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 [...]

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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During the summer of last year, when the decline in the housing market started to become obvious, Mortgage Acceleration Systems 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Districts 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:
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 [...]

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 [...]

Diverse Solutions 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 [...]

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 [...]

Take a load off Fannie…And you put the load right on me…