Jan's Green Blog, Scottsdale, AZ!

Raising awareness for all things about sustainability requires many man hours.  Man hours being a liberal term of course.  Volunteers who put sustainability efforts above their own schedules and promote sustainabilty are priceless in their efforts, but also in their results.   Volunteering at boo...

This has been a sad year for my family.  With the passing of one of my brothers I'm grateful for my family realtionships, especially having created better relationships with my brother's children this year.  We can't pick our family members, but we can make every effort to be a good friend and ch...

Each of us has choices that we make either benefiting our bodies, or not.  From what we eat, to exercise, to even crossing the street.  Each of these choices has a consequence, intended or not.   Our own bodies perform miracles on a daily basis in terms of being on auto-pilot.  We fix ourselves d...

Reading today's contest,  Thanksgiving Challenge - Post What You Are Thankful For  my blog post appeared on the brain instantly!  Gratitute comes in many ways to each of us from many different angles. From family to friends to what we do that earns us a living and much, much more.   This gratitut...

Spooky Feature in Your Smart Home   You're sitting on the couch watching your favorite shows when all of a sudden the thermostat shuts off!  "What happened," you're thinking?  After all, you just bought this home and moved in a few days ago?  What could possibly be wrong?   You had a home inspec...

Conserving water in our homes is becoming more important to consumers purchasing homes.  From saving water inside to outside, products are available to reduce water usage and save consumers money on their water bills.   WaterSense® is a label given to water saving products certfied by the Environ...

After having written the recent Scottsdale HousingMarket Report for September 2018, I noticed that the Median Sales Price has bounced around quite a bit in 2018. Thinking I should investigate, the following shows sales in different price categories to determine why prices are stalling.  The avera...

Housing Market Update - Scottsdale - September 2018 Scottsdale is seeing inventory creep upward, which is cyclical as you can see from this graph.  The highest volume of sales occurs in June each year and inventory begins to build thereafter.  During the holidays, activity slows for this season t...

It's birthday time for one of our long time Rainers!   Wishing Happy Birthday to Endre Barath Jr!  Hope you have a wonderful day!  

A quick look back in time.  What were you doing when Animal House first aired 30 years ago?   Thirty years ago I was not surprised that my third baby was another girl!  After all I was the tomboy between my sister and I.  She of course had 2 boys! 1988 also gave way to the following tidbits: The ...