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Historic Phoenix, 21st Willo Home Tour & Street Fair
2009-02-06 05:10:00
21st Willo Home Tour & Street Fair this Sunday, February 8th 2009: If you follow my blog, you might know by now that I love historic homes. Perhaps it has something to with the fact that I grew up in Europe and once lived in a timbered house in Southern Germany (here is a picture on ...
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Happy New Year!
2008-12-31 20:41:00
Happy New Year ! I want to take a moment and wish all of you a prosperous, healthy, and safe New Year! As this year is coming to an end, enjoy the very last day of 2008, and ring in 2009 with a happiness. photo credit: bryanecho
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Harj Gill?s Mortgage Acceleration System Speedequity® for Free!
2008-12-23 06:55:00
Speedequity® FREE for a Limited Time! During the summer of last year, when the decline in the housing market started to become obvious, Mortgage Acceleration System s started to become more prominent and created a big buzz among consumers. I have written about Accelerated Mortgage Payoff Programs previously, but now in these tough economic times the interest in ...
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Photography: Sore Stomach Muscles at the Stray Cat Theatre
2008-12-11 21:21:00
Photography And Sore Stomach Muscles at the Stray Cat Theatre in Tempe, Arizona Lately I have been taking my photography hobby a little bit more seriously and found myself motivated to learn more about professional lighting. One of the best way to learn something is by actually doing it, at least that method works best for me ...
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Phoenix F.Q. Story Historic District: 24th Annual Home Tour
2008-12-05 05:21:00
24th Annual F.Q. Story Home Tour December 6th and 7th, 2008 In the short existence of this blog I have written a couple of blog posts about Phoenix Historic District s and this weekend we continue on the Journey through the Phoenix Historic Districts. This weekend, the 24th Annual F.Q. Story Home Tour and Gift Sale will open on Lynwood Street. It will ...

Christkindlmarkt coming to Mesa, Arizona
2008-12-04 00:15:00
Christkindlmarkt coming to Mesa , Arizona : The holidays are approaching fast and usually this is the time of year when I reflect on childhood memories of the holiday season. One of my favorite things was going to the Christkindlmarkt and I can?t tell you how much I miss the smell of roasting chestnuts and warming up with ...
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Price decline for Greater Phoenix Resale Homes, but Sales Volume up
2008-11-15 05:15:00
Greater Phoenix resale numbers show decline in prices: photo credit: kevindooley Realty Studies associated with the Morrison School of Management and Agribusiness at Arizona State University?s Polytechnic campus reports that Greater Phoenix residential resale numbers show a huge decline in prices. The decline in prices certainly does not come as a surprise as we painfully witnessed this ...
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Diverse Solutions dsSearchAgent IDX solution greatly enhanced
2008-11-07 06:38:00
Diverse Solution s releases great enhancements to their map-based IDX MLS search solution dsSearchAgent: Last June, after great due diligence I have implemented a map-based mls property search on the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area Real Estate Blog because it is simply one of the best.  Today, approximately 5 months after the initial release the map based MLS-search ...
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Finally, the election is over and chocolate is the winner!
2008-11-06 06:58:00
Well not exactly and if it just were that easy. Today is post-election day and finally it is sinking in: Barack Obama is President elect of the United States of America.  This campaign was tough, and it almost felt as if there was no end in sight but now this chapter of American history has ...
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Theme-Song to the Bail-Out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
2008-09-10 22:59:00
Take a load off Fannie…And you put the load right on me…
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Best Phoenix MLS Search Now Available - Powered by Diverse Solutions
2008-06-07 11:06:00
For a long time technology embracing REALTORS® belonging to ARMLS were limited in choices to display real estate listings on their websites and blogs. We could either frame the free and rather basic MLS search provided directly by the Arizona Multiple Listing Service, or utilize the only advanced solution provided by Success Web System ...
