Sporadic Blogger 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

By now, the news about the devastating Tornadoes 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:
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This week, thousands of people lost their homes and over 54 lost their lives. The destruction is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]