🏛85234 Housing Headlines 4-10-26 ☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email Brian️Not only is Gilbert a thriving business community, but its access to a nationally ranked public school system, an abundance of family-friendly activities, and over 300 days of sunshine per year make Gilbert a sought-after place to call home in Arizona and the Southwest United States. I specialize in the East Valley of the Phoenix Metro area - Gilbert, Mesa, Chandler, Tempe, Scottsdale, Apache Junction, and Gold Canyon☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email Brian 04/10/2026

As much as we would like to sell the sizzle, some properties only provide steak.  Examples might include vacant land, off grid parcels or properties that need a little to a lot of work.Writing up public remarks for vacant land to sell the sizzle continues to challenge me.  How many times can one write panoramic mountain views?When vacant land has property improvements such as wells, power, easy road access, makes the sizzle a little easier.Yes, we may do our best to sell the sizzle but at the end of the day, still we just end up with steak. P.S. Please consider checking out my Facebook business page, The Grit and Gratitude Agent that will focus on the Dirt Roads in Mohave County as well local real estate, lots of dirt or vacant land parcels as some of the local attractions.#LetsGetBackT... 04/14/2026

Benjamin Franklin understood life in so many different ways. For example, he observed ad shared:Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.How often in life and business do we allow those little expenses into our lives without thinking about the end result?I remember as an employee before electronic calculators and copy machines, we would recycle carbon paper as well as print on the other side of adding machine tape.  The purpose was not as much as recycling, but to save costs.  Used paper 8.5x11 paper on one side would be cut into smaller pieces as notes (scrap) paper. Many of us may have also heard these words again attributed to Franklin:A Penny saved is a penny earned.Franklin’s actual quote was “A penny saved is two pence clear,”For me, I was raised to be frugal... 04/13/2026

Many professional real estate agents recognize this acronym of OLD CAR. Lately I come to realize that our fiduciary duties are directly tied to time, the clicking of minutes, hours and days. Yet, time is not included in this acronym or other similar acronyms.As my husband recently purchased a 1917 Model T Ford in pristine condition and it runs, my brain made a connection to the OLD CAR acronym and OLD "T" CAR was born.  Obedience Loyalty Disclosure Timely Confidentiality Accounting Reasonable Care By the way, some have heard this quote by Henry Ford “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.” What some may not know the reasoning behind this statement. Black paint dried the quickest thus speeding up production. Additionally, black paint was the m... 04/10/2026