Leanne Smith's (highdesertre) Blog

Living here in NW AZ Mohave County, I have traveled many rural dirt roads here in Golden Valley, Kingman, White Hills and Yucca while listing and showing vacant land to residential properties.   Very few of these dirt roads are county maintained. Most of these county dirt roads are non-maintained...

Imagine my surprise and out loud laugh when I saw this sign posted on a rural dirt road.  Golden Valley, AZ for the most part is zoned "Agricultural and Residential."  What this means is livestock is allowed.Over a year ago I spoke with a potential rural property buyer who really loved a home  lo...

President Teddy Roosevelt said “No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” The reality of these words continue to resonate with me even more so in real estate, let me explain.Here in Golden Valley, AZ often buyers of vacant land parcels are living in travel trailers or rec...

Years ago, I read some research conducted by Pitney Bowes about response time respective to making initial contact with sale leads.  Those who responded quickly within 5 minutes secured a greater likelihood of converting those sales leads to  customers. Further more as the minutes clicked by or g...

Coming into the real estate industry, I was familiar with sales presentations.  My past standard of practice was always to lean toward the facts and by having the presentation be educational.  This approach allowed me to build trust especially if the potential client had shared previous negative ...

The life of a real estate agent who is a small business owner often presents unexpected and unplanned for twists and turns.  Suddenly one’s real estate practice or small business is bombarded with inquiries, new or unanticipated day to day problems, last minute appointments, then often required o...

Buying that first new construction home or that used home with lots of character does require annual home maintenance. Unfortunately, many property owners both new and older fail to undertake annual maintenance.The impact of this failed home maintenance is often revealed when the owners decide to...

Remember the old westerns with the shotgun rider sitting next to the stagecoach driver?  His presence was to protect the stagecoach passengers as well as valuables from robbers.Today, real estate agents also require protection from nefarious individuals. What this protection looks like depends on...

For those who undertake all their real estate paperwork electronically, big kudos to you. Possibly you have some sort of checklist to ensure all documents are in order for your own real estate practice and the documents to be submitted to the other parties of the transaction along with the broker...

Imagine my surprise when a potential residential home buyer asked me this question relative to the showing or the tour of a local residential property here in Mohave County, AZ:"Will you be there?"My response was: “Yes at Dirt Road Real Estate we are physically at all residential showings and oft...