SMALL TALK: The Smallegan Real Estate Podcast

You may have that interest rates are incredibly high right now. But are they? Smallegan Real Estate Agent is coming on today to contextualize the numbers and how they affect buyers.

Real estate is an amazing industry; Jim Hocking and the rest of the Smallegan Real Estate team are so grateful to have found it when we did. Not only does it provide a wealth of opportunity with its network, but it allows us the ability to make a VERY comfortable living and maintain a lifestyle independent from a traditional boss or restrictive work hours.

No doom and gloom in a shifting market! Let’s call it more BALANCED! Smallegan Real Estate Agent Jim Hocking is here to describe how sellers can still get top dollar and buyers can win - without paying an arm and a leg.

Today, we are taking a tour of two historical markers: Boy Scout Troop 15 and Eagle Scout Gerald "Junior" Ford. In 1918, eight years after the Boy Scouts of America incorporated, Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church chartered Boy Scout Troop 15 with a membership of twenty-six boys. The troop number changed to 215 in the 1940s.

Central Reformed Church was formed on April 23, 1918, by the merger of the first two Reformed churches in the Grand Rapids area: the First Reformed, an English-speaking church organized in 1840; and the Second Reformed, a Dutch-speaking church established in 1849.

Today, we are taking a tour of Cannon Township Hall located in Kent County Michigan. The state legislature organized Cannon Township as “Churchtown” in 1846. At the first town meeting, held in 1848, it was renamed Cannon, after Cannonsburg, the largest village. This building served as the township hall from 1890 until 1987, when it became the Cannon Historical Museum.

William Hyser (1826-1909), pioneer surgeon and Civil War captain, came to Plainfield Township in 1850, when it was a lumber center. In 1852 he built this Greek Revival house as a home and an office for his medical and civic duties. The only remaining structure from the original Plainfield village, it is now restored as a museum.

The Shrine of Our Lady War Dead Memorial was erected By Aquinas College Students from 1948 through 1953. The memorial was updated in memory of Stephen Paul Hansknecht, Class of 1983. You can find this historical marker at the Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Chapel on the Aquinas College campus.

The Plainfield Charter Township Veterans Memorial was erected in 2003, and honors the veterans of Plainfield Charter Township, Michigan, in Kent County. This historical marker is located in the Charles Weldon Veterans Memorial Park, which is located across the Grand River in Belmont Michigan.

Designed by local architect William G. Robinson, this castle-like edifice was constructed in 1884-86 for Colonel E. Crofton Fox and his brother Charles. Built of granite block imported from Scotland, this house is a fine example of Chateauesque Style architecture. A Heritage Hill landmark, this house was refurbished as a restaurant in 1978.