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Hiking tips for Phoenix, Scottsdale visitors

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It’s gonna be a hot one today, folks! The metro Phoenix area is slated to see 98 degrees Farenheit today. If you’re visiting the metro Phoenix-Scottsdale area and you’re considering hiking some of our beautiful mountain trails today, take note…  it’s hotter than you think, and the trails are steeper than you think. Remember that [...]

1 April 2011 Read the full article →

Snow in Phoenix

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Although it’s rare, sometimes we Phoenicians have to protect our desert plants from freezing temperatures. Our Tucson branch manager, The HouseChick, a.k.a. Kelley Koehler wrote about prepping your cactus for the few freezing nights. Click on over to see  cups on cactus and the new trend, bags on cactus. Thinking of visiting the Phoenix-Scottsdale area [...]

30 December 2010 Read the full article →

Photographing the front of your house

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Sometimes a head-on shot of the exterior front of a house isn’t the best way to showcase what the home has to offer. Sometimes you should take a picture from an angle you’d never normally use. That’s the same house and the two pictures were taken within about 60 seconds of each other. You’d hardly [...]

2 September 2010 Read the full article →

Just a Pretty Picture

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Nothing more than a pretty picture here today. The world’s full to overbrimming with doom and gloom. I hope this will help. Taken in the Cave Creek neighborhood of Calle de los Arboles, spring 2009. Click to view all Cave Creek homes for sale (or in any other neighborhood for that matter). You must signup [...]

21 September 2009 Read the full article →

Photos Make a Huge Difference Too

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I’m piling on to Chris’ post yesterday about how staging can determine whether buyers make offers or make tracks. Pictures make a huge difference too. Buyers love LOTS of pictures. Quantity doesn’t substitute for quality however. A word about the condo Chris wrote about yesterday, with the fabulous view. We both agreed it was one [...]

16 September 2009 Read the full article →

When Is It Monsoon Season in Phoenix?

Glossary Posts

A former client’s question prompted this post, so thanks Jon! According to Wikipedia: The North American Monsoon (NAM) occurs from late June or early July into September, originating over Mexico and spreading into the southwest United States by mid-July. It affects Mexico along the Sierra Madre Occidental as well as Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah,Colorado, [...]

30 June 2009 Read the full article →

Phoenix is a Big Grid

Phoenix By Area

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Here’s a bit of handy introduction-to-the-Valley sort of info about Phoenix’s street system. (click to enlarge/”back” to return) Thoughtfully, our Phoenician forebears laid out our fair city on a big grid. Nearly every street is straight and major streets are 1 mile apart. Numbered streets go north & south, named streets go east-west. lost already? [...]

19 June 2009 Read the full article →

Metro Phoenix Freeways Names

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Where’s the Santan Freeway? And when does it become the Red Mountain Freeway? Why is the Loop 101 called the Pima Freeway and also called the Aqua Fria Freeway? What is it with Phoenicians changing the names of roads as they cross town anyway? Where’s The Stack? Is it different from The Mini-Stack? Dreamy Draw? [...]

10 June 2009 Read the full article →

Blogging From The Bus

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I had to take the bus the other day. Various reasons why, and while not looking forward to it, I decided to make the most of it. Mobile blog post! I walked about 1/4 mile from my house to the bus stop and hopped on the number 7 bus going north. North-South bus routes are [...]

14 May 2009 Read the full article →

Spring Blooms

General Musings

This is a great time of year to be a Phoenician – warm days, cool nights, blue skies, and brilliant color everywhere you look.  Our desert vegetation is blooming, exploding in pink, purple, orange, red, yellow, and white.  I don’t often stop to smell roses, but I do make it a point to slow down [...]

16 March 2009 Read the full article →

Valley Freeways

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I snapped this photo some months ago on a trip to the East Valley to meet a client. If memory serves, it’s a picture of where the 202 passes over the 60. I’m sort of an oddball – I love the Valley’s freeways for their looks. I love the sweeping space underneath the overpasses, and [...]

12 March 2009 Read the full article →

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