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 [...]

I have been tagged!
Is it that time again? You know, Meme time! Luckily, I was browsing through my Google Reader and realized that my friend Shailesh, the Arizona Mortgage Guru, tagged me. Of course one foreigner had to pick on another foreigner, so this is a first for me.
I have never done one of these [...]

Interpreting the Phoenix Market with Altos Research Charts:
I finally got around to making Altos Charts available for most of the Zip Codes in the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area on my blog.
John L. Wake covered the zip-code-changes in the valley in detail on his blog, Arizona Real Estate Note Book, and he even created Google [...]

PF Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon 2008:
The Valley of the Sun is a great place for outdoor activities and sporting events all year round. This coming weekend, Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tempe are jointly hosting the P.F. Chang Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon.
This fun event (and I freely admit that I prefer being a spectator) is not [...]

Happy New Year 2008!
Hello Friends!
Welcome to this New Year! For many of us, the beginning of a new year is a time for resolutions. So, why is a New Year such an emotional trigger that causes people to commit to new resolutions? It is quite simple: We are human.
In our daily lives we [...]

Happy Holidays!
Dear Friends,
My parents are coming from Austria and almost our entire family will gather at our house, so it will be a very traditional family Christmas at our home this year.
We are going to do something unusual; we are actually going to take the Christmas week off. I hope all of you are enjoying [...]