Tucson What is in Your Finance Jar

Financial Money Jar

There are a lot of variations on the story of the jar and what you can or can not fit in the jar. Usual Version: Glass Jar Golf Balls Pebbles Sand Coffee Financial Version: House Payment Insurance Payments Car Payments Credit Card Payments RV, ATV (toys) Payments


Bad credit has supplanted terrorism as the gravest immediate risk

need cach bankruptcy in your future

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about three articles that appeared in the “Arizona Daily Star” Business Section. The links to those articles are in the right navigation. The post is on the Tucson AZ Real Estate Blog “Tucson it is way past time to get real about personal finances.” Then we got this [...]


Arizona Home Prices Drop – Really! NO NOT Really!!

Tucson parachutes

It was reported in the Arizona Daily Star on August 31, 2007 in the business section article titled “Arizona Home Prices Drop for the first time in 16 years” I’ve written two in-depth posts on this article at Tucson AZ Real Estate. Arizona Home Prices Drop Arizona Home Prices Drop According to Who? I just [...]


Arizona Home Prices Drop – According to Who?

Home Price Index Second Quarter 2007

Or should I say what data set? Today we continue talking about article in the Arizona Daily Star last Thursday “Arizona Home Prices Drop for first time in 16 years” I’ve been digging into this article and specifically the report it is based on even more since yesterday. It appears there is even more to [...]


Arizona Home Prices Drop First Time in 16 Years

three tenths of one percent

Welcome back from the Labor Day Holiday. We hope everyone had a great weekend and will have a great first week in September. Tucson was greeted last week with this nice headline for all of us to read and enjoy as we headed out of town for cooler locations over the Labor Day Weekend. However, [...]


Tucson A Sea of Homes for Sale

a sea of homes

Big bold type “A Sea of Homes for Sale” It’s on the front page of the business section so it must be: True (get the lifeboats) Partially True (get the life preservers) On the front of the business section Not about Tucson real estate None of the above Some of the above Circle all that [...]


Tucson Scary Times Is it Halloween Yet?

scary times

(For those of you reading the Tucson Real Estate News, this isn’t the same post, well kind of the picture is the same and I use some of the same words but. . .) There was an article in the “Arizona Daily Star” yesterday August 28, 2007. The title of the article (remember titles are [...]


Tucson Real Estate Agents Not Even Coming To The Office

scary times

There was an article in the “Arizona Daily Star” yesterday August 28, 2007. The title of the article (remember titles are to be catchy, not a reflection of truth or reality) read: Even in ‘scary’ era, some home buyers can still get loans Don’t cha just love that title. SOME HOME BUYERS CAN STILL GET [...]