you know what you've got that reliability you've got You know the the the solid feel again of a car underneath you because I know what it's like to go from an older vehicle to newer vehicle and I'm I'm back to the position now by the way where mind is feeling older you know. It's a little more sloppy. It's not quite as it was. Yeah it's just tough to explain unless you're in the seat experience in it but a new car just has that correct feeling right feeling to it and something new to you I mean going from what year Two Thousand Four. Yeah Yeah Two Actually two thousand Two thousand six hundred sixty one thousand six hundred twenty seventeen almost ten years with many many miles on it. I'm sure it's probably just the more solid feeling vehicle underneath you. It's going to be nice. I'm excited about hearing about whatever you intend to do with this. You know honestly guys the fact that it might start it every time that I wanted to start flowing me
Todd and Don
Ford’s Mustang Cobra Jet strikes as quickly as its venomous namesake
"To five so while Ford is promising, check this out this is cool is promising that drag racing special it quicker than ever This year marks the half century since Ford I launched the Mustang Cobra jet a special turnkey model designed specifically for drag racing and so it's fitting then that the Cobra jet returns this year with a special fiftieth anniversary decals and mechanical upgrades and. His promise Ford. Says it's the quickest yet now the history. Of the jet is simple nineteen sixty eight four enrolled out. The fifty lightweight, three hundred and thirty five. Horsepower Mustangs basically drag. Racing machines and they're hot. Man now the cars. Proved to be a big success on the drag. Strip, it in. Two thousand eight Ford revived the idea this time with that supercharged five point four liter v eight under the. Hood Cobra. Jet but now the fifty cars were. Finless and. Thus well destined only for drag racing and then through my two thousand to, two thousand sixteen. Ford sold another two hundred and fifty Cobra, jets and Lookie here the new two thousand eighteen model continues that tradition Once again equipped with the factory with a roll. Cage FAA certified seats other safety equipment that you'll need in this, five point two liter v eight let's see. What how fast it goes one hundred and fifty miles an hour in the mid eight seconds so. About eight point five seconds it will top out at one hundred and fifty miles an hour it looks looks a longer quarter mile race nine point six nine point six five seconds and a quarter mile race looking car very hundred and thirty thousand
Todd and Don
Google, America and Trump discussed on Todd and Don
"Holly Well it's not a question, so much but let, you know about the water department. In. How dishonest they are calculated my water Bill over several years and found out that my charge the water went up fifty, one good Lord, no announcement from the water company okay they then came. Out with a two dollars and fifty cents roughly reduction in some. See and blasted all over the internet television and radio, and the newspaper that they were reducing our water belt now that just proves to me that. These are. Really dishonest people You talking. About the city of cedar park water department did this to you No no no no no I'm talking about. Austin Dallas do right Well they do I mean there are many many people that have had the skyrocketing water Bill told stories that they call to get some answers and they. Get a rude person or a dismissive person. On. The, other, end, this, just. Not really interested in, helping them yeah Or they don't they just don't call back in a timely fashion but according. To the water department you're happy with them check this out do. Security, keys make computers, more secure well, according to Google the answer is simple yes ever since they, required. Their, employees to use a physical security, key instead of a one time codes in two thousand seventeen, it hasn't had. A single case. Of, an account. Takeover from, fishing now this, security deal the security key go all computer and you type in the code your password right well this would be like like a like a little memory stick that you stick. In your computer a digital key it's a. Key This is? Not, really a dog, let's just like a. Little. USB stick like a little memory stick you stick in its key the house you to access that computer and apparently Google. Says that is a much more safe way to go they haven't. Had, any fishing takeovers, fishing the kind, of emails you get sometimes click on it looks like it's, a. Really, mount you click on it and, all of a sudden the IT guy is running down the, hall with his. Hair on fire Stop opening emails move that's fishing security keys give give your way. To log onto a website, simply by plugging it in and pressing. A button and is considered to be safer than those two factor authentication. Well that makes sense until, they somehow, figure out how to crawl into, your key but. That does that makes a lotta sense anything that we can, physically hold in our hands generally I think is going to be safer Ricky good morning Hello Ricki Doing? Fine Thirty odd you know about Trump great made in America thereby made, in America but I guess everybody got none of their family stuff is made, in America Yeah You don't see tariffs on. That, yeah I should mentioned. That every day we mentioned it earlier we'd mentioned it early and I appreciate. Your call him back in mentioning again. Y'all got to get up to. Date Three three seven. Guys, got the date on all that stuff The three to seven guys that's all about today Yeah I think I think Rickie..
Jeff Ward And Ed Clements
Sandy Hook families file lawsuits against Infowars' Alex Jones
"Radio k lbj after an apartment fire the cedar park police department releases body camera footage of some of its officers crawling through the smoke filled apartment off cypress creek road officer jacqueline quiles kicked open the door while officers ian white ryan zander rushed inside wondering the officers dragged that man out he was flown to brooke army medical center in san antonio expected to fully recover from smoking relation the officers were treated for smoke in hellacious demands dog didn't make it conspiracy theorist alex jones being sued by some of the families of the sandy hook school shooting over his claims at the whole thing was a staged hoax jones's since tried to walk back some of his previous comments you don't know what really happened i know there are real mass shootings i know people lose children i'm a father it hurts my heart so i don't know what the truth is families have filed defamation suits against jones here in texas and they claim his belief that the shooting was stage has led to numerous death threats against newtown families from his rabid followers austin city leaders gushing over the opening of new affordable housing mixed use development the miller neighborhood called aldridge fifty one city hopes to put up sixty thousand more low income units across austin over the next ten years klbj news time four four to take a look at austin's on time traffic here is willing to bring.