Archive for May, 2009
Pima County #3 of 10 Best Places To Grow Old – Forbes Magazine
Do you think Forbes would have picked Pima County as one of the top 10 places to grow old if it for one second believed the Tucson real estate market was in trouble?
Scott Street Griffin
Scott Street in downtown Tucson has been torn up for something like a year. It is now open and it has a totally different look and feel than before. It is a good change.
The Guest House
A very popular feature of some Tucson homes is the Guest house. In earlier days before AC and inter-state highways people would come to the desert to escape the winter weather. Before they were called snow birds they were called guests.
Denver at Night
There are a lot of great building and sculptures in downtown Denver. After a day with mostly clouds and rain the evening was a bit dryer and provided a couple of hours to walk around by the capitol building and grab some quick snapshots.
The Weather is Cool The Trees Green – Denver
I know it could have been Tucson today. One of those rare Pre-monsoon days with clouds and temperatures in the 80’s. This morning I caught a flight out of Tucson to Denver. I’ll be attending an un-conference on Friday. I’m going to do a workshop hands on presentation on HDR photo post processing.
Missing the Great Deals in Tucson Real Estate
Here is the unfortunate truth. We have seen more than one of our buyers miss out repeatedly on Great Deals because they were looking for the “Unbelievable Deal”.
Tucson Real Estate Looking for an”Unbelievable Deal”
You can look all you want but you won’t find. My experience in the past “if it is too good to be true, it is” That is the nature of an “Unbelievable Deal” The looking for an “Unbelievable Deal” is a pretty much a waste of time in Tucson. There are some “Believable Deals” and some “Great Deals”.
Tucson Headed into a Long Hot Summer
Well, it is here, it is HOT. The ice has broken we will be over 100 today and it looks like we will break into the third digit for a few more days to come. We all knew it was coming. This year especially, we have been fortunate. I can remember breaking the ice in March some years.
Some Call a Steady life being in a Coma
Our perceptions of life in general shape our vision of reality. Some would find living out in the desert alone with nothing but cows and miles and miles of desert to view as a good life. For other people that would be putting them in prison, cut off from their Twitter, Internet, Cable TV and Starbucks.
Tucson Home Prices Fall 20 percent
This was the headline for an article in the Tucson Citizen this morning. The report shows it is picked up from The Associated Press. It is a very GOOD example of POOR journalism.
To Mt. Lemmon On Mother’s Day
It was the first Mother’s Day in 19 years that World Traveler wasn’t with her mom for Mother’s Day. It was a different kind of day for us for sure. The occasion is usually marked with a wonderful homemade card; this year was no exception.
Tucson Average Sale Price – By Area
Yesterday we said the old saying “Location, location, location” is still important even during a recession. It doesn’t matter what social media site or organization you participate in or how many modern gadgets you possess it is still all about location when it comes to real estate.
