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EPAB Welcomes over 100 new members State-wide Membership Drive grows Texas Association by 72 percent
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The gauntlet had dropped. The challenge was made and accepted. The only thing that needed to be done was to do it. Five team captains stepped up to the challenge and rallied their troops to hit the goal and exceed it. It was going to be a blood fest if nothing else as the captains squared off. The two days of action were just around the corner. Each leader got their teams fired up. In the end what seemed impossible was accomplished, to surprise of a few who had thought the challenge was too hard. What was this? The Texas Association of Builders (TAB) Membership Drive. The El Paso team trained for this back in April as our association hosted Rob and Kate Oliver with Monarch Direct Drive. This is the same two who over the years has brought success after success to associations and chambers across the
country. It’d been a few years since they gave a training to the EPAB and it was evident that we needed it. Nothing is more important to an association than membership for with it you live, without it you die. Construction is way up across Texas but the Texas Association of Builders (as well as El Paso) had lost members during these good times. It was clear to the leadership that we needed to invigorate the rolls and so we called on Rob and Kate to perform the magic. The EPAB had four teams: Edmundo Dena (Mundo’s Membership Maniacs), Sergio Cuartas (Los Fregones); Kelly Sorenson/Randy Bowling; and the Edgar Garcia team. As of this writing the team co-captains of Kelly and Randy took an early lead and never looked back. However, both Edgar and Sergio battled for the second spot while Team Dena worked
it hard. By the end of Thursday May 24, we reported 108 new members to the Monarch group and to TAB. Overall of the 27 associations in Texas 20 participated and brought in over 1100 members statewide. Amarillo and Lubbock again were top dogs in the hunt, but El Paso was in the century club and had really scooted past bigger associations in the state. We grew by a whopping 72%. Our gratitude goes out to all the captains and the members who volunteered to do this drive. One hundred and eight is a tremendous challenge as now we work on retention. To those members who offered incentives we appreciate what you did. We’ll provide a list of the new members and those contributors in the next issue. Congratulations and welcome. -Ray Adauto
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Enthusiasm fuels membership drive There was nothing to lose and so much to gain. as the idea of a membership drive came around it was clear that el Paso would join. We hadn’t done a drive in several years and like Ray says this is the lifeblood of an association. So off we went, four teams ready to do battle. everyone was enthusiastic and anxious to see what would happen. it started with Kelly Sorenson and Randy Bowling bringing over 25 new members in the first two hours of the drive. That got all of us excited and worried at the same time. Would edgar garcia, Sergio cuartas and myself be able to match those numbers? i guess
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by now you know that we got close, very close. We reported 108 new members to TaB by the end of the drive. i’m sure others will come in as we continue to shine in that great big number. Ray tells me that we came in third in the state, beating every other association except amarillo and lubbock. They had 140 each tying for first place. i’m sure someone will want a recount. i’d like to thank Sergio for his enthusiasm. He was our spokes person the last few weeks and he was on email and texts like you wouldn’t believe. Kelly, Randy and edgar were more the silent
assassins waiting until day one to pounce on us. overall it was fun, it was invigorating, and it was great. Thanks also to Ray and Margaret as they try to put all the work into something we can work with. as one of the members who helped get a couple of members said, “i never thought it could be this easy, all you have to do is ask.” He was right. Just remember if you didn’t bring a new member in then all you need to do is ask them to join. You have better than a fifty-fifty chance. go ask today.
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Home Prices Appreciate at Slower Pace
n National home price appreciation rose at a slower pace in March as most metro areas experienced a deceleration in price growth S&P Dow Jones Indices released the Home Price Index for March. The Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index rose at a seasonally adjusted annual growth rate of 5.4% in March, slower than the 6.8% increase in February. The purchase-only House Price Index from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) rose at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 0.6% in March, down from the 10.3% increase in February, confirming the deceleration in home prices. In addition to tracking home price changes nationwide, S&P also estimated home price indexes across 20 metro areas. In March, the annual growth rates of the 20 metro areas ranged from -0.4%% to 20.0%. Among the 20 metro areas, Minneapolis led the way with a 20.0% increase, followed by Seattle with an 18.9% increase and Las Vegas with 16.2%. Fifteen of the 20 metro areas exceeded the national average of 5.4% in March. Cleveland had negative home price appreciation (-0.4%) in March. Moreover, the scatter plot below compares the 20 major U.S. metropolitan areas’ annual growth rates in March 2018 and in February 2018. The X-axis presents the annual growth rates in February 2018; the Y-axis presents the annual growth rates in March 2018. As shown in the Figure 2, four of the 20 metro areas, identified where the dots are above the line, had an acceleration in home price growth while the national level and the rest 16 metro areas, located below the line, experienced the deceleration. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released the seasonally adjusted data for each state and the District of Columbia quarterly. Over the first quarter of 2018, the U.S. purchased-only House Price Index rose at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 7.0% while the annualized growth rates of each state and the District of Columbia varied. . There were 23 states where house price growth exceeded the U.S. average and 22 states where house price growth was less than the U.S. average but still positive, while the rest 5 states and the District of Columbia recorded a decline in house prices over the past year. Oregon lead the way with an annualized growth of 16.7%, while Oklahoma had the largest decline of 6.7%.