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Seesmic - Add Your Video Comments On Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area Real
2008-05-30 05:44:00
Leave your Video Comments on Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area Real Estate After discovering Twitter.com (perhaps as a result of being bored in a broker licensing class) it was just a natural progression to graduate to Seesmic. At first, I deemed Twitter.com just to be a “fun gadget” and disregarded it. My opinion of that changed rather ...

Mirror, mirror on the wall, where is the nicer REO of them all? Bank Owned
2008-04-28 10:18:00
Bank Owned Homes from El Mirage to Queen Creek: Recently, I have been home shopping a lot with first time buyers. Just before my trip to Austria I got a foreclosure under contract in Queen Creek where I represent my clients as their buyers agent. My buyers were pretty much under the gun finding a new ...
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Happy Golden Anniversary Mama & Papa!
2008-04-12 15:53:00
Being married for 50 years is an accomplishment! I asked my dad what the secret sauce to a good and long marriage is. His answer was quite simple: “Just do what she says, and everything will be fine”. Now the honeymoon is over and I hope there will be many happy years ahead of you guys! Share ...
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Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area Real Estate Blog: Sporadic Blogger will b
2008-04-09 09:34:00
Sporadic Blog ger will be back: Lately it has been a bit quiet again here on the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area Real Estate Blog - not intentionally. In the last couple of weeks I have been busy getting my real estate broker license and had to devote most of my time to other high priority activities ...
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The Journey Through the Phoenix Historic Districts continues: Windsor Squar
2008-03-28 01:19:00
Windsor Square Historic District Home Tour: One of our most enjoyable traditions in Phoenix is the historic district home tour. We have an astonishing number of historic homes and homeowners who cherish their properties and gladly share them with the public. This time Windsor Square is opening its neighborhood, homes, and gardens to visitors for ...
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House-hunting in El Mirage: Bank Owned Home is Going ?Green?
2008-03-17 19:13:00
Bank Owned Home is Going Green : Today is Saint Patrick’s and naturally “Green” is the theme for today! This video was taken yesterday while house-hunting with my clients in El Mirage. There is definitely a lot of inventory out there in the Greater Phoenix Metro area, however finding a bank owned property in decent move-in conditions ...
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A Question of Value or a Question of Error? Getting the Answer from the Mar
2008-02-20 06:27:00
Getting the Answer from the Maricopa County Assessor’s Office: After being on hold for about twenty-five minutes with the Maricopa County Assessor?s office, I finally got the answer to my question about my own Limited Property Value: and guess what? I was wrong!   I should have dug a little bit deeper in my research, but I partly ...
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2009 Maricopa County Property Valuation: A Question of Value or a Question
2008-02-18 07:01:00
A Question of Value or a Question of Error? By now, most residents of Maricopa County have received their 2009 Property Valuation form from the Maricopa County Assessor, including me. Of course, Property Taxes are also affected in this declining market as County Assessor, Keith E. Russell, wrote in the note he included in the letter I ...

[help] Raise Funds for Tornado Relief: Every little bit helps!
2008-02-08 07:59:00
By now, the news about the devastating Tornado es must have reached you all! In response to Lani’s email and the initiative of agentgenius.com, Jay Thompson and the Bloodhound Blog I am also asking to chip in and help: [Help] This week, thousands of people lost their homes and over 54 lost their lives. The destruction is ...
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Willo Historic District Phoenix: Historic Willo Welcomes Visitors This Sund
2008-02-05 00:15:00
Historic Willo Welcomes Visitors This Sunday! The homes do not have garages, walk-in closets, or entertainment centers. They were built in the 1920’s and ’30’s before people thought lots of storage space was essential in a home. But for every modern convenience they may seem to lack, the historic homes of Willo more than make up for them in charm and grace. Once a year, a dozen or so homeowners in Phoenix ’s Willo Historic District open their well-loved and well-cared for houses for the annual home tour. Homeowners invest a great deal of time and care (and yes, money) in restoring and maintaining the unique features of these homes. Styles run the gamut from English Cotswold to Spanish mission, French provincial, and Tudor revival. Once farmland on the outskirts of Phoenix, Willo became a suburb in the early part of the 20th century, and almost two dozen subdivisions were built through the beginning of WWII. As Phoenix grew after the war, commercial development...
