Chuck Willman - NewHouse Utah
Chuck & Lucy Willman are agents who offer advice about selling or purchasing homes in Utah.
ARCHIVED BLOG POSTS
2008
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It's the modern home buyer quandry: Do I want to pay more for the home to live closer work/school? or Do I want to pay less to live further away? Lately I'm performing the following searches: Homes close to work/school (usually re-sale) Homes further away at bargain value pricing (often new home...
04/28/2008
Something is very wrong with this picture. Countrywide loses over $700 million dollars in 2007. The CEO, Angelo Mozilo , receives an 80% pay cut. That makes *some* sense. With that, he was only making close to a $1 million a month in base pay. But hey- there's some stock options to cash in! ... a...
04/27/2008
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When cities experience massive population growth, local authorities must be asking themselves, "can we handle this?" Evidently Phoenix can. Phoenix is listed, by Forbes Magazine, among the best cities for job growth. About the area, the article ascribed Phoenix's prospects as strong due to a div...
04/27/2008
How many of you have gone to Wikipedia for "the gist" of a topic? Raise your hands, people... ok that makes close to 85,000 of you. Well... the "next big thing" in the web info arena (according to me) is, ready for it? Data - more accurately... Smart Data. Raw numbers with contextual meaning. Th...
04/27/2008
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How many of you have gone to Wikipedia for "the gist" of a topic? Raise your hands, people... ok that makes close to 85,000 of you. Well... the "next big thing" in the web info arena (according to me) is, ready for it? Data - more accurately... Smart Data. Raw numbers with contextual meaning. The...
04/26/2008
How many of you have gone to Wikipedia for "the gist" of a topic?Raise your hands, people... ok that makes close to 85,000 of you.Well... the "next big thing" in the web info arena (according to me) is, ready for it? Data - more accurately... Smart Data. Raw numbers with contextual meaning.The we...
04/25/2008
In April of 2005 Wired Magazine published one of *the* feel good stories of a lifetime. It was called "La Vida Robot" ... It's the adventure of a group of inner city high school students from West Phoenix who dared to compete in a NASA sponsered science competition against the best and the bright...
04/24/2008
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The Fortune 500 List is out... let's see which home builders made the list. This is interesting... Rank Company Revenues $ 177 Centex 14,293 235 D.R. Horton 11,297 256 Lennar 10,187 282 Pulte Homes 9,263 340 KB Home 7,328 How do they stack up to some of the famous companies? Company Fortune 1000...
04/21/2008
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Would you sell your home for a dollar? How about $100? The pendulous real estate market is still swinging to the favor of the buyer... ...so sellers are becoming creative. A Toronto man has decided to sell his home for $1. Of course he's not going to accept offers in that price range... he's j...
04/21/2008
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"Chuck- you live in Mesa; how are the schools?" That's the question I was asked earlier today. It's also a question I love to answer, "Mesa's Schools are excellent!" Here's some of the latest news: America's Promise Alliance recognized Mesa Public Schools as No. 1 for its graduation rate among t...
04/20/2008