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During every business cycle, economies experience job losses followed by subsequent job gains such that, in time, all job losses are made up, and then some. Between January 2008 and February 2010, almost nine million jobs were lost, but by January 2013 the number of employed Americans had almost fully recovered. The typical good news story, right? Not so fast; the educational attainment of the persons employed in the “recovered” jobs were dramatically different than those in the “lost” jobs. This has profound social and economic implications. While total employment was virtually unchanged on January 2008 and January 2013, millions of workers without college degrees lost jobs and never regained them. For example, the number of employed Americans with less than a high school diploma fell by roughly 1.6 million; the number of high school graduates with jobs fell by about 2.8 million; and the number employed with some college, but no B.A. fell by 225,000. Over that same five years, the number of college-educated Americans with jobs increased by more than 4.3 million! In the next five years of the expansion, years 2013 through 2017, job growth improved; 10.7 million jobs were created. While every educational group saw gains, the distribution was again severely skewed towards those with more education. Those with less than a high school diploma picked up 744,000 jobs, those with a high school diploma added 720,000 jobs, and employees with some college saw employment gains of 1.6 million. However, college graduates scooped up 7.6 million jobs, or 71% of all new employment, despite being just 36.5% of the labor force in January 2013. In short, college graduates gained twice as many jobs as predicted by their share of total jobs in January 2013. And that percentage was already meaningfully higher than the 33.6% that it was on December 2007, the eve of the Great Recession. As a result, the share of jobs held by the other three educational groupings declined. It fell by
a whopping 22% for those with less than a high school diploma, 11% for those with a high school diploma, and by just 4% for those with some college (and this includes those with two-year degrees). More education clearly mitigates these negative employment trends. What is so troubling is that Americans without college degrees, who currently comprise 60% of the labor force, lose employment opportunities regardless of where we are in the business cycle. Worse, many of the less educated men who lose their jobs drop out of the labor force, depriving the economy of millions of workers. At the same time, the national unemployment rate is at a generational low, and employers are desperate for skilled labor. We will soon reach a point where GDP slows simply because of a lack of available workers. Even though a college education is immensely helpful, pushing all high schoolers to go is a disservice. Worse, telling those that do not go to college that they are failures just compounds the problem. As a result, more students go to college than ever before, but only 57% of college freshmen complete their degree within six years; many never finish. College should be seen as one option among many. Another approach is to increase the number of apprenticeship programs. At present, just 0.3% of the total US workforce is in a registered apprentice program, while in Germany it’s almost 4%, 12 times higher! These jobs pay well, and their graduates are far more likely to be fully employed. The nature of work is changing, and new jobs increasingly demand better skilled workers. Earning nothing more than a high school diploma all but guarantees low wages and long spells of unemployment. While college is an excellent solution, stigmatizing those that do not go is harmful. To that end, giving high school graduates who are not interested in college a wider variety of ways to gain vocational skills and demonstrate employability is critical.
