Archive for November, 2008
La Encantada Snowfall Evening
Friday night we went over to the first snowfall event of the season at La Encantada Mall. It has become a family tradition to step into a Norman Rockwell painting and enjoy the 15 minutes of magic. With a little planning you can stretch it to over an hour.
Black Friday Prep in Tucson Real Estate
I don’t think I need to provide any insight into Black Friday for the ladies of the house. If it were invented by retailers it was perfected by the ladies. There is an art form to Black Friday that goes way beyond the surface appearance of Chaos. I know there are whole planning sessions on Thanksgiving for how to capture to the flag, or the appliance, or the bargain the next day on Black Friday. For some it is like a commando raid on local retailers with no hold barred and no prisoners taken.
Using The Web to Market Tucson Real Estate
Surfing the Web has gone from a past time to a part of our daily lives. Finding knowledge and information quickly has been expedited by the Web. I don’t use a phone book anymore. I do still read a newspaper because it is the Fred Flintstone in me that likes that cultural throwback to my mentors reading the newspaper.
Meet Your New Real Estate Agent
This was the headline on the top of the Business section of the Arizona Daily Star yesterday, (Sunday Nov. 23, 2008) Of course it isn’t true, it is a headline designed to grab your attention and pull you into reading the article. When the topic is really about the use of YouTube to market real estate it makes a better headline to say “Meet Your New Real Estate Agent” than to say “Using YouTube to Get Rid of Your Tucson Crib” or “YouTube Your Way to New Digs in Tucson”.
Northwest Tucson Gonga Deal
Here is another Gonga Deal in Tucson.
Located in the Northwest it is:
Price: $142.900
Sq.Ft. 1873
4 Bedrooms
2 Baths
2 1/2 Car Garage
Built in 2006 (Two years old)
$76.29 a square foot.
This is a Gonga Deal for the Northwest, for any part of Tucson for that matter.
Gmail Now Has Themes
I know this is a post I would usually put on my Wordpress Tech blog: The Real Estate Blog Lab. I post it here for two reasons.
1. I wonder how many of you even know I have a technical blog about Blogging
2. I think there are a lot of readers that already have a gmail account but haven’t realized there are themes now available
3. I really needed a post for today and I’ve been two busy to come up with something besides this lame idea about Gmail Themes
These Ants Aren’t Dead Ants
Volcano ants, any idea how they got that name. They are prolific little diggers in the fall. They love to make little volcano openings in your yard.
Easy to Purchase Isn’t The Solution
Almost everyone agrees that any kind of sustainable recovery has to begin with housing, if it does not begin there it has to be involved very soon. The housing industry in our country is so large it makes the auto industry seem but a grain of sand.
A Correction In A Storm
The winds blow and the storm intensifies. Some have prepared knowing a storm is always possible, other party through the night either unaware or uncaring. The winds were gentle at first almost balmy bringing with it an intoxicating scent of sweet perfume and a good life. The subtle changes were interpreted to be nothing more than a small calm or shifting of the winds.
Tucson Real Estate Absorption Rates October 2008
October took a step back from September. There was a shift overall in the areas where sales were the strongest for the month. The West saw a good pickup in activity while the East, Southeast and Central saw a slowing in sales. The overall rate increased by over a month but the [...]
Tucson MLS Statistics October 2008
Has anyone heard the one about the economy slowing? It is nice to see it finally slowing, after being in free fall for a couple of months now, slowing is a good thing. Yes, we are still falling but falling slower is a good thing. Ask anyone that has ever fallen, slowing [...]
Tucson Loves Tiki Torches
When winter comes we like to put out the Tiki Torches and light them up. Yes it is cold by Tucson standards to be out side in winter, and the torches give off no heat whatsoever, but we like them. Unlike other places that use the torches to keep away misquitoes we don’t have that issue. Misquitoes keep a low profile in Tucson in the winter, they keep a low profile in the summer as well.
