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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
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
Westbrook Village Homes Search
2008-04-24 06:36:00 Do you like the new toy? I think I do. This is a sneak peek of the new homes searches I’m putting into place with the assistance of the good folks at Diverse Solutions. If you check the Phoenix Homes Search page, you’ll discover a brand new map-based search already in working order. No registration necessary ... More About: Village
Phoenix Bank Owned Homes - April 23
2008-04-23 20:52:00 Here are the latest bank owned homes to the Phoenix real estate market. As always, all of the data is provided by the Arizona Regional MLS and is deemed reliable but not guaranteed. (Interesting sidelight … I started this post an hour ago and a number of listings were entered into the system since.) 4633 W. Fairmount ... More About: April , Homes , Owned , Bank
Timely Proof of an Old Axiom
2008-04-22 22:27:00 Yesterday afternoon, Jeff Brown and I were discussing the notion of there being no such thing as bad publicity. We seemed to agree that when it comes to blogs, particularly real estate blogs, this is untrue; bad publicity truly is bad publicity, especially given the long memories of the search engines. Enter Carol Hian, a writer ... More About: Proof
Phoenix Real Estate Inventory Update - April 22, 2008
2008-04-22 18:51:00 This generally is the time when inventory in the Phoenix real estate market rises nearly as quickly as the daily high temperature. But while we were brushing against records a week ago and could hit 100 degrees as early as this weekend, the inventory of single family detached homes in Maricopa County isn’t following ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , April , Inventory
Phoenix Bank Owned Homes - April 22
2008-04-22 17:13:00 Here are the latest bank owned listings in the Arizona Regional MLS. Since I’ve forgotten the disclaimer the first two days, here it is for all those enjoy them: all data is provided by the Arizona Regional MLS and is deemed reliable but not guaranteed. 3135 W. Camelback Road, Phoenix 2 bed, 1 bath, $72,000 Red Manor Homes 8028 ... More About: April , Owned , Bank
Lunchtime at Westgate City Center
2008-04-21 20:46:00 The Westgate City Center in Glendale continues to grow, with additional restaurants opening along Glendale Road just to the east of Loop 101. One of the new additions is Gardunos, a chain with a handful of restaurants here in the Valley and in New Mexico. Despite my fervent believe that it’s always 5 o’clock somewhere, the ... More About: Miscellany
Phoenix Bank Owned Homes - April 21
2008-04-21 18:12:00 Here are the latest bank owned homes to hit the Phoenix real estate market. I had planned on attaching listing sheets off the IDX feed that I use from Success Web Systems, but the updates to their IDX platform aren’t instantaneous so there’s nothing yet there for me to attach. It’s a work in progress, as ... More About: April , Homes , Owned , Bank
Phoenix Bank Owned Homes - April 20
2008-04-20 20:52:00 After mulling over the solution for bank owned homes, I decided we’ll try a daily update approach to the situation. There are a few basic parameters for the search - I’m looking only for single-family detached homes that are either in Maricopa or Pinal counties. NOTE: Pinal County’s a big place and is largely outside the ... More About: Phoenix , April , Homes , Owned , Bank
Discovering Real Estate Truths on the Internet
2008-04-20 16:52:00 Last night I discovered that my beloved Tobey is a phony. Since his dual knee surgeries last summer, Tobey has been claiming that he can’t climb onto the couches in our family room without someone lifting his fat carcass up there. Then came last night … after fighting with Morgan in the backyard, Tobey came charging ... More About: Internet , Estate , Real Estate , Real , The Internet
A Note From a Canadian Buyer
2008-04-19 18:43:00 “Sheila”, as I called her once upon a time, contacted me through the blog last fall to purchase real estate here in Phoenix. Several trips to Gilbert and 700 miles on the car later, we found her a new home in Power Ranch; she took possession of the house about two weeks ago and has ... More About: Note , Buyer , Canadian
Friday Afternoon Theme Music - April 18
2008-04-18 17:33:00 Jimmy Buffett was at Glendale’s Margaritaville Cafe in the Westgate City Center last week but I didn’t have a ticket. This left me somewhat bummed, but given everything else happening last week it likely was for the best. Appreciation of Buffett seems to be a function of age, though I’ve been working on my 9-year-old since ... More About: Music , April , Miscellany , Friday , Afternoon