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just having slightly slower growth” from a slightly faster pace of rate increases. No sign of concerns over economic growth The chairman of the Fed, Jerome H. Powell, and other officials are broadly optimistic about the strength of the economy but have noted some risks on the horizon for growth — most notably a potential drag from a trade dispute with other nations, like China. Some economists have also raised early concerns about slowing growth in Europe, which could affect the United States, and about other market metrics that could portend a slowdown, such as the rise in Treasury bond yields. There were few hints of those concerns in this meeting’s statement. The statement declared that “business fixed investment continued to grow strongly” since the last Fed meeting, which was more bullish language than the March statement. It noted, as it did in March, that household spending growth
had moderated since the end of last year. It eliminated a line from the March statement that declared “the economic outlook has strengthened in recent months,” but did not add any new language about risks to growth. Officials said that “risks to the economic outlook appear roughly balanced,” a slight change from March, when they declared that “near-term risks” appeared roughly balanced. Analysts read that as an endorsement of the economy’s staying power. “By not referring to the slower G.D.P. growth in the first quarter or potential risks from trade policy, the committee is emphasizing that there are more signs of strength than weakness in the economy,” Ben Ayers, senior economist at the insurance firm Nationwide, wrote after the meeting.
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“The Fed is telling markets that it won’t overreact to a run of higher numbers” in inflation readings, Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, wrote in a research note after the meeting, “just as it didn’t overreact to the run of five straight downside surprises last year.” Several Fed officials have raised concerns in recent weeks about the economy’s “overheating” and publicly pondered whether the Fed may need to pour on some cold water with higher interest rates. The concern is that if the Fed does not raise interest rates quickly enough, wages and prices could begin to spiral up, forcing a sharp rate increase that could push the economy into recession. If such a situation arises, “it’s very hard to navigate that without having an economic downturn,” Eric Rosengren, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said in an interview last month. “My concern is that’s much worse than
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12 EPAB Membership Builder members as of May 1, 2018
Bain Construction Scott Bain Bella Vista Custom Homes, Inc. Edgar Garcia BIC Homes Antonio Cervantes Blue Star Construction Carlos Villasana Bowling Construction Randy Bowling Carefree Homes Richard Aguilar Casas De Leon, LLC Nick Bombach Cisco Homes LLC Francisco Arroyos III Classic American Homes Priscilla Hernandez Crown Heritage Homes Lydia Mlouhi Cullers & Caldwell Builders John Cullers Cullers Homes Jason R. Cullers Dawco Home Builders Walter O. Lujan Deal 2 Deal Custom Homes Delton Deal Del Rio Engineering, Inc. Sal Masoud Diamond Homes, LLC Valerie Baquera Donald Ward Builder, Inc. Donald Ward E. Valencia Land Development LLC Eddie Valencia Edward's Homes, Inc. Eduardo Fernandez EPT Bella Custom Dream Homes Leti & Javier Navarette EPT Land Communities David Bogas Everest Homes Edmundo Dena, Jr. Fortune Custom Homes Javier Andrade Gaddy Construction Charles Gaddy GMF Custom Homes, LP Frank Torres Guel Construction Rudy Guel Hakes Brothers LLC Chris Hakes Hanson Asset Management, LP Russell Hanson Homes by Design Leslie Driggers Hoard Hunt Communities, LLC Kathy Parry ICON Custom Builder, LLC. Carlos Garcia Industrial Realty Group Incorporated Brent D. Harris JER Custom Homes, LLC Jorge E. Rodriguez Kayton Lee Residential, Inc. Brianna Barnes Lloyd Hamilton Contruction Lloyd Hamilton, III LMJ Construction Co., LLC Mike Lopez Loyalty Homes Gustavo Loy M A Builders & Design, LLC Mustafa Ali Metro Homes, Inc. Judith Arrunada, Fernando Torres Millennium Homes Dan Ruth Pacifica Homes, Inc. Juan Jose Vasquez Palo Verde Homes Edgar Montiel Pointe Homes Carlos Villalobos Porter Homes Albert Porter R.C. Baeza & Associates Robert C. Baeza R.E. Welch Contractor Gordon Welch Rassette Homes, Inc. Donald Rassette Santana Custom Homes Fernando Santana Southwest Land Development Serv. Doug Schwartz
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Updated every month, here is a list of the 2018 EPAB Membership. Remember to please do buinsess with fellow members.
