Jim & Terry Tress's (jtress) Blog

I recently took a continuing education class covering the current status of the FHA. The Instructor, Nikki Turner, is a prominent Mortgage Officer with Wallick & Volk in Flagstaff. What is listed below is a paper she wrote for the class. With Nikki's permission I have reproduced the article in it...

Elegance in Flagstaff, Arizona. Magnificent Estate Style Home. Incredible mountain home site has mountain and lake views right in the middle of Continental Country Club. Across from Aspen Valley Golf Course..a total of .75 acres. GREAT HOME FOR ENTERTAINING, hugh Great Room, The Master Suite has ...

If your an outdoor enthusiast you might want to visit Flagstaff, AZ.  Flagstaff is located in Northern Arizona with an approximate elevation of 7,200 feet.  It is surrounded by forest service and state trust land.  There is hiking and biking in the summer and winter snow offers down hill and cros...

Arizona was full of sports fans over the weekend.  Superbowl Sunday proved to be a big hit in the state of Arizona.  It was one of the best games in a long time.  While Phoenix weather was rainy, Flagstaff had snow from sun up till sun down which brought the years total to 61.5" and counting.Scot...

If you love the snow, you should be visiting Flagstaff, AZ.  We are once again covered with a blanket of beautiful snow.  You can downhill ski, cross country ski, snowmobile, sled or even make snow angels.  The mountains are beautiful this time of year and Flagstaff is a great city to have a cabi...

Once again Flagstaff is experiencing lots of wet weather.  Sunday it rained all day long which is such a nice change from our daily sunshine.  As of early this morning Snowbowl is reporting a foot of fresh new powder to make skiing a great adventure.  Snow is predicted for most of the day today a...

Northern Arizona University is opening its new Convention Center & Hotel. Students at NAU's The School of Hotel  Management will being doing their internship at this new facility located on the campus at the corner of Milton Ave. and Butler. The campus is walking distance to the very heart of Dow...

There is a fantastic Condo Development in the Country Club Area of Flagstaff where the Developer is offering a whole host of great incentives. Timberline Place offers 1 bedroom/1 bath, 2bedroom/1 bath, 2 bedroom 2 bath and 3 bedroom/2 bath units starting aroung $150,000.00 for the 1/1. In additio...

The media is reporting that Chairman Ben Bernanke has pledged to slash interest rates that are needed to prevent the housing and credit problems so we don't enter into a recession in 2008.  Bernanke has made it very clear that the central bank is prepared to take agressive actions to stimulate ou...

Flagstaff, Arizona is a small mountain town but the Real Estate Market is doing reasonablly well inspite of the current market conditions around the US. Listed below are the current statistics from the Local MLS.  NORTHERN ARIZONA MLS WEEKLY RESIDENTIAL STATSStatus                                ...