Spooky Feature in Your Smart Home You're sitting on the couch watching your favorite shows when all of a sudden the thermostat shuts off! "What happened," you're thinking? After all, you just bought this home and moved in a few days ago? What could possibly be wrong? You had a home inspec
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10/30/2018
Conserving water in our homes is becoming more important to consumers purchasing homes. From saving water inside to outside, products are available to reduce water usage and save consumers money on their water bills. WaterSense® is a label given to water saving products certfied by the Environ
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10/23/2018
After having written the recent Scottsdale HousingMarket Report for September 2018, I noticed that the Median Sales Price has bounced around quite a bit in 2018. Thinking I should investigate, the following shows sales in different price categories to determine why prices are stalling. The avera
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10/23/2018
Housing Market Update - Scottsdale - September 2018 Scottsdale is seeing inventory creep upward, which is cyclical as you can see from this graph. The highest volume of sales occurs in June each year and inventory begins to build thereafter. During the holidays, activity slows for this season t
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10/23/2018
It's birthday time for one of our long time Rainers! Wishing Happy Birthday to Endre Barath Jr! Hope you have a wonderful day!
10/16/2018
A quick look back in time. What were you doing when Animal House first aired 30 years ago? Thirty years ago I was not surprised that my third baby was another girl! After all I was the tomboy between my sister and I. She of course had 2 boys! 1988 also gave way to the following tidbits: The
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10/15/2018
This post is inspired by Brian England's Let's Get Personal Challenge. Starting off with a memory hanging in my office. My youngest daughter's mother's day card from probably 13 years ago. Who could discard this?! Not me. Love seeing this on my wall to inspire and challenge me every day! G
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10/08/2018
Managaing repairs during the purchase and sale of real estate is a big part of what we do as real estate agents. We're called upon to manage the negotations of repairs to bring competent vendors, get competitive prices, accomodating buyers and sellers' timelines, and meet the expectations of buy
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10/05/2018
One of my listings recently went under contract, quickly of course in this market. As most of us do in this business, I have a short list of vendors that are on speed dial to make business quick, accurate, respectable and results oriented. For that very reason, I hesitated to use a new photogra
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10/01/2018