Erika Madsen of Exp Realty, Our Trademark is Communication 602-849-6576

05/16/2026

04/30/2026

What it takes to be middle class varies widely by state, according to a Visual Capitalist analysis of SmartAsset, Census Bureau, and Pew Research Center data, which defines middle class as households earning between two-thirds and twice the median income. Massachusetts tops the list at $69,900, followed by New Jersey at $69,500 and Maryland at $68,600, all anchored by expensive metros. Yet a middle-class income in those states would only afford a home priced between $315,000 and $320,000, well below their median listing prices. At the other end, Mississippi requires just $39,400, where homes can be found for $150,000 to $200,000.

04/30/2026

In case I need to remind you, (again)...

Yours to Count On,

Erika Madsen
~ Assoc Broker/Mentor with eXp Realty
~ elm Business Development & Marketing for Real Estate
~ CE Instructor with Desert Sage Seminars
602-849-6576 - Direct/Text

04/10/2026

LA County just lost 54,000 people in a year, the largest numeric population drop of any county in the country. And if you drove through LA right now looking for the neighborhoods people have abandoned, you wouldn’t find them. Housing demand is still strong. Vacancy rates are still low. The decline is real, but it’s invisible, which is what makes it harder to talk about than a city that’s visibly falling apart.

The part that’s harder to shake is the fertility rate. LA is sitting at 1.43%, well below the 2.1% needed just to replace the population. The future homebuyers, the future workers, the people who are supposed to step up and pay what boomers think their homes are worth, there are fewer of them being born every single year. Immigration used to fill that gap. It’s not filling it anymore. Whether that matters to your market in the next five years or the next twenty is the question worth asking.

Yours to Count On,

Erika Madsen
~ Assoc Broker/Mentor with eXp Realty
~ elm Business Development & Marketing School of Real Estate
~ CE Instructor with Desert Sage Seminars
602-849-6576 - Direct/Text

04/04/2026

One more 🗝 KEY childhood memory for my girls...

Yours to Count On,

Erika Madsen
~ Assoc Broker/Mentor with eXp Realty
~ Elm Business Development & Marketing for Real Estate
~ CE Instructor with Desert Sage Seminars
602-849-6576 - Direct/Text

04/04/2026

2012 memory: Watch out Biltmore here comes the Madsen girls...

It is WILD to me that this was 14 years ago.

Yours to Count On,

Erika Madsen
~ Assoc Broker/Mentor with eXp Realty
~ Elm Business Development & Marketing for Real Estate
~ CE Instructor with Desert Sage Seminars
602-849-6576 - Direct/Text

02/25/2026

Too cute not to share... 😉

Yours to Count On,

Erika Madsen
~ Assoc Broker/Mentor with eXp Realty
~ Elm Business Development & Marketing for Real Estate
602-849-6576 - Direct/Text

02/25/2026

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Yours to Count On,

Erika Madsen
~ Assoc Broker/Mentor with eXp Realty
~ Elm Business Development & Marketing for Real Estate
602-849-6576 - Direct/Text

02/14/2026

Born WILD, built BOLD Arizona’s been doing its own thing since 1912.
49th to the💃 party, but we brought the🔥HEAT🔥. Happy Arizona Statehood Day.

Dear Arizona,

Thanks for the sunsets.
Thanks for the desert flowers.
Thanks for giving Mesa Spring Training weather in February.

You had us at 75 degrees. ☀️

Happy Statehood Day to the Grand Canyon State and Happy Valentine’s Day to our Mesa residents. Our love language is perfect weather. 😎