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Jaws and Kitchen Photography
Hooper: “Come on, Martin! Martin, move, move, move!” Chief Brody: “I’m not going out there!” Hooper: “Beyond the edge of the barrels! Go to the end of the barrels! Further out!” Brody: “What?” Hooper:...
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Five Reasons to Live in Sun City Grand
Full credit goes to my good friend Gail for the photographs; I simply was the guy driving the car today after taking a listing in Sun City Grand’s so-called vacation getaways. More on that property in...
View ArticleDam Holding Up Tempe Town Lake Breaks in the Desert
Break a dam anywhere else in the country and all hell breaks loose. Break the dam holding together Tempe’s Town Lake – a man-made creation inside the otherwise dry Salt River channel – and, well, not...
View ArticleWhat Don Mattingly Taught Us About Real Estate This Week
Let’s set the scene for you … At Dodger Stadium on Tuesday night, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Joe Torre was ejected from the team’s game against the San Francisco Giants. Bench coach Bob Schaefer, the...
View ArticleThe Truth Behind an IDX Feed
How many of you shop inside the convenience marts attached to gas stations? Apparently, far more than I ever really imagined if what I’ve seen at my in-laws’ ARCO station is accurate. Until I was...
View ArticleWe Can’t See the Forest for the Technology
This afternoon a post from the GeekEstate Blog appeared in my feed reader – I can’t link to it because the link leads to a 404 message, which means either the post has been taken down, is future dated...
View ArticleTransparency and Building Community
This may seem a little bit odd for a real estate agent to do, but I’m going to tell you the story of another agent who works in my parents’ neighborhood – the neighborhood in which I grew up. For more...
View ArticleAll Phoenix Real Estate Inventory Update – July 27
This one’s a little different than the old inventory updates I used to provide with absorption rate and all; instead of looking at the whole Valley, here’s a quick rundown of my own listing inventory....
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Vote for Me – Sympathy Readily Accepted!
If you take a look over on the right side you’ll see an extra little button there where you can vote for the best real estate blog in Phoenix. I’m trying to adjust the programming so that if you click...
View ArticleTaking Credit Where Credit’s Due – Setting the Price
Last week I told you about a new listing Tobey and I took in the Sun City Grand vacation rentals. This was a nice 2-bedroom, 1,300 square foot home in Sun City Grand that had been painstakingly...
View ArticleStephen Strasburg and the Best Laid Plans of Mice and Realtors
To say Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg has been treated with kid gloves once coaches realized there was a lightning bolt attached to his right arm would be a severe understatement. At...
View ArticleA Few Lessons From a Forced Vacation
Okay, so the last couple of months here have been more about me than anything else and that will change. Not today, but still. Reality is, everything has been about me for the last four months around...
View ArticleAnswering Reader Mail
You gotta love it … here’s an actual e-mail I received earlier today. Hey buttmunch, when are you going to fix the pictures so they can be viewed as a slide show? Clicking on each thumbnail separately...
View ArticleHey Phoenix Real Estate Brokers: Is Minimal Training Too Much to Ask?
My broker-owners don’t like when I’m cynical about my fellow profe … er … agents, so I’m going to be nice and positive about this one. What real estate agents learn in real estate school helps them...
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Would a Statewide Arizona MLS Benefit the Consumer?
Once every two years, I go to Tucson for the annual Arizona State-Arizona football game. It’s a ritual that I’ve been following since 1990 when I first made the 120-mile drive and, with rare...
View ArticleDoor to Door Versus Selling Your Door
I had a BawldGuy flashback yesterday afternoon. My doorbell rang purposefully not once but twice, leading me to believe the kid from across the street was checking to see if my kids could place because...
View ArticlePhoenix Real Estate Buyers – Are You Adjusting to the Current Environment?
In my spare time, such as it is, I usually find myself playing Diamond Mind baseball, a computerized baseball simulation game akin to the old-fashioned tabletop dice games like Strat-O-Matic or APBA....
View ArticleKeeping a Sense of Perspective
It appears the time has come to get serious once again about market statistics as for the first time in three years the numbers they are a-changing. There was 2007, when week after week there was...
View ArticleGoodbye Go Daddy
Things have been put on hold the last couple of days as we handled a little bit of housekeeping here. To wit: 1) I’ve moved the last of my websites off GoDaddy’s hosting and onto Hostgator. This should...
View ArticleTake Good Notes Now to Save Headaches Later
Three days after returning home from the hospital, I walked into the kids bathroom and discovered the tub spout was lying in the tub and not on the wall where it belonged. Long story short, we had a...
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