Imagine that ... some good real estate news coming out of the Northwest Valley. Money Magazine has named Glendale Arizona one the top 25 most affordable cities in the country. The city of a quarter-million has long played second fiddle to nearby Phoenix. Now, however, it boasts two major league s
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08/22/2011
If you don't want to take referrals, I can understand. But frankly, referrals are the name of the game in this business - from other agents, from clients, etc. There are few things better than having a buyer or seller who's already been vetted and is well known by an agent or another person befor
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08/21/2011
Yesterday, the wife and I spent the day in Verrado helping friends move in the triple-digit heat. This, incidentally, is not the way to see Verrado, a subdivision in Buckeye on the north side of I-10 a couple of miles east of Highway 85 (aka the road to San Diego via Gila Bend). Rather than movin
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08/21/2011
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Several years ago, about the time of the near-demise of the American and worldwide economy following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, near-collapse of Merrill Lynch and the forced bailout of AIG, I made the conscious de
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08/14/2011
Want to derail a short sale in a heck of a hurry? Stop taking care of your home both ahead of and after receiving an offer to purchase the home. You may me frustrated with the bank. You may be angry with the world. You may want to take it out on the house. But none of this is going to matter to a
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08/11/2011
Last night, the wife and I visited the new Genghis Grill at Arrowhead Towne Center. In the mold of Fire & Ice and other Mongolian BBQ, at Genghis Grill you select your meat, vegetables and sauce and everything's cooked on a large, round flat-top grill. Genghis Grill's opening gives the area two M
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08/08/2011
Real estate agents talk all the time about getting an "approval" or an "approval letter" on a short sale. But what does this approval letter actually contain? Most obviously, the letter is going to say that either the lender will accept the purchase price or, more often, that the lender will acce
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08/07/2011
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08/05/2011
Why does it matter what escrow company you use for your purchase or sale? Here's a clause from the Arizona Association of REALTORS Residential Resale Purchase Contract: 3f. Release of Earnest Money: In the event of a dispute between Buyer and Seller regarding any Earnest Money deposited with Escr
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08/03/2011
After a relatively dry summer a year ago, the monsoon storms typical of Arizona have made repeated visits to Glendale and the rest of the West Valley. While the "haboob" of early July captured the national headlines, this week's dust storm rose 3,000 feet into the sky and swept across the Valley
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08/02/2011
