I have always been fascinated with photography and I decided that it was time to expand my “photographic horizon” beyond the digital pocket camera. Last year I added a Sony Alpha 100 to my camera-equipment arsenal in addition to several “point and shoot” cameras that I already owned. No, there is nothing wrong with “point [...]

This past week I have felt a bit like the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, always running late, always trying to catch up, and never quite making it. You could call it a “perfect real estate storm” where all the wrong elements came together. One very complex transaction plus several other projects all demanding time [...]

All the home sellers who have been biting their nails and holding their breath can relax. A couple of articles recently came to the same conclusion – the Phoenix area has escaped much of the fallout from what many called the real estate bubble. Around here, it was more like a bump in the road, [...]

Pick up the morning paper and there they are – the headlines declaring doom and gloom in the real estate market. Log onto the Internet and there’s CNN beating the same drum: new home sales plummeted in January all around the country. And you can’t have missed the little sleigh ride that blue chip stocks [...]