Archive for August, 2008
US Housing starts hit a 17 year low
Home and apartment construction nationwide fell in July to its lowest level in more than 17 years.
The US Commerce Dept. report shows that construction of single-family homes in July fell by 2.9 percent from the previous month to a pace of 641,000. That is the lowest mark since January 1991.
If you are a builder or [...]
WIFI of an Idea Iowa Ahead of the Game
While I was on my recent trip back to Ohio I had a serendipity experience when I got to Iowa. I noticed on the Rest Area sign that “Free WIFI” was available. I was close to my destination in Des Moines at the time and it was almost dark, but I made a mental note [...]
A River with Water in It
I posted this image with the same title and got a few comments about how funny it was to think of a river without water in it. Unless you live in Tucson that is. Over the years we have had people who were planning on moving to Tucson say they wanted a home on a [...]
Bugs or the Lack Thereof
I’ve had less than 6 mosquitoes bites since moving to Tucson in August of 1999. For anyone that remembers that was before the Y2K scare when all the worlds computers were to stop functioning because of the date change. For those too young or to old to remember it didn’t happen.
During my recent journey geographical [...]
Been Walk About
I know some have noticed a lack of posting the past couple of weeks, at least I hope some have noticed. I’ve been on a two week Life Journey. It isn’t a vacation though some have used that word. This is different, it might look like a vacation from the outside, but [...]
Back in Tucson with More Real Estate News to Share
I’ve been on the road for the past two weeks. I still have kept in touch reading the daily Arizona Daily Star email headlines updates. There have been a few changes in the past two weeks and the Tucson MLS Statistics for July were released in my absense. I’ve printed those out and hopefully will [...]
Tucson MLS Preliminary Closed Transactions July 2008
In about 12 hours the Stats for July will be pulled. Monday and Tuesday were the last two business days to get closed transactions entered in the system before the data pull. Usually we see between 50 and 75 sales a day entered after the end of the month before the data is [...]
Tucson Real Estate Photos
I want to see the floor, I want to see the ceiling
I am the lab rat for a recent experiment Barbara as been running. She sets buyers up with a “Client Portal” which will email them new listings which meet their search criteria. We get this criteria when they fill out a [...]