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A Scottsdale Tradition: Hashknife Pony Express Riders Arrive!
2008-02-01 06:31:00
Hashknife Pony Express Riders Arrive! February 1st 2008 is when tradition comes back to Scottsdale , Arizona – a day when the West’s Most Western Town deserves to be called just that. Tomorrow is the day when the Hashknife Pony Express delivers the mail at the Scottsdale Post Office. Yes, the Pony Express still exists and is the oldest officially sanctioned Pony Express holding the longest contract with the U.S. Postal Services. But, before the mail gets dropped off tomorrow at 12:30, the Bronze Monument “Passing the Legacyâ€� will be unveiled at 10:30 AM at the Canal in Downtown Scottsdale. Lately, there has been a lot of coverage of mega events like the SuperBowl, Barret-Jackson and The FBR Open. I, however, am very partial to history, art and tradition as you can tell by my previous posts and the cowboy in the video was also speaking from my heart. Here is a video I found on YouTube: It’s good to see that there are some people carrying on with the traditions of th...
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Google Street View on Google Maps in the Phoenix and Scottsdale Area: Dad,
2008-01-29 07:21:00
Google Street View on Google Maps : Dad, you left the trunk open! Steve Belt covered the launch of Google Street View in the Phoenix and Scottsdale Area last October. I was fascinated and, for the most part, I was thinking that Google Street Maps would be a great additional marketing tool. I was right, and ...
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The Mortgage Mess: Ignorance of Common Sense Excuses No One
2008-01-28 06:48:00
Ignorance of Common Sense Excuses No One: This evening I was channel surfing and happened to come across the 60 Minutes segment “House of Cards: The Mortgage Mess“. Steve Kroft did the story, and I thought that it was a pretty good summary of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown in plain English even a layman can understand. Even ...
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There is always a first time: I have been tagged!
2008-01-23 07:43:00
I have been tagged! Is it that time again? You know, Meme time! Luckily, I was browsing through my Google Reader and realized that my friend Shailesh, the Arizona Mortgage Guru, tagged me. Of course one foreigner had to pick on another foreigner, so this is a first for me. I have never done one of these ...
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Phoenix Real Estate Market Trends: Interpreting the Phoenix Market with Alt
2008-01-22 00:51:00
Interpreting the Phoenix Market with Altos Research Charts: I finally got around to making Altos Charts available for most of the Zip Codes in the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area on my blog. John L. Wake covered the zip-code-changes in the valley in detail on his blog, Arizona Real Estate Note Book, and he even created Google ...
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Outdoor Fun int the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area: PF Chang?s Rock ?n?
2008-01-09 08:51:00
PF Chang?s Rock ?n? Roll Marathon 2008: The Valley of the Sun is a great place for outdoor activities and sporting events all year round. This coming weekend, Phoenix , Scottsdale and Tempe are jointly hosting the P.F. Chang Rock ?n? Roll Marathon. This fun event (and I freely admit that I prefer being a spectator) is not ...
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Out with the Old, In with the New: Happy New Year 2008!
2008-01-02 22:44:00
Happy New Year 2008 ! Hello Friends! Welcome to this New Year! For many of us, the beginning of a new year is a time for resolutions. So, why is a New Year such an emotional trigger that causes people to commit to new resolutions? It is quite simple: We are human. In our daily lives we ...
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Happy Holidays!
2007-12-23 21:59:00
Happy Holidays ! Dear Friends, My parents are coming from Austria and almost our entire family will gather at our house, so it will be a very traditional family Christmas at our home this year. We are going to do something unusual; we are actually going to take the Christmas week off. I hope all of you are enjoying ...
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When it rains in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area?
2007-12-01 06:38:00
When it rains in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area ? Yes, it occasionally happens that we get rain showers in the Valley of the Sun. It is a rather rare occasion ? rare enough ? it is worth a mention on a couple of real estate blogs, and Jay and Jonathan have it covered. Today, I had to ...
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