Phoenix Area Real Estate Blog

So you’ve listened to my advice from yesterday and your home is depersonalized and de-cluttered.  Is it really decorated to sell?  Probably not.  Here’s where we may need to spend a couple of dollars.  The first thing that we need to address is smell.  If a buyer walks in and thinks the home has a [...]

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If there’s one thing that the folks at Disney are doing extremely well, it’s decorating to sell.  Somehow, they’ve made even waiting in line something you can almost look forward to.  For most of the rides in Disneyland, as you meander hither and tither, there’s something to see, something to hear, something that captivates you [...]

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Being in Disney for 4 days sometimes leaves you in awe with how well the parks are run.  In the next couple of days I plan to highlight a couple of the things they are doing very well, and how we can learn from that, but today, I wanted to talk about one thing they [...]

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Being at Disney doesn’t get me off the hook from my wager regarding the DBacks and the Rockies.  My first installment is up over on Steve Scheer’s blog.  And for those not familiar, Dinger is the name of the Rockies mascott. Rockies fans know this, of course, which I was prior to 1998, and why [...]

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Teaser for what’s to come now that the DBacks have lost, and I owe Denver Steve 3 blogging entries.
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Dada released the song Dizz-KNEE-land in 1992 on their album Puzzle (I had to look that up in iTunes.).  It was the only song people can usually remember from Dada…a true one hit wonder band.  I’ve got the whole album, but Dizz-KNEE-land gets 2x the play that the entire album does.

I’m going to Disneyland for [...]

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Phoenix ranks as the 5th largest city in the nation by population with over 1.5 million people.  The greater Phoenix area, including Mesa and Scottsdale accounts for over 4 million people, which ranks 13th among major metropolitans.  Phoenix covers over 515 sq miles of land, making it also 5th largest in the nation by land [...]

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