Phoenix Area Real Estate Blog

Here’s wishing you and yours a Happy New Year. 

If you are planning on heading out to any parties tonight or tomorrow, please drive responsibly.  We’d much rather see your avatar on MyBlogLog or in the comments section, than over on Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas’ Stop DUI AZ website.

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I took up Lani Anglin’s BCS Blogging wager, and bet on ASU to defeat UT in the Holiday Bowl.  The outcome didn’t quite turn out the way I had hoped, and so I’m on the hook for a video, uploaded to YouTube, that has I heart UT on my forehead.  I know I’m a little [...]

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If you are like me, you may find yourself clicking around, through, over, and under the blogoverse, just going whereever the next link takes you, and then 20 degrees removed from where you started, you stumble upon something that you fell compelled to comment on.  So you comment.  Every author loves comments.  We should all commit [...]

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Today, wanting to get a 2nd offer for the rental property I have listed on Silver Sage, I scheduled a showing for 6:00 pm tonight.  Yes, that would be the kick-off time for the Holiday Bowl, featuring Arizona State University versus University of Texas.  The same game that I’ve pledged to write “I heart UT” [...]

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This question comes from a PropertyQube user, and having opened an escrow yesterday, it seemed appropriate:
I saw a closing cost estimate and there were about 8 fees all adding up to a good amount of money. Are any of these fees negotiable? If so, do I negotiate before escrow or at the closing with escrow?
There’s [...]

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Yesterday, my broker held its most recent Quarterly Event at the Westin Kierland Resort in Phoenix (the Westin has a Scottsdale address, but it’s really in Phoenix). A Realty Executives Quarterly Event is quite the event. Approximately 1000 agents (most from Realty Executives, but many invited guests also attend) get together for a [...]

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For anyone that’s visited the blog recently, I’ve had what appeared to be some very slow response times.  At first, I was blaming DNS configuration (or perhaps mis-configuration) that may have resulted from the DNS changes I was forced to do when my telecom provider recently changed my T1 into the office last Thursday.  This evening, [...]

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