This month, there will be an interesting gaming conference taking place in New England. The New England Gaming Summit is scheduled for September 20 and 21 at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut.

Scheduled speakers include many interesting personalities from Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, the Chairwoman for the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head to Clyde W. Barrow, the Director of the Center for Policy Analysis at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

Scheduled event topics include Racing and Gaming in New England, Weighing the Economic and Social Impact of Gaming, Tribal Gaming in New England and more.

Certainly, for gaming industry leaders like Sightline Payments with Kirk Sanford, and for many others, it will be an interesting and insightful series of lectures and events.

Sightline Payments with CEO and President Kirk Sanford has taken specific steps to create great system designs and service. They have a goal of having zero downtime on their technology. They believe that they are the first company to deliver a solution with no points of failure. In addition, they protect casino patron data though their entire transaction lifecycle with full compliance with the PCI Data Security Standards and SAS Type II audits.

In addition, Sightline Payments takes its national service commitment seriously. While offering top notch field support, they also pair each customer with a dedicated account manager who will work to satisfy every business need and to help simplify the operations.

In February of 2010, Sightline Payments started with President and CEO Kirk Sanford. As part of the US Gaming market, they deliver products that are user-friendly and technologically advances. Their “Integrated SmartBox” software, for instance, runs on the ATM3X and Ticket Redemption kiosks. The technology is configured to support any type of transaction a casino patron would need, including ATM, credit and debit cash advance, check warranty and ticket redemption.

As Kirk Sanford said about Sightline Payments, “”This experience has afforded us an opportunity to design and architect our systems, products, internal processes, and services from the ground up based on the latest and most reliable technologies without inheriting legacy systems that are expensive to manage or not flexible to meet the needs of our prospective customers.”

Valley View Vineyards, owned by Kirk Sanford and family, makes exceptional wines for friends and family. Their main production includes Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot. Their farmed and handpicked 2004 Vintage Estate is their second release. It includes a blend of 71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Cabernet Franc and 10% Petit Verdot. They pride themselves on their wine production, made exclusively for family, friends and charitable events in the Napa Valley.

The grapes that aren’t used in their limited product are sold to a few ultra-premium producers. They encourage winemakers who are looking for outstanding grapes to be in touch.

According to a recent report published by the Brown Blankfeld Group, “while pricing remains stable, inventories have grown since the removal of the federal tax credit. We are still selling to those that were not eligible to those that were not eligible for the tax credit but the demand has decreased. Short sales are dominating our market. More buyers are willing to wait the extended periods it takes to close. Investors are still seeking great deals.”

For people interested in buying foreclosed homes, Las Vegas is still the place for you. They continue to post the nation’s highest metropolitan foreclosure rate, as one in 28 housing units received a foreclosure filing in the first quarter, said California-based RealtyTrac. This is five times the national average.

The total of Las Vegas foreclosure filings during the first quarter reflected an increase of 13% from the fourth quarter of 2009. Certainly, for individuals or groups looking for investments, like Sightline Acquisition with Kirk Sanford, this news could be very helpful.

There hasn’t been all that much new development in the area of real estate recently due to economic troubles.  This probably isn’t such good news for anyone in that field.  But the future might not be looking so gruesome.  Word on the street is that a “resurgence could come from green building.”   Predictions are that growth in this field could be up to 900% around the world in the next decade.  This could be really good news. 

More than one in five U.S. cities with 50,000 residents or more has a policy to promote green building, an American Institute of Architects survey shows. Some 138 cities have green building programs, or 50 percent more than three year ago.  Three years ago, Las Vegas started a citywide green building program calling for new building projects to meet a minimum silver Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification standard, as outlined by the U.S. Green Building Council.  Kirk Sanford is the chairman and CEO of Sightline Acquisition Corp. (an investment fund which acquires distressed properties and other assets) in Las Vegas

In a recent article on RealtyTimes.com, Bob Hunt analyses the current real estate market. Having just attended the National Association of Realtors Midyear Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo, he explains that the basic tone in the real estate market today is that it’s not yesterday’s market.

Most speakers there concluded that they don’t yet know if the housing market has recovered. The recovery that we’ve seen so far, according to them, has been mostly due to various government efforts to prop up the market. These include home buyer tax credits and the government’s purchase of mortgage-backed securities.

This news is encouraging for real estate investors like Kirk Sanford and Sightline Acquisition, Corp., since it shows that the government has actively tried to help with the real estate recovery; however, the news doesn’t conclude about when the real estate difficulties will end.

While many of us consider the housing crisis to be over, this blogger explores the option that we still have a few more rough years ahead of us. Take a look at the statistics and then draw your own conclusions for your own real estate needs. Certainly, these statistics don’t examine specific areas of the country, and some areas are actually showing some great recovery.

Las Vegas is not just about gambling and the nightlife.  It is also a great place to raise a family and have fun. Perhaps this is why businessman and CEO of Sightline Acquisition Corp Kirk Sanford lives there with his wife and three children.  There is much to do and see and kids can have a great time.  It’s just that because of the nightlife the city is known for, these activities are often put on the back burner and not publicized as much.

Enjoying Nature in Las Vegas

For example, there is the Red Rock Canyon jeep tour, which offers a wonderful escape to nature, where you will see fossilised sand dunes at Calico Hills, juniper tree woodland area, willow springs and more.  Or, for something a bit more exciting that might cause your heart to race, why not check out the city’s Titanic artifact 2,500 square foot exhibition?  This can make you feel like you are on the Titanic, hearing the ship’s whistles, seeing the unopened bottle of champagne with a 1900 vintage and more.  These real artifacts were recovered two and a half miles below the North Atlantic surface and “tell the story behind the legendary Titanic’s short journey from construction and destruction to eventual recovery.” These are just a couple of the awesome things to do with families and perhaps show a little bit about why Las Vegas is such a great place to buy a home and raise a family, which is what a guy like Kirk Sanford and a company like Sightline Acquisition Corp. would say as well.