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I don’t want to take this too far or make an analogy based on yesterday post about living in the desert. However, there are some similarities. Today we will look at the seductive beauty of Tucson.
Tucson Seductive Mountain Views
This primarily pertains to the views. We have some incredible views in Tucson. To get the really great ones you are going to have to spend some money, maybe a lot of money. What is a lot of money depends on how much of it you have : )
One thing you just can’t do effectively in Tucson is landscape a great mountain view. It is way to expensive to have a mountain built. The next best thing, buy a home with a great view.
This is one thing Tucson has going for it besides the great weather in winter. It is surrounded by four different mountain ranges. Each ranges has a different look and feel.
Of course not every home in Tucson is going to have great mountain views like the ones here. But you might be surprised at how many home located around town have very good mountain views and they don’t cost $500,000 or more.
There is a place to check “mountain views” on the Tucson MLS listing sheet. Unfortunately there are to many listings that take this to the extreme. Meaning, if you look just so over the fence on the third Thursday of the month you might see a mountain in the distance.
Here is a good example of what I mean. Does this home have mountain views? Yes, but even the untrained eye, I’m kidding here, can see the difference between the view of this home and the views above.
Sometimes potential home buyers will say, “I don’t need mountain views they don’t mean anything to me.” I said the same thing when I first moved to Tucson. I figured I can see them all over town. I can drive up into the mountains or find a nice place to pull off and look at the mountains if I want to. Why spend the money on a home for a view.
The other side of the coin. Almost everyone moving to Tucson looking for a second home or a place to retire start by saying, “I want a place with Mountain Views”. There are lots of places in this country that don’t have any mountains, when people move here from one of those places they want to be able to see those mountains from inside their home if possible or at least from the backyard patio.
This means if you have a home with good to great mountain views you have a much better chance of selling it and getting more for your property because of those views.
Great Mountain Views never depreciate. We all know the old saying about real estate “Location, location, location” well price, price, price, and some good views should be a part of at least the second location in the list.
(it has been a very long day, I was up at 3 AM taking pictures of a meteor shower that may have been a few hours earlier : ( anyway, end result. If you find sentences that don’t make sense please feel free to edit this post. I ran it through the spell checker but I’m honestly too tired to read my own writing at this point. I’ll probably proof it tomorrow and remove this final almost a paragraph. )
Patiently waiting for better stats and absorption rates and enjoying the pictures in the meantime.:-)
Your pictures are unbelievably beautiful!:-) I can bet the places don’t even look as good up close and personal.;-) Are they photoshopped at all? I know it takes talent as well, but what camera are you using? Is it something too professional and expensive?
First, working on the stats as I write, should be up on Tucson Real Estate in The News in an hour or so.
Second, Photoshopped in the sense I adjust the brightness and contrast for the web. I’m using Fireworks, Photoshop Element and Capture NX 1.2. Fireworks for the drop shadows, Elements for shadow and highlights, Capture to brighten dark areas only, Elements works on the entire image, Capture on color points I can set.
I shot almost all the time with a polarizing filter.
Camera is a Nikon D40 6 megapixel. I’ll have a couple of night shots for here once I get the Statistics report posted.
Thanks for the info, Dave. That is a big, serious camera!;-) Very pretty pictures, though!
Gadget-wise, I’m still in the Stone Age. Why do I bother asking…?!;-) Don’t even have a digital camera. Ever since I saw the grainy pictures coming out of one of the first models, I’m just biased… That’s not the only reason, of course. They’ve improved a lot since those days. I just hate any gadget manual, trying to figure it out… get frustrated. The more options they have, the crazier they drive me.;-) My general technical impairment is most likely the problem
), but I still think pictures of people taken with digital cameras are not as good because the taking of the picture is somehow delayed… or you don’t know exactly when it’s being taken… not sure if I’m making myself understood and I may very well be totally wrong, but that’s how it feels to me.