Things You Don?t See in Phoenix
2008-04-17 18:35:00 It started at 3:30 a.m. yesterday morning, minutes before my alarm was set to start its obnoxious beeping. It came to a close last night at 9:10 after two flights - one to Denver and one home, several hours spent in Denver itself, more than one glass of Merlot at lunch and a run through ... More About: Phoenix , Miscellany , Things
What to do With Phoenix Bank Owned Homes
2008-04-16 09:20:00 Don’t look at my bank owned pages. Not for a couple of days. I beg you. Even if you have the password for the few that still are protected, there’s nothing to see there. I’m not kidding. There could be something there. All it would take is for the Arizona Regional MLS’ board of directors to approve ... More About: Phoenix , Homes , Owned , Bank
Phoenix Real Estate Inventory Update - April 15
2008-04-15 23:29:00 Inventory essentially was flat once again, holding steady at 39,463 single family detached homes for sale in Maricopa County. Sales dropped slightly to 3,040 over the preceding 30 days for an absorption rate of 12.98 months. Bank owned homes currently have a 5.5-month absorption rate - 4,010 active listings versus 730 sales the previous 30 days. ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Phoenix , April , Inventory
Running to the Publish Button Before Someone Changes Their Mind
2008-04-15 05:43:00 Wow. Jonathan Washburn over at Active Rain put together an inaugural Real Estate Top Blog Index, averaging different sites’ Alexa and Compete.com rankings. All of us know Alexa’s somewhat fundamentally flawed and I assume Compete is as well. It’s only when you click on the hyperlink that you discover that it’s not really me in 12th place ... More About: Running , Mind , Button , Publish
Dalton?s Arizona Homes? Gentle Evolution
2008-04-15 01:36:00 One day a couple of weeks ago I woke up and discovered this blog has become more local in nature. This still is not necessarily the place to turn when you want details of the next NASCAR race (which Jimmy Johnson won at Phoenix International Raceway on Saturday) or the next big happening (such as Debbie ... More About: Evolution , Arizona , Homes , Gentle , Dalton
Forward Thinking at the Arizona Regional MLS
2008-04-13 04:45:00 When the Arizona Regional MLS announced last fall that flexmls would be the new MLS provider there was dancing in the cyberstreets. We admittedly knew little about flexmls but we knew enough about the Tempo/Marketlinx platform to know anything would be an improvement. Shortly after the announcement, Odysseus purchased the domain name and started the Phoenix ... More About: Thinking , Forward
Welcome to Critter Country
2008-04-12 09:06:00 And we’re not referring to the former home of the greatly-missed Bear Country Jamboree at Disneyland. (Tangent warning: Pooh Corner sucks. Bring back Big Al. End of tangent.) No, today we’re talking about the one critter that seems to be dreaded more than any other even though treatment and elimination is relatively straight-forward. We give you ...
Friday Afternoon Theme Music - April 11
2008-04-11 17:10:00 One-handed fins to the left? One-handed fins to the right? Welcome to the time machine! Mr. Buffett was at the Margaritaville Cafe at the Westgate City Center here in Glendale on Wednesday. Do you think I got a VIP pass? No. Did my daughter, who has drawn about a dozen pictures of Buffett songs get a ... More About: Music , April , Miscellany , Friday , Afternoon
Pardon the Interruption
2008-04-11 03:37:00 We’ll keep this one short. Well, short for me. This week I was scheduled to have two escrows close. There were some narrow scrapes on the second, but everything was completed today after our second final walkthrough. I also was scheduled to teach a blogging client how to use their shiny new blog, which I’ll tell ... More About: Miscellany , Pardon
Curing Contractual Issues in Phoenix Real Estate
More articles from this author:2008-04-09 19:12:00 Yesterday one of my sellers conducted the “final” walkthrough on the home they are purchasing in Ventana Lakes. Or at least, that was the plan. Once we got to the home we discovered both the water and gas had been turned off, making it rather difficult to determine if the leak from the hose bib ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Phoenix , Issues , Real 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
