Dave's Real Estate Recital

I periodically teach a class on making escrows "bullet-proof", entitled "Transactional Kevlar". (For all you non-military/non-law enforcement types out there, Kevlar is the stuff they make bullet resistant vests from) In the intro of that class I hasten to point out that there are bullets that wi...

I read a good post from Paul Campbell in Lexington Kentucky earlier today wherein he inquired about ways to approach FSBO's -- especially those who really don't have a feel for how to price their homes. After I finished sending him a comment, I got to thinking that there's more to say on the subj...

A while back, I was sitting on the side of my bed around 10:00 or 10:30 one night, pulling off my boots. It had been a long day and I was looking forward to my head hitting the pillow. About halfway through that process, my cell phone rang. Glancing at the caller I.D. I saw that it was one of my ...

We've been having so much success with this, I wanted to share with the AR bunch in hopes that it'll do some more good out there. I know most of us, if we've been doing this any time at all, have experienced, in one form or another, the "Ho-Hum Open House." You know, that's the one where you bak...

As a boy growing up in New Mexico's Pecos Valley, I necessarily spent a lot of time around cotton, high-gear, and alfalfa fields. Now, alfalfa is not a "row" crop, meaning it's not sown in furrows, but instead like grass. But, the numerous fields of cotton and high-gear were invariably characteri...

I stop, with a fair degree of frequency, to give thanks for all the good friends I've been given in my life. From that perspective, it warms the heart when some of these give me looks of genuine concern and inquire, "Dave, are you doing OK?" or, "Are you selling anything?" or, "Is anything moving...

Hey Folks!How many of you have read the February 25th, Time magazine article entitled, "Ignore the Headlines" by Dan Kadlec?  You've got to read this one.  Mr. Kadlec acknowledges all the media doomsaying, and the tendency of the average American toward inertia.  He then poses the cogent question...

Hi Folks!     Y'all are probably aware that the Federal Reserve Board cut the Fed Funds inter-bank interest rate (that's the rate at which banks lend money to each other.) twice for a total of 3/4 point in the last month.  And, as you may or may not know, the "Prime Rate" is typically 3.0% above ...

 Just a few thoughts here about the Prescott area real estate market.  First of all, it's important, if you're from these parts, to remember that economically, the Prescott area doesn't typically follow most of the media's  alleged "national" trends.   We live (and have for many years) in some of...