Phoenix Area Real Estate Blog

Today, Google rolled out its controversial Street View to Scottsdale and Phoenix.  Street View allows Google Map users the ability to see select city streets right down on the street level. It’s amazing to see/use as seen here:

To enable street view, you go to Google Maps, and then select the Street View choice (circled [...]

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You have to hand it to Greg Swann over at Bloodhound Realty. Within hours of finding out that FBS Data Systems had won the contract to replace Tempo with it’s own flexmls for use by ARMLS subscribers, he had created a new blog focused on that topic. The blog is titled Phoenix Real [...]

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Thanks to Jay Thompson, I found out that:
Arizona Regional MLS has entered into a three-year contract with FBS for our flexmls® Web MLS system to replace the current system.
Can you say wow? Well, if you’re a subscriber to ARMLS you probably should. The only negative I can find is we have to wait until July [...]

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CNNMoney.com has a poll asking its readers to rank the 10 best big cities in America. I found the poll after reading Money Magazines best 100 places to live, where I noticed that there wasn’t a single Arizona city on the list. Noted as criteria for the list:
…we focused on smaller places that [...]

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On September 4th, the GnomeyNewt over at BlueJar.com started a little contest for How To writing.  Always on the look out for anything to write about, I grappled with the idea of a good How To article that would appeal to my readers, as well as the readers likely to read my entry.
Alas I decided [...]

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Today, September 13, Google has chosen to honor Roald Dahl’s birthday.  Roald Dahl died in 1990, but would have been 91 today.  Dahl was the author of such books as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda.  To honor Roald, Google have changed their infamous logo on the main screen.
I asked [...]

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