The Heritage Group David Bingham Trejo Construction Co. Juan Trejo Tropicana Building Corp. Bobby Bowling IV Tropicana Development Greg Bowling Tropicana Homes Randy Bowling Tropicana Properties Demetrio Jimenez Villagi Homes, LLC Kristi Eddings Will Harvey Development Will S. Harvey Winton/Flair/Accent Homes Herschel Stringfield
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2-10 Home Buyers Warranty James Hebert 84 Lumber Ernie Chavez 915 Siteworks, LLC Hugo Jasso ABC Supply Co., Inc. Larry Eck Acme Brick Company Steve Bush Adams Moulding & Lumber Tom Swahlen Area Iron & Steel Works, Inc. Fred L. Edmonston Jr. Atrium Homes Ricardo Bocardo Jr. Bank of Texas Ray Owen Baron Supply David Trammell Barragan & Associates Benito Barragan Barrett Airworks Alexandro Castro Beasley, Mitchell & Co., LLP Brad Beasley BMC Select Mike Catalino Boise Cascade Mike Flores Border Construction Specialties Ricardo Yvellez Border Solar Javier Ruiz Bukaty Financial Companies Ruth Rivera Builders Source Appliance Gallery Sandra Lucero C. D. Lee/Britton Insurance & Bonding Anthony Landavazo/Lisa Daniels Casa Ford & Casa Nissan Luke Lowenfield CEA Engineering Group Jorge L. Azcarate Central Texas Metal Roofing Supply Co.,Inc. Ben Garza, III Centricity Brent R. Morgan City Bank Texas Bob Kotarski City Lights Thomas Brown Cognent, Inc. Martin Paredes Commercial Insurance Brokers, Inc. Ken Foster Conde, Inc. Conrad Conde Copenhagen Imports Flemming Carlsen CQC Testing and Engineering,LLC Jaime Rojas Delek US dba 7 Eleven Sonja Scanlan Demcon Disposal Management, LLC Maria Elena (Nena) Gomez Desert Quest Plumbing Hector Gonzalez Dorney Security John Dorney Dunn-Edwards Paints Nathan Gordon DWS Building Supply Sabrina Voorhies
E.F. Building Materials, Inc Efren Fraire Eagle Roofing Products Scott Aguilar El Paso Building Materials Ken Wade El Paso Disposal Irma Parsons El Paso Mortgage Bankers Association Gilbert Pedregon El Paso Times Sal Hernandez, Justin Riley El Paso Truss Luis Mendiola El Paso Winnelson Jesus Sanchez Ferguson Enterprises Inc. Albert Holguin Fire Smoke n Grill Bill Owen First American Bank Louis Sauceda First Light Federal Credit Union Lorenzo Revelez First National 1870 Haley Merritt Firth, Johnston, Bunn & Kerr Jay Kerr Foxworth Galbraith Lumber Dan Villarreal Franklin Building Materials Cristina Sheldon G2 Ram Electric Luis Cano GCC Sun City Materials,LLC Antonio "Tony" Chavez GECU- Greater El Paso Credit Union Danny Galindo GEPAR-Greater El Paso Assoc. of Realtors Jason Sanchez Greater El Paso Chamber of Commerce David Michael Jerome Harris Real Estate Group Lane Harris Haskins Electric Charles B. Haskins, Jr. Home of Texas Mark Smiley Homes of El Paso Riley Stephens HUB International Luis Rosas Inter National Bank Natalie Ojeda Interceramic Tile & Stone Gallery David Holguin J & H Concrete & Post Tension Jorge Herrera Jack White Building Specialties Claudia Lardizabal James L. Ellis, CPA, PC Jim Ellis Jimmy Garza Emergency Water Removal Veronica Buchanan Jobe Materials, LP Charlie Tellez Joe Bernal Insurance & Financial Services, Inc. Joe M. Bernal Keenan Supply Nancy Rivas LCR Resources, Inc. Ralph Sanchez L & P Building Supply Denise McConnell Legacy Real Estate Services/TTi Prop. Man. Patrick Tuttle Lone Star Title Co. of El Paso Sam Trimble Love Engineering, Inc. Montez Love Majestic Realtors Patti Mushorn MAK Roofing & Construction Felix Vizarreta Masco Contract Serv dba Gale Insul Tom Harmon McCoy's Building Supplies Doug Danner Merrill Lynch Thomas Gabriel Mini Concrete Materials Joe Soto Monster Link Marketing Raul Mendoza Morrison Supply Sam Shallenberger
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Each year the EPAB through an investment with the El Paso Community Foundation awards scholarships to three students. Each of them winners of the Young Designer Competition, a hands-on design project that starts at the start of the school year. We have been fortunate to have two super energetic instructors in Cecilia Orozco from the El Paso Independent School District (EPISD) and Luisa Valenzuela from El Dorado High School in the Socorro ISD. Both Cecilia and Luisa are the heart and soul of this competition because they incorporate it into their curriculum. This year the projects problem was outlined as a single-family home, not more than 2200 square feet of livable space, two car garage and fitting into a standard lot 50’ x 100’ and following City of El Paso Codes. A complete set of plans including elevations, HVAC, electrical, foundation all on the plans and a separate 3D model of the plan. The results were outstanding as the judges had difficulty narrowing down second and third place. First place was pretty much a unanimous as Franklin High Schools Collin Whitener created what one of members described as “better than his draftsman does.” Second place went to senior Maximiliano Morales of Coronado High while third went to Anaide Lazcano of Irvin High School. All three were winners last year as Junior’s. “I was amazed and surprised” said Ms. Orozco. “The problem was challenging, so much so I didn’t have a junior participate because of how specific the project was,” she continued. The EPAB was also able to award $1250.00 to Collin, $1000.00 to Maximiliano and $750.00 to Anaide. They must attend a college, university or trade school in order to cash the awards which are sent to the school’s financial aid office for distribution. In addition, we awarded an Honorarium to both Ms. Orozco and Ms. Valenzuela, a special thank you for all the work these teachers put into the competition.
