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Happy Mother?s Day
2008-05-11 17:10:00 Every now and then, stray thoughts wander in the corners of my mind and I can’t seem to shake them. For instance, this one’s a Father’s Day story but it still will work. Years ago, Mets announcer Ralph Kiner was broadcasting a game on Father’s Day. Kiner was known for his wide array of malaprops and ... More About: Happy , Mother , Miscellany
Working Out the Kinks - RSS Now Operational
2008-05-11 05:26:00 Sure, changing the URL to AllPhoenixRealEstate.com was a good idea. If you’re following me in a feed reader, you should be able to see us now after a brief hiatus. Just one of the multiple details that seemed to slip through the cracks when I made the change yesterday. If only I knew I was going to ... More About: Miscellany , Working , Kinks
Phoenix Bank Owned Homes - Done and Done
2008-05-10 23:08:00 After much back and forth and a few abandoned attempts to find the best way to present bank owned homes in the Phoenix real estate market, I’ve decided to settle on this: On the Bank Owned Homes page above is a map to all of the REO properties currently listed through my brokerage, RE/MAX Desert Showcase. ...
Working With New Builds - From the Inbox
2008-05-10 19:05:00 We’ll set this one up in fairly general terms … A buyer walks into a new build looking for a home. After pricing out the home, plus the upgrades the buyer knows he wants, the sales person at the models gives the buyer the bottom line cost. The buyer then wants to make their own offer, ... More About: Working , Inbox , Builds
Friday Afternoon Theme Music - May 9
2008-05-09 20:00:00 My four loyal readers tend to break into two distinct groups - the public (which includes both my mom and my wife) and other real estate agents. This first one’s for the agents in the audience, particularly my blogging peers … with all of the changes the last couple of days, nothing seems more fitting … You ... More About: Music , Miscellany , Friday , Afternoon , Theme
People, You?re Pathetic
2008-05-09 09:57:00 If you feel a Trulia Voices post coming on, you’re absolutely right! Here’s the set up … a prospective investor from Italy asks about the Tucson real estate market and the feasibility of taking advantage of the Euro’s strength against the dollar to invest in a home in the Old Pueblo and turn it into a ... More About: People , Pathetic
Lessons Learned at the Poker Table
2008-05-09 04:57:00 One of the first things you realize after sitting down at a poker table at Gila River’s Vee Quiva casino is the slogan “Go to the River!” isn’t just marketing, it’s a daily mantra followed fastidiously by most players there. For those who haven’t the slightest idea what I’m talking about (and this means you, Mom ... More About: Poker , Table , Lessons , Learned
The Illusion of Recovery
2008-05-07 20:47:00 We’ve all done it. Maybe it’s because of job requirements and a boss’ unique perspective that no one ever really gets sick and that the body recover almost immediately from all maladies. Maybe it’s because w, particularly in America, have never mastered the fine art of taking a break and unwinding. (Siesta, my friends, is a ... More About: Recovery , Illusion
Phoenix Real Estate Inventory Update - May 6
2008-05-06 22:35:00 First, let’s dispel a rumor … some have looked at yesterday’s date (Cinco de Mayo) and concluded the stomach malady from which I suffer has less to do with food and more to do with an unfortunate run-in with Senor Cuervo. If only … oddly enough, I never felt as bad after consuming vast quantities of ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Phoenix , Inventory , Update
Phoenix Real Estate - It?s a Sellers? Market for Bank Owned Homes
2008-05-06 17:37:00 Full numbers and the map will come later today after my stomach (hopefully) has recovered from a hellacious bout of food poisoning. We now have a sellers’ market in the REO world - 4,054 active listings with 910 closed sales over the preceding 30 days adds up to an absorption rate of 4.45 months. Five to ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Phoenix , Market , Homes
The Moment of Conception
2008-05-05 18:54:00 Though banks negotiate purchase contracts verbally before signing off on the final paperwork, a residential real estate purchase contract hasn’t officially been executed until it’s signed by both parties and returned to the buyer. Or is it? Put another way, when is the moment of conception - the moment where a purchase offer elevates to the status ... More About: Moment
Bank Owned Homes from RE/MAX Desert Showcase
2008-05-05 00:45:00 Let’s chalk this up the theory of always ask forgiveness, not permission. In the interim, in my eternal struggle to find a decent solution for the demand for bank owned homes in the Phoenix real estate market (where the best solution, Mr. Bemis, would be for the miscellaneous field to be added to the IDX feed ... More About: Homes , Owned , Bank , Showcase , Desert
Changes in Lender Requirements for Canadian Buyers
2008-05-04 18:12:00 This won’t impact many Canadian buyers here in the Phoenix real estate market, the bulk of whom are arranging financing in the Great White North and coming to the Valley with cash, but for those financing locally some changes took place this weekend. Brian Brady sent along a note that lending requirements for Canadian buyers have ... More About: Buyers
Will the US Dollar Strengthen?
