Phoenix Area Real Estate Blog

It wasn’t long ago, when I was attributing a decent percentage of my sales to the success of open houses.  I had several sales that I could point to, in which the open house secured a buyer that otherwise would not have considered the home, or resulted in getting multiple offers [...]

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It saddens me that this story, which is perhaps the most significant news story for Arizona this year, was nearly pushed off the front page of the Arizona Republic by the story regarding the Mitchell Report and steroids usage in baseball. Yes, steroids are bad. Yes, we should work to get them out [...]

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Very early this morning (Thursday, December 13) , we had a break-in of our offices.  As far as we can tell, the only damage was to the DMARK location, which is where the phones and T1 lines come into the building.  A sort of closet that has a door on the exterior.  The guilty party [...]

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It’s probably not hard to have noticed all of the many rain related posts among Phoenix area blogs over the past couple of weeks.  Seems you couldn’t click past a single one of the many fine Arizona bloggers that didn’t reference all of the rain we’ve had at least once.
Rain in December, has an added [...]

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Russell Shaw advertises on his radio ads that, “If you don’t like me, fire me.”  I don’t advertise that same slogan, but I do believe in the philosophy.  I know a listing contract is an agreement entered into by 2 consenting parties (seller and brokerage), and that for the contract to be terminated, it also [...]

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We’ve just listed for rent the home at 2330 West Gambit Trail in the North Phoenix community of Dynamite Mountain Ranch for only $1150/month.  This single story, 3 bedroom, 2 bath home is near I-17 and Happy Valley Rd.  It’s also close to a Harkins Theatre that’s scheduled to open soon in the Shops at [...]

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Lani Anglin, over on AgentGenius and ReRevealed, suggested a wager for real estate bloggers that would like to wager on their team in the BCS Bowl series.  My team, the Arizona State University Sun Devils, didn’t get into a BCS game.  I’m blaming that problem on the Rose Bowl committee’s selection of an unworthy team in [...]

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