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Happy New Year!


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.
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Harj Gill’s Mortgage Acceleration System Speedequity® for Free!


Speedequity® FREE for a Limited Time!
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 [...]

Christkindlmarkt coming to Mesa, Arizona


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 [...]

Price decline for Greater Phoenix Resale Homes, but Sales Volume up


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 dsSearchAgent IDX solution greatly enhanced


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 [...]

Finally, the election is over and chocolate is the winner!


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 [...]

Theme-Song to the Bail-Out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac


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

Common Sense, or (not) The Best Comment Policy?


The Best Comment Policy:
One of the many reasons why I attended Inman Connect is to stay informed and keep abreast with the latest industry issues, social media, the transformation of the real estate business.  During Bloggers Connect first day’s session I realized that it was time to lay out the ground rules on my blog, the [...]

Heading out to REbarcamp and Inman Connect


The last couple of weeks have been crazy busy for me and i did not have much time to post.
Now I am ready to turn off the computer and will be heading out to San Francisco shortly.
This will be a first for me and I am looking very much forward attending these events. See you [...]

Nature’s Fireworks - Monsoon Storms over Phoenix


My friend John who is my Photography-Sensei seized the opportunity to take snapshots of mother nature’s most spectacular sides in the Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area - The Monsoon Storms. This slide-show includes some incredible photos of yesterday’s lightning strikes in the valley. This slide show also includes some breath taking pictures of fires started by [...]