2008-05-03 19:12:00 After several months of resting below parity when compared to the Canadian dollar, the U.S. dollar has held the upper hand for the past month or so. Now comes this news, that futures traders are betting for the first time in 2 1/2 years that the dollar will strengthen against the Euro. Though it would be ... More About: Dollar
Truly Priced to Sell Leads to Sale
2008-05-03 09:33:00 “Is that list price a typo?” Such was the question from a prospective buyer about a bank owned home we viewed in Goodyear’s Estrella subdivision (nee Estrella Mountain Ranch.) No, it wasn’t a typo. But unfortunately, another buyer made that discover a day or two ago; the home was active in the MLS because the bank, while ... More About: Leads , Sale , Sell
Friday Afternoon Theme Music - May 2
2008-05-02 23:41:00 What do you do when you spend the morning showing homes only to learn that your clients’ favorite home already has an offer approved by the bank and just wasn’t updated in the Arizona Regional MLS? You head to the nearest Tiki Bar of course … You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube ... More About: Music , Miscellany , Friday , Afternoon , Theme
Rotating Listings for Canadian Buyers
2008-05-01 21:06:00 Here’s the basic premise, or at least the logic behind the premise: 1) There are a number of Canadian s, particularly those in western Canada, who are looking for homes and condos here in the Phoenix real estate market. 2) Many are looking for homes they can enjoy for their own use at times when the temperature falls ... More About: Listings , Buyers , Rotating
Phoenix Real Estate Inventory Map - April 30
2008-05-01 00:51:00 One day late but here we are … Below is the usual weekly map of inventory in the Phoenix real estate market. This only includes single-family detached homes. Green markers indicate the cities in which the absorption rate dropped over the past week, red markers are the opposite. As always, click on any of the below markers ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , April , Inventory
Einstein and Phoenix Short Sales
2008-04-30 20:49:00 If you ever have the chance to pick up Walter Isaacson’s biography of Albert Einstein , it’s worth the read. (So is his Benjamin Franklin: An American Life but that’s another story for another day.) In the book, Isaacson briefly discusses Einstein’s theory of relativity. I won’t really attempt it myself since I’m just a lowly real ... More About: Phoenix , Sales , Short
Phoenix Real Estate Inventory Update - April 29, 2008
2008-04-29 18:57:00 The map will have to wait until this afternoon since I have a marketing presentation scheduled to begin in 38 minutes in Sun City. Last week I mentioned that this is the time of year when inventory soars - school nearly is at an end (as is my freedom for three months) and people are looking ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Phoenix , April , Inventory
Scheduling a Showing Just Got Easier
2008-04-28 22:51:00 Now that you’ve found properties that match your criteria through our new Phoenix real estate listing search, it’s quite possible you’ll want to take a look at one or two of the homes on your list. You always can reach us through the contact form on the right or via the phone. But for those in ...
Phoenix Bank Owned Homes - April 28
2008-04-28 19:22:00 We’re playing a little bit of catch up on these as the last few days have been fairly fast and furious. For more information or to schedule showing, call me or contact me through the shiny new contact form on the left. And as always all of the data is provided by the Arizona Regional MLS ... More About: Phoenix , April , April 28 , Homes , Owned
Westbrook Village Pre-2008 Inventory
2008-04-28 09:34:00 We’re fast approaching the end of the selling season in Westbrook Village , one of the active adult communities in the Northwest Valley. Though Westbrook seems to have a smaller percentage of winter visitors than many other areas, the sales season still is concentrated largely in the fall and winter. That’s one reason why I don’t expect ... More About: Inventory , 2008
Asking a Question Just Got Easier
2008-04-28 06:06:00 … thanks to one of the two new items over in the right-hand sidebars. In the first column, under the state-mandated RE/MAX logo (and the keep-the-owner happy balloon), is a shiny new contact form. All of three fields are required though I’m quite prepared to start receiving some questions from Mickey Mouse and Seymour Butts. And in ... More About: Question , Miscellany
It?s a Question of Knowing the Rules
2008-04-27 05:25:00 Yesterday was a first in my youth soccer coaching career. A handball was called against an opposing player and my team was awarded a free kick, which about 90 seconds later was converted into a goal. “Timeout!” yelled the other coach, stomping onto the field. “I have an issue.” (I tend to think she had more ... More About: Question , Rules , Knowing , The Rules
Housing Leads the Way
2008-04-26 17:49:00 For those who haven’t tripped over this information in the past, I’m currently the president of the Board of Trustees for my synagogue, Temple Gan Elohim. We’ve rented space at a number of different churches over the past seven years and currently are trying to work out the feasibility of buying a place of our ... More About: Leads , Housing
Requiem for a Princess
2008-04-26 00:14:00 As of 10:30 a.m., the house is cat free. This wasn’t intentional by any stretch but rather a case of Father Time taking its toll on all of us and those with four legs all the harder and more quickly. Princess was anti-social bitchy annoying my wife’s cat. She spent four years feuding with one of ... More About: Miscellany , Requiem
Website Progress Coming in Fits and Starts
2008-04-25 21:24:00 It took less time than I imagined, but the new and improved Ventana Lakes Real Estate.com is up and running on the shiny, new Wordpress 2.5 platform. Once I work out some details with Hostcentric, I’ll be doing the same to both Arrowhead Ranch Living.com and Westbrook Village Real Estate.com. Though I’m rather pleased with the new ... More About: Website , Miscellany , Progress
Dalton?s Arizona Homes Imagineers At Work
2008-04-24 19:27:00 Okay, I stole that one from Disneyland. (And for the record, the Columbia will not be sailing today. Just take my word for it.) Ventana Lakes Real Estate.com will be down for the next several hours while I convert the website from static html to a Wordpress platform. This will mean next to to nothing to ... More About: Arizona , Work , Miscellany , Homes , Dalton
An Answer I?ll Never Provide to You
More articles from this author:2008-04-24 19:19:00 I know the author of this answer on Trulia Voices and he’s a really good person. He’s also a fairly knowledgeable agent. But sometimes in the quest to provide answers to those asking questions, it’s possible to lose track of what we as real estate professionals can and cannot say. Here was a response to a ... More About: Answer 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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