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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

How Did Mayor Craig Thurmond Help to Transform Broken Arrow Into America’s #11 Safest Cities

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Business, Entrepreneur, Thrivetime, Businessschool, Smallbusiness, Entrepreneurship

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

What makes Broken Arrow, Oklahoma America’s #11th safest city? What makes St. Louis, Missouri one of the most dangerous cities in America?

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0:00.0

Aaron Antis, you and your brother run Oklahoma's largest home building company, and the largest

0:06.7

home building company in this studio, charhomes.com.

0:11.6

As the largest home builder in Oklahoma, in your mind, does that mean you're the number

0:15.9

one home builder in Oklahoma?

0:17.9

Yes, that does mean that to me.

0:20.1

Do you care at all about your safety?

0:22.5

Is that an easy, is that a good selling point when you're selling houses?

0:24.9

I mean, if you were selling houses in a high crime area, would it be harder?

0:28.7

I actually used to do that.

0:30.0

I was in the Metro Detroit area, and yes, that was a big issue.

0:33.5

You're like, oh, on today's model home tour, there'll be this homeless guy.

0:37.4

And you guys, it was like, we're going to go on a model home tour.

0:40.9

Would you folks mind wearing a flack jacket, you know, protective vest?

0:45.5

Just, I mean, it's a safe area, but just in case, don't pay any attention to that gang

0:50.1

activity across the street, but anyways, yeah, folks, he's just sleeping on your front

0:54.5

lawn.

0:55.5

He won't be there all the time.

0:56.5

He just set up camp right now.

0:57.5

Right.

0:58.5

Because he can't find a place to sleep.

0:59.5

I mean, just because there's a group of people drinking 40 answers in the front lawn of

1:04.1

the home, it's not that big of a deal.

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