General Musings

Merry Christmas!

General Musings

I hope everyone out there had a Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas Chris Butterworth is: Realtor. Analyst. Husband. Father. Writer. Amateur Photographer. Triathlete. Soccer Dad. Big fan of technology, efficiency, and the Arizona Wildcats.

27 December 2011 Read the full article →

Pure fun – surfing bulldogs

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Sometimes in Phoenix in August, it’s just too hot to think about real estate. This is one of those days. I just couldn’t resist sharing this YouTube video that my friend Christopher Robin Baker over at Coldwell Banker sent me. Enjoy! Heather Barr is a Realtor and a happy workaholic. She eats more than someone [...]

18 August 2011 Read the full article →

Random non-real estate related post

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Nothing real estate related here at all. Just found a cool new blog that I added to my feed reader, called JetHead: The World from 30,000 feet at 500 mph. JetHead is over at WordPress.com and it’s the periodic musings of a commercial airline pilot. He flies a 737. I’m typical of the major airline [...]

2 February 2011 Read the full article →

Social media changed us in 2010

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I got the coolest email today from LinkedIn, to which I belong. They sent me an email with the subject “Heather, 8 of your connections changed jobs in 2010” and it came with the following link/photo: Isn’t that cool? First, what an awesome way for LinkedIn to get in front of their ‘customers’. Brilliant email [...]

22 January 2011 Read the full article →

Lease Purchase, Rent to Own

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Rent to own and lease-purchase agreements are cropping up in the Greater Phoenix real estate world these days. They’re a natural result of the continuing tight credit market. Lease-purchase and rent to own are essentially the same things.  A lease with a purchase option is almost the same, just with more complicated legalese thrown in [...]

11 September 2010 Read the full article →

How many Realtors in Arizona?

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According to the Arizona Department of Real Estate, at this moment in time there are 39,682 people in Maricopa County with active real estate licenses. Heather Barr is a Realtor and a happy workaholic. She eats more than someone her size ought to be able, and is a runner as a consequence. Her TiVo’s full [...]

24 July 2010 Read the full article →

More Bad MLS Photos

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Wow! You mean that stuff on the counter comes with the house? Cool! Heather Barr is a Realtor and a happy workaholic. She eats more than someone her size ought to be able, and is a runner as a consequence. Her TiVo’s full of spy thrillers, police procedurals and Whedonesque sci-fi.

18 March 2010 Read the full article →

Fun with FICO

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Isn’t this a set of interesting statistics? In 2005, 46% of consumers who opened a new mortgage had a FICO score less than 700. In 2008 this percentage had dropped to 25% . Fair Isaac (creators of the FICO score) reports that borrowers in the Northeast continually present the least amount of default risk nationally [...]

12 March 2010 Read the full article →

Real Estate Funnies

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Sometimes my job makes me giggle. Today was one of those days. Received a fax today from a seller’s agent in response to an offer my buyers clients made. List Price $695,000                                Buyer’s Offer $660,000 Note: Sold comps in the past 60 days are $685,000 and $669,000 with a recent low of $625,000 and a [...]

8 July 2009 Read the full article →

But It’s A Dry Heat

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“It’s a dry heat” is a ubiquitous phrase in Phoenix every summer. Like most stereotypes, it’s ever present because it’s true. To a point. “It’s a dry heat” works for me personally up to about 103 or 104. After that, it just feels hot no matter what, and my stock reply to “dry heat” is [...]

22 June 2009 Read the full article →

the shrinking middle class

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I was talking with my neighbor last night about the current state of the market/economy (as if anybody talks about anything else nowadays).  He made a comment I found interesting: "Half the people we know are losing their homes and cars, and the other half are buying up property for $60,000 a home.  We feel [...]

24 April 2009 Read the full article →

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