"Valley of the Sun Real Estate"

Recently in Arizona, SB 1062 passed and has put more power into a home owner's hand, as it relinquished it from the HOA's (home owners associations). Before this bill if someone lived in an HOA that had bylaws restricting or forbidding for sale signs, they had no other choice but to follow the HO...

Today, before I opened my AOL email I noticed a headline that read "Steep Drop Predicted for Home Prices". While the market is bad I do not believe that this type of reporting is genuine. It is all speculation and predictions. And how often do these types of predictions or speculation come to fru...

In NY, and NJ two women were caught with stolen items that were missing from open houses that they attended. In all they made off with $73.000 in loot. These two women would go to open houses and while one of the women was engaging the agent, the other would go in search of things to take at a fi...

I read an article from REALTOR® Magazine online that points out that interest rates are at 2 year lows. The 30 year fixed dropped to 6.1 percent this week. And with the industry and the economy being the way it is now, another rate cut could be in the future. Lenders I talk to say that another 25...

In an Inman TV interview, Gregg Larson, CEO of Clareity Security discusses the consolidation of MLS's and the sharing of information among them. He also gives his advice on the advantages and disadvantages of MLS's sharing their information with each other. I still believe that the sharing of inf...

I read an article this morning that gave ten tips for bloggers on how to improve a blog. It was a great article, that went into detail about each tip that was given. For example, "Focus on what you know best" deals with writing a blog that is based on your experiences and knowledge. Another examp...

Nouveau Riche is selling classes here in Phoenix, AZ on investing in real estate and other services and products. Let me tell you, they are not cheap, at $16,000 you could have invested on learning from books and other classes at a regular university.  However, as many as 2,500 people pay the mon...

Today I read another article about buying property in Mexico. Its main focus in on attorney Raul O'Farrill, who has offices in Arizona and Rocky Point. The article goes into the good and bad about this fellow. Whether they praise him or they are mad at him citing conflict of interest, people were...

Today I read a story from azcentral.com that made me sick. It is about the woes that come with buying property in Mexico. Unfortunately many Americans have been misled and defrauded in shady deals to buy property in Mexico. The article goes into detail about several investors and buyers who have ...

In a recent article from REALTOR® Magazine, I read that our likeability is a major factor to our success. In fact the article mentions that 85% of our success comes from the fact that we can connect with people. The other 15% is made up of our skills and knowledge. Than why am I not a millionaire...