Builders Outlook
2018 Issue 5
6046 Surety Dr. El Paso, TX 79905 915-778-5387 • Fax: 915-772-3038
â– ExEcuTivE OFFicERS PRESiDENT Edmundo Dena vicE PRESiDENT Sergio Cuartas SEcRETARY Edgar Garcia ExEcuTivE vicE PRESiDENT Ray Adauto PAST PRESiDENT Don Rassette
â– cOMMiTTEE cHAiRS Membership Ted Escobedo Patrick Tuttle
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Sandra Lucero, Builders Source Ted Escobedo, Snappy Publishing Jorge Herrera, J&H Post Concrete & Post Tension Angelique Roman, Sierra Title Patrick Tuttle, Legacy Real Estate Sam Trimble, Lone Star Title Patricia Martinez, Stewart Title Randall Smith, Randall Smith, CPA
■TAB STATE DiREcTORS Randy Bowling - Life Director Sam Shallenberger Edmundo Dena
â– NATiONAL DiREcTORS Bobby Bowling, IV Demetrio Jimenez Leslie Driggers Hoard -Alternate Antonio Cervantes - Alternate
Finance committee Kathy Carrillo/Treasurer Henry Tinajero
Honorary Life Members Mark Dyer Wayne Grinnell Don Henderson Anna Gill Brad Roe Rudy Guel
Community Outreach Angelique Roman Brenda Aguirre Patricia Martinez
Land Use Council Sal Masoud Education Kelly Sorenson Delton Deal
■ADviSORY TO THE BOARD Jay Kerr, Firth, Johnston, Bunn & Kerr
■BOARD OF DiREcTORS Builders: Delton Deal, Deal 2 Deal J.J. Vasquez, Pacifica Homes Leti Navarrete, Bella Custom Dream Homes Bud Foster, Southwest Land Development Kathy Parry, HUNT Communities Lee Gillett, Classic American Laura Loy, Loyalty Homes Walter Lujan, Dawco Homes Fernando Torres, Metro Homes Leslie Driggers Hoard, Homes by Design Carlos Garcia, ICON Custom Sal Masoud, Del Rio Development Fernando Santana, Santana Custom Homes Chris Hakes, Hakes Brothers Associates: Joe Bernal, Joe Bernal Insurance Henry Tinajero, WestStar Bank Kathy Carillo, Pioneer Bank John Chaney, Passage Supply Luis Rosas, HUB International Brenda Aguirre, Rocky Mountain Mortgage
2017 Member Of The Year Don Rassette Rassette Homes
Past Presidents committed to Serve Edmundo Dena Edgar Montiel Frank Torres Frank Arroyos Greg Bowling Randy Bowling Bobby Bowling Iv Doug Schwartz John Cullers Robert Baeza Mark Dyer Kelly Sorenson Rudy Guel Brad Roe Herschel Stringfield Bob Bowling Iii Pat Woods Carlos Villalobos
EPAB Mission Statement: The El Paso Association of Builders is a federated professional organization representing the home building industry, committed to enhancing the quality of life in our community by providing affordable homes of excellence and value. The El Paso Association of Builders is a 501C(6) trade organization. Š 2018 Builder’s Outlook is published and distributed for the El Paso Association of Builders by Ted Escobedo, Snappy Publishing, LLC ted@snappypublishing.com El Paso • Texas • 915-820-2800
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